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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.

October 26, 2022 15:37

• Investigators got interested in Kuban believers' refusal to take part in the SMO

  Two villagers, mobilized in Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) and sent to a military unit in the Stavropol Territory, have refused to take part in the special military operation (SMO) because of their religious beliefs; and investigators are looking for a criminal offense in this refusal, Pavel Chikov, a human rights defender, has informed.

October 26, 2022 15:33

• Telegram users ask Stavropol Governor uneasy questions about help to those mobilized

  Relatives of those mobilized have to buy equipment and medicines for the conscripts, Telegram users have complained in their comments to the report of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory on re-equipping the fighters of one of the battalions.

October 26, 2022 15:28

• Kadyrov calls on Muslims to wage jihad against the West

  Muslims are "needed by the state and the president" and should not look for excuses from participating in hostilities, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. He has announced a jihad against the "Satanist democracy", promising "not to defend, but only to attack."

October 26, 2022 15:23

• After Kadyrov's report on his kids at frontline, political analysts draw parallels with Stalin

  The videos about the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov's children in hostilities in Ukraine is intended to touch upon primitive ideas about justice and masculinity, since Kadyrov's model of power, like the Stalin's one, rests on an attempt to rally people around some idea, Dmitry Oreshkin has pointed out.

October 26, 2022 15:15

• Dagestani MIA sees no violations in video of beating up mobilization opponent in Makhachkala

  There are no violations of the service discipline in actions of the law enforcers, who hit the immobilized anti-mobilization protester in Makhachkala. It follows from the answer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer.

October 25, 2022 23:57

• Court refuses to reconsider case against Chechen gays Magamadov and Isaev

  In Pyatigorsk, a court has upheld the verdict to Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov brothers, convicted in Chechnya for aiding and abetting a militant.

October 25, 2022 23:51

• Governor of Astrakhan Region reacts to complaints of mobilized compatriots

  Mobilized residents of Astrakhan, who now stay in North Ossetia, have asked Igor Babushkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, to provide them with sleeping bags. The head of the region promised to provide the mobilized people with sleeping bags “in the near future.”

October 25, 2022 15:53

• Inmate left without medical care in Stavropol colony

  The administration of the colony located in the Stavropol Territory would not appoint a medical examination to Zevri Abseitov, convicted for taking part in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir"*, despite the his suffering from hypertension, as well as pain in kidneys and joints, his wife, Fatma Abseitova, has stated.