Against the backdrop of these pacifist speeches, the appeal of the wife and adviser to the Mufti of Dagestan, Aina Gamzatova, to Putin with a request to delay the mobilization in Dagestan in order to “train real warriors” sounded dissonant.

Loud and massive protests against mobilization took place in Dagestan, and not only in the cities. On September 22, in the Babayurt district of Dagestan, protesters blocked the federal highway.

In the Caucasus, Chechen women were the first to come to the rally. Calls to go to the square appeared in messengers the day before. 

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had assured several times before that there would be no mobilization in the country, issued a decree “On announcing partial mobilization in the Russian Federation

Суд в Симферополе продлил до 4 октября арест четверым крымским татарам. Сантехник Рустем Мустафаев, разнорабочий Абибулла Смедляев, сын политзаключенного Эмир Куртнезиров и повар Мирзали Тажибаев обвиняются в участии в деятельности исламской политической партии «Хизб ут-Тахрир», запрещенной в России, но легальной в Украине и других странах мира.