Hakikat

Hakikat () is the main Avar language newspaper, published in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Previous names:

• 1979-1918: XӀакъикъат (Truth)
• 1918-1920: ХӀалтӀулел чагӀи (Working People)
• 1920-1921: БагӀараб байрахъ (Red Flag)
• 1921-1934: БагӀарал мугӀрул (Red Mountains)
• 1934-1951: МагӀарул большевик (Bolshevik of the mountains)
• 1951-1957: Дагъистаналъул правда (Dagestani Truth)
• 1957-1990: БагӀараб байрахъ (Red Flag)

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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