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Vandals have painted a derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow. It was erased by utility workers.

The Southern District Military Court has approved a verdict against Manuchekhr Beknazarov, a contract soldier from North Ossetia, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment. The man injured himself and then left his place of military service for more than two months.

The Prokhladnensky District Court has found the allegations that local resident Viktor Marchuk had spoken in a negative way about the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine proven. The man has been fined 30,000 roubles under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

A court hearing was held in Georgievsk on the case of five residents of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as participants in the riots that broke out at the Makhachkala Airport. At the request of the advocate of one of the defendants, the judge removed a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the courtroom.

Zarema Musaeva, convicted in Chechnya, is suspected of attacking a colony-settlement employee, who accompanied her to a day patient hospital for treatment.

Singer Albina Sexova has been fined 10,000 roubles under the article on incitement of hatred.

Ramzan Kadyrov called the version of the presence of a “Chechen trace” in an attack on a car of a former public sector employee in Uzbekistan a “fake news.”

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has returned the petition that asked for conditional early relief (CER or parole) of Zarema Musaeva to the Shali City Court for reconsideration. Her son treats her condition as depressed due to the new case against her on disrupting the colony's work.

The criminal case initiated against Vitaly Zhuravlyov for his comment about the special military operation (SMO) placed in a social network has been submitted to the court of the city of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Region.

An investigation has been launched against convicted Zarema Musaeva under the article on disorganization of the activities of a penal colony. The woman faces up to five years of imprisonment. The above information has been reported by advocate Alexander Savin.

In Vladikavkaz, armed law enforcers detained Batraz Gogaev and tortured him with electric current, trying to force him to confess to a crime. Soslan Didarov, a member of the republic’s parliament, demanded to launch an investigation.

In Moscow, Vladimir Putin met Chechen Interior Minister Aslan Iraskhanov, the Chechen media report. Aslan Iraskhanov has been included in the US sanctions list in connection with human rights violations and extrajudicial executions in the Chechen Republic.

A resident of the Kaitag District of Dagestan has complained that law enforcers had forced him to do repairs to the building where the police station is located; they groundlessly compiled a protocol; against him for drunk driving, and sent the case to court.

The court that considers the murder case of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a resident of the city of Kayakent (Dagestan) has refused to appoint a repeated expertise, which could show that there were several murder weapons. The judge's decision has outraged the casualty's father and brothers.

A court in Makhachkala has arrested Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, until January 7, 2025, within a case of illegal arms trafficking. This was reported by Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan in his Telegram channel.

The Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court has sentenced Denis Sergeev, a mobilized serviceman, to six years in a strict regime penal colony for being absent from his unit for more than a year.

In Sochi, the Central District Court has fined for preaching and ordered the expulsion of Catholic priest Vladislav Klotz, who had been conducting services in Russia for the past 28 years.

Residents of Dagestan are outraged by the detention of activist Ramazan Rabadanov, who spoke in defence of the defendants in the case on riots at the Makhachkala airport.

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.