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Activists from Volny Aul gather for the meeting. Photo: OC Media.
A meeting scheduled to take place between land activists in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and the city’s mayor failed to take place after the mayor changed the format of the meeting at the last moment including by banning journalists from attending. [Read more…]
Aslan Iritov at single-person picket in front of the Investigative Committee in Nalchik. Photo: RFE/RL.
A double arm amputee in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria held a single-person picket on Thursday protesting the lack of investigation into police officers he says beat him and his family. [Read more…]
(Photo: official website of the narcological dispensary in Nalchik)
Mystery drugs, bad food, unknown rules, and a complete absence of clocks. Patients at the Narcological Dispensary in Nalchik report living in a Kafkaesque nightmare. [Read more…]
The Communist Party's protest in Nalchik. (OC Media)
The Communist Party of Russia has held protests in two cities in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, calling for ‘fair and clean elections’. [Read more…]
Ruslan Kasheshov (Memorial)
Rights group Memorial has published a report detailing the alleged torture of a local businessman in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the summer of 2018. [Read more…]
Detention centre in Nalchik (Federal Penitentiary Service of Kabardino-Balkaria)
Ingush activist Bagaudin Myakiyev has been beaten up in a detention centre in Nalchik, the capital of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, his lawyer says.
Police searching the home of one of the suspects. (pasmi.ru)
Twelve high-ranking police officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have been arrested on suspicion of participating in a criminal community. [Read more…]
Circassian Flag Day in Kabardino-Balkaria (habze.org)
Circassian activists in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have claimed that police prevented drivers with Circassian flags from entering the capital Nalchik to celebrate Circassian Flag Day.
A green space in Nalchik where construction is set to begin. (OC Media)
A group of residents of Nalchik, the capital of the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, have appealed to the authorities against the construction of a business centre in their yard. Local residents told OC Media that permission for the building was granted without the required public consultations. [Read more…]
(National Antiterrorism Committee)
On 2 April, the driver of a car in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria opened fire on police officers, before fleeing the scene. No injuries were reported. [Read more…]
