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November 01, 2023 18:53

• Suspects of calling for unrest at Magas Airport detained

  Several local residents were detained in Ingushetia for spreading calls for unrest at Magas airport, the FSB reported.

November 01, 2023 18:39

• Residents of Cherkessk refrained from new anti-Israeli protest

  Participants of the anti-Israeli rally in Cherkessk, after arrests and preventive conversations, abandoned plans to hold a similar rally, one of the detainees said.

November 01, 2023 17:36

• Ambassador of Israel offered assistance with evacuation of Jews from Dagestan

  The Israeli embassy in Russia is ready to help Dagestani Jews move to Israel, a representative of the diplomatic mission said.

November 01, 2023 15:55

• Damage to Makhachkala airport caused by rioters estimated at 285 million rubles

  The preliminary amount of damage to the Makhachkala airport amounted to 285 million rubles, said State Duma deputy Khizri Abakarov, proposing to recover the costs from the riot participants themselves, as well as to add them to the airport’s blacklist.

November 01, 2023 15:42

• Human rights activists and lawyers: Kadyrov’s call to shoot demonstrators is illegal

  The order of the head of Chechnya cannot serve as a basis for the use of weapons against participants in mass riots; the use of weapons is regulated by the law “On the Police,” the lawyers pointed out. Human rights activists believe that actions similar to the riots in Makhachkala in Chechnya are possible only in a controlled format with the consent of Moscow.

November 01, 2023 13:41

• Rights defenders assess probability of extradition of Chechen Movlaev from Kyrgyzstan

  Recently, activists from Russia have often been detained in Kyrgyzstan under various pretexts, Dmitry Kabak, a legal expert, has noted in his comment on the threat of extradition of Mansur Movlaev, a Chechen resident, from there.

November 01, 2023 12:15

• Fines imposed on participants in anti-Semitic action in Cherkessk

  All those detained at the action against refugees from Israel in Cherkessk have been released. The court has fined the participants in the anti-Semitic action; and the police issued warnings.

October 31, 2023 23:58

• Security measures have been strengthened at Magas Airport

  Security forces have strengthened security measures at Magas airport amid information spreading on social networks about the arrival of a flight from Israel, reports the administration of Sunzha.

October 31, 2023 23:44

• Protocols against participants in anti-Semitic rally in Khasavyurt sent to court

  Ten protocols under the article on participation in an unauthorized rally, which led to damage of public property, were received by the Khasavyurt court two days after the protests near the hotel.

October 31, 2023 23:15

• Kadyrov threatened participants of any unauthorized rallies to be shot in forehead

  In the event of protests in Chechnya, security forces must fire several warning shots in the air, and if the participants of the riot do not respond to the demand, then open fire on them, said the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

October 31, 2023 22:58

• Kremlin commented on riots in Dagestan

  Mass unrest in Makhachkala was provoked from outside, said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Vladimir Putin has scheduled a closed meeting in the Kremlin related to the unrest, he said.

October 31, 2023 22:50

• Melikov: riots aim at destabilizing situation in Dagestan

  Behind the riots at the Makhachkala airport are people who oppose socio-economic transformations in Dagestan, since they deprive them of illegal income, and the riots themselves were supervised from abroad, including through “pro-Ukrainian Telegram channels,” said the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov.

October 31, 2023 18:30

• Picket in support of Gadjiev disrupted by police search at journalist Yusupov’s house

  A weekly picket in support of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev did not take place, as the protest posters were stored at Idris Yusupov’s house, searched by the police in connection with the riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

October 31, 2023 16:48

• In Dagestan, synagogues taken under police protection after riots

  The police took under protection the synagogues in Makhachkala, Buynaksk, Derbent, and Khasavyurt after riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

October 31, 2023 14:54

• RJC treats anti-Semitic protests in NCFD as atypical

  The events at the Makhachkala Airport and the anti-Semitic actions held in Khasavyurt, Cherkessk and Nalchik are atypical for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Russia as a whole; they threaten the interreligious and interethnic harmony in the country, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) has stated.

October 31, 2023 14:12

• Israeli authorities treat its citizens' stay in Southern Russia as dangerous

  The Israeli National Security Council (NSC) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have raised the level of danger for country's citizens in Northern Caucasus and a number of neighbouring regions up to the maximum, recommending their fellow countrymen not to travel to these regions or leave them as soon as possible.

October 30, 2023 21:52

• Pro-Ukrainian slogan turns into fine for Kuban resident

  In the village of Pavlovskaya, the court has fined Dmitry Tertitsa, a local resident, by 40,000 roubles, finding that the slogan he wrote on the stele in support of Ukraine discredited Russian militaries.

October 30, 2023 21:39

• Hundreds take part in anti-Israeli rally at Makhachkala Airport

  Hundreds of Dagestani residents gathered at the "Uitash" Airport for the arrival of the flight from Tel Aviv, following the calls released in anonymous Telegram channels. The crowd declared that they would not allow Jews to enter the republic. Young people even inspect law enforcers' cars trying to find those arriving from Israel.

October 30, 2023 19:37

• Vladikavkaz: about 100 people commemorate repression victims

  Activists and descendants of those repressed have held an action in Vladikavkaz dated to the Remembrance Day of Victims of Political Repressions.

October 30, 2023 19:15

• Volgograd students support commemoration of victims of repression

  Volgograd university students have taken part in the all-Russian action "Names' Return" by gathering at the monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions and reading out the names of those repressed.