
Karachay–Cherkessia
Court vacates sentence against mother of seven from Karachay–Cherkessia in husband’s killing
An appeals court overturned a previous ruling, finding that Olga Valieva had acted in self-defence.

An appeals court overturned a previous ruling, finding that Olga Valieva had acted in self-defence.

A court found Anastasia Melnikova guilty of displaying the symbols of an ‘extremist organisation’.

The individual was detained for involvement in a fight.

Ruslan Botashev has been in detention in France since 2018.

The court ruled that the convicted woman had exceeded the necessary limits of self-defence, as she continued to strike her husband after he had already lost consciousness.

The ‘Citizens of the USSR’ believe that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was illegal, and that the Russian Federation is not a legitimate entity.

Before sentencing, Vladimir Fomin had already spent one year and three months in a pre-trial detention centre.