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October 14, 2024 23:18

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 7-13, 2024

  Fire at a petrol station in Grozny, attack on law enforcers in Ingushetia, threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, parliamentary elections in Georgia, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 7-13, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

October 14, 2024 22:50

• Derbent Mayor speaks out in support of Kerimov

  Derbent is ready to support Suleiman Kerimov at any time, Akhmed Kuliev, the city Mayor after the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, had threatened Kerimov with a blood feud.

October 14, 2024 22:31

• Attack on law enforcers in Magas was the second armed incident in Ingushetia within a month

  The shooting of a law enforcers' car in Magas was preceded by a special operation conducted by law enforcers in Magas and Nazran, during which seven people were detained and one was killed.

October 14, 2024 21:32

• Kuban zoo defender found guilty of discrediting Russian Army

  The Tikhoretsky District Court has found the pacifist statements placed in a zoo defending chat as discrediting the Russian Army, Denis Djalaganiya has informed. At the same time, investigators have refused to initiate a criminal case on his beating, in which the denunciation author took part.

October 14, 2024 18:03

• Jehovah's Witness* from Novocherkassk suspected of extremism

  Law enforcers together with an IT expert specialist inspected a computer and mobile phones in the home of a Jehovah's Witness* from Novocherkassk, suspecting him of extremism.

October 14, 2024 17:23

• Nine people fall victim to fuelling station explosion in Grozny

  Four people perished and five others were wounded and received burns in an explosion at a fuelling station in Grozny.

October 13, 2024 23:38

• Amid Kadyrov's threats, head of Dagestan supports Kerimov

  After Ramzan Kadyrov's threats of blood feud against Suleiman Kerimov, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, has recalled the senator's charitable projects and promised that the republic "will always support him in difficult times."

October 13, 2024 23:02

• MP from Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov rejects Kadyrov's accusations

  Rizvan Kurbanov, a Russian State Duma MP from Dagestan, has stated that he was not involved in preparing an assassination attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov and has nothing to do with the Wildberries Company.

October 13, 2024 21:22

• Court denies all motions of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev’s defence

  In the Moscow Region, at the first hearing in the case against Abdulmimin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev, and Abubakar Rizvanov, the Military Court of Appeal refused to grant the motions filed by the defence.

October 12, 2024 23:38

• Chechen teacher Mansur Zhabrailov suspected of insulting believers' feelings

  The criminal case against Mansur Zhabrailov, a former Chechen teacher, is being investigated under the article on insulting believers' feelings.

October 12, 2024 22:22

• Advocate Natalia Fedorenko released in courtroom

  In Novorossiysk, a court found Natalia Fedorenko, an advocate of blogger Vadim Kharchenko*, guilty of violating privacy and banned her from practicing law for two years. Natalia Fedorenko was also sentenced to community service.

October 12, 2024 15:45

• Priest Pivovarov faces lack of medical care after injury

  Priest Viktor Pivovarov stopped serving in a church in Slavyansk-on-Kuban because he could not get out of bed after an injury. His assistant said that doctors refused to hospitalize the elderly Viktor Pivovarov.

October 12, 2024 13:38

• Journalist Zalina Marshenkulova* put on terrorist list

  The “Rosfinmonitoring” (Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has put journalist Zalina Marshenkulova* from Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of justifying terrorism, on the list of terrorists and extremists.

October 12, 2024 12:18

• Mother of Sochi resident demands to stop criminal prosecution of her daughter

  In Sochi, a court has tightened the pre-trial restriction measure for defrauded real estate investor Alla Soboleva and placed her in custody, ordering that her daughter be sent to an orphanage, a mother of the defendant said.

October 11, 2024 16:50

• Kadyrov's critic Alikhadjiev hospitalized with two wounds

  Sherip Alikhadjiev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, was hospitalized with two gunshot wounds; a case of attempted murder has been opened. According to the source, the assassination attempt on Alikhadjiev, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared a criminal, was pre-planned.

October 11, 2024 16:14

• Calls for anti-Chechen actions find no support in Ingushetia

  Residents of Ingushetia have ignored calls to go to protest actions in connection with Ramzan Kadyrov's statement.

October 11, 2024 15:39

• Kadyrov's statement about blood feud bewilders Telegram users

  Ramzan Kadyrov's threat to declare blood feud against Senator Kerimov and State Duma MPs from Ingushetia and Dagestan is puzzling, since they are related to a business conflict, and not the murder of a relative, users have pointed out in Telegram channels of the Caucasus.

October 11, 2024 14:19

• Analysts links Kadyrov's words about blood feud with Kremlin's silence regarding Wildberries

  The Kremlin's absence of reaction to the shooting at the Wildberries office has led to a deepening conflict between elites of the republics of Northern Caucasus, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" has stated.

October 11, 2024 10:40

• Ingush authorities warn residents against participating in protests amid Kadyrov’s statements

  Residents of Ingushetia should not take part in unsanctioned actions of protest in connection with the Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement about blood feud, the republic’s authorities have warned. Officials treat the calls to participate in the protest as a provocation.

October 11, 2024 10:30

• Defence to challenge verdict of Dagestani activist Ulker Gashimova

  The verdict of Ulker Gashimova, a Makhachkala native, will be appealed against; she refuses to plead guilty, her advocate has informed.