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September 24, 2017 22:28

• Akhsan Nuruzade pressured after detention in Baku, his advocate complains

  An administrative arrest of Akhsan Nuruzade, a religious activist and a member of the "Muslim Unity"movement, will be challenged. This was reported by his advocate Yalchin Imanov. According to him, after the detention, Akhsan Nuruzade was subjected to pressure.

September 24, 2017 17:15

• Court arrests seven persons detained on eve of Baku rally

  On September 23, the action under the slogan: "Stop Corruption, Freedom for Political Prisoners!" was held at the stadium in the Yasamal District of Baku. According to the preliminary estimates, the action gathered about 3000 people. The rally was provoked by the information stating that the Azerbaijani ruling elite bribed lobbyists in Europe.

September 24, 2017 09:00

• Sochi activist complains about detention at Sheremetyevo Airport

  Anastasia Titova, the leader for the Kuban branch of the "Party of Progress", has claimed she was detained for half an hour by border guards at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow before leaving for Warsaw.

September 24, 2017 08:10

• Journalist Khadija Ismayilova appeals to Court for permission to leave Azerbaijan

  On September 22, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova appealed to the Binagadi District Court of Baku with a request to grant her the opportunity to temporarily leave Azerbaijan for participation in an international event to be held in Riga.

September 24, 2017 05:30

• Stepanakert residents celebrate City Day

  On September 23, residents and guests of Stepanakert celebrated the City Day. The festive events held in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh included sports competitions, exhibitions and concerts of folk ensembles.

September 23, 2017 23:10

• Krasnodar: number of housing shareholders on hunger strike drops to five

  On the tenth day, five hunger-strikers, shareholder of the Housing Cooperative (HC) “Territory of Happiness” continue their protest action in Krasnodar and complain that so far the authorities have been ignoring them and their demands.

September 23, 2017 19:35

• Baku: opposition demands to return laundered money back to people

  The oppositional rally has accused Azerbaijani authorities of corruption and demanded to investigate the leakage of about three billion laundered US dollars from the country.

September 23, 2017 18:41

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports 4000 shots from Azerbaijan within a week

  On September 17-23, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces were actively shelling Karabakh positions from various-calibre weapons, having made over 4000 shots, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

September 23, 2017 12:20

• Police treat mine explosion of militant and two policemen in Chechnya as sudden accident

  The mine explosion in the Vedeno District occurred during the investigating experiment, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) ha stated. According to the head of a local NGO, the explosion killed Abbas Kuzhulov was killed, who could be forced to show the hideout in the forest by kidnapping his relatives.

September 23, 2017 11:34

• Baku: opposition claims detention of six activists before rally

  The four participants of the preparation for the rally of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), who disappeared on September 22, were detained, the NCDF believes.

September 23, 2017 07:03

• Prosecutor's Office counts almost 800 Chechnya residents among Syrian militants

  According to the Chechen Prosecutor's Office, currently, 786 republic’s residents are at war against governmental troops in Syria; 607 of them have been put on the international wanted list. Relatives of those who left for the Middle East complain of constant pressure they feel from power agents.

September 23, 2017 02:50

• Journalist Alexander Batmanov states cruel treatment at SIZO

  Alexander Batmanov, a Volgograd journalist, who was placed into SIZO (pre-trial prison) with his broken legs, has complained about his health deterioration. They removed the plaster cast from one of his legs before time, just to force him to walk on crutches, he said.

September 23, 2017 01:33

• "Novaya Gazeta" calls on to re-check death reasons of people from "execution list"

  The official death reasons of five Chechen residents from the "execution list" need re-examination with exhumation. Also, the information about the two citizens of Chechnya from the same list, who were brought to meet Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, should be clarified, the “Novaya Gazeta” writes.

September 22, 2017 23:16

• North Ossetia: power agents deny links of shelling police post with CTO

  The attacks on policemen in the Mozdok District and the militants’ killing during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted on September 6 near the village of Chmi are not interconnected, said an officer of the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

September 22, 2017 21:41

• Over hundred burials found at excavations in Kuban

  During the excavations of an ancient fortress in the Krasnodar Territory (aka Kuban by the name of the main river), which was found during the construction of the energy bridge to the Crimea, a burial ground of the Khazar epoch with weapons and ornaments was discovered, the head of the archaeological expedition reports.

September 22, 2017 19:53

• Three US congressmen put on Azerbaijani "black list"

  The members of the US House of Representatives David Valadao, Frank Pallone and Tulsi Gubbard have been put on the list of undesirable persons for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reports.

September 22, 2017 18:03

• Investigators call on Dagestan residents to help searching missing person

  Investigators have released the description of the resident of the Suleiman-Stalski District, who disappeared on August 29.

September 22, 2017 16:34

• Dagestani politician intends running for Russian presidency

  Sirazhdin Ramazanov, the leader of Social Democratic Party from Dagestan wants to get nominated for the presidential election.

September 22, 2017 16:28

• ICRF reports kidnapping Khasavyurt resident

  Alexei Kardashov, who left his home in Khasavyurt on September 14 and never came back, was kidnapped, investigators believe.

September 22, 2017 14:06

• Policeman wounded in Chechnya operated on

  An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, who was seriously wounded by a mine explosion in the vicinity of Vedeno, was operated on in a Grozny hospital after receiving multiple shrapnel wounds; while his colleague was contused and received moderate-gravity wounds.