Kabarda–Balkaria
Russia places Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko on wanted list
The leader of the Khabze organisation is being sought under an unnamed article of Russia’s Criminal Code.
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Employees of Nalchik sanatorium accused of infecting patients with HIV and hepatitis C
Over 70 patients were infected with hepatitis, while five were infected with HIV.
Kabarda–Balkaria
Balkars commemorate their Stalin-era deportation
On 8 March 1944, the Balkars were deported from their historical land.
Kabarda–Balkaria
Veteran of Russian war in Ukraine arrested for murder of elderly woman in Nalchik
A resident of Nalchik who returned from the full-scale war in Ukraine has been accused of beating an 87-year-old woman to death.
North Caucasus
A ‘peculiar PR stunt’: how a fatwa on polygamy caused controversy and confusion in Russia
Multiple marriages have existed in the North Caucasus for centuries, raising the question, why was a fatwa needed in the first place?
Chechnya
Little change after regional elections across North Caucasus
The United Russia party of President Vladimir Putin has won parliamentary majorities in two North Caucasus republics following elections which saw all current regional MPs keep their seats. Voting began on 6 September for local elections throughout Russia, including in several parts of the North Caucasus. These included the election of MPs to the parliaments of Kabarda-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. Separately, the heads of Kabarda-Balkaria and Ingushetia were elected by the local
Beslan School Siege
Putin visits the North Caucasus
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited Kabarda–Balkaria, North Ossetia, and Chechnya, reportedly for the first time in over a decade. Putin visited Beslan in the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Beslan School Siege on 1 September, and the Russian University of Special Forces in Grozny. The Russian president had last visited North Ossetia in 2008, four years after the siege of the No. 1 School in Beslan by a group of armed North Caucasian militants led by Chechen guerrilla
