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March 18, 2022 22:42

• Doctors rule out possibility of a shortage of medicines in Dagestan

  In case if the supplies of foreign medicines for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, oncological and urological diseases are suspended, the medicines can be replaced with domestic analogues, specialists interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” assure.

March 18, 2022 19:53

• Vartan Kochyan dies in SIZO

  Vartan Kochyan, accused of murdering court marshals in Sochi, died in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), his advocate Alexander Burnaev reports today.

March 18, 2022 19:37

• Four policemen charged with forcing a Makhachkala resident to self-incrimination

  Charges have been brought against four policemen who, under threat of beatings, forced a woman from Makhachkala to confess to drug possession, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

March 18, 2022 13:44

• Closed sky regime in Southern Russia extended by another week

  The ban on sending and receiving flights to and from the airports in six cities in Southern Russia, including Krasnodar, Stavropol and Rostov-on-Don, has been extended until March 26.

March 18, 2022 13:23

• Nalchik court places Ingush sign interpreter Dugiev under house arrest

  The Nalchik City Court has placed Ramazan Dugiev, an Ingush sign interpreter, under house arrest for two months; he was accused of causing grievous bodily harm to law enforcers during protests in Magas in 2019.

March 18, 2022 11:17

• Analysts point to Kremlin's role in promoting Chechen law enforcers

  The image of Chechen law enforcers as successful militaries is built by Moscow; and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, performs all the actions within this promotion campaign at the Kremlin's behest, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

March 18, 2022 11:01

• Lawyers comment on ECtHR's decision to suspend consideration of complaints against Russia

  The cases that Russians had filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) before Russia has quitted the Council of Europe should be considered, and the decisions made up to that time should be enforced, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

March 18, 2022 08:39

• Armenian opposition claims refusal to fight for Nagorno-Karabakh is unacceptable

  In its dialogue with Turkey, Armenia pursues the concession policy; however, the current authorities have no mandate for new concessions and new losses, oppositionists have stated at their rally in Yerevan.

March 18, 2022 08:28

• Four natives of North Ossetia killed in Ukraine

  Since the start of the military operation, at least 21 natives of North Ossetia have lost their lives there.

March 17, 2022 22:04

• Kadyrov announces sending a thousand volunteers to Ukraine

  Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that a thousand volunteers left Chechnya for the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine. According to the leader of Chechnya, Chechen fighters, who had earlier gone to Ukraine, are taking part in the storming of the city of Mariupol.

March 17, 2022 21:50

• ECtHR awards compensation to Azerbaijani human rights defender Iskenderov for arrest

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that in 2011, human rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov was unreasonably arrested in a criminal case. The ECtHR obliged the Azerbaijan’s authorities to pay Vidadi Iskenderov 3500 euros.

March 17, 2022 21:38

• Volgograd activist fined for discrediting army

  In Volgograd, a court imposed a fine of 30,000 roubles on pensioner Tamara Grodnikova. Her solo picket against the blocking of independent media and in defence of Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of the “Channel One”, was recognized as discrediting the Russian army.

March 17, 2022 18:44

• In Tbilisi, volunteers report about humanitarian aid for residents of Ukraine

  The humanitarian aid collected in Georgia for residents of Ukraine is being transported daily by two trucks for shipment, but citizens of Ukraine can also get the things they need at the very centre of collection of humanitarian aid in Tbilisi, volunteers say. According to a volunteer coordinator, at least 200 tons of things have been collected.

March 17, 2022 18:22

• In Yerevan, protestors speak against agreements with Baku and Ankara

  At a rally held in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, oppositionists have stated that establishing relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey contradicts the interests of residents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

March 17, 2022 18:09

• Workers start repairing a gas pipeline from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh

  On the territory controlled by Azerbaijan, workers have begun repairing the Shushi-Zariflu gas pipeline, due to the damage to which the gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh had been stopped earlier, the authorities of the unrecognized republic reported.

March 17, 2022 16:25

• Armenia rules out Azerbaijan's involvement in soldier's death

  The information that Private Albert Miroyan perished in a shootout on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is not true, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

March 17, 2022 16:07

• Polyudova fails to challenge verdict for justifying Basaev's and Maskhadov's activities

  The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has denied the complaint lodged by Darya Polyudova, an activist from the Krasnodar Territory, against her six-year sentence on charges of justifying the activities of Chechen separatist leaders.

March 17, 2022 11:54

• Russia's MoD reports evacuation of over 30,000 Mariupol townspeople per day

  On March 16, a total of 31,367 civilians were evacuated through the humanitarian corridor from the city of Mariupol, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ukraine, more than 200 people were evacuated from the Donetsk Region.

March 17, 2022 11:28

• Khodakovsky criticizes Chechen fighters for poor training

  The Chechen law enforcers sent to take part in the hostilities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were recruited from private security units and patrol-and-post service; their preparedness for the mission is very low, Alexander Khodakovsky, the commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), has stated.

March 17, 2022 11:12

• Armenian opposition demands from US and France to affect Nagorno-Karabakh situation

  Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the damage of the gas pipeline located in Azerbaijani territory; while border villages are shelled, activists of the National Democratic Pole (hereinafter – the Pole) stated at their action in Yerevan. They demanded that the US and France take action in relation to Azerbaijan.