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July 23, 2014 03:18

• Police detain believers in Makhachkala mosques, eyewitnesses report

  Last night, law enforcers of the capital of Dagestan conducted mass detentions of mosque-goers in Hungarian Fighters Street, according to eyewitnesses. Several worshipers from the mosque in Kotrov Street were also taken to the police.

July 23, 2014 00:20

• Advocate: Dagestani investigators ignore statement about violation of Abdulkadyrov's rights

  The lawyer Arsen Radjabov, who is defending Isa Abdulkadyrov, detained in Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that investigators ignore the statement about violation by policemen of his client's rights.

July 22, 2014 18:01

• Baku: staff of "Azadlyg" newspaper holds picket demanding to repay debt

  Today, employees of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) have held a picket outside the offices of the state company for distributing the press named "Gasid" with a demand to repay the debt the company owes to the newspaper.

July 22, 2014 16:57

• Four-year-old girl beaten up in Grozny is in grave condition

  Leonid Roshal, the Director of the Moscow Institute of Children's Emergency Surgery and Traumatology, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the girl of four, who was beaten up in Grozny, is in grave condition and cannot be transported to Moscow.

July 22, 2014 15:45

• Mayor of Armenian city of Armavir blown up in Karabakh

  As a result of a car explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh, today Ruben Khlgatyan, the Mayor of the city of Armavir in Armenia, was wounded. His driver was killed; two other passengers of the car were also wounded.

July 22, 2014 15:28

• Resident of Makhachkala states disappearance of her husband

  Nuriyan Abdulaeva, a resident of the settlement of Tarki of Makhachkala, reports about disappearance of her husband Asoltan Amaev, suspecting that he could be kidnapped by power agents. The Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala reports that Amaev was not taken there.

July 22, 2014 15:07

• In Volgograd, 40 persons rally in support of State Duma MP Nikolai Parshin

  Today, Volgograd hosted an action in support of Nikolai Parshin, an MP of the Russian State Duma. The participants of the rally have treated the criminal case initiated against the first secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), as "ordered".

July 22, 2014 09:16

• Georgian municipal officials receive unjustified bonuses, says NGO

  The NGO named "Transparency International-Georgia" has appealed to country's top managers trying to draw their attention to the fact that some employees of local bodies of power receive undeserved monetary bonuses.

July 22, 2014 08:13

• Coast reinforcement resumed on beaches of Imereti Lowland in Sochi

  Sochi has begun reinforcing the embankment in the Imereti Lowland. The structures, which are washed off during every violent storm, are being built for six years, said Natalia Kalinovskaya, the head of the Comradeship of Public Government (known as TOS) "Psou".

July 22, 2014 06:01

• Defence Minister of South Ossetia denies detention of his assistant in Lugansk Region

  Ukrainian mass media have spread information about detention in the Lugansk Region of Tamerlan Enaldiev, the Assistant to the Defence Minister of South Ossetia. In his turn, Valery Yakhnovets, the Minister of Defence, said that the man detained in the Lugansk Region is not his assistant.

July 22, 2014 02:40

• ICRF to check actions of NKVD agents during deportation of Chechens

  The Investigating Department for Chechnya will check the actions of the agents of the Soviet NKVD for their involvement in crimes against humanity in the case of the massacre of civilians committed in February 1944 in the village of Khaibakh, Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the movement "For Human Rights", said on July 21.

July 22, 2014 00:31

• ICRF: professional activities of Zheleznovodsk City Duma Speaker is considered among reasons for attempt on him

  In the case of the attempt on Ararat Dovmalov, the Speaker of the City Duma of Zheleznovodsk, along with the version of hooliganism, other versions are considered, including the professional activities of the politician, said the Investigating Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

July 21, 2014 23:59

• Tsarnaev's acquaintance found guilty of concealing evidence of terror act in Boston

  Azamat Tazhayakov, a student from Kazakhstan was found guilty by jurymen of a conspiracy and obstructing the justice in the case on the terror act committed during the Boston Marathon.

July 21, 2014 17:58

• North-Caucasian militants released video evidence of Umarov's death

  A video record of the burial of Doku Umarov, who was killed, according to various versions of power agents, during a special operation in late 2013 – early 2014, was posted on July 19 on the websites, which support the militants of Northern Caucasus.

July 21, 2014 17:44

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

  As reported today by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ), five organizations have been added to the registry of the non-profit organizations (NPOs) - "foreign agents", including the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

July 21, 2014 15:59

• In Stavropol Territory, policemen kill a man who opened fire on them

  Today in the morning, in the Novoselitskoe District of the Stavropol Territory, policemen killed a man who opened fire on law enforcers. The casualty has not been identified yet, reports the press office of the Chief Department (CD) of Russia's MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

July 21, 2014 15:09

• Azerbaijani MIA confirms death of local in Karabakh conflict zone

  As reported today by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Mubariz Aliev, a resident of the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, was killed by gunfire from the Armenian side near the village of Ashagy Chaily located on the troops contact line.

July 21, 2014 13:49

• Explosion occurs near the house of City Duma Speaker in Zheleznovodsk

  As reported by a law enforcement source from the Stavropol Territory, last night, an attempt was made on the life of Ararat Dovmalov, the Speaker of the City Duma of the city of Zheleznovodsk. According to the source, the politician received a head injury from the explosion of presumably a grenade near his house.

July 21, 2014 12:43

• Prosecution demands 18 years of imprisonment for Zeinalov

  Today, the prosecutor has asked the court to appoint 18 years in prison for Orkhan Zeinalov, a native of Azerbaijan, accused of killing Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Moscow district of Western Biryulyovo.

July 21, 2014 11:34

• On July 14-20, one person fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from July 14 to July 20, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least one human life. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.