News

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recognized a violation of the right to life and obliged Russia to pay compensation of 26,000 euros to relatives of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in Dagestan, who was shot dead in 2013.

The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) has included Sofia Angel-Barokko, a female blogger from Maykop (the capital of Adygea), accused of insulting believers' feelings and justifying terrorism, into the list of extremists and terrorists.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Alexander Lyakh, a former deputy head of the tuberculosis hospital of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service), to 7.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of organizing patients' torture.

The situation with women's rights defence in the republics of Northern Caucasus is deteriorating, the participants of the conference "New trends in domestic violence situation in Northern Caucasus" have noted, especially stressing Ingushetia in this regard.

The administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar denies a medical examination of Sofya Angel-Barokko, a blogger from Maikop, who suffers from asthma and who has been arrested in the case on insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism.

Journalist Idris Yusupov* traditionally went out on a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, but the police interfered with the protest action three times until it had to be stopped, since another man unfolded a similar poster next to the picketer.

Information about labour slavery of a Belarusian resident at a brick factory located in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk has been confirmed, and a criminal investigation has been launched, investigators report.

Repressions in Azerbaijan and conflict with PACE, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, missing people, student unrest in Georgia, 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 January 22-28, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A 59-year-old resident of Nalchik, the mother of a famous female athlete, is seeking guardianship over her seven-year-old grandson after her daughter's death. Psychologists and witnesses gave written testimonies that the boy was afraid of his father and complained of beatings and sexual violence. Despite this, the court refused to hand the child over to his grandmother.

A court in Maykop has sentenced Vladimir Litenkov, a military service man from the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban), to five years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission.

A court has sentenced the 72-year-old Evgenia Maiboroda to 5.5 years in penal colony, finding her reposts placed in a social network as fakes about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

The contractor has suspended building a school in the village of Shinaz because of the discovery of a historical burial ground. Authorities refused the contractor to extend the construction term and abandoned the contract; it follows from the information on the government procurement website and the file of arbitration cases.

The Apsheronsk District Court has fined Svetlana Lukashenko, treating her posts in a social network as discrediting the Russian Army.

In recent years, in Dagestan, the problem of labour slavery has become less acute, local journalists have pointed out. The practice of labour slavery is gaining momentum in the Rostov Region, Stavropol Territory and Adygea, an activist of the "Alternativa" anti-slavery public movement has stated.

In the case against Igor Nagavkin, the court refused to watch the video recording of the incident in the cell in the absence of the victims, employees of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), who did not come to the court hearing without explaining the reasons for their non-appearance.

The court has violated the right of Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist from the Krasnodar Territory, to defence and exhibited bias; while the verdict was based on conclusions of an unprofessional expertise, the advocate has stated. Alexander's wife has complained about the ban on visiting him.

In 2023, in Chechnya; 1608 people were reported missing. According to the indicator, the republic is second only to Moscow and the Moscow Region and is significantly ahead of other regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Southern Federal District (SFD).

Relatives of Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova received her first letter within six months from the penal colony, in which the activist is serving her sentence in a case on extremism and justification of terrorism. Daria is still being kept in strict detention conditions, her mother reports.

The head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has ordered to conduct a check after a video appeared in social networks about the release of a Belarusian resident from labour slavery near the city of Kaspiysk.

The data on the reunification of 6000 families, announced by the Muftiate of Chechnya, looks inflated; and the clergy's role in this process is exaggerated, local residents believe.