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September 19, 2022 18:39

• PMC advertised on city streets in Rostov Region

  In Novocherkassk, leaflets calling for joining a private military company (PMC) were found near higher education institutions, the local branch of the “Yabloko” Party reported. According to local residents, similar advertisement is placed on the streets of Rostov-on-Don and Bataysk.

September 19, 2022 14:17

• Property of Said Amirov and his associates seized in favour of the state

  The court has satisfied the claim of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) about the confiscation in favour of the state of the property of Said Amirov, a former Mayor of Makhachkala, his relatives and people associated with him convicted of organizing murders, banditry and preparing a terror act; the property is worth more than five billion roubles.

September 19, 2022 14:06

• Protesters in Vienna oppose sending fighters from Chechnya to Ukraine

  Members of the Chechen Diaspora have held a series of solo pickets in Vienna and announced similar daily actions against sending fighters from Chechnya to Ukraine.

September 19, 2022 13:33

• Republics of Northern Caucasus top rating of population's healthy lifestyle

  Dagestan and Chechnya have occupied top places in the rating of the population's commitment to a healthy lifestyle. The top five places are also occupied by Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygea.

September 19, 2022 11:07

• Chechen SC denies compensation to resident of Chechnya for torture by law enforcers

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has refused to satisfy the claim lodged by Mekhidi Timirbulatov, a local resident, who demanded 1.5 million roubles in compensation for torture by law enforcers in 2001.

September 19, 2022 10:45

• Social network users dispute on aptness of holiday in Armavir during military operation

  Some Instagram* users have treated the decision of the Armavir city administration to hold concerts of pop singers on the City Day as inappropriate during the military operation in Ukraine.

September 19, 2022 10:32

• Kuban activist suspected of taking part in undesirable organization

  A court in Krasnodar will consider the case of Vitaly Votanovsky, who had filmed the graves of the soldiers, who perished in Ukraine, and now is accused of taking part in an undesirable organization.

September 19, 2022 10:14

• Video of child abuse in Makhachkala kindergarten angers social media users

  A video footage of a kindergarten educator rudely treating a child has sparked outrage among social media users in Dagestan. The child is autistic; his parents filed a complaint with the police, the press secretary of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

September 18, 2022 12:32

• Melikov supports Kadyrov's self-mobilization initiative

  On September 17, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, expressed his agreement with a number of regional heads on the need for additional measures to support the military operation in Ukraine. Some social network users were sceptical about Melikov's statement, while others have approved it.

September 18, 2022 12:16

• Chechen law enforcer Aguev threatens to send to Ukraine those who open fire at weddings

  Rustam Aguev, the head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), has called on his subordinates to send those who use firearms during wedding ceremonies to Ukraine. It follows from a video posted on the YouTube.

September 18, 2022 11:58

• Kadyrov announces sending fighters to Ukraine "without bureaucracy and troubles"

  Chechnya's special role in sending volunteers to Ukraine is due to the fact that in the republic they get everything they need "without unnecessary bureaucracy and troubles," the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

September 17, 2022 18:46

• Three Sochi policemen are figurants in criminal case

  Sochi investigators have initiated a criminal case against three policemen, who, according to the investigators' version, had illegally detained with the use of force a local resident suspected of using narcotic drugs.

September 17, 2022 18:21

• Case of deaths of 13 patients of COVID hospital in Rostov-on-Don reaches the court

  Within the case of 13 deaths in October 2020 of COVID-19 patients due to absence of oxygen, Anna Kolenova, a deputy chief physician of the Rostov Hospital No. 20, is accused. She has been charged with negligence.

September 17, 2022 18:07

• Timashevsk and Labinsk deny solemn celebration of City Day

  The heads of the Timashevsk and Labinsk Districts decided to cancel entertainment events and fireworks on the City Day because of the special military operation in Ukraine.

September 17, 2022 12:03

• In Kuban, large families complain about allocation of unsuitable plots

  In the village of Kaluzhskaya in the Seversky District, 162 land plots have been provided into ownership to families with many children. However, the plots have no road and no connected communications. The district prosecutor's office has appealed to the court demanding from local authorities to eliminate the violations.

September 17, 2022 11:32

• Investigators refuse to open criminal case on Giorgi Kavelidze's death

  An investigator in the city of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory) has refused to initiate a criminal case into the death of Giorgi Kavelidze, a resident of the territory, whose relatives claim that he died after being beaten by law enforcers, the "Team against Torture"* has informed.

September 17, 2022 11:16

• Kadyrov's fighters vow to wage gazavat in Ukraine

  Amid Ramzan Kadyrov's reports about the next sending of special force fighters to Ukraine, a video has appeared in social networks of the oath recited by combatants from Chechnya, pledging to "wage gazavat (sacred war) in the name of Allah."

September 17, 2022 10:19

• Kadyrov's mobilization initiative fits into trend of criticism of Shoigu

  By means of his statements about the need for self-mobilization, Kadyrov is trying to try on the functions of the Minister of Defence and once again show his loyalty to Putin, but "he runs ahead of the locomotive," the experts, Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexei Malashenko, have suggested.

September 17, 2022 10:14

• Social network users from Dagestan outraged by Kadyrov's call for self-mobilization

  Governors should not react to the call of the head of Chechnya to send a thousand volunteers each to Ukraine, while Ramzan Kadyrov himself could set an example by sending his children and sons of Chechen high-ranking officials to the war zone. This was stated by social network users from Dagestan.

September 16, 2022 23:29

• "International Memorial"* reports attempt to seize its Moscow office

  On demand of the prosecutor's office, a court in Moscow has arrested the office of the liquidated "International Memorial"*, which was legally donated to another organization, human rights defenders have reported, treating this as an attempt to raider capture of property.