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Russia’s war on Jehovah’s Witnesses reaches Daghestan

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Jehovah’s Witnesses from through­out Daghestan protested outside Makhachkala’s Sovietsky District Court on 23 September against the pros­e­cu­tion of four of their members. Photo: Saida Vagabova/OC Media.

Since 2017, the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organ­i­sa­tion has been banned in Russia — branded and ‘extremist sect’. With arrests and pros­e­cu­tions taking place through­out the country since, the author­i­ties have now turned their eyes to Daghestan, and after raids through­out the republic, four members are now on trial. [Read more…]

Rare diseases left untreated in Daghestan

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Daghestan's Medico-Genetic Centre. (Saida Vagabova/OC Media)

According to the All-Russian Society of Orphan Diseases, Daghestan is the number one region in Russia in terms of the number of rare diseases. Despite the law guar­an­tee­ing such patients free treatment, Dagh­es­tani patients complain that there is a lack of sys­tem­at­ic medical care. [Read more…]

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

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

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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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