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The Anzhi Arena sports complex in Kaspiysk, in south Daghestan. Photo: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service.
The Anzhi Arena sports complex in Kaspiysk, in south Daghestan, has banned women from using their swimming pool, leading to anger from some local residents. [Read more…]
Kizlyar administration officials, employees of Rospotrebnadzor, and employees of the Ministry of Health of Daghestan at the site of the Kizlyar water supply accident. Photo: Ria Novosty Daghestan.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Republic of Daghestan opened a criminal case on Wednesday after an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Kizlyar in the north of the republic. [Read more…]
Patima Ayshalova. Photo: Evgeniy Kostin/Daptar.
When Patima Ayshalova came to the boxing gym, she was told, ‘I do not train girls’. One year later, she was one of Daghestan’s top boxers and had earned the title Master of Sport. [Read more…]
Ruslan Kasheshov (Memorial)
A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison for aiding to the Islamic State, as well as on drugs and weapons charges. The court found that Ruslan Kasheshov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, had transferred ₽8,000 ($130) to a member of the group. [Read more…]
Protests in Magas on 4 October 2018. Photo: Aznaur Tashayev /OC Media.
A new criminal case has been opened against eight protest leaders in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, who are already under police investigation for protest related violence. They are accused of organising and participating in the activities of an extremist group. [Read more…]
Shaziya Nukh. Photo: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service
Circassian woman Shaziya Nukh is 86 years old. In 2011, she fled the Syrian conflict to Kabardino-Balkaria, the homeland of her ancestors. Almost all of her relatives died during the bombing of Aleppo. Shaziya has no income and no housing. [Read more…]
A protest calling for the release of Musa Aliyev. Photo: Saida Vagbaova/OC Media
A couple in south-west Daghestan have accused the local police of torturing them into incriminating an innocent man for the rape of their 14-year-old daughter. Local residents of the Village of Mutsalaul, in Khasavyurt District, have protested demanding the suspect, who also says he was tortured, be released. [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…]
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…]
