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January 31, 2024 21:17

• Sentence to Volzhsky pensioners for extremism approved

  The Volgograd Regional Court has upheld the sentence of three pensioners, members of the Volzhsky branch of the "Russia's Security Committee", convicted to three years of freedom deprivation each within the case of taking part in an extremist community.

January 31, 2024 19:53

• Rights defender Orlov criticizes expertise conclusions in his case

  The investigator has announced the completion of the re-investigation in the case of Oleg Orlov; and the motives of hatred and enmity have been added to the imputed charges of discrediting the Russian Army.

January 31, 2024 19:46

• Case against priest Pivovarov comes to court

  A criminal case against Viktor Pivovarov, Archbishop of the Slavyansk-on-Kuban and South Russian Russia’s Orthodox Church, has been submitted to the Slavyansk-on-Kuban City Court for consideration.

January 31, 2024 18:18

• ECtHR awards compensation to son of murdered journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recognized a violation of the right to life and obliged Russia to pay compensation of 26,000 euros to relatives of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in Dagestan, who was shot dead in 2013.

January 31, 2024 17:27

• Blogger from Adygea listed as extremist and terrorist

  The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) has included Sofia Angel-Barokko, a female blogger from Maykop (the capital of Adygea), accused of insulting believers' feelings and justifying terrorism, into the list of extremists and terrorists.

January 30, 2024 23:50

• Deputy head of FSIN's hospital convicted in Rostov-on-Don for torture

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Alexander Lyakh, a former deputy head of the tuberculosis hospital of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service), to 7.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of organizing patients' torture.

January 30, 2024 22:54

• Rights defenders note increase of domestic violence cases in Northern Caucasus

  The situation with women's rights defence in the republics of Northern Caucasus is deteriorating, the participants of the conference "New trends in domestic violence situation in Northern Caucasus" have noted, especially stressing Ingushetia in this regard.

January 30, 2024 21:09

• Maikop blogger complains about lack of medical care at SIZO

  The administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar denies a medical examination of Sofya Angel-Barokko, a blogger from Maikop, who suffers from asthma and who has been arrested in the case on insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism.

January 30, 2024 19:14

• Journalist Yusupov* claims interference with his solo picket in support of Gadjiev in Makhachkala

  Journalist Idris Yusupov* traditionally went out on a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, but the police interfered with the protest action three times until it had to be stopped, since another man unfolded a similar poster next to the picketer.

January 30, 2024 16:29

• In Kaspiysk, managers of brick factory suspected of using slave labour

  Information about labour slavery of a Belarusian resident at a brick factory located in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk has been confirmed, and a criminal investigation has been launched, investigators report.

January 29, 2024 23:53

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 22-28, 2024

  Repressions in Azerbaijan and conflict with PACE, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, missing people, student unrest in Georgia, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 22-28, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 29, 2024 22:14

• Woman from Nalchik demands to protect her grandson from bullying in family after his mother's death

  A 59-year-old resident of Nalchik, the mother of a famous female athlete, is seeking guardianship over her seven-year-old grandson after her daughter's death. Psychologists and witnesses gave written testimonies that the boy was afraid of his father and complained of beatings and sexual violence. Despite this, the court refused to hand the child over to his grandmother.

January 29, 2024 21:58

• Mobilized man from Kuban convicted of evading service

  A court in Maykop has sentenced Vladimir Litenkov, a military service man from the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban), to five years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission.

January 29, 2024 21:47

• Pensioner from Rostov Region sentenced to colony for fakes about Russian Army

  A court has sentenced the 72-year-old Evgenia Maiboroda to 5.5 years in penal colony, finding her reposts placed in a social network as fakes about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

January 29, 2024 19:13

• Residents of Dagestan treat Melikov's criticism of report on school problem as inappropriate

  The contractor has suspended building a school in the village of Shinaz because of the discovery of a historical burial ground. Authorities refused the contractor to extend the construction term and abandoned the contract; it follows from the information on the government procurement website and the file of arbitration cases.

January 29, 2024 17:14

• Woman from Kuban fined for discrediting Russian Army

  The Apsheronsk District Court has fined Svetlana Lukashenko, treating her posts in a social network as discrediting the Russian Army.

January 28, 2024 22:50

• Journalists point to severity decrease of labour slavery problem in Dagestan

  In recent years, in Dagestan, the problem of labour slavery has become less acute, local journalists have pointed out. The practice of labour slavery is gaining momentum in the Rostov Region, Stavropol Territory and Adygea, an activist of the "Alternativa" anti-slavery public movement has stated.

January 28, 2024 20:58

• Victims ignore court hearing in case against human rights defender Nagavkin

  In the case against Igor Nagavkin, the court refused to watch the video recording of the incident in the cell in the absence of the victims, employees of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), who did not come to the court hearing without explaining the reasons for their non-appearance.

January 28, 2024 18:20

• Defence appeals against journalist Alexander Nozdrinov's verdict

  The court has violated the right of Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist from the Krasnodar Territory, to defence and exhibited bias; while the verdict was based on conclusions of an unprofessional expertise, the advocate has stated. Alexander's wife has complained about the ban on visiting him.

January 27, 2024 20:18

• Chechnya enters top three in terms of number of missing people

  In 2023, in Chechnya; 1608 people were reported missing. According to the indicator, the republic is second only to Moscow and the Moscow Region and is significantly ahead of other regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Southern Federal District (SFD).