A court in Volgograd has sentenced Nikita Zhuravel to a long colony term, finding him guilty of treason.

The policemen from Dagestan, Magomed Magomedov, Ramazan Magomedov and Abdulatip Gadjiev are suspected of abuse of power and torture.

Law enforcers have detained a woman from the city of Zheleznovodsk who spoke out against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

The defence insisted on softening the freedom restriction measure for Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, since the inquiry is over, and she cannot influence it, but the court has ignored the advocates' arguments.

At the first hearing in the contempt case, Vladimir Atamanchuk, a Sochi activist, was denied a motion to remove the judge, conduct a linguistic expertise, and request a preliminary hearing.

Crisis in Abkhazia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, echo of the 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 November 18-24, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Convicted officials, in particular, the former district head in Rostov-on-Don, when going to the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, want not only to avoid a colony term, but also to show that they are useful to the country.

The inscription that the woman from the town of Sergiev Posad left on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov erected in the Yuzhnoye Butovo District of Moscow is offensive, but rather refers to the current leadership of Chechnya.

Law enforcers in Chechnya have interrogated Zarema Musaeva for the first time within a criminal case about attacking a prison colony employee; she is a suspect under this case.

Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin declared a hunger strike after being placed to a punishment cell in a penal colony in Uryupinsk. Human rights defenders sent a request concerning the legality of the actions of the penal colony administration in relation to Igor Nagavkin.

Law enforcers are demanding from the men detained in Chechnya to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), since the republic lacks volunteers to send to the special military operation (SMO), analysts believe.

Because of her comment on the case of Seda Suleimanova, an abducted Chechen woman, the administrative case against Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, accused of collaborating with an undesirable organization, has been transferred to court.

A Moscow court has extended the arrest of Shakhromdjon Gadoev and Mustakim Soliev, who were detained in Dagestan and are accused of preparing a terror act in Kaspiysk and supplying weapons to the attackers on the Crocus City Hall, until the end of next February.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Senator Suleiman Kerimov found a way to end the story of the attempted assassination by attributing the authorship of the information to former Russian State Duma member Magomed Gadjiev*, Dagestani journalists suggested.

Law enforcers have conducted a search of the home of Tatiana Polivanova, an activist, and her family members in Taganrog in connection with a fraud case with land plots of the Sochi National Park. The Polivanova's organization provided legal assistance to dozens of gardeners whose plots were seized by the court within this case.

A criminal case has been instituted against a resident of Sergiev Posad for desecrating a monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Yuzhnoye Butovo.

The Volgograd Regional Court has approved the arrest of Ruslan Nurushev within the case of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, by neglecting the defence's arguments. The latter intends to challenge the activist's arrest.