The wife of a well-respected doctor from Daghestan has asked President Vladimir Putin to help free her husband. The anesthesiologist was detained last year on accusations of participating in the murder of a local police chief. His brother-in-law, a prominent surgeon, was beheaded after being arrested on the same charges. Family and friends insist on the doctors' innocence and say the case highlights rampant abuse by law-enforcement agencies in Russia's volatile North Caucasus.
A gunman has killed a senior judge in Daghestan in Russia's restive North Caucasus region.
Security forces have reportedly killed a suspected militant in an operation in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov has named to senior government posts two men detained in Turkey in October while apparently attempting to smuggle 12 kilograms of gold out of the country.
Ten Daghestani men were arrested in late December for urging fellow citizens of the Muslim-majority, North Caucasus republic to shun the secular New Year's holiday. All the men have now been released, but the controversy over whether Muslims should celebrate secular holidays simmers on.
Sakinat Magamedova, a taekwondo champion from the Russian republic of Daghestan, proves that life is what you make of it. Born without arms, she's not only a successful athlete but is also busy raising two children.
Grozny already boasts one of the largest mosques in Europe. Now, the Chechen capital is also due to become home to a new synagogue.
Security forces in Kabardino-Balkariya say they have prevented attacks on churches during Orthodox Christmas services
In addition to Armenian, Circassian, Chechen, and Ossetian minorities, Syria is also home to an estimated 7,000-9,000 people whose ancestors settled there after leaving Daghestan following the Caucasus wars of the mid-19th century.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial new law on education.
Many have assumed that the killing of North Ossetia's deputy mufti was the work of the North Caucasus insurgency. But the head of the North Ossetian division of the Federal Security Service has cautioned against leaping to that conclusion. And several analysts have suggested alternative hypotheses.
Security forces have launched a raid on a building in capital of the Russian North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Makhachkala, killing seven members of an illegal armed group.
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