News

The trial of Eldar Kulbyakov, who accused security forces of torturing him with electric shocks, continues in Pyatigorsk. According to Kulbyakov's father, who is accused of theft, the trial is being artificially delayed, and the prosecution is behaving in an abusive manner.

A criminal case has been opened against a schoolgirl from the Krasnodar Territory who posted calls for terrorist activity on a messenger app.

The defense team for three employees and one patient of a rehabilitation center in Pyatigorsk, convicted of torture, is appealing the verdict, demanding a lenient sentence for the defendants. The convicted rehab patient, even under threat of punishment, tried to help Artem Khomenko, who died after being tortured, the lawyer claims.

Activists in Tbilisi dedicated the 356th day of continuous protest to US-Georgian friendship, unfurling US flags in support of the MEGOBARI Act at an evening march.

The ban on masculine attributes in women's clothing, as announced by the Chechen Ministry of Culture, meets public demand, but the artificial struggle for "traditional values" and government control over all aspects of people's lives exacerbates the situation for women.

Eight opposition members have been on hunger strike outside the Georgian parliament for 22 days, but the Ministry of Health has not responded to calls to send a medical team to the site.

After an explanation, the police released Murtazali Gasanguseinov from the department in Makhachkala, who is demanding that those responsible for the murder of his two sons in 2016 be punished. The Investigative Committee employees did not respond to Gasanguseinov’s picket; the picketer recorded appeals to Bastrykin and Putin.

The two-year sentence of Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of the publications Batumelebi and Netgazeti, appealed by both the defense and the prosecution, has been upheld. Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, announced his nomination of Amaglobeli for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The case of a 17-year-old student who organized the arson of cars with license plates from ethnic republics in Volgograd, motivated by ethnic hatred, has been referred to court. The case of his accomplices will be heard separately.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan fined two residents of the republic 2 million rubles each for insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Mukhamed Bavokov to six years in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

Ruslan Shevletkhanov, Chingiz Kasumov, and three of their fellow countrymen from the Derbent district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 1,683 Dagestani combatants killed there.

Former Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov, accused of bribing prison staff, asked the court to question the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for the Orenburg Region, but his request was denied. The court granted Arashukov's requests to question prison staff and inmates.

The investigation into the murder of the Gasanguseinov brothers by security forces has yielded no results for many years, stated Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered brothers. His picketing attracted the attention of Makhachkala police.

The Baku Court of Cassation upheld Bakhtiyar Hajiyev's 10-year prison sentence. The decision was made despite arguments about the activist's innocence and violations in the case.

An Armenian court has extended the pretrial detention of businessman Samvel Karapetyan, who is accused of calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order and economic crimes.

The father of Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the shepherd brothers killed by security forces, held a solitary picket in Makhachkala demanding that investigators provide information on the progress of the criminal investigation.

Over the next two years, Kuban authorities plan to transfer more than 439 million rubles to the budgets of Anapa and the Temryuk district to restore beaches after fuel oil spills.

Sergei Bakholdin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,503 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Today, members of 37 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.