Simultaneously with the searches in the Stavropol region, a series of searches took place in Karachay-Cherkessia

On September 20, 2016, the FSB Border Guard Department for Karachay-Cherkessia conducted 4 searches ("examinations") in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in the villages of Mednogorsky and Kurdzhinovo.

The search warrants were issued by I. Gerbekov, a judge of the Supreme Court of the KChR, on the grounds that one of the believers, Svetlana Isaeva, who lives in Mednogorskoye, is engaged in involving others in her religion and, allegedly, distributed books included in the list of extremist materials among her like-minded people, who were also searched.

A week after the searches, an FSB officer returned to Isaeva and demanded that she change her affidavit and admit that she had been distributing extremist literature. Isaeva refused, as this is not true.