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September 26, 2022 18:46

• Rights defenders count 101 detainees after violent crackdown on protest against mobilization in Makhachkala

  A total of 101 persons were detained at a protest against mobilization in Makhachkala, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported on its website.

September 26, 2022 17:54

• "Caucasian Knot" correspondent detained in Makhachkala

  Law enforcers have detained the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and took him away from the venue of the action staged by mobilization opponents in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

September 26, 2022 12:16

• Anti-mobilization action in Nalchik brings together at least ten women

  At their protest in Nalchik, women from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) demanded from authorities not to mobilize their relatives.

September 25, 2022 19:42

• Official from KBR's commissariat explains prohibitions for those subject to mobilization

  The males of the conscription age who are subject to mobilization can freely move around the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), but they can't leave its borders, even if they have not yet received a summons, the republic's military commissariat has explained.

September 25, 2022 19:41

• Law enforcers detain anti-mobilization protesters in Volgograd

  At least 11 people have been detained at a protest action against mobilization held in Volgograd; some of them have already been released. The organizers had twice changed the venue because of the large concentration of law enforcers in the places where the activists' gathering had been planned.

September 24, 2022 17:01

• Ramzan Kadyrov treats dodgers leaving Russia as pitiful sight

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated that mobilization dodgers who line up at airports aiming to leave Russia are lazy guys and parasites. In his opinion, they are of no use for the country.

September 24, 2022 16:59

• Abubakar Yangulbaev reports obstacles in correspondence with his mother

  Several letters were not delivered to Zarema Musaeva to the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although they were censored and accepted, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has stated.

September 24, 2022 16:56

• Rights defenders warn about threat of deportation of Kadyrov's critics from Austria

  The refugees from Chechnya who have criticized Kadyrov may be deported from Austria to Russia, the "Vayfond" human rights association has reported. This is about the brothers Murad and Mukharbek Aslamkhanov, the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has explained.

September 24, 2022 16:54

• Suicide attempt of Chechen inmate not to stop the court to hold debates on his case

  Khalid Azmatgiriev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving hissentence in a penal colony in Mordovia, inflicted more than 20 cuts on his stomach with a razor right in the courtroom in protest against the judge's biased attitude to him, in his opinion.

September 24, 2022 16:51

• Kadyrov's threats add to Akhmed Zakaev's political weight

  Ramzan Kadyrov's call to kill Akhmed Zakaev was caused by the latter's activeness in Ukraine, but it is the constant attention of the head of Chechnya that adds to Zakaev's popularity, Alexei Malashenko and Sergey Zhavoronkov have pointed out. Kadyrov calls for violent actions, but there is no chance that he will be held accountable for this under the law, Evgeny Chernousov has noted.

September 24, 2022 16:47

• Chechen officials report about rally of 50,000 in support of referendums

  Today, a rally in support of referendums on joining Russia in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson Regions has been held in Grozny.

September 24, 2022 16:45

• Kadyrov calls draft evaders second-class people

  The leader of Chechnya has called those who do not want to go to Ukraine as part of the mobilization “cowards, traitors, and second-class people.”

September 23, 2022 20:53

• Social media users call on to exclude Dagestan from mobilization

  Among the volunteers who went to Ukraine, there are many natives of Dagestan, social media users note. They believe that it is worth making participation in the special military operation for residents of Dagestan only on voluntary basis.

September 23, 2022 20:52

• Elderly reserve officer mobilized in Volgograd Region despite conclusion of doctors

September 23, 2022 20:50

• Mobilization endangers wellbeing of Dagestani families

  The residents of Dagestan, who have received summons from commissariats (military registration and enlistment offices), said that they were worried about their wives and children, who would be left without their support.

September 23, 2022 20:47

• Rights defenders achieve examination of circumstances of Musaeva's detention

  Investigators from Nizhny Novgorod have begun checking the applications about possible abuse of authority by law enforcers during the detention of Zarema Musaeva. The check was launched only after the applications were transferred from Chechnya to Nizhny Novgorod, the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* has informed.

September 23, 2022 11:29

• Mobilization cancellation in Chechnya is reaction to mothers' protest in Grozny

  On the following day after the attempt of Chechen women to oppose mobilization, Ramzan Kadyrov urged mothers to remain calm. The pro-government publics have circulated a video, in which one Chechen woman supports sending fighters to Ukraine. Social media users have criticized such statements.

September 23, 2022 11:27

• Kadyrov cancels mobilization in Chechnya

  No partial mobilization will be held in Chechnya. It follows from the report of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company). Ramzan Kadyrov, who had earlier criticized the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), has explained this by saying that his republic has already exceeded the plan of sending fighters to Ukraine.

September 23, 2022 11:24

• First groups of mobilized people depart from cities of Southern Russia

  First groups of those mobilized have left Makhachkala, Kaspiysk and Krasnodar. In the Volgograd Region, collection points for the mobilized servicemen are organized in local houses of culture. The governor of the Stavropol Territory has reported that the first group will be sent to Ukraine on September 23.

September 23, 2022 11:22

• Kadyrov's threats to soldiers' mothers indicate his fear of protests

  Kadyrov's treatment of mobilization opponents as people's enemies stems from his fear of mass protests organized by conscripts' mothers, Svetlana Gannushkina has noted. Chechen authorities are afraid of mass protests and severely suppress any public expression of disagreement, Ruslan Kutaev has added.