16:24, 25 November 2019

November 18-24 week passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week of November 18-24, 2019, no casualties or victims were fixed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Disappearance of native of Chechnya

On November 21, it became known that Azamat Ibragimov, a native of Chechnya, who had come to Chechnya with his mother from Canada, on November 8, was taken away by unidentified persons right from home; and since then, relatives knew nothing about his whereabouts. Later, a video was posted, in which Azamat Ibragimov, while walking along Grozny, tells to the camera that "everything is good in Chechnya" and urges critics of the Chechen authorities to "calm down." However, Ibragimov did not contact his relatives; therefore, Instagram users suspected that Ibragimov was filed against his will, noting his atypical clothes and manner of speech. On November 22, Akhmed Dudaev, the head of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) unveiled a video with Ibragimov, which states that nobody had kidnapped him, and he decided to stay in Chechnya.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 25, 2019 at 10:17 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.