North Caucasus

September 29, 2026 17:31

• The magistrate from Nalchik was convicted in a bribery case.

  The court sentenced retired magistrate Mukhamed Tembotov to nine years in a strict regime for bribery. The court secretary Marianna Karasova received eight years, and the judge's assistant Elena Rashidova was sentenced to seven and a half years in a general regime colony.

September 29, 2026 16:33

• Mansur Movlaev spoke about his condition in the pre-trial detention center.

  Every time the door of the cell in the pre-trial detention center opens, it causes fear due to the threat of extradition and concerns about retribution in Chechnya, wrote Mansur Movlaev in his letter from the isolation facility. He compared the possible extradition to the Russian authorities to waiting for the execution of a death sentence.

September 29, 2026 15:34

• The serviceman was re-sentenced in Nalchik for absence from service.

  The court in Nalchik sentenced serviceman Fanil Shafikov to three years and five months in prison for failing to report to his unit a week after receiving a suspended sentence for absence from service.

September 29, 2026 13:39

• The prosecutor's conclusions about the abduction of Movlaev's parents are questioned.

  Based on similar cases that occurred in Chechnya, the incident involving Mansur Movlaev's parents can be considered abduction, although the prosecutor's office stated that there was no crime, noted human rights activist Maxim Rudnev. After their release, there were no threats to Movlaev's parents, he pointed out.

September 29, 2026 12:41

• A parent complained about the dilapidated school in Dagestan's Aksai.

  The school building in the village of Aksai in the Khasavyurt district is collapsing, the windows in the classrooms are drafty, and due to the lack of water, children cannot even wash their hands after using the toilet. Appeals to the authorities have not yielded results, complained a parent.

September 29, 2026 10:46

• Drivers in North Ossetia doubted the usefulness of volunteers in combating queues at gas stations.

  Volunteers will record traffic violations in queues at gas stations and send the materials to the traffic police, said the head of the republic, Sergey Menyaylo. Drivers in North Ossetia, commenting on this information on social media, doubted the effectiveness of such a measure. They also pointed to the operating hours of gas stations as the reason for the queues and urged the authorities to address the issue of fuel availability.

September 29, 2026 09:48

• Human rights defenders urged Astana not to extradite Movlaev to the Russian authorities.

  The authorities of Kazakhstan must fulfill their obligations under international law and stop the extradition of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev and activist Yulia Emelyanova, as well as organize a corridor for them to a safe third country, stated in a collective appeal signed by 153 human rights defenders and organizations.

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