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In the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) , radicals are attempting to displace secular laws, replacing them with Sharia norms, and also to replace traditional Islam with its radical movements, reports Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

The Cherkessk city court has fined Madina Karaketova, a local resident, for her avatar placed in a messenger, which was treated as demonstration of prohibited symbols.

During a raid of a prayer room in the city of Gelendjik (the Krasnodar Territory, or Kuban), the police have found 20 foreigners including five citizens of Uzbekistan, who had violated the rules of stay in Russia.

The penal colony No. 19 in Surovikino, where prisoners took warders hostage, is known for its extremely poor conditions of detention and the practice of provocations against Muslims, which could lead to a riot, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin notes.

In Krasnodar, a court fined local resident Ilya Kharchenko 61,000 roubles under two protocols on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and a protocol on demonstrating prohibited symbols.

The police conducted searches at the homes of residents of the Kardonikskaya village in Karachay-Cherkessia, including at houses of Tatiana Pasynkova, Maria Ogoreva and her daughter Svetlana Ogoreva, a Jehovah’s Witness*. Searches were also conducted in Stavropol at an apartment of Alexei Pasynkov, a Jehovah’s Witness*.

A court in Makhachkala has treated the pickets in support of Palestine and demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, held by journalist Idris Yusupov*, as a violation of the law on foreign agents, and fined him by 30,000 roubles.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for a 15-year-old ninth-grade schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Together with her peer, she is suspected of setting fire to mobile operator stations.

Law enforcers detained Seda Suleimanova in Saint Petersburg and allowed her to be sent to Chechnya despite the girl's words about the threat of repressions there, Lena Patyaeva, a Seda's friend, has stated and demanded from the Investigating Committee of Russian Federation (ICRF) to open a criminal case.

A court in Volgograd has sided with Olga Sorokina, the wife of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Volgograd, who demanded from the police to investigate attempts to break into her apartment and intimidate her. However, there is no hope for progress in the case; investigators are not interested to deal with it, Vyacheslav believes.

The Court of Appeal has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for Alexei Schus, a Sochi engineer, accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and illegally making weapons.

Criticism of Dagestani athletes for taking part in the Olympics under foreign countries' flags by Vitaly Milonov, a State Duma MP, evidences political motivation and aims at opposing residents of the Caucasus to Russians in general. This was stated by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", who has stressed that regardless of which country the athletes compete for, they remain a source of pride for their nations in Northern Caucasus.

Adam Kadyrov, a son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the chief of the security department of the head of the republic, has been awarded with the Order of Kadyrov, the highest award of the republic.

Thirteen people were killed as a result of the hostage-taking in a penal colony in the city of Surovikino in Volgograd Region. One of the penal colony employees died in the hospital, and two more victims stay in severe condition, the “Kommersant” reported with reference to the Volgograd Region Committee for Public Health.

Magomed Shamsudinov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Tlokh, was detained on suspicion of using force against his acquaintance, and the victim initially testified that Magomed Shamsudinov was not guilty, advocate Aidemir Ismailov reported.

Hostage-taking in a penal colony, fires in the Caucasus, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, President Putin’s visit to the Caucasus, a ferry with diesel fuel sinks, 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 August 19-25, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

At least eight reports of violations during the campaign in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories were received by the "Election Violations Map".

Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, who had been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don in connection with the attack on Pskov paratroopers, has been charged with organizing an escape from the SIZO.

Dmitry Polyakov, a resident of Krasnodar, fined for his pacifist picket, has become a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army.

A total of 115 conscripts, who had served in the Kursk Region, have returned to Russia as a result of an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs). This was reported by Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma MP from Chechnya.