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January 13, 2020 13:44

• ICRF insists on robbery version in case on journalists' murder in CAR

  According to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), robbery was a motive for the attack on journalist Orkhan Djemal, cameraman Kirill Radchenko, and director Alexander Rastorguev in the Central African Republic (CAR). The ICRF does not consider a version on the planned murder, which the "Dossier" Centre insists on.

January 13, 2020 13:24

• ICRF finds motive for Ibragim Eldjarkiev's assassination

  The motive for the assassination of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), was his professional activities. No versions of religious motives and revenge are confirmed, reports Igor Krasnov, Deputy Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

January 13, 2020 11:29

• Analysts rule out threat to Georgia from USA-Iran confrontation

  There will be no USA-Iran combat actions; therefore, neither a flow of migrants, nor the activeness of Shiite groupings threaten Georgia, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

January 13, 2020 11:14

• Suspect of organizing Okueva's murder detained

  The Ukrainian police have detained members of a criminal grouping, one of the members thereof is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on a Chechen native, Adam Osmaev, and the murder of his wife Amina Okueva in the fall of 2017.

January 13, 2020 10:56

• Opposition achieves Khadjimba's resignation

  The President of Abkhazia, Raul Khadjimba, is resigning, Sergey Shamba, a former Prime Minister of Abkhazia, and Beslan Bartsits, the incumbent Premier, have assured protesters in Sukhumi.

January 13, 2020 10:43

• Dagestani police borrow Chechen experience of offenders' public repentances

  Following their Chechen colleagues, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has posted a video with apologies of a resident of Khasavyurt for violating traffic rules, treating the imposed administrative fine as an insufficient educative measure.

January 12, 2020 11:43

• Armenian soldier wounded on Azerbaijani border

  A Private Arthur Arzumanyan was wounded by a sniper's shot and hospitalized, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

January 12, 2020 11:40

• Two new schools in Chechnya named after Akhmat Kadyrov

  Officials have named two new schools built in Gudermes and Shelkovskaya after the first president of Chechnya in order to win Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, local residents believe. In its turn, the Chechen Ministry of Education has noted these secondary schools have allowed eliminating three-shift attendance of classes in several other schools.

January 12, 2020 11:37

• Abkhazia: opposition supporters share expectations of their protests

  In Abkhazia, about 500 protesters have taken control over the presidential administration in Sukhumi, stating that opposition leaders should ensure the resignation of the incumbent president Raul Khadjimba.

January 11, 2020 23:59

• Police detain opponents of developing mini-park in Tbilisi suburb

  The development plans of the Mini-Park "Ann's Garden" in the suburb of Tbilisi named Varketili have outraged local residents. They prevented the construction company from starting its works in the mini-park. The action ended in clashes with the police.

January 11, 2020 23:54

• Russia joins settling situation in Abkhazia

  Rashid Nurgaliev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and Raul Khadjimba, President of Abkhazia, have discussed the stabilization of the political situation in the republic. The Kremlin is interested in settling the crisis in Abkhazia peacefully, experts have noted.

January 11, 2020 11:50

• Azerbaijani rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev operated on for the third time

  Doctors of the Istanbul clinic have conducted a surgery on the Azerbaijani rights defender, Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who was injured in a road accident. Doctors find it difficult to name the time when he will regain consciousness, his son has informed.

January 11, 2020 11:40

• Curses on Stalin emphasize Kadyrov's inconsistency

  On the anniversary of the restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR), Ramzan Kadyrov cursed Joseph Stalin. The residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have recalled the ban on mourning events on the anniversary of deportation.

January 11, 2020 11:36

• Armenian GPO counts 49 military servicemen who perished in 2019

  In 2019, 20 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished during performing their service; 29 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties. Compared to 2018, the military death toll decreased by 22% the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has reported.

January 11, 2020 11:31

• Rights defenders demand to hand Musa Aliev's torture case over to Dagestani investigators

  Despite the threat of pressure on the victim, a court in Khasavyurt has again placed the two law enforcers, accused of torturing Musa Aliev, a resident of Dagestan, under house arrest, said Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT). He insists that for the sake of objectivity, the case should be considered by a Makhachkala court.

January 11, 2020 11:30

• Forcing people to clean streets in Chechnya contradicts global practice of road accident prevention

  The threat to seize a car, and forcing drivers to clean streets is used nowhere in the world to improve road safety, Sergey Kanaev, the head of the "Russian Federation of Car Owners", has stated. In Chechnya, detained drivers often face violations of their rights, Ruslan Kutaev, a public activist, has noted.

January 11, 2020 11:16

• Abkhazia: presidential election totals cancelled

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia has upheld the complaint submitted by Alkhas Kvitsiniya, the leader of the "Amtsakhara" Party, and appointed presidential election in the republic.

January 11, 2020 10:26

• ECtHR starts considering complaint of the family of Pankisi casualty

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is waiting explanations from Georgian authorities on the complaint submitted by the family of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who perished during a special operation conducted in Pankisi, said Tamta Mikeladze, the head of the "Centre for Human Rights Training and Monitoring".

January 11, 2020 10:15

• Total fines imposed on "Memorial" amounts 4.5 million roubles

  At the initiative of the Ingush branch of the Russian FSB, a court in Moscow has fined the "International Memorial" by 300,000 roubles. In total, the court has considered 22 protocols drawn up against "Memorial" structures leaders thereof for the absence of the marking "foreign agent" in their publications.

January 10, 2020 23:57

• Chechen authorities invent dress code for tourists

  The Chechen Ministry of Tourism has issued a memo on how to dress in the republic and communicate with local women.