North Caucasus

May 04, 2025 13:39

• Relatives of Chechens, who escaped from being sent to Ukraine, kidnapped, opposition Telegram channel reports

  The NIYSO Chechen opposition Telegram channel reports about at least six kidnapped residents of the republic, who, being subjected to pressure, agreed to go to Ukraine. After one of them escaped, law enforcers captured two of his relatives.

May 04, 2025 13:34

• Mukhammad Abdurakhmanov reports about delays in issuing of refugee documents in Germany

  The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution has for the third time invited Mukhammad Abdurakhmanov for a security questioning required to obtain refugee documents. The man points out that such security questionings in Germany are primarily directed at people from Chechnya and that he has not been able to obtain his documents for a year and a half already.

May 03, 2025 23:17

• Emergency regime declared in Novorossiysk after drone attack

  Authorities of the city of Novorossiysk have declared the state of emergency after a drone attack. According to updated information, five people were injured as a result of the attack.

May 03, 2025 23:13

• Court arrests four people after apologies for conflict in Zelenokumsk

  Four persons have been arrested; the fifth suspect has been put on the wanted list within the case of attacking policemen at a cemetery in Zelenokumsk. The detainees’ apologies, who, according to Telegram channels, belong to the Roma community, were posted by the regional branches of Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in their resources.

May 03, 2025 15:38

• Resident of North Ossetia demands to return her seriously wounded brother from front line

  Irina Mamitova, a sister of Dzatte Mamitov, who was mobilized from North Ossetia, has appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF), and Sergey Menyailo, the leader of North Ossetia-Alania, with a request to return her brother for medical treatment. Irina Mamitova believes the commanders took the seriously wounded soldier back to the assault brigade, although the medical commission found him unfit for military service.

May 03, 2025 15:33

• Second report about prevented terrorist attack in Dagestan raises doubts among analysts

  The law enforcement bodies have provided little data on the prevented terrorist attacks in Derbent and Khasavyurt to claim that their version is justified. Cases of falsification of criminal cases and the interest of the law enforcement bodies in the crime detection rate cast doubt on their claims, analysts claim.

May 03, 2025 15:22

• 20-year-old Ingush resident asks not to return her to relatives

  20-year-old Aina Mankieva from Ingushetia, who was reported missing by her relatives, has asked not to look for her and not to inform her relatives of her whereabouts.

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