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In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, to ten years of imprisonment on the charges of involvement in the attack of a militant detachment led by Shamil Basaev and Amir Khattab on Pskov paratroopers in 2000.

A story of a woman from Chechnya who fled domestic violence and was put on the wanted list by her relatives has continued a series of similar cases, human rights defenders note. By leaving her children in Chechnya, the woman gave the family additional leverage for blackmail, they emphasized.

Zarema Musaeva’s blood sugar has approached a critically high level, drug therapy in a penal colony is not able to help the woman, and the court has postponed for a month the consideration of the appeal against the refusal in the conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva.

The teenager convicted of arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) has stated that he had given no confession, but signed the text prepared by the investigator. The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has found no violations and upheld the sentence.

Eight years ago, representatives of the head of Chechnya helped the Bakalchuks resolve business problems and last summer Vladislav Bakalchuk decided to contact Ramzan Kadyrov directly, Vladislav, a co-owner of Wildberries, said himself, adding that he is alive and at large thanks to support from Chechnya.

At a meeting regarding the shooting in Moscow near the Wildberries office, Chechen officials have expressed dissatisfaction with the claims of the Ingush party in connection with the death of two security guards, recalling two murders of Chechens, after which there were no revenge calls against residents of the neighbouring republic.

In Chechnya, people who have recently been released from prison are being kidnapped in order to then be forcibly sent to the special military operation zone in Ukraine, a local resident says.

The administration of the penal colony in Zelenokumsk placed Zarifa Sautieva to a punishment cell for 15 days to punish her for wearing the wrong-coloured tights to an inspection formation, since she was not given any others, her relative explained.

Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, was sentenced by court to 8.5 years of imprisonment for setting fire to a rug at an entrance to an FSB building in Krasnodar. The convict decided to write an autobiography in a penal colony, but the administration confiscated a manuscript of his book.

Semyon Slepakov*, a comedian and a singer, has challenged the fine of 30,000 roubles imposed on him for posting his materials without the foreign agent label.

The Prosecutor's Office has approved the charge of Nazism rehabilitation against Rasul Akhiyaretdinov, a blogger from Bashkortostan, who had recorded a video demanding that the sculpture "The Motherland Calls!" in Volgograd be "dressed more modestly!"; his criminal case was sent to court.

Nurmet Madjidov, a contract soldier from Dagestan, has challenged the verdict for his unauthorized absence from his military unit, stating that the court had failed to take into account his desire to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a resident of Astrakhan has publicly apologized for shooting an air pistol at a bus with passengers.

Those arrested within the shooting case near the Wildberries office have the right to conclude contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to be sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone, after which the criminal case will be closed, human rights defenders have indicated.

Explosions in Tikhoretsk, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Caucasus and the “Wildberries” Company, murder of a transgender person in Tbilisi, 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 September 16-22, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The deaths of Adam Almazov and Islambek Elmurziev during an attempt to seize an office of the “Wildberries” Company in Moscow caused a wide public outcry in Ingushetia. Both the killed men were security guards and were protecting the office.

Fatima, a native of Chechnya, had to leave Russia due to permanent violence from her husband, to whom she was married at the age of 15. After Fatima run away from home, her husband and father contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and succeeded in having the law enforcement bodies declare Fatima wanted.

In the business conflict around the “Wildberries” Company, Ramzan Kadyrov took the side of Vladislav Bakalchuk, a co-founder of the marketplace. However, the leader of Chechnya is also pursuing his own interests, political analysts point out.

The court in the city of Georgievsk in the Stavropol Territory has cancelled the conditional sentence of Irina Gezik, a Jehovah's Witness*, to which she was sentenced on charges related to an extremism case, and has also expunged her criminal record. This was informed by the human rights project "OVD-Info"**.

After numerous complaints, three months later, law enforcers have returned part of the things seized during the search, Ruslan Nurushev, a lawyer, has informed. In order to collect the fine imposed on Nurushev, court marshals blocked his bank card.