On March 2, in the Rostov District Military Court, chaired by Judge Rizvan Zubairov, another criminal trial began against detachment member Shamil Basayev. Roman Gakaev is accused of three serious articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: armed rebellion, banditry and encroachment on the lives of military personnel.
On March 2, the appellate instance of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, having considered a complaint from the Russian Ministry of Finance, reduced compensation to a local resident who suffered from illegal criminal prosecution to 150 thousand rubles.
On March 3, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of Adygea fined a local resident, 39-year-old Igor Korotkov, 800 thousand rubles under the criminal “article on fakes” (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”).
On March 7, the Fifth Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk overturned the verdict of the Leninsky Court of Vladikavkaz against ten Ossetian police officers convicted of torture and the death of detainee Vladimir Tskaev. The case will be returned for a new trial. However, only four of the defendants will remain in custody.
On March 9, the ruling Georgian Dream party and the pro-government parliamentary group Power of the People announced that they were withdrawing the bill “On transparency in the financing of external influence,” which had already passed its first reading in parliament and caused loud protests from the opposition.
On March 9, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case into the poisoning of the commander of the Akhmat special forces, deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps, Major General Apti Alaudinov.
On March 13, the magistrate court in Rostov-on-Don dropped the criminal case against Kirill Skripin, accused of vandalism due to the graffiti “Putin is a thief.” The judge dismissed the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations - March 12 marked two years since Skripin’s arrest.
On March 14, the Nalchik City Court announced the decision to liquidate the public organization “Council of Elders of the Balkar People of the KBR.” The reason was an appeal by the head of the organization, Ismail Sabanchiev, and other activists to the country’s leadership, published in the newspaper “Bulletin of the Balkar People”. The court considered it a call to extremism.
On March 16, it became known that the judicial investigation in the case of Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, accused of inciting a terrorist attack and illegal possession of weapons and explosives, was being transferred from Krasnoyarsk to Khabarovsk. This will seriously complicate the defense of the defendant, his representatives note.
On March 16, the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced one of the participants in the anti-mobilization rallies that took place in Dagestan on September 24-25, 2022 after the announcement of partial mobilization. Mukhamed-Afandi Asipov received a 4-year suspended sentence for using violence against a government official (Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
On March 23, the Fifth Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk approved the decision on the administrative claim of a native of Chechnya, Mansur Razhaev, against colony No. 6 in the Khabarovsk Territory, where he is serving a life sentence. The prisoner sued the colony administration for 3 thousand rubles for violating the conditions of detention.
On March 26, student Ramazan Gandoloev, the last of three students wanted by the police on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, voluntarily came to the Malgobek police. The search for three guys who disappeared on February 27 caused a great stir in the republic.
On March 27, the European Court of Human Rights reported the communication of 37 complaints from Russians who had suffered torture and other types of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. 14 complaints were filed by residents of the regions of southern Russia and the North Caucasus.
On April 7, 23-year-old Yuri T., wanted by Moscow law enforcement agencies on charges of desertion, was detained and taken to the police station in Yerevan. As a preventive measure in Armenia, military surveillance was chosen for him; the prosecutor's office and the initiators of the search were informed about the discovery of the wanted man.
On April 7, the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of PJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) against Ziyavudin Magomedov and a number of offshore companies for 80.1 billion rubles and 13.8 million dollars.
On April 13, the Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested lawyer Timur Idalov for two months for allegedly threatening the prosecutor with violence. The arrested person stated that the charges were fabricated by the investigation at the direction of the FSB.
On April 13, the Russian government gave a negative response to the amendments proposed by the Chechen parliament to the federal law “On Combating Extremist Activities” concerning collections of hadiths and works of canonical Islamic schools.
On April 18, the Supreme Court of Chechnya returned to the first instance the refusal decision on the application of actor Timur Debishev, who demands that a criminal case be opened regarding the torture used against him.
On April 28, in the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny, where the trial of the mother of oppositionists Yangulbaevs, Zarema Musaeva, was underway, her defenders demanded that the results of one of the examinations be excluded from the evidence in the case. We were talking about the study of nail sections on which the blood of a police officer who was injured by Musaeva’s attack was allegedly found.
On April 28, searches were carried out at the office of the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” in Nizhny Novgorod and at the home addresses of three of its employees. The reason was a criminal case initiated in North Ossetia, which was handled by CPT lawyers.
Kyiv was subjected to a new massive missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces.
Ukrenergo announced the restoration of power supply to the Zaporozhye NPP.
Türkiye began to block the supply of sanctioned cargo to Russia.
Russian occupiers continue to try to reach the administrative border of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. To do this, they concentrated their efforts on conducting offensive operations in 5 directions: Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky.
Fierce fighting is taking place in the center of Bakhmut.
An air raid alert has been declared in the Odessa region.
A bill has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to raise the draft age - to 21-30 years instead of 18-27 years.
Russian occupiers shelled the city of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region, one of the shells hit a children's playground. As a result of the shelling, there were casualties and deaths - all civilians.
Ukraine will buy 100 Rosomak armored personnel carriers from Poland using American and European funds. This was announced by the Prime Minister of the Republic Mateusz Morawiecki.
A woman was wounded as a result of Russian shelling in Kherson
In the city of Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, two local residents were wounded. Settlements in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions were also subjected to Russian shelling, and there were casualties. A man was blown up by a mine in the Kharkov region.
The State Duma of Russia approved amendments on new rules for conscription and delivery of summonses. Electronic summonses have been equated to paper ones, and for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office, a ban will be imposed on leaving the country, opening an individual entrepreneur and registering property.
As a result of the Russian strike on the city of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, eight people were killed. 21 people were injured. Among the dead was a two-year-old child who died in the ambulance.
On March 2, the ASTRA telegram channel reported that a criminal case had been opened in Chechnya against Muslim Madiev, the deputy commander of the Chechen battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev, who has been fighting on the side of Ukraine since 2014.
On April 3, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, spoke on his telegram channel about rallies against the construction of a mosque near the Holy Lake in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district of Moscow. On April 5, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the transfer of construction to another location.
On April 16, Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, one of the most famous critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, living in Europe, stated on his YouTube channel that he faked his own death after he became aware of the impending assassination attempt. The video post was published under the title “Operation Sucker.”
Today, Russian domestic tourism is experiencing a boom due to various restrictions preventing external tourism, as well as due to the implementation of a national project aimed at developing tourism in Russian regions. This project started even before the pandemic and the international isolation of the country.
Activists of the public organization “Civil Initiative against Ecocrime” published details of official correspondence between the Federal Agency for Tourism, JSC Tourism.RF Corporation and NJSC Krasnaya Polyana, which discusses the construction of a large ski resort in the Caucasus State Natural Biosphere Reserve. The tasty area is located on the territory of Adygea, is a World Natural Heritage Site and is under the protection of UNESCO.
