On July 4, the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny announced the verdict for Zarema Musaeva. The court found her guilty of fraud and violence against a police officer and sentenced her to 5.5 years in a general regime colony. That's exactly what the prosecutor asked for her. Musaeva and her lawyers intend to appeal the verdict.
On July 15, the Memorial Human Rights Center published information on the practice of using preventive accounting in Dagestan in 2023. According to human rights activists, if previously the police registered mainly adherents of the Salafi branch of Islam who attend “unreliable” mosques as potential extremists, now relatives of convicted persons and women wearing a niqab are included in the classified lists of criminal records.
On July 17, the UK added the head of Adygea, Murat Kumpilov, to its sanctions list. The main reason is his participation in the Russian government's program "for the forced deportation and re-education of Ukrainian children."
On July 17, Russian athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, holder of several world records in pole vaulting, who moved to Tenerife, announced on social media that she was a "citizen of the world" and was resuming her work in the International Olympic Committee. The statement by the athlete, who was a trusted person of the president, caused a negative reaction from everyone - both former comrades and the opposition.
On July 17, Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Turko Daudov, Ramzan Kadyrov's adviser on interaction with Arab and Muslim countries, as the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Previously, this post was held by the former head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov.
On July 18, former Chechen Minister of Agriculture and Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew Yakub Zakriev headed JSC Danone Russia, a subsidiary of the French Danone, nationalized by Vladimir Putin's decree in response to European sanctions. Kadyrov continues to strengthen the family's financial and political position thanks to Putin's special favor.
On August 1, the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny terminated proceedings on the complaint of Salman Tepsurkaev's widow, whom the investigator refuses to recognize as a victim in the case of his abduction. The woman's interests are represented by lawyers from the "Team Against Torture".
On August 18, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, journalist Eva Merkacheva appealed to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev with a request "for security reasons, urgently transfer Nikita Zhuravel to an FSIN institution in another region." We are talking about a resident of Volgograd, suspected of burning the Koran, who was transferred to the Grozny pretrial detention center.
On August 21, the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek chose a preventive measure for Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev, detained by employees of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Kyrgyzstan. He will be held in pretrial detention until October 21.
On August 21, Ingushetia native Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, serving his sentence in IK-6 in the Astrakhan region, went on a hunger strike due to the violation of prisoners' rights. After that, his lawyer was unable to contact him.
On August 24, the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny once again denied the lawyers who are seeking to initiate a criminal case on the torture of Chechen actor Timur Debishev. The "Team Against Torture" has been appealing the investigator's decisions for five years.
On August 24, US President Joe Biden published a statement on the White House website on the occasion of Ukraine's Independence Day, in which he announced new sanctions against Russians involved in war crimes in Ukraine. This time, the sanctions list includes Aimani Kadyrova, the mother of the head of Chechnya, the head of the Akhmat Kadyrov Charitable Foundation, Chechen Prime Minister Muslim Khuchiev, the commander of the Akhmat police regiment Zamid Chalayev, Chechen ombudsman Mansur Soltayev, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Rostov Region Irina Cherkasova, and some other individuals. In addition, the Artek children's camp in Crimea was added to the "black list" of organizations with which American citizens and residents are prohibited from doing business.
On August 25, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Martin Kochesoko (Kochesokov), a Circassian activist and founder of the public organization "Khabze", to the register of foreign agents. The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized him as a person persecuted for political reasons. Kochesoko currently lives in Turkey.
I have sent two files to this message – 016-1 and 016-2, because I could not find one photo with three flags – Russian, South Ossetian and Abkhazian. If you can combine these three in one photo, that would be great.
On August 28, the RIA Rating agency published a rating of regions by labor market. The bottom positions in the list were occupied by Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia. The rating was calculated based on Rosstat data on salaries, working conditions, employment and labor market capacity in 2022.
On August 29, Rosfinmonitoring added lawyer, human rights activist, former employee of the "Committee Against Torture" Abubakar Yangulbaev, son of Zarema Musayeva, to the list of terrorists and extremists. He is a defendant in two criminal cases - on organizing extremist activity and on calls for terrorism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
