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January 02, 2020 13:10

• Kocharyan's supporters hold New Year protest action at SIZO

  Dozens of activists with posters in support of Robert Kocharyan gathered at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the second president of Armenia is kept, and congratulated him and Armen Tavadyan, the owner of 5TV Channel on the New Year.

January 02, 2020 08:26

• Facebook users disbelieve official version of attack on DPS post in Magas

  The photo depicting the alleged participants of the New Year's attack on the post near Magas of the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post with their knives at the background of the flag of the "Islamic State" (IS*, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court) is a fake, some Facebook users assert. The attackers had been recruited by law enforcers themselves, other social network commentators have suggested.

January 02, 2020 08:16

• Eyewitnesses of "New Year assault" tell about tragedy of Russian Grozny residents

  In December 1994, many Russian citizens, who could not evacuate from the city to their relatives, fell victims to the assault of Grozny, eyewitnesses of the events of 25 years ago assert.

January 02, 2020 08:04

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev treats FSB letter as pressure on court

  The Dagestan journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, has treated the arguments of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) in favour of his arrest extension as an attempt to influence the investigators' position.

January 02, 2020 07:51

• Protesters stay inside building of Georgian Ministry for Refugees for New Year holidays

  Two forced migrants from Abkhazia, who demand to provide them with housing, stay for the second day in the locked building of the Ministry for Refugees, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. The protesters said they had no money to celebrate the New Year.

January 01, 2020 17:51

• Searches conducted in Nazran and Magas after attack on DPS post

  Law enforcers have searched the homes of the two suspects of attacking policemen in Ingushetia, as well as the Cultural Heritage Centre in Magas, where, according to law enforcers, one of the attackers had worked, sources have informed.

January 01, 2020 16:21

• Data collection on pupils' beliefs triggers claims to KBR officials

  The interest of the antiterrorist commission of the Elbrus District in the schoolchildren, who refuse to celebrate the New Year because of their religious beliefs is inappropriate in a secular state, lawyers have noted.

January 01, 2020 15:56

• Azerbaijan: after elections, independent candidates face fraud and slander accusations

  The independent candidates, who have claimed violations after municipal elections in Azerbaijan, now face accusations themselves. The blogger, Mekhman Guseinov, was accused of falsifying the vote; and Rabiya Mamedova, an activist, was charged with defamation.

January 01, 2020 14:07

• Sources name Magas attackers

  During the attack on policemen in Magas, Mikail Miziev was killed, whose relative committed a similar attack on policemen officers in Ingushetia in 2017, a source said. The second Magas attacker has been identified as Akhmed Imagozhev, a master of sports in arm wrestling.

January 01, 2020 13:49

• Machalikashvili urges to abandon entertainments at parliament building

  The father of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was killed during a special operation in Pankisi, said that he would again set up a tent near the Georgian parliament, where the Mayoralty has already installed attractions.

January 01, 2020 13:34

• Attack on policemen was this year's third armed incident in Ingushetia

  According to the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", the attack on the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) post, located at the entrance to the city of Magas, the Ingush capital, committed on the eve of the New Year, was the first such incident since November 2017.

January 01, 2020 02:24

• Rights defenders call on to restore powers of Azerbaijani advocate Shakhla Gumbatova

  The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemned the suspension from work of Shakhla Gumbatova, a well-known Azerbaijani advocate. In its joint appeal with four international human rights organizations, the IBAHRI called on the Bar Association of Azerbaijan to restore the Shakhla Gumbatova's powers.

January 01, 2020 02:12

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev left in custody for other two months

  The court refused to transfer Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik"(Draft), under house arrest and extended his detention in custody until March 13, 2020.

December 31, 2019 21:33

• Three persons killed in attack on DPS checkpoint in Ingushetia

  At a checkpoint at the entrance to Magas, law enforcers killed two attackers and wounded another one, while one of three injured law enforcers died, sources reported.

December 31, 2019 17:44

• Grozny residents tell how they survived during city storming 25 years ago

  The assault on Grozny, launched by Russian militaries on December 31, 1994, was remembered by the endless shooting and awareness of the outbreak of a real war, eyewitnesses of those events told the "Caucasian Knot".

December 31, 2019 17:34

• Law enforcers try disrupting protest action in central Tbilisi

  Employees of Tbilisi Mayoralty have installed children's rides and sideshows in place of dismantled tents of oppositional activists. In the morning, policemen tried to hamper activists from holding a new protest.

December 31, 2019 13:44

• Fortuneteller's detention revealed demand for sorcerers' services in Chechnya

  Theologians and law enforcers have scolded Petimat Suleimanova, a resident of Urus-Martan, for the provision of occult services, as it follows from the new plot of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company). Despite the authorities' efforts, the demand for sorcerers' services is not weakening in the republic, Instagram users have stated.

December 31, 2019 13:29

• Seven persons hold series of pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  Friends and colleagues of the Dagestan journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, have held a series of solo pickets in his support; they intend to continue similar actions.

December 31, 2019 11:21

• Relatives report on hunger strike of Azerbaijani journalist Ragimov in colony

  Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "Realliq.info" website, is on his dry hunger strike in protest against the pressure on him at the Azerbaijani colony, his relatives stated on December 30.

December 31, 2019 11:07

• Nine activists detained during demolition of tents at parliament building in Tbilisi

  In Tbilisi, in Rustaveli Avenue, in front of the parliament building, protesters' tents have been dismantled. It caused an activists' wave of protests; nine of them were detained in clashes with policemen.