Ramzan Kadyrov and Yunus-bek Yevkurov (ingushetia.ru)
A land swap signed on Wednesday between the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya has sparked protests in Ingushetia, as details of the agreement have remained secret. The leaders of the two republics hailed the agreement as an end to a long-running land dispute. [Read more…]
Chechnya’s deputy minister of internal affairs, Apti Alaudinov, and his associates standing on a road with the Chechen flag raised. The caption to the picture said the men were in an Ingush village and it was inside Chechnya, which caused outrage online. (/Facebook)
Allegations of a Chechen ‘invasion’ of Ingushetia sparked outrage from Ingush social media users last week, after a photo emerged online purporting to show a Chechen official raising a flag in an Ingush village. Work on a remote mountain road in Chechnya near the border with Ingushetia has revived a territorial dispute between the two republics. [Read more…]
Photo: Ruslana Alibekova. Source: chernovik.net. All rights reserved.
New legislation that makes studying minority languages voluntary in Russian schools comes as signs of decreasing usage emerge.
A new pipe at the plant. (Alina Bigayeva /OC Media)
Residents of North Ossetia’s capital Vladikavkaz have long sounded the alarm at the environmental condition of their city. Many blame Electrozinc, a metallurgical plant located inside the city. But there is another side of the coin, and for the factory’s 2,000 employees, their very livelihoods depend on the plant. [Read more…]
North Ossetia’s Verkhny Lars Checkpoint (Caucasian Knot)
A foreign citizen was detained at North Ossetia’s Verkhny Lars Checkpoint while attempting to leave for Georgia on 17 October. The woman, who authorities have not named, is accused of recruiting militants to fight in Syria by marrying them. [Read more…]
Vyacheslav Bitarov meeting with representatives of local self-government bodies and heads of North Ossetia’s District Education Department (alania.gov.ru)
The head of North Ossetia, Vyacheslav Bitarov, has demanded headteachers be punished after complaints from parents of the widespread practice of collecting money from students.
Screenshot from a video posted by Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee, showing three militants pledging allegiance to IS.
Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee announced on 6 September that the authorities had eliminated four alleged IS-connected militants in North Ossetia, who they claim had planned to attack police.
Plastic surgery (Efrain Gonzalez/US Air Force)
Police in North Ossetia have decided not to launch a criminal investigation into the the death in March of a young woman who had undergone plastic surgery. They have sent the case to the Prosecutor’s Office to study the legality of this decision.
The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (ria.ru)
Russian police have uncovered the alleged embezzlement by officials in North Ossetia of state budget funds from Russia’s Pension Fund.
Daghestani press (rferl.org)
The pressure exerted on journalists and human rights activists in the North Caucasus is the most severe in Russia, according to experts speaking at the Free Speech conference on 23 May in Moscow. The comments came at the presentation of a report on media freedom by the association of writers, journalists, and bloggers.
