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February 11, 2015 08:17

• OSCE mission reveals no ceasefire violations in Karabakh conflict zone

  The monitoring, held on February 10 by the OSCE mission on the contact line of the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan, passed without incidents.

February 11, 2015 05:58

• 46 inmates of Gldani Prison are on hunger strike in Georgia

  46 prisoners, sentenced to life imprisonment, are on hunger strike at Gldani Prison No. 8, demanding revision of their cases and amending the law on amnesty. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

February 11, 2015 04:09

• House offered for resettlement in Sochi is dangerous for residence, tenants state at court

  he members of the Usenko family have demanded proofs from the Sochi administration (Mayoralty) that the house offered for their resettlement had been commissioned. Tamara Usenko said at the court session that two persons had perished in the house from gas explosion.

February 10, 2015 23:57

• Residents of Dagestani village of Uchkent rally to demand return of state farm land

  A spontaneous rally demanding the return of state farm land was held by villagers of Uchkent, the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. The land plots in question had been illegally privatized by one of the former heads of state farm named after Akaev, said the protesters.

February 10, 2015 23:24

• Residents of Novolak District of Dagestan restart hunger strike

  Residents of the village of Shushiya in the Novolak District of Dagestan have resumed their hunger strike demanding the return of their land plots and solution of other resettlers' problems.

February 10, 2015 19:23

• Azerbaijani politicians demand to add co-chairs from Germany and Turkey to OSCE Minsk Group

  This initiative was put forward by Azerbaijani political scientists, who believe that the current format of the OSCE Minsk Group is unable to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

February 10, 2015 16:48

• FSB Department reports death of nine KBR natives in Syria

  Since the start of warfare in Syria, nine natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who fought for the militants, have been killed there, said a source from the Department for the KBR of the Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

February 10, 2015 16:44

• Armenia's IC finds beaten activist Khachatryan to be a victim

  Investigators have questioned the activist Artak Khachatryan, who suffered in an attack on him, as a victim, said the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.

February 10, 2015 14:50

• Sochi court extends custody of Chechen native suspected of robbery by a month

  The Adler District Court has granted the investigator's petition to extend the custody of the native of Chechnya Khavazh Temirsultanov, accused of robbing the pensioner Arthur Zadelnikov.

February 10, 2015 13:49

• Russia's Prosecutor's Office ready to act as prosecution party in Gyumri massacre

  As stated by Sergey Fredinskiy, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, officials of the Russian Prosecutor's Office may act as prosecutors in the trial on the murder of the Avetisyan family in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

February 10, 2015 06:52

• Resident of Dagestan suspected of taking part in Syrian war

  The investigating authorities of Dagestan have launched a criminal investigation against a resident of the republic, suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).

February 10, 2015 04:15

• Russia's MoD and Ukrainian militaries hold inspection in Rostov Region

  The Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding, jointly with Ukrainian militaries, an inspection in one of the districts of the Rostov Region. The aim of the inspection is to identify the extent of military activities in a certain area defined by the Ukrainian party, the Russia's MoD reports.

February 10, 2015 02:59

• Erdogan Boz asks rights defenders to help to restore his right to visit Russia

  Erdogan Boz, a Turkish citizen of Circassian origin, has asked the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of Kabardino-Balkaria to help him to restore his right to visit his historic homeland.

February 09, 2015 23:20

• Head of Ingush POC demands to check facts of torture of Khadishat Albakova

  Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr" and the head of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) has demanded from the public prosecutor of Ingushetia to check the information about the torture of the resident of Ingushetia Khadishat Albakova and other violations of her rights.

February 09, 2015 21:17

• Relatives of Kelbisov and Gabibov from Derbent find them

  The arrested residents of Derbent Gamlet Kelbisov and Rustam Gabibov are kept in the temporary detention facility (IVS) of Vladikavkaz; for more than a month their advocates are not allowed to meet them, their relatives told rights defenders.

February 09, 2015 19:48

• "Caucasian Knot" is among TOP-30 most cited Russia's Internet resources

  In 2014, the citation index of the "Caucasian Knot" more than doubled, which put the edition into the TOP-30 of most cited Russian Internet resources. According to its own data, the citation rate of the "Caucasian Knot" in 2014 was much higher.

February 09, 2015 19:22

• Ingush woman to stand trial on charges of contacts with militants

  The investigating authorities of Ingushetia have delivered to the court a criminal case of a 19-year-old local girl, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and storage of firearms.

February 09, 2015 18:24

• Court in Grozny obliges MIA to clarify claims to Murad Amriev and rights defenders

  The court in Grozny, which is considering the lawsuit lodged by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the Committee against Torture (CaT) and an athlete Murad Amriev, has obliged the MIA to clarify the claims; and the court also requested materials of the check of the complaint about torturing the athlete, said Galina Arapova, the head of the Centre for Defence of Media Rights.

February 09, 2015 12:49

• NGOs hold training on issue of regional conflicts for Tbilisi residents

  Activists of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have held a training session in Tbilisi for local residents, during which they told about the origins of the conflict of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and about the methods of settling such conflicts in the world.

February 09, 2015 09:00

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

  Aggravation of situation in the area of the Karabakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; attack on advocate in Dagestan; arrest of current and former vice-governors in Krasnodar Territory; start of sending Ukrainian refugees from Rostov Region to other regions of Russia; detention of 11 former employees of Georgia's MIA on suspicion of resonant past murder; public utility accidents in Volgograd Region, which left residents without heat and power, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 2-8, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".