Caucasus.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
A court in the Russian North Caucasus region of Chechnya has rejected a request for early release filed by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists.
Six teenagers went on trial in Paris on November 27 over the killing of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 by an 18-year-old refugee from Russia's Chechnya who was shot dead at the crime scene.
Russian citizen Mansur Movlayev, an outspoken critic of Ramzan Kadyrov -- the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya -- has left Kyrgyzstan before a court order to deport him to Russia was implemented.
A coordinator of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison on charges of illegally possessing weapons, explosives, and drugs.
Local media cited officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan on November 22 as saying that the former head coach of Daghestan's kickboxing team, Akhmad Akhmedov, is wanted in Russia on a high treason charge for joining Ukraine's armed forces to help repel Moscow’s ongoing invasion.
Two former Wagner mercenaries recruited from penal colonies who recently returned from the war in Ukraine were detained in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan on a charge of kidnapping a businessman for ransom, local media reports said on November 20.
Militant pro-Kremlin bloggers are up in arms over the low-level charges against suspects in an anti-Semitic riot in Daghestan. It’s not because they are concerned about anti-Semitism, experts say, but because they think the state is afraid of offending Muslims in the context of the Gaza war.
The Marem women's rights organization told RFE/RL on November 16 that Armenian police released a 21-year-old woman who fled her native region of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus to escape domestic violence.
Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of the authoritarian ruler of the Russian region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was awarded with the Order for Serving Islam on November 15, his seventh award since he beat up Russian teenager Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning a Koran in August.
Police in the Armenian city of Ashtarak have detained a 21-year-old woman who fled her native region of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus to escape domestic violence, Russian women's rights defender Svetlana Anokhina told RFE/RL on November 15.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added to its wanted list on unspecified charges Abakar Abakarov, who is believed to be an owner and administrator of the Telegram channel allegedly behind violent anti-Semitic unrest last month in the mostly Muslim-populated North Caucasus region.
Media reports in Russia on November 7 said police have detained the deputy interior minister of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Rufat Ismailov, on suspicion of corruption.
Prosecutors in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have launched a probe into the suspected abduction of a woman from the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, the North Caucasus SOS (SK SOS) human rights group said on November 6.
Mokhammad Abdurakhmanov, an outspoken critic of the authoritarian leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on November 2 that he has obtained political asylum in Germany after two unsuccessful attempts.
A mob of hundreds of people shouting anti-Jewish epithets stormed and shut down the airport in the Russian city of Makhachkala in the predominantly Muslim region of Daghestan after a flight arrived from Tel Aviv on October 29.
The 15-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, has been awarded another medal, his third, after beating a prisoner accused of burning the Koran.
Nikita Zhuravel, who publicly burned a Koran in the Russian city of Volgograd, appeared in court in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya on October 13 with what appeared to be bruises on his face as his trial started.
The trial of 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel, who publicly burned a copy of the Koran in the Russian city of Volgograd, was moved to October 13 after he was not brought to the courtroom for unspecified reasons in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya on October 9.
Aishat Kadyrova, the 24-year-old daughter of the Kremlin-backed authoritarian head of Russia's Chechnya region, has been promoted from culture minister to the region's deputy prime minister responsible for social issues.
Public figures, teachers, and others in Russia's North Caucasus are protesting a new, jingoistic history textbook that they say whitewashes the crimes of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and perpetuates old stereotypes about ethnic groups that endured them.
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