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January 02, 2018 05:12

• Dagestani MIA reacts to video clip posted on Internet with GIBDD inspectors' complaints

  A clip appeared on the Internet, in which on behalf of employees of the GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan complaints were voiced about the tight working schedule and their physical inability to cope with the assigned tasks.

January 02, 2018 01:27

• In Georgia, five persons injured when using fireworks

  On the New Year's Eve, three victims of pyrotechnic explosions had to undergo partial or complete amputation of their fingers.

January 01, 2018 23:25

• Special troops and military police hold anti-terror exercises in Krasnodar Territory

  Today, about a hundred servicemen have practiced a scenario of a conditional capture of a dwelling settlement by militants.

January 01, 2018 20:59

• Armenia's and NKR's MoDs treat situation in conflict zone as calm

  Following the Azerbaijan's statement about 135 bombardments, the Ministries of Defence (MoDs) of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) characterized the situation on the contact line and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on the first day of 2018 as calm.

January 01, 2018 17:55

• CEC accepts Aina Gamzatova's documents to run for presidency

  The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia has started to consider the documents submitted by Aina Gamzatova, a wife of the Mufti of Dagestan. The woman decided to run for presidency as a self-nominated candidate.

January 01, 2018 16:27

• ICRF to investigate case of attack on Vyacheslav Prudnikov

  At a request of the Prosecutor's Office, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has been engaged in the case of an armed attack, reported Vyacheslav Prudnikov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the Rostov Region.

January 01, 2018 10:20

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling nine villages

  Within the last 24 hours, Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the area of the Karabakh conflict for 135 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

January 01, 2018 10:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 25-31

  CTO of Georgian law enforcers in Pankisi Gorge; the nomination of Dagestan Mufti’s wife for Russian presidency; Facebook’s explanation of blocking Kadyrov's accounts – read about these and other events in the Caucasus that happened during the week of December 25-31, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 01, 2018 03:40

• Volgograd Airport suspended after bomb report

  In the evening on December 31, visitors and employees of the Volgograd Airport were evacuated after a phone call about planted bomb; however, the police found no explosives in the building.

January 01, 2018 02:40

• Resident of Saint Petersburg accused of terror act arrested for two months

  A Petersburg court has ruled to arrest the man accused of the explosion in the supermarket until the end of February.

January 01, 2018 01:40

• Eight "Strategy-31" activists hold solo pickets in Volgograd

  On October 31, 2017, in Volgograd, activists of the "Strategy-31" campaign held four solo pickets in defence of the freedom of assembly.

January 01, 2018 00:43

• Investigators and Mukhtarly’s family disbelieve murder of his relatives

  The deaths of Afghan Mukhtarly's sister and his two nephews was caused by the gas furnace that went out at night, said Elshan Mukhtarly, Afghan’s brother. Apart from this version, investigators also consider food poisoning as a possible death reason.

December 31, 2017 16:26

• Media report deaths of three Mukhtarly’s relatives

  Today, the sister of the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly and his two nephews were found dead in Zagatala. Elshan Mukhtarly, Afghan’s brother said that the woman and two children got poisoned with gas.

December 31, 2017 12:30

• "EcoWatch" activists associate attack on Rudomakha with law enforcers

  The people who attacked Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) in Krasnodar, acted in an organized manner and had information about activists’ travels. They may have attitude to law enforcers, Mr Rudomakha himself and his associates believe.

December 31, 2017 10:31

• Relatives of victims of Tu-154 crash near Sochi demand insurance payments

  Relatives of those perished one year ago in the air accident near Sochi received compulsory payments; and now they demand compensations from the insurance company for loss of breadwinners, their advocate has stated.

December 31, 2017 00:32

• Authorities promise Pankisi elders to objectively investigate CTO

  On December 30, officials of the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) provided information to the elders of the Pankisi Gorge about the links of the persons detained in the recent counterterrorist operation (CTO) with terrorists.

December 30, 2017 19:41

• Grenade found in playground in Rostov-on-Don

  A combat grenade was found by residents of Rostov-on-Don in a yard, after which the territory was cordoned off.

December 30, 2017 15:11

• Authorities chastise three persons for criticizing house demolition in Shali

  At the gathering in Shali, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament condemned three men who in the video posted on the YouTube criticized the large-scale reconstruction of the city centre.

December 30, 2017 13:27

• NKR blames Azerbaijan for 14,000 bombardments per year

  In 2017, Azerbaijani militaries made over 180,000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), by using missiles, mortars and grenade launchers. This was stated by the KBR’s Ministry of Defence (MoD).

December 30, 2017 11:48

• 32 orphans receive apartments in Grozny

  On December 29, the eve of the New Year, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, awarded 32 orphans with keys to new apartments. Local residents report a multi-year waiting list of orphans for housing.