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The state is conducting no prophylactic work with former convicts who had fought in the special military operation (SMO) zone and were released; while the criminals who have flooded the regions of Southern Russia are committing crimes again, analysts have noted.

Autumn elections in Southern Russia, captivity and disgrace, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, mass brawl in Kuban, 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 September 9-15, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The anti-Russian songs and poems that Semyon Slepakov*, a native of the Stavropol Territory, used to post in social networks were the reason for his inclusion into the register of foreign agents.

In the Stavropol Territory, a court dismissed a claim filed by Georgy Kolyan, a convicted person with disabilities, against the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Pyatigorsk with a request to compensate for the damages inflicted by poor conditions in a SIZO cell. The convicted person requested a compensation of 750,000 roubles.

A court in the Volgograd Region has ordered officials to pay 4.7 million roubles to the Brunts family, whose home and property were damaged by falling missile debris.

At the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, Alexei Abramov, a Krasnodar resident, was included into an assault squad, although he can only move on crutches. On the frontline, his legs became very swollen, and his health worsened, his wife Ksenia Abramova has stated.

On the 20th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan, at a meeting with Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the "Beslan Mothers" organization raised the issue of the use of tanks during the school storming, Aneta Gadieva, a co-chair of the organization's committee, has stated.

In his lawsuit, Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has claimed to be paid 900,000 roubles for being kept in unsanitary conditions at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Authorities are obliged to keep detainees in accordance with sanitary requirements, a lawyer and a human rights defender have confirmed.

The restoration of a bas-relief with a portrait of Stalin on the facade of the Volgograd Medical University has become a sign of Stalinism revival and insults the memory of repression victims, some residents of Volgograd have pointed out. Their opponents object that monuments merely reflect history.

The case was opened more than two years after the examination of the document, in which Asker Shetov denies his involvement.

Apti Alaudinov's words about the unfair detention of a Chechen resident after a brawl in Anapa have demonstrated the concern of Kadyrov's entourage about the growth of nationalism in the Russian society, analysts have noted.

The oncology disease of Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, is progressing, but he receives no due medical treatment at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), his relatives have reported.

In the Chechen town of Argun, policemen have detained the parents of Magomed Chagaev, who told about torture by law enforcers and discrimination against Muslims in jails.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensation to Krasnodar activist Yana Antonova for her arrest in 2017.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is investigating a complaint lodged by lawyer Roman Melnichenko about incitement of hatred and disclosure of personal data of Alexei Navalny’s supporters in Volgograd by employees of a TV Company. Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev filed an appeal against the police’s refusal of his complaint to conduct an investigation into the legality of the propagandists’ actions.

Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has met relatives of the victims of the terror act in Beslan. There are many blank spots in the case, the participants of the meeting have asserted. The meeting took place amid the inquiry into the circumstances under which the school building with hostages was stormed, conducted by journalist Elena Milashina.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the violation of the rights of Ruslan Yandiev and Magomed Mutsolgov, residents of Ingushetia, and of Murad Dingaev, a resident of Dagestan, to the prohibition of torture and has obliged Russia to pay compensation to them.

After considering the appeal complaints, the Volgograd Regional Court has replaced the conditional two-year freedom deprivation term appointed to Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, for a real one. Nagavkin treats the decision as unfair and intends to challenge it.

Irina Gonokova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, requested court to oblige the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to pay 15 million roubles in compensation. However, the court reduced the requested amount tenfold.

The advocate of Valery Bailo, a convicted Jehovah's Witness* from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), has filed complaints to the prosecutor's office about the absence of medical care, but was still unable to get treatment for his client, who is suffering from the consequences of a knee injury and acute toothache. The SIZO's medical unit has stated that Bailo needs no emergency care.