Activist from Dagestan Ibragim Parkuev was detained on July 15 and released from a special detention center on July 17. According to him, in this way the police limited his freedom on the days of voting in the presidential election.
On November 16, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine put the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on the wanted list. The orientation indicates that he is accused under two articles of the Criminal Code: Art. 110 “Encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine” (punishable by imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years) and Art. 437 “Planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war” (up to 15 years).
On November 30, in Makhachkala, security forces conducted a search in the house of Dagestani historian, professor, and specialist on the Caucasian War, Hadji Murad Donogo. “After morning prayers, a group (not local!) arrived with a warrant. They went through the apartment and confiscated a computer, phone, flash drives, two bags of books, and folders. I still didn’t understand what they were looking for. Then they took me to the 6th department (Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Ed.), interrogated, in particular, they were interested in my participation in international scientific conferences,” Donogo said in his Telegram channel.
On November 30, the human rights association Vayfond reported that Chechen refugee Amina Gerikhanova, detained in Romania at the request of Russia as a participant in hostilities in Syria, was excluded from the database of persons wanted by Interpol. Now she can cross borders without fear of arrest.
On December 1, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow passed a verdict on the co-owners of the Summa group - the Dagestani businessmen brothers Magomedov. Ziyavudin Magomedov received 19 years of strict regime, ex-senator from the Smolensk region Magomed Magomedov - 18 years. The court also confiscated all the property remaining from the oligarchs and deprived them of state awards.
On December 2, the toponymy commission of the Izyum city administration approved the renaming of 22 city streets. Among them is Turgenev Street, named after the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev.
On December 6, in Makhachkala, on the shore of Lake Ak-Gel, a stone was laid for the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The solemn ceremony was attended by Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Yuri Chaika, the leadership of the republic, and the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On December 12, the Investigative Committee announced the completion of the investigation into the murder of the head of the Ingush Center for External Action, Ibragim Eldzharkiev and his brother. The crime is classified as a terrorist attack. There are 11 defendants in the case. The investigation considers businessman Khasan Polonkoev to be the organizer.
On December 13, at a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, the first vice-speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Alexander Kornienko, announced the creation of the inter-factional deputy association “Free Ichkeria”. Its members included 12 deputies from the political parties “Servant of the People”, “European Solidarity” and “Voice”.
On December 16, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Karim Assad Ahmad Khan, announced the completion of the investigation into the August War, the 2008 Russian-Georgian armed conflict that took place in the territory of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
On December 18, an office of the regional branch of the Russian LDPR party was opened in Grozny. The ceremony was attended by party member Viktor Bout, who was released from an American prison and handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange ten days earlier.
On December 27, human rights activists from the North Caucasus branch of the Team Against Torture (CAT) spoke about the reaction their report “The Arithmetic of Torture,” which analyzed cases of violence by security forces, caused among the regional authorities. The parliament of Chechnya distinguished itself most of all - an anonymous answer with insults came from there.
On December 27, the Moscow City Court read out the verdict of former member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov and his father, ex-adviser of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Raul Arashukov. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment for organizing two murders, creating a criminal community and stealing gas.
On December 29, a group of two dozen refugees from Chechnya and Ingushetia were expelled from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkey. As Kavkaz.Realii reported, they arrived in Sarajevo on December 28 and planned to seek political asylum in Croatia. Among them were men who fled Russian mobilization and members of their families.
In the morning report of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, information appeared that as a result of the attack on Lisichansk, more than 30 fighters of the Chechen unit “Akhmat” were killed and about 15 were wounded.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered Russian troops to leave the territory of the Kherson region, located on the right bank of the Dnieper. Local media report: on the eve of the retreat from Kherson, the Russian military blew up a number of city infrastructure facilities.
The police began to find so-called dungeons in the liberated part of the Kherson region, in which the occupiers apparently kept Ukrainians. And Radio Liberty journalists discovered traces of possible mass graves in Kherson.
