Said Osmanov's actions contain elements of administrative offence only, his...
The criminal charges brought against Dagestani athlete Said Osmanov in the case on desecration of a statue of Buddha in Elista are unfounded. Witnesses do not confirm that Said Osmanov had publicly...
View ArticleIn Elista, deputy chief and medical assistant of penal colony arrested
The Elista City Court has pronounced the decision to arrest until September 14 the deputy chief and the medical assistant of the penal colony, where in November 2015, a prisoner was found dead with...
View ArticleWeek in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 18-24
Forceful dispersal of opposition supporters and release of police officers held hostage in Yerevan; IOC's decision on the participation of the Russian national team in the Olympic Games in Rio de...
View ArticleSaid Osmanov's advocate claims contradictions in testimonies of prosecution...
Today, in Elista, the court has questioned the witnesses in the Said Osmanov's case. The advocate of the athlete has claimed that the testimonies given today contradict the testimonies of the same...
View ArticleCourt finds Said Osmanov guilty
In Elista, the court has found the Dagestani athlete guilty of desecrating a statue of Buddha and inciting ethnic hatred and sentenced him to two years of conditional imprisonment.
View ArticleAdvocate intends to seek acquittal of Said Osmanov
The release of athlete Said Osmanov, who was sentenced in Elista on the charge of desecrating a statue of Buddha and inciting ethnic hatred, will allow him to focus on appealing against the verdict of...
View ArticleWeek in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 25-31
Surrender to authorities of rebels who captured a police building in Yerevan; start of consideration by Moscow court of Boris Nemtsov's murder case; death of two people in explosion at Azerbaijani...
View ArticleCommunists explain their failure at elections in three regions of Southern...
On September 28, in Volgograd, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who headed the party list in the Volgograd and Astrakhan Regions and in the Republic of Kalmykia, held a...
View Article"Gulagu.net" project coordinator states his kidnapping
Unidentified persons kept Anton Drozdov, the coordinator of the project "Gulagu.net" and a member of the Committee for Civil Rights, in their apartment for four days. The project is engaged, among...
View ArticleNCFD and SFD regions take top seven places in sobriety rating
According to the results of the nationwide research project "Sober Russia" and the Expert-Analytical Centre of the Public Chamber, published today, the leader is Chechnya with 12.8 points; then come...
View ArticleFive leaders of southern regions of Russia lost points in ranking of...
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is the only one of the heads of southern regions of Russia, who became one of the "honours" of the "survival" rating, compiled on the basis of estimations voiced by...
View Article2016 outcomes in SFD: farmers' and miners' protests, spy mania and pressure...
Protests of Kuban farmers and miners in Rostov Region; disappointment in the Governor at the background of social problems in Volgograd Region; abolition of direct election of head of Adygea;...
View ArticleResidents of Southern Russia celebrate Christmas with mass liturgies and...
On the Christmas Eve, tens of thousands of residents of the Southern Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) visited solemn worship services at Orthodox churches. In...
View ArticleSolo picketer detained in Kalmykia
As reported by Batyr Boromangnaev, the chairman of the Kalmyk branch of the "Yabloko" Party, policemen have detained the activist, who held in Elista a solo picket against the socio-economic policy of...
View ArticleZelimkhan Bakharchiev's father evicted from Chechnya buried in Ingushetia
Aslanbek Bakharchiev, the seriously ill father of suspected militant Zelimkhan Bakharchiev, expelled from a Chechen village, died in Kalmykia and was buried in Ingushetia. This was reported by...
View ArticleFamily with many children from Kalmykia goes to court in seek for shelter...
The Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia has dismissed the complaint filed by a female resident of the republic, excluded by the administration of Elista from the number of participants of the programme...
View ArticleRelatives of inmate who died in Elista colony treat list of figurants as...
The Elista City Court plans to hold the first session on the death of the inmate Dmitri Batyrev in the colony, who, according to investigators, received at least 60 blows with a rubber truncheon. The...
View ArticleShooting of film about Kalmyks killed in Chechnya postponed because of lack...
Process of shooting of the documentary film "When I get back-3" dedicated to natives of Kalmykia and Kalmyks from other regions, killed during the second Chechen military campaign and during the...
View ArticleIn Elista, tenants of flooded houses indignant about demand to account for...
The Elista administration has approved the procedure for provision of one-time financial assistance to residents of flooded houses. Owners of the affected households are dissatisfied with the...
View ArticleEmployees of Elista colony refuse to plead guilty of Batyrev’s death
Today, seven employees of the local department of the Russian Penitentiary Service (known as the UFSIN) has stated their non-involvement in the death of the inmate Dmitri Batyrev.
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