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January 19, 2015 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 12-18

  Massacre in Gyumri that sparked protests among the population of Armenia; mass rallies in Ingushetia stating inadmissibility of caricatures insulting religious feelings; conviction of Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov in Stavropol Territory, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 12-18, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 19, 2015 08:48

• Dozens of witnesses questioned on murder of Armenian family in Gyumri

  Within the investigation into the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri their relatives and neighbours have been questioned, as well as colleagues of the soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of the crime, said Sona Truzyan, the adviser to the head of the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

January 18, 2015 22:02

• Man killed in Stavropol Territory identified as missing Makhmutov

  The man, killed today in a shootout in the vicinity of the village of Verkhnestepnoe, has been identified by his relatives as Tamirlan Makhmutov, the missing villager from Kayasul, Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory.

January 18, 2015 20:16

• Volunteer from Georgia killed near Donetsk; three others wounded

  Some sources have reported that in the warfare in Ukraine, near Donetsk, one Georgian volunteer was killed; and three others were wounded. So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.

January 18, 2015 19:19

• Solo pickets against war in Ukraine held in Volgograd

  Two pickets against the Russian aggression in Ukraine were held in Volgograd and passed without detentions. The picketers were holding posters reading "No to Russian-Ukrainian war!" and "Russia is at war with Ukraine".

January 18, 2015 18:26

• Russian President promises to punish those responsible for Gyumri tragedy

  The inquiry into the murder of a family in Gyumri will be carried out as promptly as possible; and all those guilty will be punished, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised today in his telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan.

January 18, 2015 12:46

• Militant shot dead in Nalchik outskirt was at war in Syria, law enforcers assert

  In the course of a special operation in Nalchik power agents shot dead a 23-year-old local resident, who took part in the warfare in Syria as an explosive expert, said a law enforcement source.

January 18, 2015 06:55

• Stavropol Territory: man killed in shootout with police

  In the vicinity of the village of Verkhnestepnoe, Stepnovsky District of the Stavropol Territory, an unidentified man opened fire at policemen from his car and was killed by return fire, said a law enforcement source.

January 17, 2015 20:43

• Relatives of Sultan Karasov tried to block "Cherkessk-Nevinnomyssk" highway

  Relatives of Sultan Karasov, a disappeared resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), came out to protest and tried to block the "Cherkessk-Nevinnomyssk" highway. The action was stopped after authorities promised to find his whereabouts.

January 17, 2015 14:23

• Ingushetia: rally "Islam against Terrorism" was 20,000 strong

  Over 20,000 people took to the all-Ingushetia rally "Islam against Terrorism", where they protested, in particular, against publication of caricatures on Prophet Muhammad, said a source from the press service of the head of the republic.

January 17, 2015 12:55

• Advocates of Chechnya residents detained in Moscow send complaint to ECtHR

  A complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been submitted by the advocates of the residents of Chechnya Said-Magomed Tsetiev, Khamzat Tsetiev and Khamid Razhapov, suspected of assaulting employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in Moscow.

January 17, 2015 12:18

• One hundred conscripts from Chechnya start their service in Russia's Interior Troops

  One hundred of Chechen recruits have sworn in and began their serve in the units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) deployed in their republic.

January 17, 2015 11:37

• Parties of Karabakh conflict report series of shelling during the day

  The military agencies of Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have reported ceasefire violations on the troops contact line.

January 17, 2015 10:59

• Advocates demand to cancel verdict to participants of "Million Mask March"

  The sentence to the protesters, who took part in the "Million Mask March", should be abolished, because their guilt was not proved, the convicts' advocates declared to the Court of Appeal (CoA). The convicts have also demanded acquittal and stressed the political character of their case.

January 17, 2015 08:22

• Dagestani "Nastoyaschee Vremya" suspends its printed version; some employees will be laid off

  In Dagestan, on January 1, the printing of one of the republic's – the "Nastoyaschee Vremya" (Present Time) – was suspended. Not earlier than March, the weekly will start its electronic version. The reorganization will lead to dismissal of four out of six full-time employees, said the editor-in-chief Milrad Fatullaev.

January 17, 2015 07:05

• Armenian rights defenders doubt that Permyakov will be given out to Armenian law enforcers

  The Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of killing the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, must face the Armenian justice, rights defenders of Armenia believe. However, they doubt that the Russian party will give him out to Armenia.

January 17, 2015 03:51

• Relatives of KChR's native report his kidnapping in Stavropol

  Sultan Karasov was kidnapped in Stavropol, his relatives assert. They cannot find him for 8 days and do not rule out that he could be detained by power agents.

January 17, 2015 02:20

• Widow of suspected militants, who disappeared in Dagestan, returns home after questioning

  Aybike Saygidalieva, a resident of the Dagestan village of Shamkhal, the widow of Magomedarip Magomedov, who was killed in August 2014, whose disappearance was reported by local rights defenders, has returned home after interrogation at the Kizilyurt Inter-District Investigating Division of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

January 16, 2015 23:59

• Russia's MoJ adds CaT to registry of "foreign agents"

  The Committee against Torture (CaT), which includes the rights defenders working in Chechnya in the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), has been put on the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs, treated as "foreign agents", said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia.

January 16, 2015 20:17

• Seven South-Ossetian parties demand to publish draft integration treaty with Russia

  Members of seven parties of South Ossetia have appealed to the political council under the Republic's President demanding to publish the draft treaty on South-Ossetian-Russian alliance and integration. The ruling party has treated the demand as a PR-move, stating that the political council had decided that the final version of the treaty will be published.