Russia launched missile strikes on Kyiv, Lvov, Kharkov, Rivne and Zhitomir. At least 90 missiles and 10 kamikaze drones were used. There are dead and wounded, residential buildings and critical infrastructure have been destroyed. 10 million people were left without electricity.
Ukraine begins evacuating people from the de-occupied southern regions. They are offered to temporarily leave for Krivoy Rog or the western regions of Ukraine. This is due to the difficult living conditions in the de-occupied territories, especially during the winter cold.
There was an exchange of prisoners according to the “50/50” formula. Among the returning Ukrainian military are defenders of Azovstal and national guardsmen captured during the seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the beginning of a full-scale invasion.
The European Commission estimated the costs of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine at 600 billion euros. Part of this amount may be covered by frozen Russian assets.
In the Sumy region of Ukraine, a 15-year-old child was killed during shelling.
The Project publication published data on the losses of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Since February 24, the fleet has lost 16% of all warships. These are 12 ships and boats, including the flagship missile cruiser Moskva.
In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a Ukrainian drone struck near an airfield. The oil tank caught fire. There were no casualties. In the Bryansk region, drones attacked the Slava plant. They fell a few meters from the fuel tanks. The plant is located 80 kilometers from the border of Russia and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military attacked the “Hunter’s Rest” recreation center in Melitopol, which was allegedly occupied by Kadyrov’s supporters. The mayor said the number of victims was close to two hundred. At the same time, the acting governor of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, reported that two people were killed and 10 were wounded.
In Odessa and the region, hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity after an attack by Russian drones. Interruptions in water supply and heating have also been reported.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in Donetsk, the Russian authorities began to mobilize women to make up for losses in manpower and to complement the units of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Ground Forces.
Russia has dealt another massive blow to Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, more than 60 missiles were fired from land, air and sea. Ukrenergo declared a state of emergency due to a systemic failure in the energy infrastructure.
The Wall Street Journal, citing Ukrainian intelligence and security officials, reported that at the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to occupy government buildings in Kyiv and kill Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
The Russian army continues to attempt an offensive in the Liman, Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. As a result of shelling in the Kherson region, 5 people were killed and 17 were injured. In the Donetsk region, the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant was shelled. One person died. Power outages began in Donetsk.
In Kherson, 10 people were killed and 55 were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian troops. The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Igor Klimenko, said that during the ten months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his department opened more than 51 thousand criminal cases regarding crimes committed by the Russian military and their accomplices.
Russia carried out 1 air strike and 5 missile strikes, and carried out more than 40 shellings from MLRS.
A Ukrainian drone again attacked the airfield in Engels. Three Russian soldiers were killed.
Another exchange of prisoners of war took place. Ukraine reported the return of 140 people, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the return of 82 people.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian air defense shot down 45 Iranian-made Russian drones and 12 missiles.
On November 3, the UN Human Rights Committee published a report on the situation in Russia, among others, noting the most significant cases of human rights violations in the North Caucasus. Among them are forced conscription to war, forceful suppression of anti-mobilization protests, abductions, torture, persecution of human rights activists and journalists, representatives of the LGBT community, “honor killings,” the practice of collective responsibility and female circumcision.
On December 8, the director of ChGTRK “Grozny” Chingiz Akhmadov accused the head of the government of unrecognized Ichkeria Akhmed Zakayev of the murder of Chechen opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov. The next day, information appeared that the blogger was alive and testifying in Munich in court in the case of an attempt on the life of his younger brother Mohammad Abdurakhmanov.
On November 22, Pope Francis gave an interview to the American magazine America, where he spoke about the war in Ukraine. The interview was published on November 28 and caused a stir in Russia due to the fact that the pontiff called the Chechens and Buryats the “most brutal” participants in the war.
On December 12, several hundred Azerbaijani citizens calling themselves environmental activists blocked traffic along the Lachin corridor, a highway connecting the Armenian city of Goris and the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert. A humanitarian catastrophe is brewing in Artsakh (the Armenian name for Karabakh).
On November 28, the mayor of Makhachkala, Salman Dadaev, announced at a session of the city meeting that he was leaving his post. He did not hide that the reason for his early resignation was a conflict with the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov.
