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Journalist Alexander Saveliev* and activist David Kankiya* from Krasnodar do not agree with the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to include them into the register of foreign agents. However, the MoJ’s decision will not stop their activities.

Natalia Fedorenko, a defender of Gelendzhik blogger Vadim Kharchenko*, is accused of violating the privacy of one of the judges. During the consideration of a case on illegal construction, the advocate challenged the judge because he was treating his dog in a veterinary clinic located in an “illegally constructed” building.

In the Nogai District of Dagestan, four policemen officers are suspected of fabricating a criminal case on drug possession, which they had planted on a local resident, investigators have stated.

During the raids conducted in the Aksaysky District (Rostov Region), law enforcers found about 50 violators of the migration legislation; ten of them were banned from entering Russia; other 39 received summonses for the military service.

A court in Maykop has found Sophia Angel-Barokko, a video blogger, guilty of justifying extremism and insulting believers' feelings and sentenced her to two years of conditional imprisonment (probation) and a fine.

Driver Magomed Irbeinov partially admitted guilt. The man emphasized that he was at the Makhachkala airport, but did not take part in the riots. The statement of Magomed Irbeinov has been confirmed by video recordings, his advocate reported.

During the week from September 2 to September 8, 2024, one militant was killed and one law enforcer was wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

After a denunciation that was made against Denis Djalaganiya, a public animal welfare inspector, that he had allegedly discredited the Russian Army in his pacifist publications posted in an animal rights group chat, an administrative protocol was drawn up against him.

In Rostov-on-Don, the police dragged out the decision to open a criminal case about an attack on the female lawyer who defended militaries' rights, who had refused to take part in military operations. The police said that an additional check was needed, she has stated.

The elections in Southern Russia were uncontested and were accompanied by voting violations, while the opposition was unable to achieve noticeable results almost anywhere, since there are no prominent politicians in the regions, analysts note.

At a polling station in the Abinsky District, a difference in voter turnout data has been recorded, which may indicate ballot stuffing. In the Seversky District, pressure was exerted on voters and observers. In Gelendzhik, the police were called to a polling station due to preparations for ballot stuffing, observers reported.

New cases of ballot stuffing and violations during home voting have been recorded at polling stations in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory); and observers faced obstacles from members of the election commissions, observers assert.

The repeated inclusion of the "Civil Initiative against Environmental Crime"* into the register of foreign agents is an example of authorities' pressure on eco activists, environmentalists from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) assert. According to their version, due to authorities' pressure, many colleagues have abandoned their public activities.

After closing the polling stations in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), violations during vote tabulation were recorded, observers have stated. Complaints about the process of summing up the election results are coming from the Seversky District.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has justified the inclusion of Alexander Saveliev*, a journalist, and David Kankiya*, an activist, both from Krasnodar, by their participation in the creation of materials for foreign agents and spreading false information about authorities' decisions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded EUR 5000 in compensation to Ekaterina Vereschagina, an activist from Rostov-on-Don, concluding that Russian authorities had violated her right to the freedom and peaceful assembly by detaining her for 10 days in 2021 after she took part in an action in support of Alexei Navalny*.

Residents of the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories have faced coercion to vote at the recent elections, voters have reported. From the Seversky District of the latter, the "Map of Election Violations" also received reports of pressure on an observer and violations during home voting.

Roman Melnichenko, a former teacher at the Volgograd State University and an international law expert, has been released after three days of arrest. Law enforcers cited his refusal to show his passport as the reason for the accusation of disobeying policemen.

Dmitry and Pavel Masenko are back at home; law enforcers have returned part of their property seized during the search that was conducted within the case of preparing a terror act, a female relative of the young men has informed.

A court sentenced two residents of the Stavropol Territory who burned the New Testament and recorded their act on camera to real terms of imprisonment. The third defendant, a minor, was sentenced to conditional imprisonment.