13 January 2021 | HRW – Human Rights Watch
Russian Federation
Annual report on the human rights situation in 2020
World Report 2021 - Russia (Periodical Report, English)
12 January 2021 | Caucasian Knot
Russian Federation, Sweden
Swedish court finds connection between attack on exiled Chechen native Tumso Abdurakhmanov and his criticism of Chechnya's leadership
Swedish court links attempt on Tumso Abdurakhmanov with his criticism of Kadyrov (Media Report, English)
12 January 2021 | Caucasian Knot
Russian Federation
Article on blood feud declared against relatives of 2 men who attacked and killed police officers in Grozny in December 2020
Chechen authorities politicize blood feud to Timurziev's relatives (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Russian Federation
Sholban Kara-Ool, head of Tuva republic, announces investigation into alleged discrimination against ethnic Tyva in the armed forces
Tyva Leader To Look Into Discrimination Claims Against Russian Recruits (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | Caucasian Knot
Russian Federation
Overview of events in the Caucasus between 4 and 10 January 2021
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 4-10, 2021 (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Russian Federation
Moscow: Court postpones verdict in case against a mathematician accused of hooliganism; the accused claims he was tortured while in custody
Trial Verdict Of Moscow Mathematician Miftakhov Postponed (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | Caucasian Knot
Russian Federation
Kuban: Investigators launch case into disappearance of Salman Tepsurkaev, a moderator of the political messaging group 1Adat who was kidnapped in Chechnya in 2020
Rights defenders succeed in seeking investigation into Chechen Tepsurkaev's kidnapping (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | Caucasian Knot
Russian Federation
At least 3 people killed in armed conflict in the North Caucasus from 4 to 10 January 2021
On January 4-10, three persons perished in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus (Media Report, English)
11 January 2021 | CoE-PACE – Council of Europe - Parliamentary Assembly
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Republic, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine
Annual report on the political events and the functioning of democratic institutions in countries that are part of the monitoring procedure of the Council of Europe (covering 2020)
Progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (January-December 2020) [Doc. 15211] (Periodical Report, English)
10 January 2021 | RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Russian Federation
Intelligence agency FSB sets up a resident agent within the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg
'There's A Room Under The Stairs': Russia's FSB Sets Up Resident Agents At Research Institutes (Media Report, English)