Elizaveta Abakarova's ex-husband appealed the decision on his son's place of residence
Former Dagestan Interior Ministry employee Mikhail Makukha has filed a private appeal against a Moscow court decision that had previously ordered him to return his son to his ex-wife Elizaveta Abakarova.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, Elizaveta Abakarova's ex-husband took their son from Moscow to Makhachkala and is trying to formalize custody through the local court and his connections, while the mother did not even know about the process that had begun there. The boy needs treatment, which he is not receiving in Dagestan, Abakarova said. In June, Elizaveta's ex-husband failed to appear at a court hearing where the child's place of residence was to be determined. On August 13, a Moscow court ruled that Mikhail Makukha must return the child to the mother and pay child support.
Elizaveta Abakarova's story "Caucasus without a Mother" was published on May 12. Abakarova's ex-husband took their child from school in Moscow in October 2024 and took him to Makhachkala, completely isolating him from his mother. The custody trial was held in Makhachkala retroactively without her participation. The child needs treatment: Elizaveta treated her son on her own for nine years; her husband left after the child was diagnosed at the age of three and a half.
The court decision that Elizaveta Abakarova’s son should live with his mother in Moscow has not entered into legal force - the woman’s ex-husband, who took his son to Dagestan, appealed the decision, the Caucasus Without a Mother project reported on August 27.
The appeal means that Elizaveta Abakarova’s legal fight for her son’s return continues. The boy remains with his father in Dagestan, where, as the mother emphasizes, he has been deprived of access to the medical and rehabilitation programs due to him by law since October 2024.
“I will still get my son back. Even if I have to work for years so that he can call me mom again,” the project’s Telegram channel quotes Elizaveta as saying.
Mikhail Makukha, whom the "Caucasian Knot" repeatedly contacted for comments, refused to explain his position, including his refusal to participate in the trial in the Moscow court. Abakarova provided the court with documents stating that Makukha had previously been fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for an offense that discredited the honor of an employee of the internal affairs bodies, but the man did not lose his connections in the department - he is a close relative of one of the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, and his new wife is also an active employee of the department.
Elizaveta emphasizes that she did not interfere with her son's communication with his father, although her ex-husband used violence against her. In 2020, the ex-husband’s new wife watched the beating of Elizaveta, and now she is actively commenting on the legal battle over the child’s place of residence, spreading false information on social networks, Abakarova said in an interview with the project “About You with Laura Stern,” published on August 26 on YouTube.
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