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Kabarda–Balkaria

Putin appoints son of Kabardino-Balkaria’s first president as acting head

by OC Media

•3 min read

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Kazbek Kokov as acting head of the the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Putin announced on Wednesday that Yury Kokov had resigned from his position for ‘personal reasons’. According to Putin, the resigning head of the republic ‘asked to be transferred to a job in Moscow due to a number of circumstances, including personal reasons’. Kazbek Kokov is the son of the first president of Kabardino-Balkaria, Valery Kokov, who headed the republic in

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Kabardino-Balkaria’s code of silence

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

The media in Kabardino-Balkaria parrots an extremely rosy picture of the republic. However, journalists and activists almost all admit privately — that with an eye towards the Kremlin (and Kadyrov’s growing army next door in Chechnya) — freedom of speech has been utterly decimated, and controversial topics go completely unreported. Of the two or three independent print media outlets that appeared in Kabardino-Balkaria on the wave of democratisation more than 20 years ago, only Gazeta Yug