This year, instead of serving time in a colony, former RUBOP operative Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, sentenced to 20 years for organizing the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, served in the Storm-Z unit in Ukraine (a unit for prisoners).

The Nalchik garrison court sentenced mobilized Isa Malsagov, accused of leaving a military unit, to five years of probation. Mitigating circumstances were recognized as his receipt of the medal “For Courage” for being wounded at the Northern Military District in Ukraine and participation in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

The South Ossetian authorities banned an activist from the Akhalgori region, previously persecuted for political reasons, Tamara Mearakishvili, from holding a picket against corruption in the region. The dishonest behavior of citizen Mearakishvili is aimed at discrediting state power in the eyes of the public, noted the Prosecutor General’s Office of the self-proclaimed republic.

On November 3, in Sevastopol, 22-year-old Farkhad Soliev and his colleague, 33-year-old Server Aliyev, were taken to an unknown direction in a car belonging to the FSB. Since then, the relatives of the abducted have not known about their location and status.

In Baku, a court extended the arrest of the chairman of the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party, economist Gubad Ibadoglu, for three months. The politician stated that the charges and his detention were groundless.

Nikita Zhuravel, a student from Volgograd accused of burning the Koran and currently in a pre-trial detention center in Grozny, has been recognized as a political prisoner. This was reported by the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial".

In Sumgait, Azerbaijan, security forces, at the request of the Russian authorities, detained 20-year-old Khayal Vasiliev. Since he is a citizen of the Russian Federation, Moscow asks to deport him in order to send him to the army.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala arrested at least 17 people for their participation in anti-Semitic riots at the local airport. The Supreme Court of Dagestan received complaints against these decisions.

The court in Grozny postponed the hearing for the third time in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran near a mosque in Volgograd. The victims in the case are 13 imams of Grozny mosques, who again did not appear at the hearing.

Against the backdrop of how the Russian authorities brutally disperse peaceful protests and rallies, their reaction to anti-Semitic protests in the North Caucasus looks inadequate. This conclusion was made by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).