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In Sochi, activists, who tried to pay tribute to the memory of deceased opposition politicians Alexei Navalny* and Boris Nemtsov, noted that there were a lot of law enforcers near the monuments where such actions took place, who were also patrolling the city.

The sentence for natives of Dagestan Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud Kuramagomedov in a case on murder in a Kalmyk penal colony became excessively harsh due to the fact that the defendants refused advocates by agreement, notes a former advocate of Magomed Atimagomedov.

The ruling of the Grozny court to sentence Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who burned the Koran, to 3.5 years in prison will be challenged, his defence has stated.

Russian authorities must provide information about the fate of Seda Suleimanova, who had been returned by law enforcers to her family in Chechnya, participants of the action in Tbilisi have stated.

The deportation of Chechens and Ingush led to territorial conflicts, wars and broken families, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee has stated in an article dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation. The material describes the story of a Chechen family who survived deportation.

The verdict passed to Oleg Orlov*, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre, for his statements contradicts the Constitution and Russia's international covenants; it is evidence of the abolition of the freedom of speech in Russia, human rights defenders have pointed out.

The father of Anna Tsomartova, who disappeared after the competition in Kaspiysk, has received no reaction from authorities to his appeal to help searching for his daughter.

The criminal prosecution of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* is politically motivated, states United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation Mariana Katzarova. The UN Special Rapporteur has also called for the release of all political prisoners.

In Chechnya, a court found Nikita Zhuravel guilty and sentenced him to three years and six months of imprisonment for burning the Koran.

Residents of Makhachkala organized a spontaneous memorial in memory of Alexei Navalny near the monument to the victims of repression and laid flowers there.

The court has sentenced Oleg Orlov*, a human rights defender, to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.

In Krasnodar, law enforcers accused spouses Sergey Albov and Alina Albova of extremism after they had posted leaflets with the image of Alexei Navalny*. The court sentenced Sergey Albov to two days of arrest and dismissed the case against his wife.

The police have released a video with an apology from a resident of Krasnodar detained for shooting at a wedding party. The young man has explained his actions as an attempt to follow the Caucasian traditions.

More than 30 families of political emigrants from the republics of Northern Caucasus have been detained in Turkey, Djokhar Dudaev's nephew among them, the Diaspora sources have reported worried about the pressure on the detainees.

Eighty years after the deportation, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, death of Alexei Navalny* and Caucasus, 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 February 19-25, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The reason for deporting Caucasian nations in 1944 was in their ethnicity, while the then USSR Constitution guaranteed equality; this was stated by Oleg Kelemetov, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in his application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

A public prosecutor requested court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, accused of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, to two years and eleven months of imprisonment.

Anna Tsomartova, an athlete, was last seen in the FSB sanatorium in Kaspiysk, after which she disappeared, Nikolai Tsomartov, her father, has stated in his petition posted on the Change.org website. He has asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to help with the inquiry.

The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) building in the town of Goryachy Klyuch, as political prisoners. The charge of terrorism is unjustified, human rights defenders have stated.

Nikolai Zimirev, a resident of Sochi who has attracted law enforcers' attention with an action in memory of Alexei Navalny, has not been in contact for five days after his detention. Today, the district court released information about an administrative case against Zimirev.