North-Caucasian Federal District

May 17, 2022 23:14

• Villagers in Dagestan call complaints against quarry owners ineffective

  For many years, residents of several villages in the Kizilyurt District have been suffering from dust from nearby crushed stone quarries, and the authorities of Dagestan do not respond to their complaints.

May 17, 2022 23:09

• Court allows relatives to visit Magamadov and Isaev

  With a court’s permission, relatives visited in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) brothers Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who were convicted in Chechnya on the charge of providing assistance to a militant. The convicted brothers did not voice complaints about new torture, their advocate said.

May 17, 2022 23:01

• Putin's press secretary treats mutual criticism with Kadyrov as friendly

  The mutual criticism in the polemic with the head of Chechnya is friendly, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, has assured.

May 17, 2022 13:21

• Makhachkala picketer demands to release journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  At his solo picket held in Makhachkala, Magomed Magomedov, a Dagestan journalist, demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and stop his criminal prosecution. Most residents of Dagestan are aware of Gadjiev's prosecution and continue to be interested in his fate, Idris Yusupov, a journalist, has pointed out.

May 17, 2022 13:17

• Activists disclose plans for Adygs' Commemoration Day

  Activists failed to receive sanction for holding a mourning march for the victims of the Caucasian War in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), but the rest of the planned events will take place.

May 17, 2022 12:41

• Case of Dagestani resident beaten up by law enforcers reaches the court

  In the village of Akhty, four law enforcers had beaten up a local resident in order to force him to confess to a theft, the prosecution asserts.

May 17, 2022 12:36

• Chechen emigrants in Turkey claim threat of their relatives' kidnappings

  After the video showing the beating of Beslan Edilov, a former police boss of the village of Gikalo, Chechen political emigrants in Turkey expect a new wave of kidnappings of their relatives.

May 17, 2022 12:20

• Human rights defenders assess risks of forced sending of Chechen residents to Ukraine

  Forced sending of public sector employees from Chechnya to Ukraine to participate in the special military operation is quite possible if the Kremlin demands, and those who refuse to go to Ukraine will risk being dismissed from work, human rights defenders suggest.

May 16, 2022 19:32

• Cancellation of march in Nalchik on Adygs' Memory Day outrages social network users

  Authorities of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have denied the request of the initiative group to hold on May 21 a mourning march for victims of the Caucasian War, Valery Khatazhukov, a human rights defender, has stated.

May 16, 2022 19:28

• Dagestan: head of Tabasaran District reports military's death in Ukraine

  Corporal Kurban Urudjev from the village of Tinit has perished in Ukraine, the administration of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 108 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.

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