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March 23, 2022 18:43

• Baku rejects demands to withdraw its militaries from Karabakh village

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has treated the actions of its militaries stationed near the village of Pirler (Khramort) as consistent with the statement of November 9, 2020. The Azerbaijani militaries are in its territory, analysts in Baku have noted.

March 23, 2022 18:37

• Balkar Council of Elders stands up for convicted village head

  The guilt of Vadim Sambursky, a former head of the village of Primalkinskoe, who was fined for abuse of power, has not been proved, the elders have stated in their appeal to the Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). They asked to objectively consider the case, treating it as far-fetched.

March 23, 2022 14:41

• Authorities of two North-Ossetian districts reported deaths of fellow countrymen in Ukraine

  Pavel Shlyakhov and Fidar Buraev, natives of North Ossetia, have perished in hostilities in Ukraine, the administrations of the Digorsky and Prigorodny Districts have reported. Since the start of the military operation, it became known about the deaths of at least 25 military servicemen from North Ossetia.

March 23, 2022 12:52

• Yangulbaev blames investigators for ignoring threat claims

  Members of the Yangulbaev family have failed to receive any investigators' reaction to their threat claims, incitement of hatred and slander by top Chechen officials.

March 23, 2022 12:47

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay compensation for torture

  Russian authorities must pay 52,000 euros to Inal Berov, a resident of Nalchik, who received traumas due to torture at the police, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

March 23, 2022 12:44

• Decision on "International Memorial"* case confirms Russia's refusal from its international obligations

  The refusal of the Russian Supreme Court (SC) to enforce the demand of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to suspend the liquidation of the "International Memorial"* indicates Russia's neglect of its international obligations, human rights defenders have pointed out.

March 23, 2022 12:42

• Alliance causes soft reaction of Kadyrov's assistance to Khodakovsky's criticism

  Khodakovsky's refusal of his words about Chechen law enforcers without humiliation in his conversation with Delimkhanov is a unique case by the standards of the apology practice widespread in Chechnya, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, has pointed out.

March 22, 2022 23:10

• Administration of Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan reports about death of a compatriot in Ukraine

  Lieutenant Allaudin Babaev was buried in his native village of Kasumkent in the Suleiman-Stalsky District. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, it was reported about at least 41 perished natives of Dagestan.

March 22, 2022 23:07

• Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh call on peacekeepers to ensure control over gas supply

  Russian peacekeepers have begun negotiations with Azerbaijan to restore gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh. Residents of the unrecognized republic note that all communications should be controlled by the Russian peacekeepers. Armenian human rights defenders call on international institutions to condemn Azerbaijan’s policy towards residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

March 22, 2022 23:00

• ECtHR’s ruling in “Memorial” * case to be executed, a lawyer says

  Prior to a hearing of the Supreme Court of Russia on the case of the “International Memorial” * (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”), lawyer Kirill Koroteev has noted that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case on the closure of the “International Memorial” * must be executed by the Russia’s authorities even after the exclusion of the country from the Council of Europe (CE).

March 22, 2022 22:57

• Russian SC refuses to postpone liquidation of “International Memorial” *

  The Supreme Court of Russia did not grant a request to suspend the liquidation of the “International Memorial” * (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) until the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint about the law on foreign agents.

March 22, 2022 14:12

• Dagestani authorities' report on price stabilization sparks criticism on Internet

  Authorities have managed to stabilize foodstuff and medicine prices, Abdulmuslim Abdulmuslimov, the head of the Dagestani government, has announced. In their turn, Telegram users have treated this statement as untrue and stated that prices continue rising.

March 22, 2022 14:08

• Over 15,000 refugees from Donbass arrive in Rostov Region within a day

  During the last 24 hours, more than 15,000 residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) have crossed the Russia border in the Rostov Region.

March 22, 2022 14:03

• Khodakovsky explains his words about Chechen law enforcers to Delimkhanov

  Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), has explained to Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, that his criticism of the Chechen law enforcers who had arrived in Ukraine was caused by his first impression.

March 22, 2022 13:58

• Colleagues of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev hold two pickets in Makhachkala

  Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, and Idris Yusupov, the journalist of the "Novoye Delo" outlet, went out to pickets in Makhachkala demanding to stop Abdulmumin Gadjiev's criminal case and release political prisoners.

March 22, 2022 13:38

• Armenia's IC updates losses in battles for Nagorno-Karabakh

  The death toll during the hostilities was 3822; other 208 people, including 21 civilians, are regarded as missing, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia has informed.

March 22, 2022 13:30

• Court denies lawsuit of comedian Idrak Mirzalizade against Russian MIA

  A Moscow court has denied the lawsuit lodged by Idrak Mirzalizade, a stand-up comedian, against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) with a demand to declare illegal his ban to enter Russia for 14 years. In his lawsuit, Mirzalizade asked to reduce the entry ban down to a year.

March 21, 2022 23:59

• Court bans operation of Facebook and Instagram in Russia

  The Tverskoi Court of Moscow recognized the activities of social media Facebook and Instagram as extremist and banned their operation in Russia. The WhatsApp messenger, also owned by the Meta company, was not affected by the ban.

March 21, 2022 23:57

• Kadyrov’s statement about a thousand volunteers in Ukraine raises doubts about veracity of his words

  Some of the Chechen law enforcers, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared to be voluntary participants in the special military operation in Ukraine, agreed to the action under pressure, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and Caucasian expert Ruslan Kutaev suggested.

March 21, 2022 23:51

• On March 14-20, 2022, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of March 14-20, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.