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…]
Jehovah’s Witnesses from throughout Daghestan protested outside Makhachkala’s Sovietsky District Court on 23 September against the prosecution of four of their members. Photo: Saida Vagabova/OC Media.
Since 2017, the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organisation has been banned in Russia — branded and ‘extremist sect’. With arrests and prosecutions taking place throughout the country since, the authorities have now turned their eyes to Daghestan, and after raids throughout the republic, four members are now on trial. [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…]
A road sign installed at the entrance to Kizlyar in June reading ‘Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya’. Photo: Chernovik.
A ruling by the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic of Daghestan over a disputed section of the Chechen–Daghestani border has now come to light — over three months after it was made. On 16 July, the court ruled in favour of the Daghestani town of Kizlyar over the Chechen authorities. [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…]
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…]
Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria. (Photograph: Chereck/Wikimedia Commons)
Two people have been killed by the security forces in a ‘counterterrorism operation’ in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The two men, who the authorities said were members of the ‘radical Islamist underground’, were killed just 10 kilometres from the republic’s capital, Nalchik. [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…]
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A court in the Russian Republic of Kabardino–Balkaria has begun hearing extremism charges against a Balkar newspaper over an article about ethnic clashes between Kabardians and Balkars. [Read more…]
