Hakikat (Avar: XӀакъикъат, lit.
'The Truth') is the main Avar language newspaper, published in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
[1] Previous names: Among the authors published by the newspaper was Rasul Gamzatov.
In 2009, deputy editor of the paper Malik Akhmedilov was shot to death; colleagues believed his murder was linked to his critical journalism that reported on government attempts to suppress political and religious "extremism" and his investigations into unsolved, high-level assassination of officials in Dagestan.
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