Caucasus.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
A Russian prosecutor on June 22 asked for a 19-year sentence for reporter Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev and his two co-defendants from the North Caucasus region and Daghestan on charges of financing terrorism that the three men and their supporters reject as politically motivated.
Police in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria are investigating the deaths of three sisters who died after their car fell off a cliff and caught fire days after their sister committed suicide.
A former officer of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Emran Navruzbekov, reportedly managed to briefly escape from officers escorting him at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow following his deportation earlier in June from Poland.
The prosecutor in a high-profile trial in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has asked a court in Grozny to sentence Zarema Musayeva, the jailed mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, to 5 1/2 years in prison.
A 20-year-old Chechen native was arrested at a Moscow airport on June 12 after her relatives in the North Caucasus region filed a formal accusation of theft. The woman, who has complained of violence from her family for years, has not been heard from since officials sent her back to Chechnya.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, said on June 14 that lawmaker Adam Delimkhanov, who is a relative and close associate of the Kremlin-backed authoritarian ruler of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was wounded in Ukraine.
Poland has deported to Russia a former officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Emran Navruzbekov, who fled the country in 2017 and claimed the FSB fabricated terrorist cases against residents of the North Caucasus.
Zarema Musayeva, the jailed mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, has been hospitalized as her health state has dramatically worsened since her arrest.
The case of a Russian teenager accused of publicly burning a Koran in the southwestern region of Volgograd will be investigated in the Russian region of Chechnya, where most residents are Muslim.
An anti-war activist from Russia's southwestern Krasnodar region has fled the country fearing for her safety.
In 2022, Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ordered 43 diamond-encrusted medals "For Service To The Republic Of Chechnya" at a cost of more than $170,000. Experts say he uses the lavish honors to reward his relatives and allies in Chechnya and to boost his reputation on the national level.
Police in the Russian city of Krasnodar have searched the offices of the Crew Against Torture, the human rights group's members said on May 4.
Police in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on April 28 searched the offices of human rights group Team Against Torture and the homes of three of its lawyers.
Svetlana Anokhina, a noted rights defender in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, is under investigation over her posts on Instagram criticizing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
A man has been sentenced to life in prison in Chechnya for taking part in an attack in 2000 on Russian riot police in the North Caucasus region that left at least 40 law enforcement officers dead.
Two men were killed in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya after they attacked a police station in the city of Gudermes, late on March 28, opposition Chechen Telegram channels reported.
A Russian partisan group called Chyorny Most (Black Bridge) has claimed responsibility for a fire in the compound of the Federal Security Service in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border that killed at least four people and injured five others.
Russian media reports cited sources in emergency services on March 17 as saying that the death toll has risen to four in a fire that broke out the previous day in the compound of the Federal Security Service in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, which is located close to the Ukrainian border.
A mathematics and IT lecturer at the Pyatigorsk State University in Russia's southwestern region of Stavropol Krai has been fired after students reported to police that she criticized Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine during one of her classes.
A member of Russia's presidential advisory Human Rights Council says that an inmate of a prison in western Russia who complained of torture appears to have been sent to fight in Ukraine.
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