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The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov*, who lives abroad, into the register of foreign agents.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the round-the-clock video surveillance in a Krasnoyarsk colony as a violation of the rights of Murat Kanikhov, a convict kept there. However, no compensation was awarded.

The decision of the court in Makhachkala, which allowed Marat Babaev to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone, contradicts the pre-trial agreement in the case of the death of the detained Kurban Dalgatov.

Volgograd lawyer Ruslan Nurushev was detained in a case on fakes about the Russian Army for an entry he posted on a social network.

Staying in the special military operation zone, a son of detained Dagestani activist Ramazan Rabadanov appealed to the Russian president to take control over the situation.

The text of the second acquittal of law enforcers in the case on beating a disabled person Yevgeny Manchenko is almost identical to the first court’s verdict, human rights defenders note.

A resident of the Vyselkovsky District has become a suspect within a criminal case for active participation in the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses"*.

In Makhachkala, law enforcers have placed Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, into the isolation facility. He intended to go to the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories to observe the trials within the case of the riots at the Uytash Airport.

In Pyatigorsk, a cassation court refused to recognize the detention of journalist Idris Yusupov* at a rally against mobilization in Makhachkala as illegal.

An attack with a drone shot down in Kaspiysk has become the first incident in Dagestan since the beginning of the special military operation (SMO). The incident occurred eight days after Chechnya was attacked by a drone for the first time during the hostilities in Ukraine.

A court in Makhachkala has allowed Marat Babaev, one of the defendants in the case of the death of Kurban Dalgatov, who was detained by law enforcers, to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone.

The court has refused to satisfy the complaint about the denial of medical care to Pyotr Golovnyov, a disabled person arrested in the city of Novocherkassk. A human rights defender and a lawyer have treated this as a manifestation of the systemic problem of violation of detainees' rights.

After an attack on a column of the “Rosgvardia” (National Guard of Russia), law enforcers in Chechnya detain men and offer them to go to the special military operation. Dozens of such cases have been reported by people. The detention of Rizvan Batyrov, a disabled resident of Argun, was explained by law enforcers by the contents of his mobile phone.

The introduction of a dress code for tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria is a forced measure. Such recommendations had to be issued after local residents saw two topless young women sunbathing on a bank of a river.

The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" has pointed out the politically motivated nature of the prosecution of Laurent Vinatier*, a French researcher, and demanded his release.

The Astrakhan Regional Branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a local woman publicly apologized for the fact that, while driving her child to the hospital, she was in a hurry and failed to give way to pedestrians.

After the decision pronounced by the cassation court, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), refused to hold weekly solo pickets. The activists explained that they decided to use other measures of support.

After musicians from the “Kasta” band from Rostov-on-Don presented their new album, the “Veterans of Russia” public movement found a reason to request an investigation into the musicians’ activities for their alleged assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Explosion in Cherkessk, drone attacks, Gadjiev’s case, parliamentary elections in Georgia, 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 October 28-November 3, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Ramzan Kadyrov has explained the cancellation of his ban on taking prisoners of war (POWs) in the special military operation (SMO) zone by numerous requests from residents of Ukraine.