The parents of two teenage shepherds gunned down in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have began a protest in front of the republic’s gov­ern­ment building demanding their killings be properly inves­ti­gat­ed. While the author­i­ties initially claimed the brothers were militants killed in a shootout with police, charges against them were later dropped and a murder inves­ti­ga­tion opened. [Read more…]