The human rights center "Memorial" has published a regular report on the human rights situation in the North Caucasus Federal District. The new bulletin, entitled "The North Caucasus: the view of human rights activists," focuses on events in Chechnya.
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Chechen Minister of Culture Aishat Kadyrova with a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd Class.
A conscript from Karachay-Cherkessia, Rezuan Bostanov, refused to take the summons and was fined 100,000 rubles for evading the army. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities".
A native of Ingushetia, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, who was serving time in the Astrakhan correctional colony No. 6, used the traditional way of protesting prisoners - sewing up his mouth.
On August 9, protests against power outages began in Makhachkala - city residents blocked roads, demanding that the lights be returned to their apartments. August became a test not only for the city's housing and utilities system and the republic's leadership - some tried to test the capabilities of social networks to mobilize people for mass riots.
Under the sanctions that the West is increasingly imposing on Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly offering Georgia its friendship. And if the Georgian opposition indignantly rejects these offers, then the ruling party, like a pragmatic girl, is trying to sit on two chairs: on the one hand, it is striving to join Europe, on the other, it does not want to spoil relations with its rich and pugnacious neighbor.
In November 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Kalashnikov. This happened after a scandal caused by the publication of video recordings of torture of prisoners in pre-trial detention centers, colonies and a prison hospital in the Saratov region. However, experts believe that the director of the FSIN "suffered" not for the outrages committed in his department, but for allowing a leak.
On July 4, unknown assailants brutally beat up lawyer Alexander Nemov of the Team Against Torture and journalist Elena Milashina of Novaya Gazeta, who had arrived in Grozny for the announcement of the verdict of Zarema Musayeva. The attackers demanded that they not come to the republic again and threatened to kill them. The crime caused a stir not only in human rights circles, but also among officials in Moscow. A criminal case was opened on the fact of obstruction of the journalist's professional activities and violent actions in connection with the administration of justice, but the perpetrators were never found.
On July 1, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in the village of Serhiivka in the Kherson region, several Russian soldiers were blown up by mines planted by their fellow soldiers who had previously been rotated since June 15.
At about 2.45 in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, the Russian military, who arrived in UAZ vehicles, seized Alavdi Musaevich Khamerzaev, born in 1976, who lived at 25 Shkolnaya Street, in their house.
In the capital of Dagestan, another solitary action took place against repressions against the editor of the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. However, this time the geography of the pickets has expanded to the US state of California. This is reported by “Kavkaz. Realities".