Incidents

June 07, 2025 17:07

• Areg Schepikhin sent to pre-trial prison for two months

  In Moscow, a court arrested blogger Areg Schepikhin for two months in a case on calls for extremism and incitement of hatred. The court hearing was held without allowing journalists to enter the courtroom. Footage from the courtroom shows traces of beatings on the Areg Schepikhin’s face.

June 07, 2025 17:01

• Valaam Monastery dismisses priest after Alaudinov’s reaction to his words about Muslims

  Schema-abbot Gavriil, who stated in his sermon that Muslims, on orders of a mullah, could slaughter all residents of Moscow, has been dismissed from his post as the head of the Sochi stead of the Valaam Monastery. The dismissal of Schema-abbot Gavriil followed a demand for an apology voiced by Apti Alaudinov.

June 06, 2025 15:16

• Call to execute Schepikhin voiced by “Akhmat” special forces fighters

  When commenting on the statements of blogger Areg Schepikhin about Chechens and Muslims, fighters of the “Akhmat” special forces claimed that the incitement of ethnic hatred during military operations should be punishable by death.

June 05, 2025 16:46

• Criminal case of extremism and hatred incitement opened against Schepikhin

  The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has initiated a criminal case against Areg Schepikhin, a blogger, who was kidnapped at the Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow. Today, they plan to choose a freedom restriction measure for his kidnappers.

June 05, 2025 15:52

• Schepikhin’s case classified under articles on kidnapping and abuse of power

  The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation reports about the institution of a criminal case after the incident with a blogger at the Yaroslavsky Railway Station, announcing the detention of “all the suspects involved in the case.” Only three out of the six suspects have been detained pending trial to determine the pre-trial restriction measure, sources in the law enforcement bodies report.

June 04, 2025 18:40

• Schepikhin's kidnapping sparks debate about law enforcers' methods

  Evgeny Popov, a Russian State Duma MP, and Eva Merkachova, a human rights defender, regard the actions of law enforcers who had kidnapped Areg Schepikhin at the train station and took him away in a car trunk as unacceptable. A source from Chechen authorities said that law enforcers saved the blogger from Muslims’ wrath; and the detention was not too harsh.

June 04, 2025 15:48

• Kidnapped Areg Schepikhin insults Muslims and Chechens in his blog

  In his videos, blogger and entrepreneur Areg Schepikhin, who was kidnapped at the Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow in the evening of June 3, spoke out against Muslims and Jews and also insulted Chechens and Dagestanis.

May 31, 2025 18:13

• Synagogue in Sochi attacked

  In Sochi, a man with a hammer tried to enter the synagogue building and threw stones at it. The attacker has been detained.

May 30, 2025 18:08

• Reprimands of drivers highlight selective enforcement of laws in Chechnya

  Law enforcers publicly reprimanded teenage drivers from the Gudermes District of Chechnya for violating traffic rules. Social media users have recalled that Adam Kadyrov, a son of the leader of Chechnya, drives a car, although he is also under 18.

May 27, 2025 19:55

• Four residents of Southern Russia detained as members of Basaev's gang

  Detentions of suspects in the attack of Basaev’s and Khattab's militants on Russian militaries in 1999 and 2000 were conducted in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Astrakhan Region and Stavropol Territory. The suspects – Radjab Khasaev, Arsen Koldasov, Batyr Arsanov and Rasul Takhtamirov – have been arrested.

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