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September 27, 2022 04:22

• In Nalchik, women demand to mobilize children of officials

  The women who came to a protest action against the mobilization in Nalchik asked the officials who came out to the protesters whether they had sent their children to the special military operation.

September 27, 2022 04:20

• Relatives of detained opponents of mobilization gather near police building in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, relatives of the people detained at a protest action against the mobilization and other residents of the city gathered near a police department. According to eyewitnesses, there are many young people among the detainees, and no advocates are allowed to visit them.

September 27, 2022 04:13

• In Khasavyurt, protest action of opponents of mobilization ends with detentions

  In Khasavyurt, the police detained some participants of a protest action against mobilization.

September 27, 2022 04:08

• Journalists detained while covering protests in Makhachkala

  The police detained Idris Yusupov, a journalist of the “Novoye Delo” (New Clause), and Sergey Einbinder, the editor-in-chief of the “RusNews”, who came to cover a protest action of opponents of mobilization in Makhachkala. Sergei Einbinder reported that he was beaten and his camera was broken.

September 27, 2022 03:57

• Mobilization summons raise questions among Volgograd residents

  The residents of Volgograd, who have received summons, complained that they could not find out for how long they were called up and whether it was possible to go abroad during the mobilization.

September 27, 2022 03:26

• After picket, Krasnodar activist accused of discrediting army

  Law enforcers have accused Maria Pavlova of discrediting militaries; she was detained today in Krasnodar at a solo picket against mobilization.

September 26, 2022 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 19-25, 2022

  Mobilization and lines on the southern borders of Russia; protest actions in Southern Russia against mobilization; verdict of guilty pronounced by the jury in a case against Rauf and Raul Arashukov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 19-25, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

September 26, 2022 18:46

• Rights defenders count 101 detainees after violent crackdown on protest against mobilization in Makhachkala

  A total of 101 persons were detained at a protest against mobilization in Makhachkala, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported on its website.

September 26, 2022 17:54

• "Caucasian Knot" correspondent detained in Makhachkala

  Law enforcers have detained the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and took him away from the venue of the action staged by mobilization opponents in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

September 26, 2022 12:16

• Anti-mobilization action in Nalchik brings together at least ten women

  At their protest in Nalchik, women from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) demanded from authorities not to mobilize their relatives.

September 25, 2022 19:42

• Official from KBR's commissariat explains prohibitions for those subject to mobilization

  The males of the conscription age who are subject to mobilization can freely move around the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), but they can't leave its borders, even if they have not yet received a summons, the republic's military commissariat has explained.

September 25, 2022 19:41

• Law enforcers detain anti-mobilization protesters in Volgograd

  At least 11 people have been detained at a protest action against mobilization held in Volgograd; some of them have already been released. The organizers had twice changed the venue because of the large concentration of law enforcers in the places where the activists' gathering had been planned.

September 24, 2022 17:01

• Ramzan Kadyrov treats dodgers leaving Russia as pitiful sight

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated that mobilization dodgers who line up at airports aiming to leave Russia are lazy guys and parasites. In his opinion, they are of no use for the country.

September 24, 2022 16:59

• Abubakar Yangulbaev reports obstacles in correspondence with his mother

  Several letters were not delivered to Zarema Musaeva to the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although they were censored and accepted, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has stated.

September 24, 2022 16:56

• Rights defenders warn about threat of deportation of Kadyrov's critics from Austria

  The refugees from Chechnya who have criticized Kadyrov may be deported from Austria to Russia, the "Vayfond" human rights association has reported. This is about the brothers Murad and Mukharbek Aslamkhanov, the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has explained.

September 24, 2022 16:54

• Suicide attempt of Chechen inmate not to stop the court to hold debates on his case

  Khalid Azmatgiriev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving hissentence in a penal colony in Mordovia, inflicted more than 20 cuts on his stomach with a razor right in the courtroom in protest against the judge's biased attitude to him, in his opinion.

September 24, 2022 16:51

• Kadyrov's threats add to Akhmed Zakaev's political weight

  Ramzan Kadyrov's call to kill Akhmed Zakaev was caused by the latter's activeness in Ukraine, but it is the constant attention of the head of Chechnya that adds to Zakaev's popularity, Alexei Malashenko and Sergey Zhavoronkov have pointed out. Kadyrov calls for violent actions, but there is no chance that he will be held accountable for this under the law, Evgeny Chernousov has noted.

September 24, 2022 16:47

• Chechen officials report about rally of 50,000 in support of referendums

  Today, a rally in support of referendums on joining Russia in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson Regions has been held in Grozny.

September 24, 2022 16:45

• Kadyrov calls draft evaders second-class people

  The leader of Chechnya has called those who do not want to go to Ukraine as part of the mobilization “cowards, traitors, and second-class people.”

September 23, 2022 20:53

• Social media users call on to exclude Dagestan from mobilization

  Among the volunteers who went to Ukraine, there are many natives of Dagestan, social media users note. They believe that it is worth making participation in the special military operation for residents of Dagestan only on voluntary basis.