Caucasus.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
A Russian court has cut the prison term handed down to the self-exiled former coordinator of the defunct Open Russia group, Anastasia Shevchenko, by one year, putting the sentence at two years.
Elina Ukhmanova, a 20-year-old physics student from Russia's Muslim-majority Daghestan region, is in hiding from her relatives. She says she ran away for the third time after spending months in a dubious rehab center undergoing "treatment" for atheism and bisexuality.
Emran Navruzbekov, an ex-officer of the Federal Security Service in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan who defected to the European Union in 2017, says his relatives have been detained for questioning for a second time in recent days.
Police in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya have abducted and arrested about 20 civilians in the village of Alkhan-Kala, sources close to law enforcement told RFE/RL on January 9, adding that the arrested men might face extremism charges.
The former prime minister of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Magomed Abdulayev, has died after being hit by a car when he was crossing a road in the regional capital, Makhachkala.
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don has replaced a suspended sentence with a three-year prison term for the former coordinator of the now-defunct Open Russia group, Anastasia Shevchenko.
An activist from Russia's southwestern city of Krasnodar, Maria Zakharova, has fled the country along with her family after police threatened to jail her over her public protests against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Dozens have reportedly gone missing after security forces entered the town of Urus-Martan in Russia's Chechnya following an armed clash between local traffic police and officers from the Special Rapid Response Unit over the weekend.
Swedish police say they have no new comment on the situation surrounding Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who colleagues say has disappeared, after separatist leaders said they had been told he is alive and under police protection.
Prosecutors in Moscow are seeking a life sentence for a former member of the parliament's upper chamber, the Federation Council, Rauf Arashukov and his father, Raul, both of whom a jury found guilty in September of organizing two murders.
Police in St. Petersburg have detained an 18-year-old woman from the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia who says she fled to escape systematic domestic violence and beatings.
An appellate court in the Russian city of Sochi has rejected an appeal filed by opera singer Vadim Cheldiyev and two associates against prison sentences they were handed in July for their roles in organizing a rally against anti-coronavirus restrictions in North Ossetia in 2020.
The Supreme Lama of Russia's Republic of Kalmykia has become the first religious leader in the Russian Federation to condemn Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion in Ukraine.
RFE/RL freelance correspondent Yulia Vishnevetskaya has been sentenced to five days in jail after being detained along with dozens of others by police in Daghestan, her lawyer, Aida Kasimova, announced on September 28.
A jury in a high-profile trial in Russia has found a former member of the parliament's upper chamber, the Federation Council, guilty of organizing two murders.
Six Jehovah's Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Russia's southwestern Rostov region amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group that has been banned in Russia since 2017.
The administration of Ramzan Kadyrov in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has prepared a draft resolution calling for a "fall mobilization" of the region's male residents 18-26 years of age to the armed forces as Moscow faces major setbacks in the war in Ukraine.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, has backed away from recent comments he made about possibly stepping down, saying he now aims to break the record for holding the post of regional leader -- 27 years.
An aide to the former coordinator of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Murad Manapov, has fled Russia amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced opera singer Vadim Cheldiyev to 10 years in prison for his role in organizing a massive rally against anti-coronavirus restrictions in the entertainer's native North Ossetia region in 2020.
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![“Anyone running away from their family in the [North] Caucasus...is never completely safe," according to Elina Ukhmanova, who says she has fled Daghestan after years of violence and abuse from her relatives.](https://gdb.rferl.org/034d0000-0aff-0242-58b9-08daf250c801_w66_r1.png)
