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Abkhazia hands over Russian national who organised Navalny memorial to FSB
Valentin Karpin had gone missing in Abkhazia before being located in an FSB detention centre in Russia’s Sochi.
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Anger and grief as Russians in Armenia and Georgia mourn Navalny’s death
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Armenia and Georgia following the announcement by Russian authorities that the Russian opposition leader, Aleksey Navalny, had died in prison. The Russian Penitentiary Service announced that Navalny, who survived poisoning with the Russian nerve agent Novichok before he was imprisoned in 2021, had died on Friday. Demonstrations marked by tears and anger were organised by Russians in Tbilisi, Batumi, and Yerevan on Friday evening, just hours after the
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Pro-Navalny protesters arrested in Makhachkala
On 21 April, rallies in support of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were held in dozens of Russian cities, including Makhachkala where at least 10 protesters were arrested. Navalny is in a penal colony, where he was sent earlier this year. Several dozen people came to the central square in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, according to the local newspaper Novoye Delo. The protests began at 19:00 local time, though the police began detaining Navalny’s supporters even before the r
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Investigation implicates ‘Navalny Poison Squad’ in North Caucasus deaths
A Bellingcat investigation has connected Navalny’s alleged assassins with the suspicious deaths of three men, including Kabardino-Balkaria–based independent journalist Timur Kuashev, Daghestani Lezgi activist Ruslan Magomedragimov, and political commentator and activist Nikita Isayev. The investigative outlet reports that a ‘clandestine unit within the FSB’s Criminalistics Institute’ which, in a previous investigation had been implicated in the attempted poisoning of Russian opposition leader
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Chechen man hailed as unlikely hero of Russia’s Navalny protests
Footage of a Chechen man successfully fending off Moscow riot police in hand-to-hand fighting has gone viral on social media, leading some to hail the man as a hero. Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev, a 20-year-old Chechen student, has since become a symbol of the protests against Vladimir Putin’s rule and the detention of Russian opposition figure Aleksey Navalny. 20-year-old Chechen Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev has become a symbol of the protests in Russia after this video of him fighting with polic
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Authorities ordered to compensate Daghestan anti-corruption rally organiser
Makhachkala’s Sovetsky District Court has partially upheld a complaint against the government for arresting and prosecuting the organiser of a 26 March anti-corruption rally. Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has been ordered to pay Marat Ismailov ₽25,000 ($430) in moral damages. A number of Makhachkala residents attempted to participate in the rally on 26 March, which coincided with anti-corruption rallies in a number of cities in Russia following a call by opposition figure Aleksey
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Daghestani police refuse to file charges after attack on journalists
Daghestan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has refused to launch a criminal investigation against a group of men who attacked the journalists on 12 June during an anti-corruption rally. According to police, the actions of these men didn’t constitute a crime. Four men dressed in civilian clothes who refused to identify themselves or show any documents attacked journalists covering the event, taking their phones, hitting their cameras, and breaking the camera of one journalist from Caucasian Kn
