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The widow of Nikolai Zakharchenko, a pensioner who committed suicide after being accused of growing hemp, is satisfied with the court's decision to compensate for her moral harm suffered from her husband's unjustified criminal prosecution and death; but she finds it more important to bring their neighbour to criminal liability for false denunciation.

In Novorossiysk, a court recognized a video posted on the YouTube channel by native of Dagestan Askhabali Alibekov to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and sentenced him to a year and two months of imprisonment in a penal colony. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”* with reference to advocate Marina Dubrovina.

In Makhachkala, a court sentenced Mukhamed-Afandi Asipov to a two-year suspended sentence in a case on an attack on a law enforcer during protests against mobilization.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has refused to challenge the state defenders in the "Ingush case"; after which the defence tried to challenge the judge, but the court rejected this demand as well.

The lawsuit filed by the widow of Vladimir Tskaev, a resident of Vladikavkaz who died after being questioned by the police, against the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) demanding 15 million roubles in compensation was left without consideration.

A court considered lawful the investigators’ refusal to institute a criminal case on a complaint about torture filed by Chechen actor Timur Debishev, human rights defenders reported.

Law enforcers scattered papers and furniture and seized personal computers during a search carried out in an office of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”* located on Maly Karetny Lane. No advocates were allowed to attend the procedure of the search, so it is still unknown what exactly has been seized, human rights defenders emphasize.

After being interrogated as a witness within the case of Nazism rehabilitation, law enforcers released Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence. Orlov refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement and was unable to obtain a copy of the search protocol.

Experts have decided that the article written by Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, for some French edition and posted in his page on a social network, contains signs of discrediting the Russian Army. During the interrogation, Orlov has explained that he had expressed only his personal opinion. Investigators have chosen his freedom restraint measure in the form of recognizance not to leave. Now, Orlov is awaiting interrogation within the case of Nazism rehabilitation.

During the searches conducted in the office of the "Memorial", an employee of the "Caucasian Knot" was detained; after interrogation she was released.

A criminal case on the repeated discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces was instituted against Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial”, who was detained in the case on the rehabilitation of Nazism.

The police came with searches to the house of Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial”, who paid much attention to the problem of kidnappings in Northern Caucasus and victims among the civilian population in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

The Chegem District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has returned the administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army back to the police due to identified shortcomings.

The Court of Appeal has returned the case of Daud Mamilov, a native of Ingushetia, who was found guilty of involvement in the activities of the "Islamic State"* and sentenced to eight years in prison.

In Chechnya, law enforcers uncovered a terrorist cell and killed two militants, the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) stated in a 2022 report, although Ramzan Kadyrov announced back in 2021 that the armed underground in Chechnya had been liquidated.

The court of appeal has reduced the sentence and decided to release Beslan Kagermazov, a former policeman from the Prokhladnensky District, who was convicted of beating two persons and extorting a bribe.

Pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev remind of his case and the demand of his colleagues-journalists to release him from custody, Magomed Magomedov, one of the picketers, have stated.

The court’s decision to liquidate the “Council of Elders of the Balkar People” is groundless, since the organization complied with its charter provisions, members of the council emphasize. They intend to file an appeal against the court’s decision.

Prisoner Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is being kept under torture conditions in the penal colony of Astrakhan, the “Public Verdict” Foundation* claimed.

Explosion and fire in the FSB Border Guard Service building in Rostov-on-Don, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, public activity of Ramzan Kadyrov, unrest in Georgia, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, 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 March 12-19, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.