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January 05, 2024 18:11

• Volgograd student Vodolagin declared political prisoner

  Daniil Vodolagin, a Volgograd university student, was wrongfully accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has announced and demanded that the criminal case be closed.

January 05, 2024 18:05

• Dagestan is among five Russia's most protest regions

  By the outcomes of 2023, Dagestan got into the rating of the "7x7"* outlet of the Russian regions whose residents most often expressed their protest to authorities through organized and spontaneous actions.

January 04, 2024 23:59

• Kadyrov’s critics complain about pressure on their relatives from law enforcers

  In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies threatened relatives of two persons with the use of violence, demanding to stop criticising the republic’s authorities, activists reported.

January 04, 2024 23:37

• Kuban resident fined under article on discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  In the Krasnodar Territory, a court found a local resident guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and imposed a fine on him.

January 04, 2024 23:08

• Comment in social network turns into fine for Astrakhan woman

  The court has fined a female resident of the Akhtubinsky District, after treating her comment in a social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine as discredited Russian militaries.

January 04, 2024 20:40

• Chechen MP announces return of 248 military personnel from Ukrainian captivity

  Shamsail Saraliev, a Russian State Duma member from Chechnya, has announced that 75 Russian military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity without exchange and 173 other prisoners of war have been returned through exchange. The military personnel have been returned from the Ukrainian captivity through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Russian Ministry of Defence reports.

January 04, 2024 18:48

• France revokes citizenship of refugee from Chechnya

  Khasanbek Turchaev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving his sentence in the case on participating in the war in Syria on the militants’ side, has been deprived of his French citizenship.

January 03, 2024 22:22

• Kadyrov orders to kill relatives of hiding criminals

  If a person who has committed a crime against public safety or law enforcers is hiding, law enforcers must punish one of his relatives, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, explaining this by Chechen traditions.

January 03, 2024 20:48

• Dagestan: at least 10 persons prosecuted for calls for protests

  Six people have served their arrests; three others were fined and one was sentenced to compulsory labour for their calls posted in the WhatsApp* to go out to a rally in support of the detained rioters at Makhachkala Airport.

January 03, 2024 20:12

• Military man from Volgograd Region convicted in bribery case for refusing to send military personnel to front line

  Pavel Chaichenko, who served in the Volgograd Region, was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a penal colony for transferring to the commanders a part of the bribes from two military men who asked not to be sent to the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

January 03, 2024 19:17

• Activists consider significant assistance to Palestinian refugees in Karachay-Cherkessia

  Refugees from Palestine are provided with accommodation, food, their documents are being processed, and charitable organizations provide clothing upon request from those who arrived to the republic from the Gaza Strip, state activists from the organizations helping refugees.

January 03, 2024 19:04

• Volunteer from Kazan discloses information about training at University of Special Forces in Gudermes

  The training at the Russian Special Forces University included only two lessons on shooting and a theoretical lecture on arranging ambushes. After that, volunteers were loaded onto a plane and sent to the special military operation zone, states the diary of Rasul Taspenov from Kazan, who in the autumn of 2022 went to fight in Ukraine as a fighter of the “Akhmat” special forces military unit.

January 03, 2024 16:49

• On December 25-31, three people wounded in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from December 25 to December 31, 2023, three persons were wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus – an alleged militant and two civilians. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 02, 2024 23:54

• Derbent townspeople dispute in social networks about New Year celebrations

  Mass New Year celebrations in Derbent, like the holiday itself, were inappropriate amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, some commentators have stated in the local public.

January 02, 2024 23:41

• Court in Novorossiysk denies believer's right to ACS

  The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk has rejected the lawsuit lodged by Mark Chub, who tried to obtain the alternative civilian service (ACS), referring to his religious beliefs.

January 02, 2024 23:07

• Lawyers express their indignation about death of Dagestani resident after more than three years spent by him at Makhachkala SIZO

  A 57-year-old resident of Dagestan died in a hospital of a penal colony, where he was taken after 3.5 years in a SIZO (pre-trial prison). The defendant’s health was constantly deteriorating, but the court did not soften the pre-trial restriction measure, reported Shamil Khadulaev, the deputy chair of the Public Oversight Commission of Dagestan.

January 02, 2024 17:15

• Winners of contest in memory of journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev announced

  The first prise in the contest in memory of Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev went to Irina Babicheva, a correspondent of the regional “161.ru” portal, for her article about the tragedy in the city of Yeisk, when sixteen people perished as a result of the crash of a Su-34 aircraft.

January 02, 2024 16:55

• Case on beating of teenager with disabilities in Rostov-on-Don closed

  The criminal case on beating of a teenager with disabilities in a shopping centre in Rostov-on-Don has been closed in connection with the defendant’s death.

January 01, 2024 23:15

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 25-31, 2023

  Presidential election and repressions in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, scandal with the “Pitsunda” state dacha, return to Georgian politics, Kadyrovs are establishing order, 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 December 25-31, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 01, 2024 22:45

• In Makhachkala, picketer stands in support of Palestinians

  Journalist Idris Yusupov* held a solo picket in Makhachkala in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Journalist Magomed Magomedov held at the same place a picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and his protest action caused a lively reaction from passers-by.