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Makhach Gadjimuradov, a soldier from Buynaksk, was severely wounded during the special military operation in Ukraine. The man has been in a coma for more than a year.

In Makhachkala, Ibragim Parkuev, a local resident, has been detained, after he came out with a poster in which he congratulated Alexei Navalny* on his birthday.

After a 1.5-year-long stay at the Chechen SIZO (pre-trial prison), Zarema Musaeva has lost the ability to move independently. After the deterioration of her health, she was hospitalized, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has informed.

Nikolai Kotzeba from the village of Zelenchukskaya, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), convicted of trafficking in explosives, has complained that law enforcers had falsified a criminal case against him. His advocate has stated that some data in his client's case files has nothing to do with reality.

Conflict between Kadyrov’s subordinates and Yevgeny Prigozhin, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, rally in Abkhazia, drones in Kuban, conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, struggle of Alizamin Salaev, 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 29-June 4, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A Rostov resident has pleaded guilty to beating a disabled teenager in a shopping centre; the case has been sent to the court. Two men were beating up the boy, but eyewitnesses refused to testify against the second attacker, the teen's mother has complained.

The Vladikavkaz Military Court has sentenced Muayed Kochesokov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), to six years in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

The court has fined Anastasia Artemyeva, a resident of the town of Georgievsk in the Stavropol Territory, finding her guilty of discrediting Russian militaries.

Magomed Abubakarov, a citizen of the United Kingdom (UK), has been detained by law enforcers at his mother's home in Urus-Martan, his female relative has informed. Before leaving Russia, Abubakarov was tortured and convicted for assisting militants, his acquaintance has added.

An FSB investigator has sent materials on the application about torture lodged by Oleg Vazhdaev, who is accused within the case of arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Krasnodar, to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The court has granted the defence's motion to add the documents characterizing the defendants to the materials of the so-called "Ingush case". Ismail Nalgiev's sister said that for the first time she could see her brother in the courtroom.

In Novocherkassk, a court sentenced doctor Ivan Churinov to a fine, recognizing pouring paint to portraits of participants in the special military operation in Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

There is no information about the whereabouts of Chechen policeman Yasin Khalidov after his detention at the border with Kazakhstan, and the law enforcement bodies did not respond to complaints filed by lawyers, human rights defender Oyub Titiev reported.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the authorities of Russia to pay compensation to six activists from Krasnodar, Sochi, and Volgograd for detentions and arrests after protest actions. Compensation was awarded to activists against the backdrop of the Russian authorities’ refusal to comply with the decisions of the ECtHR.

Khavazhi Magomadov, brought from the Kuzbass colony as a witness in another criminal case, has died in the Grozny detention facility. Before his death, Magomadov feared for his life, human rights defenders inform.

Valery Kotovich, a Colonel of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) from the Rostov Region, has been sentenced to six years in colony for expressing his personal opinion about the actions of the Russian Army in Ukraine.

Igor Paskar, a Volgograd resident, has been convicted for symbolic non-violent actions under the article on terror acts, which gives grounds to recognize him as a political prisoner, Sergey Davidis, a human rights defender, believes.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court upheld a verdict to Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, an author of the “Wild Paratrooper” YouTube channel, who was sentenced for a year and two months of imprisonment.

The long-term arrest affected the health and psychological state of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva, and she began to get sick often, advocate Bilan Dzugaev reports. Public defenders of the Ingush activists say their main goal is reporting the maximum information about the progress of the trial.

Polish authorities are planning to deport Emran Navruzbekov, a former Russian FSB agent from Dagestan, to Russia, since they find his stay in Poland a threat to national security.