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September 14, 2021 08:26

• Urma villagers claim seizure of power by village head

  The powers of Osman Salmanov, the head of the village administration, expired 11 months ago, but he would not admit the new head to work, residents of the Urma village and rural deputies have stated at a protest action held in Makhachkala.

September 13, 2021 21:50

• Human rights defenders recognize Isaev and Magamadov as political prisoners

  Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov were prosecuted for publicly criticizing the Chechen authorities and for their belonging to the LGBT community, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* concludes.

September 13, 2021 21:34

• Gadjiev’s colleagues oppose prosecution of journalists

  In Makhachkala, participants of four pickets demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to stop pressure on journalists and arrests without evidence.

September 13, 2021 21:16

• Persons sentenced in “Ganja case” appeal against their verdict

  Yunis Safarov and nine people, whom Azerbaijani human rights defenders recognized as political prisoners, have filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on the assassination attempt on the Ganja mayor.

September 13, 2021 19:23

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 6-12, 2021

  Special operation in Dagestan; military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh; law enforcers’ report about prevention of terror acts in Ingushetia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 6-12, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

September 13, 2021 18:16

• Head of Armenian village accuses Azerbaijani soldiers of stealing a car

  Soldiers stole a car that a resident of the Syunik Region of Armenia had to leave in the territory controlled by Azerbaijan, the head of the border village of Tekh reports today.

September 13, 2021 17:45

• Battalion exercises begin at training grounds in Southern Russia and South Ossetia

  Today, bilateral battalion tactical exercises have been simultaneously launched at four training grounds of the Southern Military District, and they will last for a week, until September 18.

September 13, 2021 13:51

• On September 6-12, two persons fall victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from September 6 to September 12, 2021, at least two people perished during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information about the wounded ones was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

September 13, 2021 13:36

• Vice-Premier of Chechnya announces teachers' firing for extortions at school

  The principal and two teachers of a school in Argun have been dismissed for extortions from pupils' parents, Vakhit Usmaev, the Chechen Deputy Prime Minister, has informed.

September 13, 2021 12:54

• Bobokvati villagers restart protests

  Residents of the Adjarian village of Bobokvati have held a rally demanding to transfer ownership rights to 28 hectares of land to them.

September 13, 2021 11:29

• Azerbaijan demands from Russia to restrict car traffic in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The passage of other countries' cars across the territory controlled by Russian peacemakers contradicts the agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated demanding to stop such traffic.

September 13, 2021 11:12

• Kulaev's appeal to Ombudsperson outrages social network users

  Nurpasha Kulaev has deserved life imprisonment for the terror act committed in the Beslan school, social media users from North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria assert in their comments on Kulaev's appeal to the Ombudsperson with a request to review his case.

September 13, 2021 10:59

• Declaration of blood feud by Akhmed Arsanukaev triggers outrage of Chechen Diaspora in Turkey

  The declaration by Akhmed Arsanukaev of a blood feud against four families is contrary to Vainakh traditions and elementary decency rules, members of the Chechen Diaspora in Turkey have stated.

September 12, 2021 11:34

• Turkish-Azerbaijani exercises are over in Karabakh

  In the Lachin District, militaries of Turkey and Azerbaijan have mastered the skills of conducting reconnaissance, setting ambushes and finding and liquidating saboteurs, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

September 12, 2021 11:33

• In Chechnya, series of blood feud declarations meets no authorities' counteraction

  The declaration of blood feud to several families in Chechnya is backed by republic's authorities, Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, has stated. The Kremlin connives at republic's authorities by ignoring the phenomenon of blood feud, political analysts assert.

September 12, 2021 11:31

• CTO regime lifted in Dagestani Buynaksk District

  The operative headquarters has cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Buynaksk District of Dagestan, where two militants were killed.

September 12, 2021 11:24

• Armenian experts treat reservists' training as unprecedented

  Armenia has launched the largest military training in 30 years. Azerbaijan and Turkey have deliberately opposed them with their military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh, military experts assert.

September 11, 2021 23:59

• PO ignores Ombudsperson's call to punish organizers of riots in Tbilisi

  The absence of any reaction of the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to the call of Nino Lomdjariya, the Georgian Ombudsperson, to bring the organizers of riots in Tbilisi to justice is explained by the fact that law enforcers would not admit the involvement of priests in violence against journalists, Vakhtang Maisaya, a political analyst, believes.

September 11, 2021 23:57

• Social network users doubt law enforcers' version about CTO in Dagestan

  The condition of certain objects shown in the video about the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District, which, according to law enforcers, had belonged to the killed militants, fails to meet the conditions of staying in the forest, which raises doubts about the official version of the reasons for the CTO, Instagram users have pointed out.

September 11, 2021 23:55

• Advocate complains about absence of medical care to Ingush activist Pogorov at SIZO

  The health condition of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, has worsened after his second arrest, but at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) he cannot receive the necessary medical treatment, his advocate asserts.