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Not welcome in Daghestan — anime, K-pop, and rap

5 February 2019 by Saida Vagabova

Anime festival held in Daghestan in a previous year (Ekho Moskvy /Instagram)

Film screen­ings of a K-pop concert, an anime festival, and a concert by Russian rapper Kreed — all cultural events cancelled in recent months after pressure from those claiming to be defenders of Dagh­es­tani culture and religion. But for those wishing to attend such events, the backlash has little to do with tra­di­tions and more a ‘desire to feel sig­nif­i­cant’.

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Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: anidag, anime, dagestan, daghestan, k-pop, rap, russia

The disappeared men in Daghestan’s ‘fake war on terror’

18 September 2018 by Saida Vagabova

Screen­shot from a video from a coun­tert­er­ror­ism operation in Botlikh, Daghestan, in March 2018 (Inves­tiga­tive Committee of the Russian Fed­er­a­tion /YouTube)

For several years, young Dagh­es­tani men have been dis­ap­pear­ing, reported missing by their families only later to be declared ‘destroyed in coun­tert­er­ror­ism oper­a­tions’. Evidence from the families of many of these men as well as local rights groups and experts, suggest they may have been kidnapped by the author­i­ties, and that faking the war on terror is just another face of Daghestan’s raging cor­rup­tion.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: abduction, counterterrorism operation, CTO, dagestan, daghestan, disappearance, disappeared, extremism, isis, islamic state, north caucasus, russia, terrorism

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