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February 16, 2021 21:57

• Kremlin takes interest in "Novaya Gazeta" data on extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

  The press secretary of Vladimir Putin decided to familiarize himself with the material released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about the detention by Chechen law enforcers of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions later.

February 16, 2021 18:51

• ECtHR demands to reconsider verdicts to persons sentenced for murder of Markelov and Baburova

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision that the Supreme Court of Russia should reconsider the unjust verdicts to Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis, sentenced for the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

February 16, 2021 18:27

• Residents of Adjara demand from authorities to solve social problems

  More than 200 residents of Adjara, including those dissatisfied with the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, forced migrants, and farmers affected by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chorokh River, held at a protest action on February 15. The protestors request the government to solve their problems.

February 16, 2021 13:31

• Native of Dagestan arrested for shooting in "Moscow City"

  A Moscow court has ruled to arrest for three months Said Asadulaev, a Russian kickboxing champion, accused of involvement in the shootout in the "Moscow City" Business Centre in 2017.

February 16, 2021 13:05

• Melikov's promise to solve garbage problem causes social network users' scepticism

  The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, promised to launch, since March 1 on, systematic work on removing garbage dumps in the republic. Instagram users have urged authorities to move from promises to deeds and demonstrate a real solution to the problem of garbage collapse.

February 16, 2021 11:13

• Rights defenders urge to pardon Azerbaijani convicts

  The Baku Human Rights Club has appealed to Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, with a request to release 110 persons sentenced to various prison terms, including life imprisonment, the "Turan" News Agency reported on February 15.

February 16, 2021 11:01

• Instagram users support demand to punish organizers of flash mob on Mamayev Kurgan

  The participants of the flash mob in support of Vladimir Putin, held on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, were involved there by deception, for which the organizers of the action should respond, social network users insist.

February 16, 2021 10:45

• Analysts treat action with flashlights in Southern Russia as successful

  The action "Love is stronger than fear" was successful, despite the fact that not all of Navalny's supporters reacted thereto, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

February 16, 2021 08:43

• Ingushetia and Kalmykia are leaders in Russian rating of fighting HIV

  The authors of the study of the situation with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) detection and treatment in Russia have placed Ingushetia and Kalmykia into the group of 13 best regions. Doctors of the Stavropol and Volgograd Regions are also successfully coping with the problem, while in other regions of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) the problem is expressed at an average level.

February 16, 2021 08:28

• Rights defenders point to the political reasons for talk with youngsters at Gudermes police

  Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, believe that the head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) by scolding the guys for supporting the "Euroichkerians" has supported the federal government's confrontation vector with Western countries.

February 15, 2021 23:09

• BCA upholds verdict to Polad Aslanov

  The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) upheld the verdict of guilty to journalist Polad Aslanov. The sentenced journalist claimed that he would continue his hunger strike in protest against the unjustified criminal prosecution.

February 15, 2021 22:53

• Armenian side reports shelling near villages of Syunik Region

  The Azerbaijani armed forces use small- and large-calibre weapons to shell the immediate vicinity of the villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia, the Ombudsman of Armenia claims today. The head of the Agarak village community also reports about the shelling.

February 15, 2021 18:17

• Dagestani law enforcers detain a person accused of financing terrorism

  A resident of Buynaksk was detained in a case on transferring more than 370,000 roubles to support terrorist organizations, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

February 15, 2021 18:02

• "Novaya Gazeta" makes public investigation into extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

  The newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" got copies of photographic tables prepared by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which contained the information about the detention of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions. The "Novaya Gazeta" announced a release of an interview with a Chechen law enforcer who witnessed the executions.

February 15, 2021 17:43

• Moscow City Court refuses to consider complaint about Djumaev's arrest

  Today, in Moscow, a judge has decided to withdraw from consideration a complaint about the arrest of Said-Muhammad Djumaev, since the defendant is in quarantine for coronavirus and is not able to participate in a court hearing.

February 15, 2021 13:37

• Organizer of terror acts in Moscow found dead in colony

  Investigators have begun examining the circumstances of the death of Khalid Khuguev, an ethnic Chechen, who had been convicted on charges of organizing terror acts in Moscow back in 1999.

February 15, 2021 13:26

• Over past 24 hours, 34 refugees return to Nagorno-Karabakh

  Peacemakers have escorted another group of refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of returnees has made up 52,545 persons, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

February 15, 2021 11:30

• On February 8-14, no information was received about any victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of February 8-14, 2021, no information was received about any casualties or wounded persons in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 15, 2021 11:17

• Stavropol activists support Alexei Navalny

  Policemen did not interfere with the "Love is stronger than fear" action in the Stavropol Territory, the activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have informed.

February 15, 2021 11:02

• In video, Chechen law enforcer scolds three youngsters for supporting "Euroichkerians"

  The head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) has posted a video of his explanatory conversation with three young men, in which he criticized them for supporting the publications of the so-called "Euroichkerians", who criticize Chechen authorities.