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In Karachay-Cherkessia, a court sentenced a local woman to 4.5 years of imprisonment, finding her guilty of encouraging participation in the “Union of Rus’ Slavic Forces”* organization, banned by the court, and recognized as extremist.

Denis Neprokin, a 49-year-old military man from Novorossiysk, re-filed a claim demanding his dismissal from the army. The man has explained that he is a single father and is raising a teenage son.

Viktor Pivovarov, Archbishop of the Slavyansk-on-Kuban and South Russian Russia’s Orthodox Church, has been accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The reason for the institution of a criminal case became his published article condemning the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

A resident of the Svetloyarsky District in the Volgograd Region, who, according to the investigators’ version, broke a memorial plaque about the deportation of the Kalmyk people, has been under the supervision of a psychiatrist for more than 10 years and after the incident was placed to a specialized medical institution, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported.

The leader of Chechnya has called on participants of a “naked party,” a number of whom have the titles of Honoured and People’s Artists of Chechnya, to come to the Special Forces University in Gudermes and demonstrate the sincerity of their apologies by working for the benefit of volunteers.

Anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan were a failed provocation, announced republic’ leader Sergey Melikov. He has called for “putting aside” the topic of unrest at the Makhachkala airport.

A court sentenced a resident of the Rostov Region to 12 years of imprisonment for state treason. According to the court’s version, the defendant collected data on the location of military vehicles and equipment at an airfield in the Krasnodar Territory and transferred the information to the Ukrainian army.

During an interrogation of defence witnesses, Igor Nagavkin, accused of disorganizing the operation of a SIZO (pre-trial prison), complained about provocation against him and pressure on witnesses. Prison staff denied the accusations.

A court sentenced Ingush doctor Bagaudin Gaitukiev, accused of aiding and abetting members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), to five years of probation.

Khumaid Khaidaev, a native of Chechnya, accused in a case on a riot in a penal colony in Angarsk, stopped his hunger strike in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), which he declared in protest against discrimination on religious grounds.

Investigators considered a frame posted in a family chat showing tattoos with the symbols of an extremist organization as a reason to accuse Ruslan Bittuev, a resident of the Baksansky District, of repeated propaganda of extremism. The man said he posted the images “out of emotion” in connection with his brother’s death.

Law enforcers released boxer Umar Salamov, who was kidnapped in January together with residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala. Most of the kidnapped people were convicted under the article of participation in an illegal armed formation (IAF) and are serving their sentences, the “Memorial” Centre for Defence of Human Rights reported.

According to the information released by the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, at least one of those arrested in connection with the unrest at an airport in Makhachkala has been charged with an attempt on the life of a law enforcer. The article provides for a penalty of up to life imprisonment.

Residents of Kalmykia who suffered from the Stalinist repressions were assigned one-time payments of 10,000 roubles to mark the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Kalmyk people.

An armed incident in the Sunzha District was preceded by a shelling attack on a police service car not far from the village of Yandare on December 5.

Intensifying repression and presidential election in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, echoes of Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine in Northern 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 December 18-24, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Passers-by and drivers reacted less actively than earlier to the solo picket held by journalist Idris Yusupov* in support of Palestine. The picketer explained the decrease in the people’s interest by the emotional fatigue of the city residents from the news about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

A case against Samat Suleimanov, a mobilized resident of Astrakhan, sentenced for leaving his military unit without permission, has been returned for reconsideration. The judge in Grozny did not take into account that Samat Suleimanov was hospitalised after being beaten by his colleagues, the court of appeal indicated.

Nikolai Nabiev, a resident of Kuban, accused in a case on preparing to destroy cell phone towers, has complained that the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in which he is being kept refuses to provide him with medical treatment.

Alexander Bershadsky, a resident of Temryuk, was fined 30,000 roubles for the pacifist comments he voiced while at work.