A Kuban animal rights activist has been summoned again for questioning in a case of discrediting the army.

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Tikhoretsk animal control inspector Denis Dzhalaganiya was summoned to the police station again, where he was questioned in connection with a case of discrediting the army. The summons was prompted by another statement from Stavropol animal rights activist Oksana Zhiteneva, who had already attempted to accuse Dzhalaganiya of a similar offense.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in late September, Oksana Zhiteneva, head of the Stavropol animal rights organization, accused Denis Dzhalaganiya, a Kuban public animal welfare inspector, of slander, insults, and discrediting the army, asking the FSB to open a criminal case against him. In October 2024, a court already fined Dzhalaganiya for discrediting the army due to pacifist posts in an animal rights group chat room. According to the activist, the case was also opened based on a denunciation. The police declined to open a case against Dzhalaganiya, and Zhiteneva also complained against the district police officer who made the decision. In October, Zhiteneva accused Dzhalaganiya of embezzling activists' money. On December 23, Kuban public animal welfare inspector Denis Dzhalaganiya was summoned again for questioning by a district police inspector as part of an investigation into defamation of the Russian Armed Forces. The summons was prompted by a new denunciation, which the district police officer claimed was authored by Oksana Zhiteneva, head of a Stavropol animal rights organization, the activist himself told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to Dzhalaganiya, the district police inspector inquired about his views on the Russian army and the circumstances under which he allegedly made negative comments about it. "The local police officer told me that Oksana Zhiteneva had filed a new complaint against me. Allegedly, while in court in the Alla Chernova case, I spread negative statements about the Russian army and discredited it," he said.

The new complaint filed by Zhiteneva against Dzhalaganiya concerns his trip to Stavropol Krai to visit the 95-year-old mother of 68-year-old pensioner Alla Chernova, accused of having her dogs maul a girl. In May, a court in Stavropol found Chernova guilty of causing the death by negligence of a nine-year-old girl who died as a result of a dog attack, giving her an eighteen-month suspended sentence.

According to him, Zhiteneva's husband is also a witness in her complaint, claiming to have personally heard these statements in the courthouse. "I immediately explained to the inspector that no such incident occurred, and that I made no such statements. Zhiteneva's witness is lying, and, in my opinion, he, like her, should be prosecuted for false accusation, so that others will learn from him," Dzhalaganiya stated.

He recalled that in October, Zhiteneva had already contacted law enforcement agencies, accusing him of slander, insults, and discrediting the Russian army, but the Russian Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case.

Dzhalaganiya attributes the current summons for questioning to the fact that the previous investigation did not yield the desired result for the complainant. "Since the Investigative Committee refused, Oksana came up with a new pretext," he believes.

Dzhalaganiya also said that he had previously failed to file a false report due to time constraints, but now he intends to do so. "Previously, there was one informant, now there are two." "I'll be writing a statement for both of them," he emphasized.