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October 30, 2022 19:30

• Four women from Dagestan ask not to return them to their relatives

  At the "Verkhniy Lars" checkpoint, the young women from Dagestan have written applications about threats received from their relatives, the Ombudsperson of North Ossetia has stated. In her audio message, one of the girls asked not to return them to their relatives who came to pick them up.

October 30, 2022 19:23

• Dagestani girls tell about their flight from domestic violence

  The four girls from Dagestan, held by border guards, have told how they were beaten up at home, forbidden to study, and tried to force them into marriage. The girls are afraid that their relatives might kill them.

October 30, 2022 19:11

• Analysts dispute about motives for Kadyrov's and Prigozhin's attacks on military leadership

  Ramzan Kadyrov's and Evgeny Prigozhin's criticism against the Russian military command is caused by the desire of each of them to win political dividends, Alexei Malashenko, a political scientist, has suggested.

October 30, 2022 19:07

• Border guards prevent group of Dagestani girls from leaving Russia

  Border guards refused to let four girls from Dagestan who escaped from domestic violence through; they are holding them at the checkpoint until their relatives arrive, human rights defenders have informed.

October 29, 2022 16:23

• Video of detention of resident of Dagestan for shooting at wedding sparks disputes in Web

  A resident of the Tarumovsky District who fired a submachine gun at a wedding in Kizlyar followed the traditions, some Telegram users have pointed out. Their opponents have objected stating that the tradition that violates the public order is out of place.

October 29, 2022 16:21

• Resident of Gudermes District publicly reprimanded for witchcraft

  Law enforcers have detained Khasukha Suliev, a resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded him for engaging in occultism.

October 29, 2022 16:15

• Talking at work results in fine imposed on Volzhsky resident for discrediting army

  A court in the city of Volzhsky (Volgograd Region) has fined Eduard Safronov, a local resident, by 50,000 roubles, treating the slogan he voiced out at his factory workplace in support of Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Army.

October 29, 2022 16:11

• Chechen commander calls on unemployed to go to the frontline

  Bislan Chabaev, a deputy commander of the "Akhmat-1" OMON (riot police) battalion, has called on the unemployed residents of Chechnya to go to Ukraine to defend their republic.

October 28, 2022 23:53

• Head of Ingush Accounts Chamber Mustafa Belkharoev detained after search in his house

  The police searched the house of Mustafa Belkharoev, the head of the Accounts Chamber of Ingushetia, and took him away with them. This was reported by Amirkhan Belkharoev, a son of the official.

October 28, 2022 23:47

• Kalmyk activist leaves Russia after being fined for his pacifist calls

  Arslang Sandjiev, the chair of the Congress and the Executive Committee of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People, who was fined twice for his pacifist calls, moved to the United States.

October 28, 2022 19:30

• Verdict to Ingush activist, Bagaudin Myakiev, upheld

  The appeal instance has found no grounds for overturning the sentence passed to Bagaudin Myakiev, convicted after clashes with law enforcers at a protest rally in Magas.

October 28, 2022 19:24

• FSB's report on preventing terror act in Stavropol Territory is the third in a month

  In October, the Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service) has reported three times about the prevention of terror acts and detention of three groups of supporters of radical movements. According to law enforcers, they twice detained supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS)*.

October 28, 2022 18:57

• Kadyrov confirms deaths of 23 Chechen fighters in Ukraine

  Since the start of the week, a total of 23 Chechen fighters have perished "overnight" in the Kherson Region; and 58 others have been wounded, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

October 28, 2022 18:53

• Authorities confirm deaths of 850 natives of Southern Russia in Ukraine

  Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities have reported the deaths of at least 850 residents of Southern Russia, including 536 casualties from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and 314 ones from the Southern Federal District (SFD).

October 28, 2022 15:54

• Resident of Rostov Region placed in strict isolation in SIZO after his arrest

  After his arrest, Igor Paskar, a resident of the Rostov Region, who threw a Molotov cocktail at the FSB building, was placed in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar, controlled by the special service, and not a single letter was handed over to him there.

October 28, 2022 15:46

• Ingush resident sentenced to long term of imprisonment in case attracting attention of human rights defenders

  The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia sentenced Ibragim Mankiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to 14 years of imprisonment, finding him guilty of acts of banditry, murders, and illegal possession of weapons.

October 27, 2022 19:06

• Repost of video led woman from Morozovsk to fine for discrediting militaries

  The court has decided that reposting in social network of the video of the destruction and explosions caused by missile strikes is discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

October 27, 2022 18:51

• Relatives of victims of Dubrovka terror act declared their no confidence in investigation

  Over the past 20 years, the former hostages and relatives of those who perished in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre still have no information about the course of the inquiry and results thereof; therefore, there is no hope for the completeness and objectivity of the inquiry, participants in the commemorative event in Moscow have stated.

October 27, 2022 18:41

• Protest against Constitution changes unites Dagestani public

  Both pro-governmental non-commercial organizations (NCOs) and the oppositional ones have opposed the amendments to the Constitution of Dagestan, journalists have pointed out. In their opinion, the protest against the amendments has united diverse forces in the republic.

October 27, 2022 06:01

• Chechen resident sentenced for trying to provide a mobile phone to members of IAF

  The Southern District Military Court sentenced Isa Ersimikov to six years of imprisonment for an attempt to provide a mobile phone to members of an illegal armed formation.