The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia refused to cancel the sentence to Ingush residents Aslan Bekov and Ruslan Tsitskiev, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for preparing a terror act during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has refused to soften the freedom restraint measure for Ramazan Rabadanov and left him behind bars.

Vladimir Atamanchuk, an activist from Sochi, was summoned to a court hearing on his case to be held in a court building closed after a fire.

A court of appeal increased compensation for three women who were beaten by law enforcers during their detention at a shelter in Makhachkala when the police came to take away Chechen native Khalimat Taramova. Each of the victim will be paid the compensation increased from 3000 to 15,000 roubles.

Two men have recorded a video message in which they named Magomed Gadjiev*, a former Russian State Duma MP from Dagestan, as the author of the version about the assassination attempt on the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has refused to soften the freedom restraint measure for Ramazan Rabadanov and left him behind bars.

Zarema Musaeva, in volved as a defendant in a new case on an attack on a law enforcer, has been transferred to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny. The woman uses crutches to walk, but is not taken to hospital.

Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender from Kalach-on-Don, has been placed to a punishment cell in a penal colony where he is serving his sentence for disrupting the operation of a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

The Chechen native detained in France faces deportation to his homeland; and members of the local Diaspora have held rallies in his defence.

A court in Maykop has sentenced Ramazan Bidanok, a mobilized local resident, to seven years in custody, finding him guilty of desertion and unauthorized abandonment of his military unit.

A court fined a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, finding him guilty of calling for terrorist and extremist activity.

Crisis in Abkhazia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, new criminal case against Nikita Zhuravel, 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 11-17, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced criminal investigator Yefrem Kesyan to seven years of probation, finding him guilty of accepting a bribe from a detainee. The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia found the sentence unreasonably lenient.

Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has complained about custody conditions in the penal colony, located in the Volgograd Region, where he is serving his sentence, and demanded to conduct an inspection there.

No radical views have been found in the Imam of the Sunzha mosque, Abdulrashid Gardanov, while law enforcers are simulating a fight against the underground in order to improve their performance, analysts assert.

The derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow was caused by hostility towards the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, human rights defenders have suggested.

While trying to detain Denga Khalidov, a Dagestani political analyst, before a round table in support of Ramazan Rabadanov, law enforcers wanted to put pressure and intimidate activists.

In Surgut, a court found two entries posted on a social network by local resident Marina Lolokhaeva to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The woman was obliged to pay a fine of 70,000 roubles.

A case against journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova*, accused of justifying terrorism, has been sent to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment. Kaloi Alkhigov, an advocate of Nadezhda Kevorkova*, suggested that the investigation may be delayed due to the political nature of the case.