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December 13, 2021 11:19

• US State Department and PACE co-rapporteurs urge to release Rustamov

  Azerbaijani authorities must release Salekh Rustamov, who is on his hunger strike in jail and who is close to death, the US State Department has stated. It is necessary to reconsider the case of Rustamov and those of other political prisoners, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Azerbaijan have stated.

December 12, 2021 11:37

• Police disrupt action demanding to release Salekh Rustamov

  Eleven people were detained in Baku during an action in support of Salekh Rustamov, the police used excessive force.

December 12, 2021 11:21

• Three residents of Dagestan accused of bride abduction

  Three men have been arrested on charges of abducting a woman from Karabudakhkent, who refused to marry one of them. The case has been sent to the court, the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has informed.

December 12, 2021 11:03

• Economists analyze benefits from Zangezur Corridor

  The transport corridor connecting Baku with Nakhichevan is beneficial not only for Azerbaijan, it will also improve Armenia's communication with Iran and Russia, the economists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 11, 2021 23:28

• Film about female circumcision actualizes problem of silencing this practice in Caucasus

  On December 13, the Documentary Film Centre in Moscow will screen the film "This Happens Here" about the practice of female genital mutilation in Northern Caucasus. The authors of the film are journalists Svetlana Anokhina and Vladimir Sevrinovsky. This will be the first screening of the film in a movie theatre, Oksana Serbinova, the creative producer of the film, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

December 11, 2021 22:57

• Analysts in Baku and Yerevan link escalation with upcoming meeting in Brussels

  By means of military conflicts on the border, Azerbaijan is trying to increase pressure on Yerevan, the Armenian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. The escalation on the eve of the meeting at the Eastern Partnership summit is beneficial to Armenia, as it can change the agenda of the meeting, the Azerbaijani political observer believes.

December 11, 2021 15:34

• Kadyrov intervenes into Putin's polemic with Sokurov

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has criticized the film director, Alexander Sokurov, for his proposal to President Vladimir Putin to allow some regions of Northern Caucasus to separate from Russia, and urged to check his proposal for extremism.

December 11, 2021 13:28

• Activist Airapetyan leaves Russia after kidnapping

  Ronald Airapetyan, an activist, has explained his flight from the Krasnodar Territory to the Netherlands by the earlier committed kidnapping and the threats he had received because of his oppositional activities.

December 11, 2021 13:12

• Park in honour of Djokhar Dudaev opened in Turkey

  On December 10, the administration of the municipality of the city of Korfez in the Turkish Province of Kocaeli solemnly opened a park named after the first president of Ichkeria, Djokhar Dudaev. The official ceremony was attended by about three hundred members of the North-Caucasian Diaspora and Caucasian public organizations; delegates of the Chechen Diasporas in Europe were among the visitors, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has reported.

December 11, 2021 12:50

• Adjamatov sentenced to long imprisonment for financing terrorism

  The court has sentenced Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, accused of assisting in terrorist activities, to 17 years in prison. This is too severe, given that Adjamatov's guilt has not been proved, his advocates assert.

December 11, 2021 08:39

• Kadyrov decorates his second daughter with "For Merits" medal

  Khadizhat Kadyrova, the 21-year-old Ramzan Kadyrov's daughter, the head of the Department of Preschool Education of Grozny, was awarded the medal "For Merits to the Chechen Republic".

December 11, 2021 08:25

• Court fines Boromangnaev for insulting Putin

  The Elista City Court has fined Batyr Boromangnaev, the chairman of the Kalmyk branch of the "Yabloko" Party, by 30,000 roubles for his post in social networks about "Putin's Russia". The court found that the oppositionist's statements are offending the honour and dignity of the Russian president. Boromangnaev intends to appeal against this decision.

December 11, 2021 00:12

• Salekh Rustamov refuses to end hunger strike

  On the 35th day of his hunger strike, Salekh Rustamov stopped believing in the results of the protest action, but still intends to continue it, his advocate reports.

December 10, 2021 23:26

• Muratov calls for creation of an international tribunal against torture

  During the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, has noted that cases on torture of convicts and persons under investigation in Russia should be considered by an international tribunal.

December 10, 2021 23:11

• Armenian soldier killed near border with Azerbaijan

  One Armenian military was killed and another was wounded as a result of a shootout at the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

December 10, 2021 19:35

• Armenia and Azerbaijan exchange accusations of border attacks

  The Armenian side accumulated additional forces near the state border and shelled the positions of Azerbaijani troops in the Kelbadjar District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported. Its Armenian counterpart claims to have repulsed an attack of Azerbaijani soldiers.

December 10, 2021 19:23

• Investigators request court to arrest Armenian POWs after their return from captivity

  Five militaries, handed over to Armenia after the armed clashes at the border with Azerbaijan, were accused of violating the rules of combat duty. Human rights defender Arthur Sakunts says it is unacceptable to open criminal proceedings against Armenian soldiers captured by Azerbaijan.

December 10, 2021 19:07

• President Putin’s statement highlights bias of claims against “Memorial”*

  A statement of Vladimir Putin on the need to consider the case of the “Memorial”* without bias came amid the accusations against human rights defenders of protecting banned organizations and the inclusion of Nazi criminals in the list of victims of political repression. The inclusion of a person on the list of political prisoners does not mean sharing his or her views, and the erroneous classification of Nazi criminals as victims of repression occurred due to the closed nature of the archives of the special services, human rights defenders argue.

December 10, 2021 13:17

• Georgian Deputy MIA head suspected of aiding Saakashvili

  Giorgi Lortkipanidze, a former Deputy Interior Minister, had developed for Mikhail Saakashvili a plan for crossing the Georgian border and provided him with his car, in which the politician arrived at the Black Sea port, the Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has suggested.

December 10, 2021 13:01

• Journalist explains her emigration to Georgia by threats due to investigation in Dagestan

  Anastasia Kashkina, a journalist from the "Sota" online edition, had to emigrate to Georgia due to threats and surveillance after her investigative publication about a robbery and attempted murder this February of an entrepreneur and his friend in Dagestan.