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December 29, 2014 19:07

• Azerbaijani president pardons ten from the list of political prisoners

  Ilham Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan, has signed a decree to pardon 87 prisoners. According to rights defenders, the list includes 10 political prisoners.

December 29, 2014 10:59

• Volgograd commemorates victims of December 2013 terror acts

  On Monday, Volgograd commemorated the victims of the terror acts that occurred on December 29 and 30, 2013, in the building of the railway station and in a trolleybus. Some "disturbing atmosphere" is felt in the city, said Natalia Lyakhova, the Chief Physician of Hospital No. 25.

December 29, 2014 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 22-28

  Verdict on 2005 Nalchik attack case; reduction of prison term of ex-Mayor of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov; decision to set up parliamentary commission in Georgia to investigate the works in the Sakdrisi-Kachagiani mine; hunger strike of residents Novolak District of Dagestan with demand to solve their land problem; pipeline accident in the Krasnodar Territory, resulting in sea pollution; municipal elections in Azerbaijan and search and closure of Radio Liberty office in Baku, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 22-28, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 29, 2014 08:55

• NAC reported murder in Ingushetia of alleged leader of "Sunzha" grouping

  The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia has confirmed that a shootout that broke out in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia resulted in the killing of three members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). According to the NAC, one of those killed was the head of the so-called "Sunzha" grouping of militants.

December 29, 2014 06:21

• Sernovodskoe residents confirm demolition of Lulaevs' house

  The house of the family of Anzor Lulaev in the Chechen village of Sernovodskoe was demolished after Lulaev himself was shot dead by law enforcers in a special operation, said a woman-villager.

December 29, 2014 05:08

• Relatives find Sabir Ibragimov in Khasavyurt IVS

  Sabir Ibragimov, a resident of Khasavyurt, whose disappearance was reported by relatives on December 27, was placed into the temporary detention facility (known as IVS. Abdullah Gaziev, an advocate of the Dagestani Bar "Kavkaz", hired by Ibragimov's relatives, was not allowed to meet his client.

December 29, 2014 02:51

• "Imarat Kavkaz" comes into confrontation with "Islamic State"

  Aliaskhab (Ali Abu Muhammad) Kebekov, the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz", recognized by a court decision as a terrorist organization, has accused the leader of Dagestani militants of a split after he had taken oath to the "Islamic State" and appointed a new Amir of Dagestan.

December 29, 2014 02:47

• On December 22-28, five people fell victim to North-Caucasian armed conflict

  During the week from December 22 to December 28, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus gave birth to five victims; of them, four were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 28, 2014 23:24

• Victims of shootout in Ingushetia were involved in terrorism, authorities assert

  Ramzan Makhauri, Ramzan Gagaev and Amerkhan Amatkhanov, killed on Sunday in Ingushetia, were wanted on suspicion of involvement in terror acts and attempts on power agents, sources in law enforcement bodies of the republic have reported.

December 28, 2014 15:29

• Editor-in-Chief of Radio Liberty Bureau in Baku states mass detention of his staff

  Azerbaijan holds mass detentions of employees of the Baku office of Radio Liberty; they are forcibly taken to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), Zeinal Mamedli, the editor-in-chief of the bureau, told the "Caucasian Knot".

December 27, 2014 23:30

• Illegal methods cannot be used against militants' families, said head of Ingushetia

  Today, the conference hall of the National Broadcasting Company "Ingushetia" hosted the annual press conference of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, where the head of the republic has summed up the year. He said that one of the most important achievements of Ingushetia in 2014 was one of the lowest crime rates in the North-Caucasian Federal District.

December 27, 2014 22:43

• Chechen court sentences Tsintsalashvili, accused of recruiting militants, to six years in prison

  On December 25, a court in Grozny found Beslan Tsintsalashvili, a citizen of Georgia, of an attempt to persuade two residents of Chechnya to terrorist activities, and sentenced him to six years in prison, Luiza Killaeva, Tsintsalashvili's advocate, said on December 27.

December 27, 2014 21:57

• Relatives of detained resident of Khasavyurt cannot locate him

  Relatives cannot establish the whereabouts of Sabir Ibragimov, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt, who was detained today, said his wife. The city police say that the young man was not taken there.

December 27, 2014 16:39

• Stanislav Dmitrievsky was detained in KBR on his way from Chechnya

  Stanislav Dmitrievsky, the executive director of the "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society", who was returning from Chechnya to Nizhny Novgorod within the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) has reported his three-hour detention at the federal checkpoint in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

December 27, 2014 11:26

• Azerbaijani MoD reports capturing Armenian soldier

  As stated today by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan, a serviceman Arsen Bagdasaryan was captured at an attempt of an opponent's sabotage group to enter the territory of Azerbaijan.

December 27, 2014 08:31

• Defence of Chechen natives accused of assaulting a policeman appeals against their arrest at MCC

  The advocates of Timirlan Tsatsaev and Aslan Kautarov, accused of assaulting a Moscow policeman, have challenged the decision of the Nikulino District Court of Moscow to extend their clients' custody. A respective complaint was filed on December 25 at the Moscow City Court (MCC). The advocates assert that the detainees have indisputable alibi.

December 27, 2014 08:26

• Activists of SFD NGOs state incessant pressure by authorities

  The persecution campaign against activists of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the Southern Federal District continued in December with the inclusion of the Krasnodar Regional Organization of Higher School Graduates into the register of "foreign agents", and accusation of extremism of the chairman of the Adygea's branch of the Nature Conservation Society. Local activists assert that the authorities' pressure on them is incessant.

December 27, 2014 07:42

• Journalist Ismayilova, arrested in Azerbaijan, has no complaints about custody conditions

  The investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, arrested in Azerbaijan, has no complaints about her custody and treatment conditions.

December 27, 2014 05:19

• "Nairit" workers to go on with protest actions

  On December 26, employees of the "Nairit" Factory failed to meet officials from the presidential administration of Armenia. They decided to continue their protests until the completion of drawing up the payroll schedule; the next action will take place on December 29.

December 27, 2014 04:08

• Employees of Georgian TV Company "Maestro" resign for lack of guarantees of independent work

  The reason for resignation of about twenty employees of the Georgian TV Company "Maestro" was the invitation to work by company bosses of Koki Kandiashvili, an employee of the Government Administration, and the absence of guarantees of free editorial policy.