A Dagestani resident was convicted of failing to report alleged Azov supporters*.

A court in Makhachkala has fined a local resident for failure to report four acquaintances whom security forces accused of intending to set fire to a military unit in Makhachkala on behalf of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment*.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that since February 2025, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has been hearing the case of four residents of Dagestan: Magomed Dzhavatkhanov, Ruslan Akkayev, Khadzhimurad Abdullayev, and Rajab Nazarov. They were separately detained in December 2022 and charged with terrorism. Investigators claim they planned to set fire to a military unit in Makhachkala on behalf of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment*; the young men call the case fabricated.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced a local resident accused of failing to report a terrorist crime (Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code carries a prison sentence of up to one year). Mediazona*** drew attention to the case file on the court's website on March 25.

According to the verdict, the young man knew from July 2022 about the connections of four of his acquaintances to Azov*, their plans to attack military unit No. 6752, their knife fighting, and the making of Molotov cocktails. He failed to report them to law enforcement until December 2022, when they were detained.

In February, the court fined the defendant 40,000 rubles, taking into account his "young age." He agreed with the prosecution and requested that the case be considered under a special procedure—a verdict without a trial. The name of the convicted person is hidden from the court's records.

In the case of Dzhavatkhanov, Akkayev, Abdullayev, and Nazarov, Kamil Beybalayev, a student at the Dagestan State University of National Economy (DSUNE), was named as a witness. According to the human rights project OVD-Info***, he, according to investigators, observed the formation of the group.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Southern District Military Court received a case against two Dagestan natives accused of organizing a fundraiser to purchase drones with thermal imaging cameras for the Ukrainian Azov Battalion*.

* is designated a terrorist organization, its activities are prohibited in Russia by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

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*** are listed as foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice.