Type | Broadsheet |
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Founded | 3 April 1917 |
Language | Avar |
Headquarters | pr. Peter I, 61 Makhachkala, Dagestan |
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. [2]