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January 03, 2023 23:53

• Father of Magomed-Ali Sultanov murdered in Dagestan urges to stop protests

  The father of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a resident of Kayakent, who was killed in a brawl, has expressed his gratitude to fellow villagers for their support. The father has noted that all his demands have been met; and those who call for new protests are pursuing their own goals.

January 03, 2023 20:36

• Journalists treat disruption of pickets in Gadjiev's support as systemic

  For the third week in a row, law enforcers have disrupted the solo pickets in support of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, although the protests are held in compliance with all the legal requirements.

January 03, 2023 20:33

• Dagestani lawyer achieves ICRF’s check on incident at rally against mobilization

  The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) began checking the actions of the policemen who hit a participant of a protest rally against the mobilization in Makhachkala, lawyer Arsen Magomedov said after the Ministry of Internal Affairs had found no violations in the actions of the policemen.

January 03, 2023 05:18

• In Stavropol, court refuses to consider claim filed by mobilized father of disabled child

  In Stavropol, a court has refused to consider a complaint filed by a local resident who disputes the draft to the army within the military mobilization due to the fact that he has two dependent children, one of whom is sick. Despite the above, the man has been mobilized and sent to the air assault regiment.

January 02, 2023 22:57

• Native of Chechnya complains about beating by law enforcers in Croatia

  Law enforcers have beaten up a native of Chechnya who had arrived in Croatia. Complaints also arrive from other people from this camp, human rights defenders have informed, demanding from the Croatian Prosecutor's Office to punish those responsible.

January 02, 2023 22:55

• Law enforcers disrupt picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Dagestani journalist

  In Makhachkala, policemen have detained Magomed Magomedov, a journalist, who was holding a solo picket in support of his arrested colleague, and Abdulmumin Gadjiev's mother.

January 02, 2023 22:53

• Relatives of young man killed in Dagestan demand to punish perpetrators

  At a gathering in Kayakent, relatives of the perished Magomed-Ali Sultanov demanded from investigators to find and punish all those involved in committing the crime.

January 01, 2023 22:47

• Kadyrov's words about women's role in raising children angered social network users

  Single women are unable to raise their son as real males, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Instagram* users have found this statement to be overly categorical; some responded by suggesting that Kadyrov stop sending men from Chechnya to Ukraine.

January 01, 2023 22:26

• Residents of most regions of Southern Russia celebrate New Year without mass celebrations

  Amid the military operation in Ukraine, authorities of most regions of Southern Russia have banned mass celebrations on the occasion of the New Year, with the exception of festive events for children. Mayors of several cities have also changed the format of New Year celebrations.

January 01, 2023 22:07

• Law enforcer who escaped from Russia reports detention of his relatives in Dagestan

  After his interview about the involvement of FSB agents in terror acts, relatives of the wife of Emran Navruzbekov, a former operative agent, and his mother's relatives were detained in Dagestan. Navruzbekov asked law enforcers not to touch his relatives.

December 31, 2022 22:40

• Dagestani blogger links case on discrediting army with his posts

  The reason for initiating a criminal case against Arslan Mirzaev, a blogger from Dagestan, on discrediting Russian militaries, was in his publications criticizing the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine, the blogger himself has suggested.

December 31, 2022 22:20

• Dagestani law enforcer flees to Europe and accuses colleagues of involvement in terror acts

  In his interview, Emran Navruzbekov, an operative agent of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), who has asked for political asylum in Europe, stated that FSB agents were involved in terror acts and staged special operations committed and conducted in Dagestan.

December 31, 2022 15:28

• Persecution of blogger Shevtsov’s parents in Astrakhan stopped

  A court recognized as “actually fictitious” the events by which the police in Astrakhan explained the detention of Yuri Shevtsov and Galina Shevtsova for two days.

December 31, 2022 15:23

• Authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina refuse entry to group of natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia

  About 20 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia arrived through Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply later for political asylum in Croatia, but they were deported from the Sarajevo airport to Istanbul.

December 31, 2022 11:57

• Crime and detention: main point about scandals with Kadyrov's representatives

  On December 26, 2022, Khasan Ibragimov, Ramzan Kadyrov's official representative in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, was detained in Simferopol on suspicion of beating a young man who stood up for a girl in a restaurant.

December 30, 2022 22:26

• Laureates of Akhmednabiev award draw attention to domestic violence in Southern Russia

  The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the outcomes of the annual contest named after the deceased journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.

December 30, 2022 15:57

• Kadyrov denies forced sending Chechens to frontline

  All the participants from Chechnya in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, including law enforcers, have gone there voluntarily, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

December 30, 2022 12:39

• Video posted of beating up restaurant visitor by Chechen law enforcers in Simferopol

  Four men took part in beating up a restaurant visitor in Simferopol despite attempts to stop the brawl, says the video of the incident with Chechen law enforcers.

December 30, 2022 05:28

• Kadyrov announces his right to run for president

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has emphasized that he has the right to run for president in Russia, but he will never do that.

December 30, 2022 05:20

• Human rights defenders get insulting response from address of Chechen parliament chair Daudov

  The “Team Against Torture”* received responses to 37 out of 68 letters with a study on torture in Northern Caucasus sent to representatives of the authorities and the law enforcement bodies.