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October 10, 2017 18:18

• Russian SC treats verdict in Boris Nemtsov's murder case as lawful

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has slightly mitigated the verdict in the case of the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder. The SC has cancelled the fines, but upheld the terms of imprisonment.

October 10, 2017 17:02

• 300 people go to protest action in Tbilisi

  The protesters came to the Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) building with a demand to remove from the agenda an issue on transfer of two land plots to the Bidzina Ivanishvili's company. Some of the protestors were detained.

October 10, 2017 13:36

• Law enforcers identify men killed in Dagestan

  Two persons killed today during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Shamil District have been identified. This has been reported by an informed source.

October 10, 2017 13:15

• 20 militant units neutralized in Northern Caucasus in 2017

  Today, the National Antiterrorist Committee has reported that since earlier 2017, the law enforcement agencies have stopped the activities of 120 members of the so-called "dormant militant units" in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

October 10, 2017 12:56

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay almost 290,000 euros to relatives of killed Chechens

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decision that the Russian authorities violated the right to life of 21 residents of the Chechen village of Novye Aldy, killed by law enforcers in 2000.

October 10, 2017 11:08

• NAC: members of "Shamil" grouping killed in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, two militants were killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) area. According to the NAC, the people killed in the outskirts of the Teletl village in the Shamil District were identified as members of the Shamil grouping, which committed several killings in 2015-2016.

October 10, 2017 09:30

• Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew heads Chechen road police

  On October 9, Idris Cherkhigov, a 28-year-old nephew of the Chechen leader, was appointed the chief for the Chechen department of the road police (known as GIBDD). This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya.

October 10, 2017 05:19

• Workers discover several crypts of 17-18th centuries in central Volgograd

  In the Tsentralny District of Volgograd, several crypts of the 17-18th centuries were opened during the excavations in the protected cultural heritage area. Workers discovered the burials during the works on laying water pipes held on October 4.

October 10, 2017 03:05

• Over 100 miners go to protest in Gukovo

  In Gukovo, participants of the miners' protest have decided to prolong their protest until March 20, 2018, due to the lack of noticeable improvements with the payment of wage arrears.

October 10, 2017 02:13

• Magomedov brothers released from police in Makhachkala

  Murad Magomedov and Ramazan Magomedov, who were detained in Makhachkala after they had reported discovery of a bomb, were released from the police station.

October 10, 2017 01:16

• CTO legal regime introduced in Dagestan

  Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced in the Shamil District of Dagestan. According to the law enforcement agencies, the search is underway in the region to identify members of the armed underground and their accomplices.

October 09, 2017 22:38

• Activist Polyudova stops communicating with her relatives

  The activist Darya Polyudova, who is serving her sentence in a colony-settlement in Novorossiysk, has not been in contact with her relatives for two weeks, her mother said.

October 09, 2017 21:05

• Advocate Zaurbek Sadakhanov leaves Russia because of threats

  The advocate, who represented the interests of Khamzat Bakhaev, a convict in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case, has left Russia for personal security reasons before the consideration of the appeal against the verdict.

October 09, 2017 18:34

• Video of Cossack Zabolotniy’s captivity in Syria posted

  Today, a video has been posted on the YouTube showing an interrogation of the Cossack Roman Zabolotniy by militants immediately after his capture. Zabolotniy tried to speak Russian with one of the militants and said that he had "information about weapons."

October 09, 2017 16:48

• A Cossack who supports Alexei Navalny sentenced to compulsory community service

  After being detained at a rally in Krasnodar, Cossack Yevgeny Panchuk, who supported Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced to 20 hours of compulsory community service.

October 09, 2017 16:15

• Insiders report thousands of Russian mercenaries in Syria

  According to participants of the hostilities in Syria, the number of mercenaries from the private military company "Wagner's PMC" killed in September battles may be "much higher" than 12 people whose dead bodies were delivered to Rostov-on-Don on September 28, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.

October 09, 2017 13:29

• MIA starts investigation into policemen’s fight in Makhachkala

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan has confirmed a claim of an eyewitness that staff members of the "E" Centre were involved in a conflict with inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS) in Makhachkala.

October 09, 2017 09:40

• On October 2-8, 2017, seven persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of October 2-8, 2017, seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, six were killed and another was injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

October 09, 2017 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 2-8

  Appointment of new Dagestani leader; execution of a Rostov Cossack in Syria; special operation in Dagestan announced after attacks on policemen, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 2-8, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 09, 2017 08:39

• Eyewitness reports fight of law enforcers in Makhachkala

  In the capital of Dagestan, policemen opened fire as a result of a conflict with staff members of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE). This was reported on October 8 by an eyewitness of the incident.