Hakikat

Hakikat is the main Avar language newspaper, published in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
Previous names:

1979-1918: XӀакъикъат
1918-1920: ХӀалтӀулел чагӀи
1920-1921: БагӀараб байрахъ
1921-1934: БагӀарал мугӀрул
1934-1951: МагӀарул большевик
1951-1957: Дагъистаналъул правда
1957-1990: БагӀараб байрахъ

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.