A St. Petersburg court sent a 67-year-old native of Dagestan into custody until March 11, suspected of “attempted cooperation with a foreign state.”

The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan opened a criminal case regarding the kidnapping of a person by a group of persons by prior conspiracy for mercenary reasons. One defendant was taken into custody, the second was put on the federal wanted list. In the summer of 2023, they kidnapped a resident of the republic and illegally detained him in a medical facility in Ingushetia.

Abkhaz telegram channels published information about the visit of “Georgian travelers.” They allegedly visited the self-proclaimed republic on November 3-6, 2023.

The infrastructure of the Makhachkala airport, which suffered from unrest in October 2023, was completely restored. The costs amounted to 20 million rubles, said the general director of the airport Said Ramazanov.

The police arrested for 15 days under the article “Minor Hooliganism” of the political observer of Jamnews Jamnews Shakhin Rzayev. Earlier, he periodically expressed criticism of the authorities of Azerbaijan and became known as a participant in civil society projects.

In the German city of Reichenbach-Mi-Fogtland, a native of Chechnya named Ibrahim died from stab wounds. On suspicion of murder, his fellow countryman was detained. According to the police, the suspect got into the car to Ibrahim and stabbed him with a knife.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan sent two operatives of the police department in the Soviet district of Makhachkala in the case of torture by a local resident Kurban Dalgatov, who died in the police department. At the same time, the investigation petitioned for the imprisonment of the security forces in custody.

Chechnya became the center of human rights violations in Russia in 2023. The international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch made these conclusions in its report.

Today in Makhachkala a weekly single picket was held in support of journalist-political prisoner Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. As soon as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chernovik publication, Magomed Magomedov, unfolded his poster, an unknown person approached him and showed him a poster with similar text.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Canada was outraged by the speech of Russian boxer Artur Beterbiev in support of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.