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FSB detains four Ingushetia natives for ‘preparation of terror crimes’

by OC Media

•1 min read

Four Ingushetia natives have been detained on suspicion of preparing attacks on the Russian security forces, the Russian FSB reported on 6 September. According to the FSB, the detainees were supporters of the Islamic State. According to security officials, two detained residents of the city of Sunzha in eastern Ingushetia were IS supporters who planned attacks on law enforcement agencies and military personnel and prepared to commit ‘terrorist crimes’ on the territory of the Republic of Ingush

Aleksei Navalny

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

FSB

FSB officer convicted of ‘grievous bodily harm’ for stabbing man to death in Kabardino-Balkaria

by OC Media

•4 min read

A former FSB officer has been sentenced to nine years in a strict regime penal colony for ‘causing grievous bodily harm’ after stabbing a man to death in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Pavel Sterlyagov, a major in the Federal Security Service (FSB), was sentenced for ‘intentionally causing grievous bodily harm’ on 19 June by the North Caucasus Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don. The court’s press service told OC Media that Sterlyagov was not deprived of his military r

Corruption

Daghestani police chief arrested for ‘attempted murder’ of colleague

by OC Media

•3 min read

The acting police chief of Kaspiysk, a city on Daghestan’s Caspian coast, has been arrested on suspicion of ordering an assassination attempt against the then–deputy head of the republic’s Criminal Investigation Department. On 13 April, police officers and agents from the Daghestani Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Ziyavudin Ashikov after calling him in for questioning. Ashikov is accused of ordering an assassination attempt against Anvar Shamkhalov in March 2012. At the time, Sham

Akhmed Israfilov

Creator of ‘Imamat of Daghestan’ Instagram account detained by FSB

by OC Media

•4 min read

Police and FSB agents in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have detained the administrator of an Instagram page for organising protests against concerts and other cultural events. Akhmed Israfilov was detained in the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala, on 6 March on exremism charges. The ‘Imamat of Daghestan’ Instagram page he created and administered has repeatedly called for concerts by Russian artists to be cancelled in Daghestan, and also spoke out against November’s aborted ‘AniDag’ ani

Corruption

Acting Mayor of Makhachkala detained over missing ₽40 million

by OC Media

•2 min read

Federal Security Service (FSB) agents in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have arrested the acting mayor of the capital, Makhachkala. Abusupyan Gasanov was detained on Wednesday suspected of costing the state ₽40 million ($600,000) during auctions under a federal roads programme. A spokesperson for the Daghestani FSB told OC Media that Gasanov’s home and office had been searched and documents seized. The investigation into Gasanov is a joint operation between Daghestan’s Interior Ministr

FSB

Seven officials sentenced in Ingush anti-extremism centre torture case

by OC Media

•3 min read

On Friday, former employees of Ingushetia’s Centre for Countering Extremism were sentenced by a court in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Neither the prosecution nor the defence was satisfied with the verdict, although many activists maintained that sentencing was ‘a huge achievement for human right defenders in the North Caucasus’. On 27 July, the North Caucasian Military Court in Nalchik announced the sentences of former officials from the Ingush police and the Federal Secur