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On May 29, at a court session, Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova rejected charges of extremist activities and stated that the actions they were accused of were their exercise of the constitutional right to profess any religion.

The police have put on the wanted list a native of Nazran who left for Syria eight years ago. According to the investigators’ version, the woman joined a terrorist organization and was raising money for its needs.

A court in Volgograd has extended the arrest of Daniil Vodolagin, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, by three months, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

At trial, Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, claimed that he did not give the testimony that was read out earlier, but it had been written by an investigator.

The lack of progress in the investigation and support from local officials has forced people to write down an appeal to President Putin, claim real estate investors who have been waiting for several years for the delivery of an apartment building in Nalchik.

The arguments of the Russian Ministry of Justice, presented at the today’s court hearing considering the claim filed by Oleg Orlov* to challenge his status of a foreign agent, contain no specific reasoning and are unconvincing, so, the decision to refuse to exclude the human rights defender from the register of foreign agents will be challenged, an advocate has announced.

The court did not grant a claim filed by Oleg Orlov*, the co-chair of the “Memorial” Centre for Human Rights Defence*, and left him on the register of foreign agents.

A resident of Krasnodar has been fined by 30,000 roubles for shouting Ukrainian slogans.

Barakh Chemurziev, Ismail Nalgiev and Bagaudin Khautiev, who had already served most of their eight-year sentences, have asked the court to replace their remaining prison terms with some sanction not related to freedom deprivation. The court in the Stavropol Territory, where they are in a penal colony, has refused to grant their motions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russian authorities to pay compensations to Zarema Musaeva, Saidi Yangulbaev, her husband and a former Russian federal judge, and their daughter Aliya Yangulbaeva.

A court hearing in Grozny, at which the issue of conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva was to be considered, was disrupted as she was not brought to court.

In a case against Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah’s Witness* from Kabardino-Balkaria, a public prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of the believer. The prosecutor requests a new trial with a different composition of judges.

Beslan Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, has gone on a hunger strike after being transferred to a Karelian colony due to pressure from the colony staff, human rights defenders report, adding that Gadaev is constantly kept in the dungeon (punishment cell); and he hasn't seen his relatives since his detention in 2006.

In Chechnya, people condemn relations with non-Muslims; and there is a strict rule not to show them off, analysts have recalled in connection with the apology of a skinhead who stated that he was "in love with a Chechen girl."

The Magas District Court has awarded compensation of 1.5 million roubles to a resident of Ingushetia who had been beaten up by a law enforcer during his detention. This was reported by the human rights project "Traumpunkt".

A young man, who introduced himself in a video circulated on social media as a skinhead who fell in love with a Chechen girl, recorded a new video in which he apologized to the Chechen people. The apologies caused confusion among many social media users.

Resignations and appointments in Chechnya, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, political crisis in Armenia, Novikov’s sentence, 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 May 20-26, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Ruslan Nurushev, the lawyer, whose personal data were disclosed on the TV, has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office (PO) against investigators. He claimed their inaction of not reacting to citizens' illegal shadowing while laying flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny.

Evgeny Gusakov, a mobilized soldier and a resident of Volgograd, has asked to dismiss him from army service, since one of his three children has a disability status. However, courts have rejected his claim.

The European Union included in the sanctions list the investigator who led the criminal case instituted against Oleg Orlov* and the judge who sentenced the human rights defender to imprisonment. The investigator and the judge are accused of human rights violations.