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August 25, 2020 18:17

• Journalistic study raises uneasy questions about Georgian programmer Bachaliashvili's death

  Journalists from the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Company are investigating the death of the Georgian programmer, Tamar Bachaliashvili. The young woman was engaged in drawing funds out of bank accounts of some company, and was killed as an unwanted witness; and traces of the country's authorities are seen in the case, Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the TV Company, has stated. Mikhail Ramishvili, an advocate, pointed to inconsistencies in the programmer's death case.

August 25, 2020 10:59

• Protesters in Georgia demand release of detainees after mass brawl

  At the protest action, residents of the Georgian village of Toriya, which is predominantly populated by Armenians, demanded to release their three fellow villagers detained after the conflict with Azerbaijanis over a place for grazing.

August 25, 2020 10:57

• Sources name Gadamauri, extradited to Russia, among militants killed in Ingushetia

  One of the two men killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia on August 6 turned out to be Khusen Gadamauri, a native of Chechnya, who was extradited from Germany in 2017 under Russia's guarantees, sources have reported. Human rights defenders assert that asylum requests in Europe, especially submitted by North-Caucasians, are considered superficially.

August 25, 2020 10:52

• Arrest of Ingush activist Isropil Nalgiev extended

  The court extended the arrest of Isropil Nalgiev, accused of attacking a law enforcer during a rally in Magas on March 26, 2019, by two months. The activist denies the prosecution's version of political motives of his attack.

August 25, 2020 10:42

• Azeri analysts treat exchange of captured Armenian officer as possible

  Gurgen Alaverdyan, the captured Armenian officer, faces criminal prosecution, but Azerbaijan can exchange him and two other convicted Armenian military servicemen for the Azerbaijani citizens kept in jails in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Armenia. This is the opinion of Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, and Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO "Military Officers".

August 24, 2020 23:12

• Laying flowers at Kadyrov's monument provokes interest of Chechen residents in officials' attitude to Islam

  While commenting on the event dedicated to the anniversary of the Akhmat Kadyrov's birthday, residents of Chechnya and social network users have claimed that in the republic, officials violate the Islam prohibition of erecting statues. Some Islamic scholars consider the above mentioned prohibition not applicable if the monument does not imply any religious content, Caucasus experts explain.

August 24, 2020 23:05

• Exhibition about Beslan terror act impresses Volgograd residents

  In Volgograd, the NGO "Mothers of Beslan" presented an exhibition of photographs and paintings about the seizure of hostages by terrorists in a Beslan school. The Beslan tragedy still terrifies people even 16 years later, visitors of the exhibition note.

August 24, 2020 22:58

• Azerbaijan reports shelling attacks on four border villages

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops, including in villages on the border with Armenia, were shelled 28 times over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 24, 2020 22:45

• FSB reports capture of man involved in recruitment of Dagestani residents for IS

  The FSB reported about the detention of a man suspected in organizing the recruitment of residents of Dagestan and other regions into the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court. According to the FSB, the detainee is also suspected of financing militants.

August 24, 2020 16:46

• On August 17-23, at least seven people suffered during armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of August 17-23, 2020, at least seven people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: five perished and two were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

August 24, 2020 16:42

• Film about war in South Ossetia wins international festival

  The film "Death/Survival Is Impossible", dedicated to the South-Ossetian-Georgian armed conflict has been declared the winner of the International Patriotic Film Festival in the nomination of "The Best Full-Length Film".

August 24, 2020 16:35

• Officer of Armenian Army captured in Karabakh conflict zone

  A clash with saboteurs occurred in the Karabakh conflict zone; an Armenian officer was taken in captivity, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. In its turn, the Armenian MoD has objected stating that Gurgen Alaverdyan is not a saboteur; he just got lost due to bad weather.

August 24, 2020 13:07

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 17-23, 2020

  Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; two CTOs in Ingushetia; actions in support of Alexei Navalny; attack on an MP in Kalmykia; new protests of Armenian residents against gold mining at Amulsar field, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 17-23, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 24, 2020 10:59

• Children of North-Caucasian natives handed over to relatives after return from Syria

  Doctors found no coronavirus in 26 children-natives from Northern Caucasus evacuated from Syria. All the children were transferred to their relatives in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia, the children's ombudsperson has informed.

August 24, 2020 10:52

• CTO with three casualties held in Ingush Troitskoye village

  Three supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS or ISIL), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, were killed, and two security officials were wounded in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Troitskoye, Sunzha District of Ingushetia. This was announced by the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC).

August 24, 2020 10:50

• Relatives report kidnapping of former head of Untsukul District

  The whereabouts of Shamil Magomedov, the former head of the Untsukul District, cannot be established after unidentified persons took him away on August 22, his relatives report. According to their story, a search had been conducted in Magomedov's house a few days earlier.

August 24, 2020 10:44

• NKR residents complain about rights violations during quarantine

  The Ombudsperson of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is collecting complaints of human rights violations during the quarantine introduced due to coronavirus. The main complaints concern restrictions on travel, self-isolation conditions and delayed test results, Artak Beglaryan, the Ombudsperson, has stated.

August 23, 2020 11:06

• Rights defenders point to threat to Maskhadov due to his criticism of Chechen authorities

  The Chechen authorities are worried about the existence of such authoritative opponents as Anzor Maskhadov; therefore, he is in danger, human rights defenders assert. Maskhadov has preserved the archives of the President of Ichkeria*, his father, and is voicing out facts that are disadvantageous to the Chechen authorities, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has noted.

August 23, 2020 10:50

• Volgograd solo picketers in complain about provocateurs

  In Volgograd, activists have held solo pickets in support of Alexei Navalny, and protests in Khabarovsk and Belarus. The picketers reported that they were obsessively video filmed and provoked with insulting shouts by people who refused to introduce themselves.

August 23, 2020 10:37

• Opposition activist claims unjustified ban on leaving Azerbaijan

  Azad Gasanov, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, has complained that he could not go to Lithuania to his family because of the ban on leaving Azerbaijan. He has stated that there are no legal grounds for such a ban, since the term of his criminal sentence and the restrictions associated therewith had expired.