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The village of Leninaul, Daghestan. Photo via municipal site.
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Akka-Chechens ‘do not want resettlements’ to restore Daghestan’s Aukh District

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Akka-Chechens  —  Chechens from Aukh  —  do not wish for other ethnic groups to be relocated as part of efforts to restore the historically Chechen Aukh Distict. Many have expressed doubt that the district will ever be restored, despite a pledge by Daghestan’s government to do so. ‘No one is demanding that it be a mono-national area. We just want to restore justice, to return the historical name to the district — Aukh. Nobody is against Avars and Laks living here’, Magomed Magomedov, one

Daghestan to resettle 2,700 to restore historical Aukh District
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Daghestan to resettle 2,700 to restore historical Aukh District

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Daghestan is to resettle almost 2,700 people, in a move to restore a historical Chechen district in the republic. The resettlement of residents from Novolaksky District and the restoration of the Aukh District are scheduled to be completed by 2025. Daghestan’s Novolaksky District was formed in 1944 after Russia’s entire Chechen population, who made up the majority of what was then Aukh District, were deported to Central Asia along with the Ingush people. Laks (a Daghestani ethnic gr

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