10:34, 5 June 2026

A journalist from Mari El was detained for a comment about Dudayev.

A comment about Dzhokhar Dudayev led to the arrest of Mari El journalist Alexey Seregin* on charges of justifying terrorism. He was beaten during his arrest.

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against Yoshkar-Ola journalist Alexey Seregin* for justifying terrorism online (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code), reported Horizontal Russia 7x7*.

The case was prompted by a comment about Dzhokhar Dudayev, "justifying illegal armed groups in Chechnya in the 1990s," left in 2024. Security forces detained the journalist on June 4 at a bus stop. During his arrest, he was beaten and had his phone confiscated, after which he was taken home for a search, the publication reports, citing a source familiar with the investigation.

Alexei Seregin* is known for his coverage of political trials. He runs a Telegram channel about the problems of his region, "Nothing Will Happen in Mari El" (as of 10:34 Moscow time, it has 862 subscribers - Caucasian Knot note), where he reposts posts about residents of the republic killed in Ukraine, according to the publication.

Seregin* has been detained for 48 hours, and a preventive measure is planned for him, according to Slovo Zashchiteti.

As Caucasian Knot reported, in an interview with Ekaterina Gordeeva* in September 2025, singer Alla Pugacheva called General Dzhokhar Dudayev an intelligent and decent man and apologized to his widow for not being able to do anything to keep him alive. "I knew Dzhokhar Dudayev. He was such a decent, honorable, intelligent man. A beautiful man," Pugacheva said, in particular.

State Duma Deputy Biysultan Khamzayev asked the head of the Ministry of Justice to investigate Alla Pugacheva's statements for extremism. Lawyer Alexander Treshchev appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to investigate Pugacheva's statements for terrorism. Moscow's Savelovsky District Court rejected lawyer Alexander Treshchev's lawsuit against Alla Pugacheva over her comments about Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Dzhokhar Dudayev was a major general in the Air Force who led the movement for Chechnya's secession from the Soviet Union and served as the supreme commander-in-chief during the First Chechen War. He was killed on April 22, 1996, near the village of Gekhi-Chu. According to one version, when Dudayev contacted State Duma deputy K.N. Borov, his satellite phone signal was intercepted, allowing Russian aircraft to launch a targeted homing missile, according to the biographical note of the "Caucasian Knot" about Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Recall that Alla Pugacheva's words about Dzhokhar Dudayev were immediately responded to by two of Chechnya's leaders - first by the Minister of National Policy, External Relations, and Information, Akhmed Dudayev, and then personally by the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ramzan Kadyrov advised her "not to provoke an entire nation."

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/423839