The murder of Dinara Alkhassova has highlighted the issue of violence against Dagestani women after divorce.

Even after divorce, women in Dagestan may face violence from their ex-husbands, who refuse to acknowledge their right to independently determine their future and choose whom to start a family with, residents of the republic stated, commenting on social media about the murder of taxi driver Dinara Alkhassova from Makhachkala.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", on November 2, the body of 34-year-old Dinara Alkhassova, a resident of Makhachkala who went missing on October 30, was found in a wasteland near the village of Novy Khushet. Her ex-husband and his acquaintance were detained on suspicion of her murder. A criminal case has been initiated for murder.

Commentators pointed out the right of Dagestani women to arrange their lives independently

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, after the divorce, Dinara Alkhassova remarried and was raising a four-year-old son. Her ex-husband could not come to terms with the divorce and sought help to take revenge on her.

The man helped his acquaintance change residences and complained to him about his ex-wife, hoping to find an ally. Alkhassova's new marriage caused outrage in her ex-husband, reported the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Gayana Garieva in publications on November 2 on her Telegram channel "Criminal Chronicle".

A post about the security forces detaining the ex-husband of the murdered woman was published on November 3 in the Instagram*-public makhachkala_. As of 16:00 Moscow time on November 3, this post in the Instagram*-public makhachkala_, which has about 257 thousand followers, received 499 likes and 249 comments.

Commentators pointed out that divorce and the woman's new marriage do not give the ex-husband the right to control her life. "There’s no need to kill, even if she married someone else, let her go and live freely," wrote amin.1.5.

"He’s an ex, what business does he have in her personal life? Now let him think about this for life!" – wrote gaitueva.

"People who write: "What’s the reason?" What are you even thinking? What reason could possibly satisfy you, like: "Oh, if that’s the case, then yes, the man could do that to a woman!" Or is it just your banal curiosity? I just don’t understand!" – exclaimed abu_auto007.

Other participants in the discussion linked the murder to the dangers women face when trying to arrange their personal lives and called for unity for protection. "Even getting divorced is now dangerous, it’s terrible," wrote patya.tailor.

"You can’t even call this person a human! It’s because of people like this that women are afraid to get married later," pointed out tet._a_tet.

"Women of Dagestan, gather and create a women’s community," urged zulia96642.

Several other users demanded a long sentence for the guilty party. "Let them imprison him for life. That will be his punishment," wrote azilpati51.

"I hope they imprison him for a long time," noted tumalai6547.

At the same time, woman_vv expressed concern that the punishment might be replaced with sending him to war. "They’ll send him to the SVO, then he’ll come back a hero," she wrote.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported details of the murder of Dinara Alkhassova

In addition to Alkhassova's ex-husband and his acquaintance, another suspect has been detained in the case – a woman who was found by police at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Thus, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan reported a total of three detainees. The press secretary of the department, Gayana Garieva, wrote about the detention of the woman on November 2 in the Telegram channel "Criminal Chronicle".

The woman is a 38-year-old native of the Smolensk region. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, she helped lure Alkhassova to a meeting with her ex-husband: the deceased worked in a women’s taxi and only accepted orders from women. The acquaintance of the suspect posed as a tourist who wanted to visit the Sulak Canyon. When Alkhassova arrived for the order, her ex-husband and his acquaintance were already waiting for her, Garieva reported.

Police tracked down the ex-husband after studying camera footage: another car followed Alkhassova's vehicle, keeping a distance of 10–15 meters. Its owner reported that she had given the car to an acquaintance for repairs. This acquaintance turned out to be the ex-husband of the deceased. According to the security forces, he deliberately took someone else's car to avoid using his own.

On the first day of the search, the ex-husband went to the police, and on the second day, he complained of stomach pains and ended up in the hospital, where he underwent surgery. The Ministry of Internal Affairs regarded his behavior as an attempt to evade questions from investigators. After studying video recordings and the man's connections, police identified his alleged accomplice.

To conceal the body, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the ex-husband's acquaintance used a plot of land belonging to his relative on the outskirts of Novy Khushet. He asked a local tractor driver to dig a hole supposedly for an outdoor toilet. When the tractor driver left, the man dumped the body into the hole and covered it with dirt. He then called the worker again, claimed he had made a mistake with the location, and asked him to fill in the first hole and dig another two to three meters away from it. According to Garieva, the tractor driver did not know he was helping to conceal a body.

Alkhassova's car was moved to the yard of one of the high-rise buildings in Makhachkala after the murder, having first changed the license plates, Garieva reported. The deceased's phone was handed over by the suspect to an acquaintance taxi driver. According to the version presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he drove to the Kizilyurt district, briefly turned on the device, then turned it off and threw it into a ditch, following the instructions he received. Police regarded this as an attempt to confuse the search. The collected materials have been transferred to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan.

The issue of violence against women remains relevant in Dagestan for a long time

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that there have been multiple murders of women by husbands or former partners in Dagestan. For example, on October 14 of this year, the Kizlyar District Court sentenced a mullah to nine years in prison for the murder of a woman with whom he was in a Muslim marriage. According to the investigation, the man strangled her during a conflict over jealousy and buried her body in the Tarumovsky district. The deceased was a mother of four children.

Late in the evening of September 8, a 45-year-old woman and her 23-year-old daughter were shot dead in a cafe in Khasavyurt. The ex-husband of the older of the deceased was detained on suspicion of double murder. According to a colleague of the woman, he had been stalking her after the divorce and demanded that she and her daughter quit their jobs at the cafe, considering such work a disgrace to the family. The younger of the deceased left behind three children.

On January 29, police discovered the dismembered and burned body of 36-year-old Malvina Magomedova, a mother of three children. Razhidin Yarlayev, with whom she had entered into a Muslim marriage, was detained on suspicion of murder. In a video published by the police, he confessed that he strangled the woman after she demanded the return of money for a car he had sold her.