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A court in Slavyansk-on-Kuban sentenced Archbishop of the Russia’s Orthodox Church Viktor Pivovarov to a fine of 150,000 roubles, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. That was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project.

Employees of the children’s hospital in Buinaksk do not receive additional social benefits, healthcare workers complained in their video message to President Putin.

The police drew up a report against Kuban activist Marina Melikhova under the administrative article about discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, her advocate said.

Emergency incidents, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, prisons for Azerbaijani oppositionists, 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 April 1-7, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

As a result of the raids conducted by law enforcers after the terror act in the Crocus City Hall, 30 migrants in Krasnodar, 87 ones in the Volgograd Region, 46 citizens of Central Asia in the Rostov Region, seven citizens of Uzbekistan in Ingushetia and a group of foreign students in Astrakhan have been ordered to leave Russia.

A court in the Stavropol Territory has imposed six fines of 30,000 roubles each on Vitaly Fedorenko, a local resident, treating his posts in the "VKontakte" social network as discrediting Russian militaries.

A court in Elista (the capital of Kalmykia) has fined Dolores Nimgirova, a local student, by 5000 roubles, treating her solo picket held after Alexei Navalny's death as an offence.

More than 100 million roubles have been spent from the Kadyrov Fund to pay off the debts of poor Grozny residents to grocery stores, Chechen authorities have reported. At the same time, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that the action to pay off debts has nothing to do with the large number of poor people in Chechnya.

The government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has allocated 24.3 million roubles for the six-month maintenance of 102 refugees from Palestine who had arrived in the republic.

Unknown people have broken a window in the apartment of Igor Khoroshilov, a Rostov journalist. He believes that in this way pressure is being put on him in order to force him to refuse from covering the case of beating up a young man at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

A court in Dagestan has awarded three million roubles in compensation to a former employee of the Gunib District Hospital, whose doctors hid her HIV-positive status from her for two years and did not prescribe the due treatment.

According to the new rules, all musical and dance compositions in Chechnya must comply with a certain tempo, the republic’s Minister of Culture announces.

An appeal against the verdict to 72-year-old Yevgenia Maiboroda from Shakhty, who was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for her reposts on a social network, was sent to the court of appeal. The advanced age of defendants does not become an obstacle to the imposition of harsh sentences on them, human rights defenders note.

The verdict to Kevin Lik, an 18-year-old teenager from Maykop, will be challenged, says his mother Victoria. The woman notes that German diplomats were not allowed to attend the hearing at the court of appeal.

A court in Pyatigorsk has sentenced Sergey Legkobitov, an environmental activist, to 7.5 years in penal colony, finding him guilty of mediation in bribery.

A court in Volgograd has sentenced Alyona Agafonova, a blogger, to 10 months of forced labour, treating her video filmed near the "The Motherland Is Calling!" monument as desecrating the symbol of military glory.

A court in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) has obliged Darya Rashevskaya, a local resident to pay a fine of 900,000 roubles under an administrative article on LGBT* propaganda. The court has treated the film screenshots and clips posted in Darya's social network page as such propaganda.

A court in the town of Goryachy Klyuch (Krasnodar Territory) has found Pavel Sidorenko, a Jehovah's Witness*, guilty of taking part in an extremist organization and sentenced him to three years of conditional imprisonment (probation).

In the Krasnodar Territory, warders of a penal colony sent Jehovah’s Witness* Vasily Meleshko, convicted in a case on extremism, to a punishment cell twice within a month.

Mikhail Balabanov, accused of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nevinnomyssk, refused to answer questions in court and plead guilty under terrorism charges.