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 October 29, Ukrainian politician, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, representative of Ukraine in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Alexey Goncharenko, announced the creation of a battalion of Dagestanis named after Imam Shamil as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The unit was headed by Magomet Seipulaev.

On October 28, a demonstration took place in front of the Romanian Embassy in Austria against the deportation of Chechen Amina Gerikhanova at the request of Russia. Previously, similar actions with the participation of representatives of human rights organizations and the Chechen diaspora took place in several European cities.

On October 27, speaking at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, President Vladimir Putin accused the West of nurturing terrorists in Russia.

On October 26, the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people published the Declaration “On State Independence of the Republic of Kalmykia,” in which it announced the need for “the complete liberation of the Oirat-Kalmyk people from colonial dependence on Russia.” The Congress stated that it would seek the secession of Kalmykia from the Russian Federation, the proclamation and creation of a sovereign independent state.

On October 14, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation issued an opinion on the draft federal budget 2023, in which it indicated that the state program “Health Development” is unlikely to achieve its stated goals in the field of demography.

Human rights activists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

According to official data, partial mobilization was supposed to cover 300 thousand people. However, regional human rights organizations and activists note that the mobilization disproportionately affected ethnic minorities. Thus, according to State Duma deputy from Yakutia Sardana Avksentyeva, if in the Kursk region 0.9% of men of military age were mobilized, in the Novosibirsk region - 0.27%, then in Kalmykia - 1.41%, in Yakutia - 1.66%.

On October 5, the heads of the State Duma committees on defense, Andrei Kartapolov, and security and anti-corruption, Vasily Piskarev, sent a letter to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to sort out the problems arising in the supply of the rear.

The head of the government of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, who was in Ukraine at the time, addressed his compatriots in Chechen in connection with the mobilization, calling on everyone who could potentially be affected by it to leave the country if possible, or even prefer prison to participating in the war against Ukraine as part of Russian army, because, in his opinion, “this is the only way you can protect yourself and your families.”