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November 07, 2022 23:31

• Tenants of unfinished residential complex in Dagestan ask authorities for help

  Two unfinished houses in the Makhachkala residential complex are already partially occupied, but the apartments are not heated in winter, and other owners cannot move into their apartments they had bought, where there is no electricity and water, residents have complained.

November 07, 2022 23:18

• New appointment of Security Council's ex-secretary is Kadyrov's attempt to expand his influence

  The appointment of Apti Alaudinov, a former secretary of the Chechen Security Council, to a post in the militia of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic) has become an element of Ramzan Kadyrov's strategy aimed at expanding his sphere of influence by means of a loyal person.

November 05, 2022 18:38

• Kuban resident banned to return home prior to consideration of his mobilization complaint

  The lawsuit concerning mobilization lodged by Alexei Abramov, a resident of Goryachiy Klyuch, who was diagnosed with multiple spinal injuries, against the military commissariat, has been accepted for consideration, Mikhail Benyash*, an advocate, has informed.

November 05, 2022 18:33

• Prior to concert in Grozny, Chechen Ministry of Culture examined Jony's songs

  All the songs of the singer Jony of Azerbaijani origin that he performed in Grozny had been censored, Elina Murtazova, assistant to the Minister of Culture of Chechnya, has stated.

November 05, 2022 18:29

• Amina Gerikhanova receives refugee status

  Amina Gerikhanova, a native of Chechnya, who was put on the wanted list by Russia as a participant in hostilities in Syria, has received refugee status in Romania. This was reported by the Swedish-based "Vayfond" human rights association.

November 04, 2022 23:56

• UN draws attention to human rights violations in Chechnya and Dagestan

  The UN Human Rights Committee pointed to human rights violations in Northern Caucasus and highlighted cases of persecution of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, brothers from Chechnya, who were sentenced to imprisonment for aiding and abetting a militant, as well as the suppression of protests against mobilization in Russia.

November 04, 2022 21:35

• Flight to Georgia is not end to persecution threats for four Dagestani sisters

  The four sisters from Dagestan who fled domestic violence are safe in Georgia, but the threat of persecution by their relatives has not ended; the girls need psychological help, human rights defenders believe.

November 04, 2022 21:18

• Visit to Grozny shows Iran's interest in regions of Northern Caucasus

  The sitting of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission in Grozny will give impetus to trade and economic relations of Northern Caucasus with Iran, Radjab Safarov is sure. This may be followed by Iran's cultural and religious influence on the republics of Northern Caucasus, Akhmet Yarlykapov believes.

November 04, 2022 19:56

• Head of Chechnya calls for tougher punishment for evading mobilization

  Service evaders should be severely fined and then sent to the frontline, and not allowed to "sit out in a cell," Ramzan Kadyrov has stated in his comment on the legislation amendments offered by MPs.

November 04, 2022 19:54

• Support for Belkharoev family continues trend of Kadyrov’s protection of “his people”

  The fact that after searches and arrests in Ingushetia, the leader of Chechnya called members of the Belkharoev family his close friends reminded of Ramzan Kadyrov’s close contacts with followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji during the establishment of borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia, as well as the attempts of the leader of Chechnya to intercede for Sagid Murtazaliev, who had been put on the wanted list in Dagestan.

November 04, 2022 19:38

• PO demands from MIA to consider application about harsh detention in Makhachkala

  The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has sent a complaint to the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the law enforcer, who had hit a protester in Makhachkala. The law enforcers should be punished publicly, and residents should react to unreasonably harsh detentions, Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer, has stated.

November 03, 2022 23:56

• Dagestani Murad Mirzakhanov's relatives demand to punish law enforcers for torturing him

  Law enforcers have fabricated a criminal case against Murad Mirzakhanov from Makhachkala and tortured him, but his relatives' complaints yield no results, Murad's mother has stated, and his defence has pointed to gross errors in the criminal case.

November 03, 2022 23:53

• KChR residents commemorate deportation victims

  The participants of the mourning rallies held in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have laid flowers at the memorials to the Karachays' deportation victims.

November 03, 2022 23:50

• Belkharoevs' arrests in Ingushetia attract Kadyrov's attention

  The head of Chechnya has stood up for the Belkharoev family, several members of which were arrested in Ingushetia. Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that the term "'Batalkhadjin terrorist community" is absurd, and the Belkharoevs will always be his close friends.

November 03, 2022 17:37

• Novorossiysk blogger Alibekov recognized as a political prisoner

  Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, is being persecuted for political reasons for his pacifist speeches, states the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial”. The human rights defenders demand to release Askhabali Alibekov.

November 03, 2022 17:36

• Chechen female activist released after questioning

  Gistam Sakaeva, a native of Chechnya, is at large, as the police released her after questioning.

November 02, 2022 19:52

• Court in Dagestan finds arrest of journalist Sevrinovsky groundless

  The Dagestani Supreme Court (SC) has cancelled the resolution on the arrest that Vladimir Sevrinovsky had served after his detention in Makhachkala, and sent the case for reconsideration.

November 02, 2022 19:40

• Female NCO employee from Chechnya goes missing in Astrakhan Region

  Gistam Sakaeva, a native of Chechnya and an activist of the non-commercial organization (NCO), engaged in defending women's rights, has disappeared on the border of Kazakhstan with the Astrakhan Region, while in Chechnya a week ago she was searched for by a local district policeman.

November 02, 2022 19:31

• Escape of four girls is pretext for Dagestani Imam to campaign against social networks

  The escape of four Dagestani young women was provoked by the influence of social networks, in which recruiters convince young people to leave their families, the chairman of the Council of Imams of Kaspiysk has stated. In his opinion, the girls have poured dirt on the family by telling that they had been "infringed."

November 02, 2022 19:07

• Followers of “At Takfir Val-Hijra”* detained in Dagestan

  Six followers of the “At Takfir Val-Hijra”* organization were detained in Dagestan, Moscow, and Voronezh, and “religious books of extremist content” were confiscated from them during a search, the FSB Department for Moscow and the Moscow Region reported.