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| Donogo reports Kops searched his house |
| 2022-12-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] After the search, the security forces took away a phone and a computer with valuable historical materials, said today the former deputy director of the National Museum of Dagestan, Khadzhi-Murad Donogo. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 1, it became known that Hadji-Murad Donoy was forced to leave the post of deputy director of the National Museum of Dagestan after the Association of Special Forces Veterans wrote a complaint against him to the head of the republic , Sergei Melikov, accusing the historian of nationalism. The complaint to Melikov said that Donogo participated in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan in scientific conferences of organizations that pursue an anti-Russian policy and "promote separatism in the North Caucasus." The veterans also said that nationalism and separatism are promoted in the historian's public speeches, while his scientific works and articles in magazines "are aimed at exacerbating interethnic relations and weakening our state." Hadji Murad Donogo suggested that his dismissal from the National Museum was due to his scientific works and speeches in which he expressed a point of view that did not coincide with official history. There was no scientific refutation of his works, however, the complaint that served as the basis for dismissal became the reason for a call to the department for combating extremism. The historian reported on the search that took place on November 30 in the house of Hadji Murad Donoy only today. "The day before yesterday, my house was searched. After the morning prayer, a group --not local!-- dashed in with a warrant. We walked around the apartment, seized a computer, phone, flash drives, two bags of books, folders. I did not understand what they were looking for. Then they took me to 6th department, they interrogated, in particular, they were interested in my participation in international scientific conferences, they called a number of some names that I heard for the first time, whether any suspicious people met with me, whether they offered me something," he wrote in his telegram channel. Donogo noted that the last conference in which he participated took place "about 6-7 years ago." "I participated at conferences as part of the delegations of the Academy of Sciences, the university, etc., but for some reason the authorities are only interested in me. Thus, I was left without a telephone with contacts and, most importantly, without a computer in which valuable historical materials and documents, which I have been collecting for many years. All this was sent for examination, and if nothing suspicious was found in them, they promised to return it, which is hard to believe. If they get to the bottom of something, then, accordingly, apparently, an arrest," says message. The historian lamented the continuing pressure on him. "It was I who received such a 'gift,' when I retired - dismissal from the post of Deputy General Director of the National Museum, suspension from teaching at the university (where I taught for 25 years), etc. Therefore, I am practically disconnected from my favorite work, projects which I dreamed of finishing by the end of my life, apparently, will remain unfulfilled, which is a pity," he wrote. It should be noted that Hadji-Murad Donogo is a Caucasian scholar, doctor of historical sciences, professor, author of many dozens of books and monographs, including about the Caucasian War and Imam Shamil. In October 2019, Dr. Donoy's book "Amanat of the Caucasian War" was published in Makhachkala, dedicated to the eldest son of Imam Shamil, which contains previously unpublished documents from his life. Serious research on the subject of the Caucasian War is in demand in modern society, historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out at the time. |
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