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January 04, 2020 13:22

• Slogan "Bachi-Yurt is force!" reveals hidden protest against Kadyrov's cult

  The chanting "Bachi-Yurt is force!" has become a hidden protest against the cult of the first president (Akhmat Kadyrov) imposed by Chechen authorities and the slogan "Akhmat is force!", Ruslan Kutaev has suggested. By publicly scolding young people for their first chant, law enforcers are involuntarily demonstrating that the cult of Akhmat Kadyrov has opponents, said Akhmet Yarlykapov.

January 04, 2020 08:35

• Road blocked for Delimkhanov outrages residents of Ingushetia

  On January 2, members of the influential Batal Khadji brotherhood blocked a street in Nazran in honour of the Chechen MP Adam Delimkhanov, who came to visit them. This was criticized by local residents.

January 04, 2020 08:25

• Events on Kunta-Khadji Kishiev's memory day split residents of Chechnya

  On January 3, Chechnya held religious events in honour of the holy Kunta-Khadji Kishiev revered in the republic. Some residents of Chechnya and Instagram users believe that Kishiev's person has been largely mythologized.

January 03, 2020 21:46

• Activist Lasha Chkhartishvili detained at Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi

  Today, the protest action held outside the building of the Georgian Parliament resulted in a skirmish of activists with policemen. Lasha Chkhartishvili, an activist of the Labour Party of Georgia, was accused of petty hooliganism and disobedience to a law enforcer.

January 03, 2020 21:27

• Chechen Instagram users oppose spending budget funds on New Year holidays

  Chechen authorities should not spend money on New Year festivities, some Instagram users believe. They and other social network users, and residents of Chechnya have criticized participants in the New Year celebrations.

January 03, 2020 19:02

• Opposition activist loses litigation on registration for Azerbaijani parliamentary elections

  The court has upheld the Central Election Commission (CEC), which cancelled the registration of Zaur Gurbanly, a member of the "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) Party, as a candidate for parliament of Azerbaijan.

January 03, 2020 18:49

• Azerbaijani journalist complains of worsened health during hunger strike

  On the sixth day of his hunger strike at Azerbaijani colony, Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "Realliq.info" website, has reported a deterioration of his health and custody conditions.

January 03, 2020 13:34

• Renaming of Grozny Judo Club continues trend of "Akhmatization" of Chechnya

  The "Edelweiss" Judo Sports Club in Chechnya has announced the creation of the "Akhmat" Club, for which the "Edelweiss" will play the role of the youth staff. This new renaming of the sports club did not surprise local residents, but caused their criticism.

January 03, 2020 13:02

• Azerbaijan counts 23 shelling attacks on frontline

  Within the past 24 hours, Azerbaijani positions on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 23 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

January 03, 2020 11:58

• Media report Beterbiev's unwillingness to defend title in China because of Muslims' oppressions there

  Arthur Beterbiev, the light heavyweight champion in professional boxing versions of IBF and WBC, intends to refuse from defending his title in China in a fight with the Chinese, Meng Fanlong, because of this country's policy regarding Muslim Uyghurs.

January 03, 2020 11:46

• Law enforcers find fake bomb near priest's house in Ingushetia

  An examination has shown that a bomb-like object found in a street of Nazran is a fake explosive device, an informed source has stated.

January 03, 2020 11:35

• Residents of Chechnya rebuke authorities for opening restaurant instead of library

  The eldest daughter of the head of Chechnya has opened her "Paris" restaurant in the building of the closed city library of Grozny, where NGO activists used to gather in early 2000s, local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Instagram users have noted that the restaurant was opened amid unemployment and money deficit in Chechnya.

January 03, 2020 08:32

• Austrian law enforcers suspect Chechen natives of benefits fraud

  Two couples from Chechnya have illegally received 280,000 euros of benefits, the Austrian police have stated.

January 03, 2020 08:21

• Makhachkala residents ridicule reconstruction of central square for 350 million

  The funds donated to Makhachkala by the Mayor of Moscow have been spent inefficiently, local residents, who have criticized the quality of the work done, assert.

January 03, 2020 08:10

• Residents of Chechnya tell about forced attendance of mass New Year welcoming

  Over 120,000 people gathered in central Grozny on the New Year's Eve, the Chechen authorities have reported. Employees of budgetary organizations had to participate in festivities under the threat of layoffs, Grozny residents have told.

January 02, 2020 19:26

• Grozny residents report anti-alcohol raids by law enforcers

  On the eve of New Year, in the capital of Chechnya, law enforcers visited houses of city residents and warned them of responsibility for drinking alcoholic beverages on the New Year's Eve, residents of Grozny reported.

January 02, 2020 16:12

• Four residents of Dagestan face fines for dancing lezginka on roadway

  Internet users argue about the behaviour of four residents of the Kayakent District, accused of administrative offence after they had danced lezginka in the middle of the roadway in Derbent. The young people face administrative penalties for violating parking rules.

January 02, 2020 15:46

• Popularity of army service highlights social inequality in Chechnya

  Modern Chechen young people perceives the Russian army not as a participant of the military campaigns in the republic, but as a chance to avoid the fate of unemployed people by gaining the right to serve at the law enforcement bodies, explain experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 02, 2020 13:39

• Machalikashvili announces re-collection of signatures for inquiry into his son's murder

  After the authorities removed his tent set up near the Georgian parliament, Malkhaz Machalikashvili has informed about disappearance of 22,000 signatures gathered in support of the parliamentary investigation into the death of his son. Machalikashvili has announced a new campaign, saying that he needs some 12,000 signatures more.

January 02, 2020 13:25

• Alleged Magas attacker regains consciousness

  Akhmed Imagozhev, who was hospitalized after the attack on the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post in Magas, whom law enforcers treat as one of the attackers, has come to senses and started talking; investigators are working with him. The resources that are tracing the activities of the "Islamic State"* have reported that the IS* had claimed responsibility for the attack.