Dagestani woman detained in Moscow for picket demanding to punish her brother's killers

May 07, 2024 21:58

• Journalist Magomed Magomedov complains about attempted disruption of picket in support of Gadjiev

  A young man wearing a mask tried to join a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, reports Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik’ (Rough Draft). He considered the incident an attempt to disrupt the picket.

May 07, 2024 20:32

• Analysts consider reaction of Stavropol Territory Governor to burning of Bible to be imitation of Kadyrov’s actions

  With his activities in a case on the burning of the New Testament, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, copies the Ramzan Kadyrov’s reaction to the burning of the Koran in an attempt to earn political dividends, analysts have suggested.

May 07, 2024 19:26

• MPs refuse to provide land plot in Kabardino-Balkaria for memorial to victims of repression

  MPs of the Islamey village in the Baksan District refused to provide a plot of land for a memorial to victims of repression. The head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Association of Victims of Political Repression suggests that the above refusal contradicts the law.

May 07, 2024 17:02

• Practice of public apologies is commonplace for Chechen authorities

  Authorities of Chechnya have initiated the practice of public apologies; however, now law enforcers and ordinary residents in different Russian regions are resorting to this practice, analysts have commented on the video with an apology of a girl from Krasnodar and the author of a joke about Chechen women.

May 06, 2024 23:33

• Journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova detained for post about attack on Nalchik

  Investigators have accused Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, a defence witness in the case of the attack on Nalchik, of justifying terrorism. The reason was in her repost of the journalist Orkhan Djemal's text about this attack and her publication about the "Taliban"* movement.