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A memorial to Aleksey Navalny in Tbilisi. Photo: Tata Shoshiashvili/OC Media.

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Anger and grief as Russians in Armenia and Georgia mourn Navalny’s death

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•5 min read

Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Armenia and Georgia following the announcement by Russian authorities that the Russian opposition leader, Aleksey Navalny, had died in prison. The Russian Penitentiary Service announced that Navalny, who survived poisoning with the Russian nerve agent Novichok before he was imprisoned in 2021, had died on Friday. Demonstrations marked by tears and anger were organised by Russians in Tbilisi, Batumi, and Yerevan on Friday evening, just hours after the

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Pro-Navalny protesters arrested in Makhachkala

by OC Media

•2 min read

On 21 April, rallies in support of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were held in dozens of Russian cities, including Makhachkala where at least 10 protesters were arrested. Navalny is in a penal colony, where he was sent earlier this year. Several dozen people came to the central square in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, according to the local newspaper Novoye Delo. The protests began at 19:00 local time, though the police began detaining Navalny’s supporters even before the r

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Investigation implicates ‘Navalny Poison Squad’ in North Caucasus deaths

by Peter Liakhov

•3 min read

A Bellingcat investigation has connected Navalny’s alleged assassins with the suspicious deaths of three men, including Kabardino-Balkaria–based independent journalist Timur Kuashev, Daghestani Lezgi activist Ruslan Magomedragimov, and political commentator and activist Nikita Isayev. The investigative outlet reports that a ‘clandestine unit within the FSB’s Criminalistics Institute’ which, in a previous investigation had been implicated in the attempted poisoning of Russian opposition leader

Footage of 20-year-old Chechen student Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev have been widely shared on social media in Russia. Photo: Anews.

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Chechen man hailed as unlikely hero of Russia’s Navalny protests

by OC Media

•4 min read

Footage of a Chechen man successfully fending off Moscow riot police in hand-to-hand fighting has gone viral on social media, leading some to hail the man as a hero. Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev, a 20-year-old Chechen student, has since become a symbol of the protests against Vladimir Putin’s rule and the detention of Russian opposition figure Aleksey Navalny. 20-year-old Chechen Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev has become a symbol of the protests in Russia after this video of him fighting with polic

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Authorities ordered to compensate Daghestan anti-corruption rally organiser

by OC Media

•3 min read

Makhachkala’s Sovetsky District Court has partially upheld a complaint against the government for arresting and prosecuting the organiser of a 26 March anti-corruption rally. Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has been ordered to pay Marat Ismailov ₽25,000 ($430) in moral damages. A number of Makhachkala residents attempted to participate in the rally on 26 March, which coincided with anti-corruption rallies in a number of cities in Russia following a call by opposition figure Aleksey

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Daghestani police refuse to file charges after attack on journalists

by OC Media

•2 min read

Daghestan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has refused to launch a criminal investigation against a group of men who attacked the journalists on 12 June during an anti-corruption rally. According to police, the actions of these men didn’t constitute a crime. Four men dressed in civilian clothes who refused to identify themselves or show any documents attacked journalists covering the event, taking their phones, hitting their cameras, and breaking the camera of one journalist from Caucasian Kn

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Ten arrested in Russian anti-corruption protests in North Caucasus

by Aida Mirmaksumova

•5 min read

Anti-corruption rallies were held in Stavropol and Mineralnye Vody, in Stavropol Krai, Kabardino–Balkaria’s capital, Nalchik, and the Daghestani capital of Makhachkala on 12 June. Rallies took place throughout the country to coincide with Russia Day, organised by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Eight people were arrested in Makhachkala, while journalists were attacked by a number of unidentified men. Rallies in Stavropol and Nalchik were agreed with the local authorities. Accord