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December 13, 2017 14:47

• Law to struggle family violence adopted in Armenia

  At a meeting of the Armenian Parliament, 75 out of 95 MPs voted for adoption of the law to struggle family violence.

December 13, 2017 02:45

• A defendants' friend explains attack on Ryazantsev by his work for "Caucasian Knot"

  At trial, a friend of defendants has confirmed that one of the reasons for the attack on Vladislav Ryazantsev in Rostov-on-Don was in his activities as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent where critical publications about "Russian nationalists" were posted. According to the testimony of the witness, the beating of the journalist was planned.

December 13, 2017 00:33

• A Dagestani woman reports about her second child left in Syria

  Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, detained after her return to Russia with a child, has left her second child in Syria .This was reported by her advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

December 13, 2017 00:13

• Scandal with "TNT" TV Channel let practice of public apologies beyond Chechnya

  Producers of the "Comedy Woman" show hurried up to bring apologies for a joke about an Ingush woman from escort service, and the blocking for the office of the "TNT" TV Channel with a demand to apologize proves that the Kremlin lost the monopoly on violence, claimed Russian journalists and rights defenders.

December 12, 2017 22:23

• Relatives report torture of Dagestani resident in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, law enforcers have kidnapped Mikail Mataev, a resident of Khasavyurt, forced him to slander himself, and then arrested him for 15 days, his father Abdulvagab Mataev has reported.

December 12, 2017 18:09

• Six Azerbaijani IDPs to get compensation from Armenia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision to pay 73,649 US dollars to the complainants in the case "Chyragov and Others vs. Armenia", who lost their housing during the Karabakh conflict.

December 12, 2017 17:27

• Azerbaijan calmly accepts Trump's statement about Jerusalem

  The absence of mass protests in Azerbaijan after the US has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is connected with the policy of Baku, forced to manoeuvre between the Muslim world and the arms supply partnership. This opinion was expressed by political analysts and journalists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 12, 2017 15:43

• Armenian soldier blown up on a mine

  Soldier Arthur Danielyan blew himself up on a mine while being on duty at the border. This was reported by Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

December 12, 2017 14:07

• A 100-kilogram aerial bomb defused in Grozny

  In the capital of Chechnya, experts have defused an unexploded bomb, which had been lying underground for more than 20 years, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reported.

December 12, 2017 12:42

• Soldiers and officers return to Dagestan from Syria

  The personnel of the military police battalion of the Southern Military District, engaged in performing tasks in Syria, arrived in the airport of Makhachkala, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

December 12, 2017 12:41

• Soldier dies in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Soldier Narek Adibekyan got a fatal wound, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

December 12, 2017 10:48

• Chechen law enforcers refuse to stop searching for singer Aza Bataeva

  Pop singer Aza Bataeva was left in the wanted list on suspicion of involvement in Syrian armed formations, since information about her death reported by the singer's relatives had not been confirmed. This was reported by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

December 12, 2017 08:40

• Remains of Red Army soldier killed in WWII reburied in Makhachkala

  On December 11, Makhachkala hosted a ceremony to rebury the remains of Sergeant Mukhamed Kazbekov, killed in battles near Leningrad during World War II.

December 12, 2017 08:39

• Monument to poetess Fazu Alieva opened in Makhachkala

  The monument to Fazu Alieva, the people's poetess of Dagestan, was opened in Friendship Park in the capital of the republic.

December 11, 2017 21:23

• Comedy Club show apologizes for their jokes about Ingush escort girl

  The Comedy Club Production Company and Ekaterina Skulkina, an actress, have apologized for the show fragment, where one of the actresses played the role of an escort girl from Ingushetia. After the show was broadcast in social networks, users began threatening Comedy Woman actresses.

December 11, 2017 18:25

• Women-protesters in Baku oppose recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital

  About 20 women, protesting at the US Embassy to Azerbaijan have condemned the decision of US President Donald Trump to treat Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

December 11, 2017 14:47

• Tbilisi protesters demand to release Saakashvili

  The participants in the action organized by the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, demanded from Kiev to "act fairly" and release the detained former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

December 11, 2017 12:10

• In Moscow, student beaten for his post about Caucasian girls

  Students of a capital higher educational institution demanded from a young man to publicly apologize for his offensive, in their opinion, comments about Caucasian girls posted on social networks. On December 10, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Union of Chechen Youth reacted to the published video record of the incident.

December 11, 2017 12:00

• In Grozny, football match again raises problem of spectators' forced attendance

  Today, Grozny will host a match between the local "Akhmat" FC and the team of the "Zenith" FC from Saint Petersburg. Local students have reported that the higher educational institutions' administrations obliged them to appear at the stadium.

December 11, 2017 09:20

• Rights defenders call on to find kidnappers of Dagestani Imam's son

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan with requests to verify information about an attempt to kidnap a son of Nimatulla Radjabov, the Imam of the Makhachkala Salafi mosque.