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December 15, 2017 09:55

• Azerbaijan reports 128 bombardments at contact line

  On December 14-15, Armenian servicemen used large-calibre machine guns during shelling, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

December 15, 2017 08:27

• Antiterrorist exercises held in Dagestani mountains

  More than 200 artillerymen took part in combat firing on conditional terrorists in the mountainous part of Dagestan.

December 15, 2017 05:14

• Ksenia Sobchak's supporters deny chances of opening her offices in Dagestan and Ingushetia

  The opening of election officers in Dagestan and Ingushetia has not taken place and is not planned, the Moscow's office of Ksenia Sobchak has reported. No information about any plans to open offices in these republics has been received, said Anastasia Shevchenko, the head of the Sobchak's office in Rostov-on-Don.

December 15, 2017 00:45

• Amirov's health condition and fate of possessions remain in question

  Prison doctors have concluded that Said Amirov can stay in colony, his advocate Vladimir Postanyuk reports. On the eve of the fateful judgment for Amirov, the "Caucasian Knot" has audited his former empire.

December 14, 2017 21:55

• TNT stars apologize again to residents of Ingushetia

  Top performers of the TNT TV Channel have recorded a video, in which they apologize to Ingush people for the fourth time for their sketch in the Comedy Woman programme.

December 14, 2017 20:45

• Putin praises Kadyrov for returning women and children from Syria

  The head of Chechnya should continue working towards returning Russian women and children from Syria, said Vladimir Putin. The authorities of Chechnya plan to return 150 Russian citizens more from Syria and Iraq.

December 14, 2017 19:32

• Former Makhachkala Mayor Amirov refused release from colony

  The Sol-Iletsk District Court has dismissed the motion on releasing Said Amirov from the colony for health reasons.

December 14, 2017 17:46

• The Bell reports failure of Kerimov's multi-million investment

  Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, has unsuccessfully invested up to 200 million US dollars into the Snapchat messenger, the Bell Company reports citing top managers of investment funds and businessman's acquaintances.

December 14, 2017 15:41

• Putin offers to send Caucasians to Syria

  Natives of Northern Caucasus would arouse confidence in residents of Syria, both as Russian militaries, and as Sunnis, Vladimir Putin suggested at his press conference.

December 14, 2017 10:33

• Dagestan starts mass wolf shooting

  In the Tarumovka, Kizlyar and Lak Districts of Dagestan, shooting of wolves is underway after mass complaints of farmers.

December 14, 2017 09:41

• Dagestani social network users condemn a video with young woman dancing in hijab

  The publication of a video with a young woman dancing in a hijab has provoked sharp critical posts of social network users.

December 14, 2017 09:00

• A Petersburg woman to get 50,000 roubles after operation against Caucasian militants

  In Saint Petersburg, the court has awarded a local woman with compensation for damage in the amount of 50,000 roubles. Her apartment was damaged during a special operation to detain militants from Kabardino-Balkaria. The plaintiff asked to pay her 325,967 roubles.

December 14, 2017 04:43

• NKR authorities report growth of foreign tourists

  The number of foreign tourists who have visited the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) in 2017 went up by 40% against 2016, making over 20,000.

December 14, 2017 00:56

• Scandal with Comedy Woman reveals trend for youth's copying Kadyrov's style of baiting

  The practice of public apologies that has spread in Russia has nothing to do with Caucasian and Islamic traditions, rights defenders Tatiana Lokshina and Vadim Mukhanov have stated. According to their version, young people of the Caucasus are using it because of the Chechen authorities' impunity for humiliating residents of the region.

December 13, 2017 19:39

• Businessman Pavel Ardzinba shot dead in Abkhazia

  Pavel Ardzinba, suspected of an assassination attempt on the former Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab, was killed assassinated in the Sukhumi-Psou Highway. His acquaintance Dmitry Khagba was shot dead together with him, the Abkhaz Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

December 13, 2017 18:51

• A man wounded in centre of Tbilisi

  The man was hospitalized after a shootout in the centre of the capital of Georgia.

December 13, 2017 18:05

• "Akhmat" FC fined for supporting football players through loudspeakers

  The Grozny "Akhmat" FC has been fined for use of loudspeakers during a football match between its team and the team of the "Zenith" FC, reported Arthur Grigoryanets, the chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union.

December 13, 2017 17:06

• Saakashvili refuses to participate in trials in Georgia

  Mikhail Saakashvili has stated he will not take part in the trials against him in Georgia and rejected his advocates, David Kakoishvili, one of them, said today.

December 13, 2017 16:22

• In Chechnya, five persons injured in gas explosion

  In Chechnya, two women and three children were hospitalized after a gas explosion which occurred in a private house in the Gudermes District.

December 13, 2017 16:10

• Stavropol residents treat special operation held in their city as exceptional

  The special operation was held in a quiet area near the city centre and became a surprise, reported interviewed experts and residents of Stavropol. City residents noted that the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime did not provoked them to fear.