The new fence near Gugutiantkari. (Photo: Embassy of Ukraine to Georgia / Facebook)
The property and land of two Georgian families have been cut off from Georgian government-controlled territory in the village of Gugutiantkari, near South Ossetia, after Russian border guards set up new fences on 7 August. [Read more…]
Protest in support of Chernovik journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev. (Saida Vagabova / OC Media)
Daghestan’s Ministry of Justice has denied a permit to supporters of detained journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev to hold a protest in his support. The owner of Chernovik, the newspaper at which he worked, told OC Media that this was the 64th time the authorities had turned down their request. [Read more…]
Ramzan Kadyrov (RFE/RL North Caucasus Service)
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has provoked outrage in neighbouring Daghestan by criticising Imam Shamil, the leader of the resistance to the Russian Empire’s 19th-century conquest of the North-east Caucasus. [Read more…]
Sultakhan Ibragimov. (Memorial)
A court in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has awarded a local man ₽800,000 ($12,000) in compensation for moral damages over his illegal criminal prosecution. [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…]
(Grozny TV)
Chechen state TV has broadcasted a video report in which a 16-year-old boy apologises in tears to Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov, for his criticism of the Russian republic’s officials. [Read more…]
A recent flare-up of a long-standing border dispute between Georgia and Azerbaijan serves neither country’s interests and must be tamped down immediately. The only beneficiary in seeing these two neighbours go at it would be Russian President Vladimir Putin. [Read more…]
Magomed Daudov (Parlamentchr.ru)
The chair of the Chechen Parliament, Magomed Daudov, has entered into an online spat with Daghestani historian Zurab Gadzhiyev over the construction of a traditional watchtower on the Chechen-Daghestani border. [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.
(mkala.org)
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Republic of Daghestan has ordered six local transport companies to reverse a rise in bus fare. [Read more…]
