Caucasus.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service.
On the eve of Russia's presidential election, activists supporting would-be anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin faced pressure as judges handed out sentences for minor offenses and police searched their homes.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has sentenced Emran Navruzbekov, a former officer of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), to three years and three months in a colony settlement on a libel charge.
A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya sentenced a teenager on February 27 to 3 1/2 years in prison and 300 hours of community work for publicly burning a Koran.
Residents of Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia have been marking the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Ingush and Chechens from the North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Prosecutors in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya asked a court in Grozny to sentence a young man to 3 1/2 years in prison for publicly burning a Koran.
Akhmat Kadyrov, the 18-year-old son of the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been appointed the region's minister for youth and sports, a high-ranking Chechen official announced.
The Volgograd regional court in Russia on February 15 rejected an appeal filed by 23-year-old Alyona Agafonova against her arrest on charge of "rehabilitating Nazism" over an online video showing her mocking a monument to a significant Soviet victory in World War II.
Across Russia, streets, schools, post offices, and other public spaces are still being named after former convicts who were killed fighting in Ukraine, despite the mutiny staged by the Wagner mercenary group and its now-dead leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last June. But the nuances are changing.
A Russian independent online newspaper, the Kavkazsky Uzel (The Caucasus Knot), says unknown masked men tried to break in the apartment of one of its correspondents in the southwestern city of Volgograd, on January 25.
Four members of one family were killed after an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a house in the capital of Russia's Daghestan, Makhachkala.
A court in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk sent a 16-year-old native of the North Caucasus region of Daghestan to pretrial detention for two months on suspicion of an arson attack on an Su-34 fighter bomber at a local military airport.
Hungary has refused to extradite to Ukraine a Russian man suspected in the 2017 killing Amina Okuyeva, a member of the volunteer Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion consisting of natives of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, according to police.
Archbishop Viktor Pivovarov, the head of the Slavic and South Russian Orthodox Church, which distances itself from the Moscow Patriarchate, told RFE/RL on December 28 that police in the Krasnodar region had charged him with "repeatedly discrediting" Russia's armed forces that invaded Ukraine.
Russia's Kalmykia region has marked the 80th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Kalmyks to Siberia by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
Unidentified perpetrators on December 27 destroyed a plaque commemorating the victims of the deportation of Kalmyks just two days after it was unveiled at a railway station in Volgograd.
A court in the Russian North Caucasus region of Chechnya has rejected a request for early release filed by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists.
Six teenagers went on trial in Paris on November 27 over the killing of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 by an 18-year-old refugee from Russia's Chechnya who was shot dead at the crime scene.
Russian citizen Mansur Movlayev, an outspoken critic of Ramzan Kadyrov -- the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya -- has left Kyrgyzstan before a court order to deport him to Russia was implemented.
A coordinator of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison on charges of illegally possessing weapons, explosives, and drugs.
Local media cited officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan on November 22 as saying that the former head coach of Daghestan's kickboxing team, Akhmad Akhmedov, is wanted in Russia on a high treason charge for joining Ukraine's armed forces to help repel Moscow’s ongoing invasion.
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