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February 12, 2018 09:07

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of six villages in Karabakh conflict zone

  Units of the Armenian Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire regime in various directions of the front 135 times during a day, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

February 12, 2018 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 5-11

  Detention of the Dagestani Prime Minister and his deputies and formation of a new Cabinet of Ministers in the region; announcement of the date for the early presidential election in Azerbaijan; special operation in Ingushetia, in which two suspected militants were killed, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 5-11, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 12, 2018 01:14

• Relatives of missing Derbent resident come to a protest action

  On February 11, relatives and friends of Aslan Shikhakhmedov, a former official of the Derbent administration, who disappeared on February 8, gathered in front of the FSB Department in Derbent. The protestors believe that Aslan Shikhakhmedov could be detained in connection with police raids in Dagestan and demanded from law enforcers to report his whereabouts.

February 12, 2018 01:04

• Resident of Sochi gives up An-148 flight from "Domodedovo" Airport and stays alive

  Maxim Kolomeitsev, a resident of Sochi, has reported why he had to return his ticket for a flight with a "Saratov Airlines" airplane several days before a crash.

February 12, 2018 00:30

• On February 5-11, 2018, two persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of February 5-11, 2018, two persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 11, 2018 14:08

• Ali Bakaev arrested in Borispol for 40 days

  A Ukrainian court has ruled to arrest Ali Bakaev, a native of Chechnya, suspected in Russia of organizing an attack on a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) unit.

February 11, 2018 13:18

• Ingushetia: CTO casualties named

  The two men killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) held in Ingushetia have been identified as Abdulla Askhabov and Yunus Ibadiev, natives of Dagestan.

February 11, 2018 12:16

• Military police battalion back in Chechnya from Syria

  393 military policemen have returned to Chechnya after 1.5 years of service in Syrian Aleppo, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

February 11, 2018 05:26

• Film about women's oppression arouses interest in Nalchik

  On February 9 and 10, the State Concert Hall in Nalchik hosted the International Documentary Film Festival "We are in the Big World. Stories from Life", organized by the Independent Film Promotion Foundation "Projector of Live Stories".

February 11, 2018 02:29

• Saakashvili says Ukrainian authorities want to deport him to Poland

  Mikhail Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, said that the State Migration Service (SMS) of Ukraine had signed a package of documents on his deportation to Poland.

February 10, 2018 23:02

• Dagestani leader declares new priorities of republic

  In Dagestan, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has revealed hundreds of corruption-related violations and dozens of concealed crimes, Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Russia's General Public Prosecutor, has stated. After the liquidation of the armed underground, the war on corruption is a new priority for Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting head of the republic, has announced.

February 10, 2018 20:00

• KBR resident accused of raping a girl

  A man got acquainted with a girl in a social network; then met and raped her.

February 10, 2018 19:27

• Economists link future of Dagestan with success of cadre cleansings

  The Dagestani anti-corruption campaign will be only fruitful, if the cadre cleansings break the existing system. Its results could be assessed after the real socio-economic statistics is published, economists believe.

February 10, 2018 17:54

• Murder of kidnapped guy triggers unrest in Akhty village

  Residents of Dagestani villages of Akhty and Fiy have gathered near the police station, demanding to give out the killer of Bairam Omarov, a 19-year-old local resident. Law enforcers, who had declared Omarov the initiator of his own kidnapping, have reported the suppression of the unrests.

February 10, 2018 16:44

• Russian General Prosecutor impressed by houses of Dagestani officials

  Today, Yuri Chaika, General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, has arrived in Dagestan. He has instructed his subordinates to check the legality of the construction of local officials' houses and to control their expenses, distribution of subsidies and process of land allocation.

February 10, 2018 15:00

• A man killed in Ingushetia identified as a suspect involved in IS

  One of two persons killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in the Nazran District was wanted in the case of involvement in combat actions in Syria.

February 10, 2018 13:21

• A woman from Derbent accuses law enforcers of kidnapping her son

  Gulya Karakhanova has held solo pickets in front of the Derbent police station, the City Prosecutor's Office and the district administration. The woman demands to find her son who disappeared in May 2015.

February 10, 2018 11:51

• Two alleged militants killed in Ingushetia

  In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia, law enforcers have killed two men, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

February 10, 2018 07:55

• Georgian circus artists demand to allow them performing at schools

  Circus artists went out to protest at the Georgian Ministry of Education. They complained about the lack of work and demanded that the ban on paid performances in schools be lifted.

February 10, 2018 02:10

• HRC "Memorial": Chechen authorities decide to demolish Oyub Titiev's house

  The authorities ordered residents of 37 private houses in Kurchaloi to leave their houses within a week. Among them, there is the house of the family of the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev; they will demolish the houses in order to build a shopping centre instead, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated.