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December 21, 2017 14:25

• Authorities explain appointment of Kadyrov as chief of Grozny police

  Junior Lieutenant Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, appointed in November the chief of the Grozny Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), "put an end to the drug business in Chechnya" when he headed the Drugs Control Department. This has been stated today by Zhambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy.

December 21, 2017 13:48

• US journalists denied access to Kuban parliament

  Today, delegates of the Legislative Assembly for the Krasnodar Territory have unanimously voted to ban journalists of US editions recognized as foreign agents from attending sessions of the Krasnodar Legislative Assembly.

December 21, 2017 12:47

• Court re-dismisses Igor Stenin's appeal

  Today, after the General Prosecutor's Office request, the Court of the Astrakhan Region has once again considered the complaints filed by advocates of activist Igor Stenin. The verdict to the activist has been upheld. The court hearing has taken place against the background of a picket in defence of Igor Stenin.

December 21, 2017 11:35

• ICRF refutes information about IED at place of special operation in Stavropol

  On December 20, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reported the information about an explosive device found in an apartment of a suspected killed in the Stavropol special operation is false.

December 21, 2017 08:35

• Three-year-old Dagestani girl returned from Middle East

  On December 20, the child found in Iraq, whose parents had perished, was brought to Grozny and handed over to her relatives.

December 21, 2017 06:50

• Victor Chirikov goes on hunger strike at IVS

  Victor Chirikov, a Krasnodar activist, was detained at his home in the village of Poltavskaya on December 19. A court in Krasnodar found him guilty of non-obeying policemen and arrested him for five days. At the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), he went on a hunger strike.

December 21, 2017 03:46

• Ruslan Kutaev: I will return to Russian politics

  Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, who has liberated from colony in Chechnya, said he was not afraid of persecutions and intended to get back into Russian political life after the expiry of the term of his administrative supervision.

December 21, 2017 00:17

• Journalists see links of CTOs in Stavropol and Zelenchukskaya

  The murder of the man who triggered an explosion in Stavropol, reports on explosion threats in the city and the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Karachay-Cherkessia are linked, said Vasily Balditsyn, the Chairman of the Union of Journalists of the Stavropol Territory.

December 20, 2017 22:36

• Astrakhan activists hold pickets on FSB Day

  In front of the FSB building in Astrakhan, activists have held two solo pickets demanding to stop politically motivated persecutions and respect the Constitution's article on the freedom of assembly.

December 20, 2017 20:47

• USA put Kadyrov on sanctions list

  The US Department of the Treasury has put Ramzan Kadyrov on the "Magnitsky" sanctions list, calling him responsible for extrajudicial executions, torture and other human rights violations in Chechnya.

December 20, 2017 17:55

• Journalist Khadija Ismayilova banished from premiere performance in Baku

  Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova reported she had to leave the Baku theatre building after the threats to cancel the performance if she stayed among spectators.

December 20, 2017 17:26

• Prosecutor's Office asks to close mosque in Chontaul

  In Dagestan, the Prosecutor's Office has claimed that extremist books are being kept in a mosque building in the Chontaul village and filed a lawsuit to court with a request to close the mosque.

December 20, 2017 15:46

• Law enforcers detain alcohol buyers, Grozny residents report

  In the morning on December 17, in Grozny, law enforcers detained at a supermarket exit two men who had just bought several bottles of beer and vodka and took them away to the city. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Murad, who witnessed an incident.

December 20, 2017 13:26

• Chechen law enforcers: missing schoolboy not involved in terrorist activities

  A teenager is wanted as a disappeared person, and the information about his involvement in preparation of terror acts was published by mistake, the law enforcement bodies explained to the schoolboy's relatives.

December 20, 2017 11:57

• Political prisoner Ruslan Kutaev released from Chechen penal colony

  Today, Ruslan Kutaev, the chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus, has been released from a penal colony in Chechnya. This has been reported by one of the convict's relatives.

December 20, 2017 11:04

• IED found after CTO in Stavropol

  An improvised explosive device (IED) has been found in an apartment rented by a suspect killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Stavropol.

December 20, 2017 09:30

• Rights defenders: France starts extraditing natives of Caucasus without trials

  In 2017, France has dramatically changed its attitude towards people from Chechnya requesting political refuge. Sasha Koulaeva, the head of Eastern Europe-Central Asia Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), reported about 10 people from Chechnya who face extradition only for suspicion of being involved in radical groupings.

December 20, 2017 06:13

• OSCE Representative on Media Freedom calls on Baku to stop harassing journalists

  Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom, has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider the verdict to Aziz Orudjev, the executive director of the "Kanal-13" TV Channel.

December 20, 2017 05:41

• One person killed in CTO after explosion in a high-rise building in Stavropol

  Tonight, the tenants of the apartment building in the south-western area of Stavropol were evacuated after an explosion that occurred in one of the apartments.

December 20, 2017 00:39

• Lawyer treats judgement to block the BlaBlaCar as erroneous

  On December 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court cancelled the judgement of the Timashevsk District Court, which found the information about joint travels posted on the website of the BlaBlaCar service to be prohibited.