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In Search of Jews / How the Fight Against Nazism Led to Anti-Semitic Protests.
Society
In Search of Jews / How the Fight Against Nazism Led to Anti-Semitic Protests.
5 November 2023

At the end of October, anti-Semitic protests, provoked by events in Palestine, took place in three republics of the North Caucasus. In Dagestan, rioters, outraged by the bombing of the Gaza Strip and the mass murder of Palestinian civilians, most of whom were children, seized the airport while waiting for a flight from Israel. The Kremlin said that these events were “inspired from the territory of Ukraine.” Social networks blame Islamists. Experts believe that pogroms are a completely Russian tradition.

Under Stalin's Dictation / The New History Textbook Deports Peoples in the Chapter
Society
Under Stalin's Dictation / The New History Textbook Deports Peoples in the Chapter "Accomplices of the Occupiers"
5 November 2023

The new history textbook for high school students, which arrived in schools at the beginning of the school year, has caused outrage among residents of the Caucasus due to its offensive interpretation of the reasons for Stalin's deportation of 1943-1944. As a result, the authors of the textbook agreed to amend one paragraph.

Better to go to prison than to his homeland / Mansur Movlaev asked the Kyrgyz court not to deport him to Russia
Human rights
Better to go to prison than to his homeland / Mansur Movlaev asked the Kyrgyz court not to deport him to Russia
5 November 2023

On October 31, Mansur Movlaev, who fled from Chechnya to Kyrgyzstan, said that he was being tortured in a Bishkek pretrial detention center. The statement was made in the courtroom, where his appeal against the verdict of deportation from the country was to be considered. The hearing was postponed, the message was sent to the National Center of Kyrgyzstan for the Prevention of Torture.

Human rights
"Extremists are in fashion now" / Former Chechen political prisoner removed from terrorist list
5 November 2023

On September 19, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia removed former political prisoner, native of Chechnya Zara Murtazalieva, from its List of Terrorists and Extremists. In 2005, she was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow.

Honorary
Human rights
Honorary "foreign agents" / Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov and Chechen political scientist and historian Mairbek Vachagaev are recognized as foreign agents
5 November 2023

On September 1, the Russian Ministry of Justice added journalists Dmitry Muratov and Mairbek Vachagaev to the list of "foreign agents." According to the authorities, they participated "in the creation and dissemination of messages and materials of foreign agents to an unlimited number of people," and these materials were aimed at "forming a negative attitude toward the foreign and domestic policies" of the country.

Degradation / What is happening to Russian society – from the UN report on human rights in Russia
Human rights
Degradation / What is happening to Russian society – from the UN report on human rights in Russia
5 November 2023

On September 15, the report of the Special Rapporteur of the UN Council on Human Rights in the Russian Federation was published. This position was established a year ago. The document contains a statement, confirmed by documentary evidence, that "the peaceful exercise of human rights, especially since the start of the full-scale armed attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine in February 2022", is suppressed by increasingly repressive methods.

Increased repression, increased underground activity, and war in Ukraine
Human rights
Increased repression, increased underground activity, and war in Ukraine
5 November 2023

Memorial continues to investigate human rights violations in the North Caucasus.

Karabakh Sunset
Politics
Karabakh Sunset
5 November 2023

On September 19, Azerbaijan announced the start of "local anti-terrorist measures" in Nagorno-Karabakh and began a massive shelling of its territory. By the end of the month, more than 100,000 Armenians left the unrecognized republic and fled to Armenia. NKR President Samvel Shahramanyan signed a decree on the termination of the republic's existence from January 1, 2024.

Participants in anti-Semitic riots in Makhachkala are being tried for “obscene language”
Human rights
Participants in anti-Semitic riots in Makhachkala are being tried for “obscene language”
5 November 2023

The courts of Dagestan began to publish the first decisions in cases against participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport. Most of the cases were filed under articles of petty hooliganism and “obstructing transport infrastructure.” Basically, the rioters received several days of arrest for swearing in the street.

Kadyrov's son received a position in the security service of the head of Chechnya
Society
Kadyrov's son received a position in the security service of the head of Chechnya
5 November 2023

State Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov and Minister of National Policy and Press of the Republic Akhmed Dudayev congratulated Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov, “on his appointment to a responsible position in the security service of the Head of the Chechen Republic.”