Ruslan Tsechoev. Official picture.
A former Finance Minister of Ingushetia and another high-ranking ministry official have been sentenced to five years in prison for misspending ₽2 billion ($31 million) in budgetary funds that were allocated for state employees and housing. [Read more…]
Rashid Maysigov.
A journalist from Ingush news site Fortanga who was arrested in July on drug possession charges has been released under house arrest. [Read more…]
Ibragim Eldzherkiyev. Photo: Kavkaz.realii
Ibragim Eldzherkiyev, the head of the Centre for Combating Extremism in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, and his brother Akhmed Eldzherkiyev were shot dead on 2 November in Moscow in an apparent assassination. [Read more…]
The Russian Supreme Court. Official picture.
Four rights groups operating in different republics of the North Caucasus may face closure due to a lawsuit filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice in the Russian Supreme Court. The ministry is seeking to close down Russian rights movement Za Prava Cheloveka (‘for human rights’), of which the groups are members. [Read more…]
former Minister of Construction Mustafa Buruzhev. Photo: Crimerussia
The former head of the administration of the president of the Russian republic of Ingushetia and an ex-minister of construction of the republic are being prosecuted on charges of corruption. [Read more…]
Photo: Caucasian Knot
Officials at a detention centre in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have denied access to lawyers to three activists detained after March protests in Magas. The activists from the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia were fighting against a land deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya. [Read more…]
People in Moscow holding posters saying ‘Freedom to Zarifa’ and ‘Freedom to political prisoners in Ingushetia’. Photo: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service.
An online protest is demanding the release of Zarifa Sautiyeva, an activist against Ingushetia’s controversial land deal with Chechnya. Thousands of people from all over Russia have uploaded videos calling for her release. [Read more…]
Worshipers inside the Nazran Central Mosque (Photograph: Ingushetia.ru)
The Supreme Court of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia has ordered the liquidation of the Spiritual Center of Muslims of Ingushetia — the muftiate. Monday’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit from the republic’s Ministry of Justice. [Read more…]
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. (Photo: Wikipedia commons)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Russian government to pay over €1.9 million ($2.1 million) in compensation to the families of people who disappeared in Chechnya and Ingushetia in the early 2000s. [Read more…]
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Russian liberal opposition party Yabloko has announced they will boycott upcoming local elections in Ingushetia in response a crackdown on dissent following last year’s Chechen-Ingush land deal. [Read more…]
