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Relatives of Nina Tseretilova, a native of Dagestan, whose children have been living in a shelter for a year after refusing to live together with their mother, have expressed their indignation by a decision of the court which refused to limit the Nina Tseretilova’s parental rights.

The Khasavyurt City Court has found Shakhban Abakargadjiev, a Khasavyurt resident, guilty of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and sentenced him to five years of freedom deprivation, but then commuted his sentence.

Alexei Abramov, a Krasnodar resident, who is seeking to cancel his mobilization decision due to health problems, has been sent to Mariupol and has failed so far to receive a repeated referral to the military medical commission, his wife has informed, adding that Alexei can buy painkillers, but they are helpless in relieving his pains caused by multiple backbone hernias.

A case against Daniil Vodolagin, a resident of the Volgograd Region, charged under the criminal article on disseminating fake news about the Russian Armed Forces, has been brought to court.

The appellate instance has sentenced Amiran Merzhoev, a former law enforcer, to two years in penal colony; earlier, he was sentenced conditionally for beating a detainee in Magas.

With his speech delivered in Russian to refugees from Palestine, Akhmed Dudaev, Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press, and Information of Chechnya, has given a signal to the authorities of Russia that in Chechnya, they do not have time to solve the problems of refugees who have already arrived from Palestine and that no new groups should be sent to the republic for now.

When opposing conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva, the penal colony administration has claimed that the convicted woman has been kept in a penal colony in Argun for a short time and has not admitted her guilt.

The Kaspiysk Medical School has imposed uniform regulations on clothing for its students, as well as recommendations for their appearance, but those regulations contain no ban on wearing hijabs, explains the medical school administration.

Law enforcers began investigating a criminal case initiated against Gennady Vladimirov, a resident of the town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), under four articles of the Criminal Code, including repeated discrediting of the Russian Army.

A woman's body was found in Nazran (the largest city of Ingushetia); a murder case is being investigated, sources have reported. According to their data, the body was deprived of its head and hands; human rights defenders don't rule out that the woman was a victim of domestic violence or of honour killing.

Arslan Taushev and Rasul Koshmanbetov, accused of attacking Pskov paratroopers, have stated that the accusation was based on the testimony of a single classified witness. They asked the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to cancel the decision to return the case to the prosecutor's office, but the court has rejected this request.

Refugees from Palestine should maintain cleanliness and be more organized, and also not speed Chechen authorities up in solving their problems, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information, has stated.

The shelling of a police car near the village of Yandare was preceded by a shootout in late November in Sunzha, where a law enforcer was wounded.

The solo picket held by Magomed Magomedov, a journalist, in defence of the convicted Abdulmumin Gadjiev took place under the law enforcers' supervision. The demand to release Gadjiev also interested passers-by, the picketer has stated.

Generally, Russian courts hand down fairly lenient sentences under the article imputed to Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, for burning down the Koran; and the court in Chechnya has every option not to deviate from this trend, the lawyers interviewed by the Caucasian Knot have indicated.

Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), held a solo picket in Makhachkala with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

In the Akhtubinsky District, a court fined local resident Vladimir Ivaschenko 30,000 roubles, recognizing that the video posted by the local resident in a messenger discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

Authorities against dissent in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, around Nagorno-Karabakh, natural disasters in Southern Russia, 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 November 27-December 3, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A court extended the arrest of activist Marina Melikhova, accused in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, by three months. The above information has been reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project with reference to advocate Maria Spasibukhova.

The detainee was walking through the city with a poster containing criticism and accusations against Kadyrov, a source has reported. "The man has been detained. The motives for his action are currently being clarified," the "Ura.ru" quotes the source as saying.