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January 06, 2018 00:53

• Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili alarmed over sentence to Mikhail Saakashvili

  Today, after the verdict, pronounced against his predecessor, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has noted that the presidential right to pardon prisoners was used for political persecution of Mikhail Saakashvili.

January 06, 2018 00:21

• Police exclude arson of Rostov-on-Don district

  Investigators failed to find any proofs of arson as the reason of the fire that occurred in August 2017 in central Rostov-on-Don, the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

January 05, 2018 23:40

• Policemen detain 10 people near the Salafi mosque in Makhachkala

  All those detained after the Friday prayer were released after the check, the spokesman of the Dagestani MIA has stated.

January 05, 2018 20:32

• CEC refuses to register Aina Gamzatova as presidential candidate

  Today, the Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) has refused to register a group of voters who have nominated Aina Gamzatova, referring to a lack of documents, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

January 05, 2018 19:49

• Body of man killed in CTO thrown in Chechen village's square

  A video has appeared on the Internet, showing, according to social network users, the body of Khamzat Baimuradov, a Chechen resident, who was killed at an attempt to detain him, and whose body was brought to the village square.

January 05, 2018 15:51

• Court would not let Mukhtarly to his relatives' funeral

  The journalist Afghan Mukhtarly, who is in custody in Azerbaijan, could not take part in the funeral of his relatives that took place on January 1. Today, the court refused to release him temporarily for the funeral feast, his advocate has stated.

January 05, 2018 13:46

• Mikhail Saakashvili treats his guilty verdict in Georgia as illegal

  Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili believes the decision of the Tbilisi City Court, which sentenced him to three years of imprisonment for abuse of power, contradicts international norms and common sense.

January 05, 2018 13:30

• Russian residents demand to find attackers on Andrei Rudomakha

  For a day, in Krasnodar, more than 1000 people signed a petition with the demand to heads of investigating bodies and the Kuban Governor to take control over the investigation into the an attack on ecologist Andrei Rudomakha.

January 05, 2018 10:43

• Georgia sentences Mikhail Saakashvili to three years of imprisonment

  The Georgian Court has found former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili guilty of abuse of power when pardoning the persons sentenced in the case on murder of businessman Sandro Girgvliani.

January 05, 2018 10:40

• Ministry aims to introduce combined tourist card for all resorts of Northern Caucasus

  The Ministry for Northern Caucasus Affairs is engaged in development of a combined tourist card to allow tourists to visit at once several resorts of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). This has been reported today by Odes Baisultanov, First Deputy Minister for Northern Caucasus Affairs.

January 05, 2018 07:37

• Mortar bomb defused in Adygea

  In Adygea, a resident of the Kirov farm yard located in the Tashekhabl District found a bomb of World War II (WWII), the National Guard of Russia reported.

January 05, 2018 04:05

• SFD in 2017: protests, large-scale fires and resonant trials

  The regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD) will remember the year of 2017 by numerous protest actions, large-scale fires in the Rostov and Volgograd Regions, launch of a railway to bypass Ukraine, verdicts in cases of resonant crimes, and attacks on law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the results of 2017 in six regions of Southern Russia.

January 04, 2018 23:15

• Bairamly treats her arrest as revenge by Azerbaijani authorities

  Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), accused of contraband, told today at the court, how the money was planted on her. She treats her prosecution as a revenge for her political and human rights activities.

January 04, 2018 19:35

• Law enforcers tell about Pankisi detainees' links with Chataev

  Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was wounded by law enforcers in the Pankisi Gorge, had met with Akhmed Chataev in Tbilisi; and a banking contract to his name was found in Chataev's apartment, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has stated today.

January 04, 2018 18:44

• Georgia refuses to buy Russian gas until the end of 2018

  Georgia, which had purchased 100 million cubic meters of natural gas from Russia before March 2017, has no plans to buy it in 2018, the "Georgiainform" has reported today, citing Dmitry Kumsishvili, the Georgia's Minister of Economy.

January 04, 2018 17:18

• Traffic on Georgian Military Road reopened

  After the bad weather, which set on in Georgia on January 1, the Georgian Military Road is now open for all types of vehicles.

January 04, 2018 12:26

• Chechen law enforcer suspected of killing a child

  On New Year night, an employee of one of the federal agencies was shooting in the air with his colleagues and mortally wounded a minor girl in Chechnya, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

January 04, 2018 12:02

• Georgian doctors agree to Machalikashvili's transfer to foreign clinic

  A doctors' concilium has agreed to allow treatment of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was wounded during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, abroad, on which his relatives insist, Zaza Lurmsmanishvili, a hospital spokesman, has stated.

January 04, 2018 10:17

• Suspect of killing Chechen policeman shot dead

  At detention attempt, the suspect of assassinating the head of the police station in the village of Avtury rendered resistance and was shot dead by return fire, Ruslan Alkhanov, the Chechen Interior Minister, has stated.

January 04, 2018 07:00

• Northern Caucasus in 2017: persecution of gays, armed clashes, change of power in Dagestan

  The past year in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) will be remembered by truckers' protests, change of Dagestani leadership, persecutions of gays in Chechnya and armed clashes of law enforces with militants. The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the most significant events in Northern Caucasus.