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January 03, 2015 05:40

• Residents of Southern Caucasus have New Year holidays from five to twelve days

  Residents of Southern Caucasus will have from five to twelve days-off to celebrate the New Year – the decision was made by the authorities of the countries of the region.

January 03, 2015 04:34

• Defence of Rasul Kudaev appeals against verdict in Nalchik attack case

  At sentencing Rasul Kudaev in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005, the court failed to consider a number of testimonies and defence information; the verdict has been challenged, said the advocate Batyr Akhilgov.

January 02, 2015 16:25

• NGO activists accuse Azerbaijani MoJ of protracting grant registration

  The slowness of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Azerbaijan, which was supposed to develop, with account of recent legislative changes, a mechanism for registration of grants in the country, is in fact paralyzing the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), their activists assert.

January 02, 2015 15:26

• NKR veterans receive financial aid by the New Year

  Lunpsum financial help was allocated by the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to World War II and Karabakh War veterans. This decision was made on the occasion of the New Year, which will be celebrated in the republic until January 12.

January 02, 2015 13:27

• Volgograd organization of Director of the Georgian-Russian Forum of NCOs recognized as foreign agent

  The Youth Centre for Consulting and Training under the supervision of Temur Kobaliya, Director of the Georgian-Russian Forum of non-profit organizations (NPOs), has been considered as a "foreign agent" at the demand of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the Volgograd Region.

January 02, 2015 12:27

• Azerbaijan announced 86 shelling episodes of its positions in Karabakh conflict zone

  During January 1, the Armenian party violated the ceasefire for 86 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today. According to the Ministry, the fire was delivered at positions in two districts of Azerbaijan.

January 02, 2015 11:28

• Armenia officially joins EAEU

  From today, Armenia has officially become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which unites Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan; however, till the end of 2015, Yerevan will have a limited representation in the executive bodies of the Union.

January 02, 2015 10:29

• Four power agents wounded in special operation in Naur District of Chechnya

  Four law enforcers involved in the special operation on January 1 in the village of Mekenskaya were slightly wounded. According to Chechen authorities, they were wounded by grenade fragments.

January 02, 2015 05:23

• Chechen authorities announce new tactic to combat militants

  The new tactics to combat the armed underground in Chechnya assumes a personal search of each wanted person by each individual official, said the press service of the head of the republic.

January 02, 2015 02:02

• Journalist Ismayilova sends appeal in support of Radio Liberty from Baku SIZO

  Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and an employee of the Baku office of Radio Liberty, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has sent an open letter with words of support to her colleagues.

January 02, 2015 00:58

• MIA sends appeal of relatives of missing resident of Stavropol for check to the ICRF

  The whereabouts of Jamal Makhmudov, a resident of Stavropol, who disappeared on December 8, is still unknown. According to unconfirmed information of his relatives, he may be kept at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Stavropol Territory.

January 01, 2015 23:58

• NKR’s authorities report calm situation on contact line on New Year night

  There were quite a few violations of the ceasefire on the contact line in Karabakh on December 31, 2014, and at night on January 1, 2015; and the overall situation can be treated as calm, the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

January 01, 2015 22:55

• Azerbaijan: news site "Media Forum" suspended due to problems with grant registration

  Azerbaijan has suspended the work of the popular news site "Media Forum". The project staff was sent to forced leave because of absence of notification from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on the results of the consideration of the founder’s appeal to register the grant agreement related to the above website.

January 01, 2015 21:59

• Chechen authorities announce that killed militants had prepared a series of terror acts

  The members of the armed underground killed in the special operation conducted in the village of Mekenskaya, Naur District of Chechnya, had prepared a series of terror acts, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

January 01, 2015 20:36

• Two residents of Dagestan detained on suspicion of undermining motor convoy

  Law enforcers of Dagestan have detained two local residents suspected of involvement in the bomb explosion during the travel of police cars in the Untsukul District. According to power agents, the detainees had two accomplices.

January 01, 2015 19:42

• Author of clip urging to refrain from welcoming New Year detained in Makhachkala

  Murad Nurmagomedov, the author of the video clip, popular on the Internet, in which well-known Muslims criticize the New Year celebration in Dagestan, was detained by policemen in Makhachkala.

January 01, 2015 16:57

• Second casualty of special operation in Naur District of Chechnya identified

  The second person killed in the special operation conducted in the Chechen village of Mekenskaya was identified as Bashir Omarov. According to the republic’s law enforcement bodies, Omarov and one of the leaders of local militants Musa Zavgaev, also killed today in Mekenskaya, were natives of the same village.

January 01, 2015 15:16

• Chechen authorities announce murder of local underground leader

  Musa Zavgaev, known among militants as Emir of the Nadterechny and Naur Districts of Chechnya, and his accomplice were killed in a special operation, the republic’s authorities have reported. Both of them had links with the grouping involved in the attack on Grozny on December 4, 2014, says the Russia’s National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

January 01, 2015 14:37

• Azerbaijani law obliged those who plan to get married to undergo medical examination

  Azerbaijan has enforced a law about mandatory medical examination of those who plan to get married. According to the law, access to the results of the examination is allowed for a limited circle of people, but some commentators do not rule out potential violations.

January 01, 2015 11:05

• Resident of Dagestan associates detention of his relative having many children with his religion

  The pistol and drugs found on December 18 in the car of Magomed Kurbanov, a native of the Akusha District of Dagestan, did not belong to him, while his detention may have to do with his Salafi beliefs, said his relative and public defender.