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January 23, 2018 18:37

• Azerbaijani politician Gezyal Bairamly sentenced to three years in prison

  The court has sentenced Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), to three years in prison on charges of smuggling. Nureddin Mamedli, a PFPA representative, and Samir Kazymly, a rights defender, indicate political motives of the prosecution.

January 23, 2018 15:20

• Social network users indignant over video with a smoking child from North Ossetia

  A video, showing how a small child sitting on knees of an adult smokes a cigarette, was posted on the Internet. The Prosecutor's Office made a decision to check the family of the child and the conditions for his upbringing.

January 23, 2018 15:14

• Dagestani HRC "Memorial" office reports receiving threats

  Today, members of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have got an SMS-message and a phone call with a demand to stop their activities. An unidentified man informed the rights defenders that the arson of the car was a warning.

January 23, 2018 15:01

• Dagestani Senator Kerimov back in France

  Suleiman Kerimov, Russian Senator (Member of the Federation Council) from Dagestan, has returned to Nice after his trip to Russia, said the city prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre.

January 23, 2018 11:14

• A HRC "Memorial" car set on fire in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, unidentified people set fire to a car of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The car was used by a HRC's advocate for travelling to Chechnya. This was reported by Oleg Orlov, a member of the board for the HRC "Memorial".

January 23, 2018 09:30

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling 11 villages

  Over the past day, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire 112 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reported.

January 23, 2018 06:31

• Media report about Grozny Mayor's secret visit to Georgia

  Muslim Khuchiev, Mayor of the Grozny city, a subordinate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has visited Georgia. Georgian and Chechen officials keep the purpose of his visit in secret.

January 22, 2018 19:07

• Dagestani inspector accused of taking bribes on Azerbaijani border

  An employee of the Dagestani Branch of the "Rosselkhoznadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance) has been accused of illegally receiving money from an Azerbaijani driver at the customs checkpoint "Yarag-Kazmalyar".

January 22, 2018 15:01

• Three workers suffered at tunnel construction in Georgia

  Today, three persons received traumas at an explosion in the railway tunnel that is being built in the Kharagauli District of Georgia. Labour safety rules are often violated at the construction site, the railwaymen's trade union has stated.

January 22, 2018 12:34

• Chechen woman denies information about her prosecution by law enforcers

  On January 21, on the TV air, Aminat Avturkhanova, who was looking for her husband, included in the list of the people executed in Chechnya a year ago, denied the information that she had been detained by law enforcers. The woman was forced to voice such a statement, local residents suggest.

January 22, 2018 09:05

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 15-21

  Arrest of Makhachkala Mayor; fire in the Nazran office of the HRC "Memorial"; large-scale opposition rally in Yerevan against rising prices; pickets of Gukovo miners demanding to give them coal; hunger strike of deceived real estate investors in Krasnodar, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 15-21, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 22, 2018 03:54

• HRW: situation with protection of human rights in Azerbaijan deteriorates

  In its annual report on the protection of human rights in the world, the "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) reports that the Azerbaijani authorities have enhanced the suppression of its critics. Azerbaijani rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe it is time for the United States, the European Union and international organizations to move from statements to concrete actions.

January 22, 2018 02:55

• On January 15-21, 2018, two persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of January 15-21, 2018, two persons were killed in 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.

January 21, 2018 19:57

• Soldier dies in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor's Office (MPO) is investigating the death of soldier Ragim Aliev.

January 21, 2018 11:20

• Fighter from Dagestan defeats Brazilian at tournament in Boston

  On January 21, in Boston, Islam Makhachev, a Dagestani mixed-martial arts (MMA) fighter, defeated a Brazilian Gleason Tibau at the UFC-220 tournament in Boston.

January 21, 2018 06:35

• Scientists demand preserving training in national languages in KBR schools

  Pupils of a number of schools in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) are forced to write applications about the transfer of teaching national languages to the voluntary basis. If the society fails to resist the authorities, national languages will be lost, a historian Aslanbek Mirzoev has stated.

January 21, 2018 03:21

• Experts highly appreciate Russian APCs delivered to Azerbaijan

  The armoured personnel carriers (APCs) delivered by Russia will strengthen the combat capacities of Azerbaijani armed forces in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Baku experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, believe.

January 20, 2018 22:08

• One of Volgograd shooters arrested

  The court has arrested a suspect in the case of a shootout in Volgograd, who is now at hospital. According to investigators, he was the conflict instigator.

January 20, 2018 18:50

• Defence criticizes compensation amount for violating Azerbaijani journalist's rights

  On January 18, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found rights violation of Mushvig Guseinov, a correspondent of the "Bizim Yol" newspaper under Articles 5.3 (right to liberty and personal security) and 6.2 (right to fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and obliged the Azeri authorities to pay him 4000 euros of compensation.

January 20, 2018 18:18

• Navalny's supporters released from police in Astrakhan

  In Astrakhan, policemen have released Alexei Navalny's supporters after drawing up a confiscation protocol of leaflets, Alexander Kogut, the head of the local Navalny's office, has stated.