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Magas airport. Photo: Yevgeny Shivtsov https://ru.wikipedia.org

23:58, 31 October 2023

Security measures have been strengthened at Magas Airport

Security forces have strengthened security measures at Magas airport amid information spreading on social networks about the arrival of a flight from Israel, reports the administration of Sunzha.

Young people who gathered outside a hotel in Khasavyurt. October 28, 2023. Photo: runews24.ru

23:44, 31 October 2023

Protocols against participants in anti-Semitic rally in Khasavyurt sent to court

Ten protocols under the article on participation in an unauthorized rally, which led to damage of public property, were received by the Khasavyurt court two days after the protests near the hotel.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by the Grozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru

23:15, 31 October 2023

Kadyrov threatened participants of any unauthorized rallies to be shot in forehead

In the event of protests in Chechnya, security forces must fire several warning shots in the air, and if the participants of the riot do not respond to the demand, then open fire on them, said the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Mass unrest in Makhachkala. Screenshot of the video by Tengrinews.kz

22:58, 31 October 2023

Kremlin commented on riots in Dagestan

Mass unrest in Makhachkala was provoked from outside, said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Vladimir Putin has scheduled a closed meeting in the Kremlin related to the unrest, he said.

22:50, 31 October 2023

Melikov: riots aim at destabilizing situation in Dagestan

Behind the riots at the Makhachkala airport are people who oppose socio-economic transformations in Dagestan, since they deprive them of illegal income, and the riots themselves were supervised from abroad, including through “pro-Ukrainian Telegram channels,” said the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov.

18:30, 31 October 2023

Picket in support of Gadjiev disrupted by police search at journalist Yusupov’s house

A weekly picket in support of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev did not take place, as the protest posters were stored at Idris Yusupov’s house, searched by the police in connection with the riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

A law enforcer. Photo: https://xacavurt.ru/news/4560-v-dagestane-obyavlen-konkurs-zhurnalistskih-rabot-budni-dagestanskoy-policii.html

16:48, 31 October 2023

In Dagestan, synagogues taken under police protection after riots

The police took under protection the synagogues in Makhachkala, Buynaksk, Derbent, and Khasavyurt after riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

A protester at the Makhachkala Airport. Screenshot of the video by the "Caucasian Knot"

14:54, 31 October 2023

RJC treats anti-Semitic protests in NCFD as atypical

The events at the Makhachkala Airport and the anti-Semitic actions held in Khasavyurt, Cherkessk and Nalchik are atypical for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Russia as a whole; they threaten the interreligious and interethnic harmony in the country, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) has stated.

Makhachkala Airport. Photo: https://report.az/ru/v-regione/minzdrav-dagestana-v-rezultate-besporyadkov-v-aeroportu-mahachkaly-est-ranenye/

14:12, 31 October 2023

Israeli authorities treat its citizens' stay in Southern Russia as dangerous

The Israeli National Security Council (NSC) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have raised the level of danger for country's citizens in Northern Caucasus and a number of neighbouring regions up to the maximum, recommending their fellow countrymen not to travel to these regions or leave them as soon as possible.

The Afipsky Oil Refinery. Photo by the press service of the plant https://www.afipnpz.ru/

22:49, 30 October 2023

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 23-29, 2023

Northern Caucasus chooses Palestine, fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are unravelling the knots, new awards for Adam Kadyrov, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 23-29, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Pavlovsky District Court. Photo: https://pravo-krasnodar.ru

21:52, 30 October 2023

Pro-Ukrainian slogan turns into fine for Kuban resident

In the village of Pavlovskaya, the court has fined Dmitry Tertitsa, a local resident, by 40,000 roubles, finding that the slogan he wrote on the stele in support of Ukraine discredited Russian militaries.

An attack at the Makhachkala Airport. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/rusnews/43372

21:39, 30 October 2023

Hundreds take part in anti-Israeli rally at Makhachkala Airport

Hundreds of Dagestani residents gathered at the "Uitash" Airport for the arrival of the flight from Tel Aviv, following the calls released in anonymous Telegram channels. The crowd declared that they would not allow Jews to enter the republic. Young people even inspect law enforcers' cars trying to find those arriving from Israel.

Laying flowers at the monument to the victims of political repressions in Vladikavkaz. October 30, 2023. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent

19:37, 30 October 2023

Vladikavkaz: about 100 people commemorate repression victims

Activists and descendants of those repressed have held an action in Vladikavkaz dated to the Remembrance Day of Victims of Political Repressions.

Flowers near the monument to the victims of repressions. Volgograd, October 28, 2023. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

19:15, 30 October 2023

Volgograd students support commemoration of victims of repression

Volgograd university students have taken part in the all-Russian action "Names' Return" by gathering at the monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions and reading out the names of those repressed.

Muftis of Northern Caucasus. Snapshot of a website of the Coordination Centre for Muslims of Northern Caucasus https://kcmsk.ru/novosti/obrashhenie-kcmsk-po-situacii-s-zapretami-religioznoj-literatury/

15:15, 30 October 2023

Muftis of Northern Caucasus speak against anti-Semitic actions

The Coordination Centre for Muslims of Northern Caucasus (CCMNC), while commenting on the action in Cherkessk with calls not to allow refugees from Israel into the republic, has treated anti-Semitic actions as unacceptable and called not to regard the opinion of their participants as the opinion of the whole nation.

Law enforcers and protesters in Khasavyurt. Screenshot of the video published on the "RusNews" Telegram channel on October 28, 2023 https://t.me/rusnews/43329

18:12, 29 October 2023

Law enforcers stop action in Khasavyurt against Israelis' arrival

Hundreds of people gathered outside a hotel in Khasavyurt after reports in social networks that refugees from Israel had been accommodated at the hotel. Law enforcers allowed the protesters to get convinced that only tourists from Russia were among the hotel guests, after which the protesters dispersed.

Believers in the Central Juma Mosque in Makhachkala. Screenshot of the video by the Muftiate of Dagestan https://t.me/muftiyat_rd/8901

01:37, 29 October 2023

Dagestani Muftiate reports on thousands of those who prayed for Palestinians

In Makhachkala, thousands have taken part in collective prayer for the Muslims of Palestine, the Muftiate of Dagestan has reported. Mass prayers for Palestinians were also held in mosques in Karachay-Cherkessia and Chechnya.

01:31, 29 October 2023

Case of Baksan resident about discrediting Russian militaries reaches court

A court in Baksan has taken for proceedings the criminal case initiated against Khusen Gukov, a local resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army.

A gavel. Photo: Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis

22:27, 28 October 2023

Four military servicemen convicted in Southern Russia for evading service

The Makhachkala Military Court has sentenced two military servicemen to 5 and 5.5 years in colony accordingly for being absent from their military unit for more than a month.

The military in Chechnya, photo: grozny-inform.ru

22:18, 28 October 2023

Human rights defenders assess motives for creating Sheikh Mansur Battalion in Chechnya

The figure of Sheikh Mansur is very significant for the Chechens, and by naming a new battalion in his honour, Ramzan Kadyrov seeks to break the association of the above name with the Ichkerian battalion operating in Ukraine since 2014.

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