North-Caucasian Federal District

June 08, 2025 17:15

• Alaudinov apologizes to priest with reservation

  Apti Alaudinov, Commander of "Akhmat" Special Forces, has apologized to Schema-Abbot Gavriil "purely because of his age." At the same time, he expressed outrage that the people who demanded an apology to the priest failed to react to Gavriil's statements about Muslims.

June 07, 2025 16:53

• Russian MoJ declares Ruslan Kutaev* a foreign agent

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included Chechen human rights defender Ruslan Kutaev*, who lives abroad, in the register of foreign agents.

June 06, 2025 18:53

• Social media users point to high cost of sacrificial animals on Eid al-Adha

  Social media users treat the prices of sacrificial animals on the Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram) holiday as too high; and not everyone agrees with the call of the Chechen Mufti not to sell animals’ skins. The charitable funds of the republics of Northern Caucasus have reported on the free distribution of animal meat and food packages.

June 06, 2025 17:20

• Teens arrested in Stavropol Territory within extremist community case

  Seven minors from the Stavropol Territory, whom investigators treat as members of an extremist community, have been taken into custody. Another teenager has been placed under house arrest.

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 06, 2025 15:08

• Four Tatarstan residents found guilty of attack on military personnel in Chechnya

  A court has sentenced four residents of Tatarstan to long terms of imprisonment in a case on the attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya in 2000.

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 15:59

• Relatives report about torture of Muslims arrested in Kabardino-Balkaria

  At least several men arrested in May during a series of searches in Nalchik and Nartan have complained to their advocates about torture. Relatives of the defendants are seeking a meeting with the leader of Kabardino-Balkaria.

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.

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