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September 26, 2019 17:48

• Maria Lasitskene threatens to leave Russia because of doping scandal

  Maria Lasitskene, an athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has announced that she will leave Russia to train in another country if the Russian Anti-Doping Agency is deprived of compliance status.

September 26, 2019 15:24

• Azerbaijan claims shelling attack on village in border area

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in the border village, were shelled from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

September 26, 2019 15:13

• Arrested Georgian activist Levan Djikuri transferred to hospital

  Levan Djikuri, who was detained in a case on June protests, was transferred to a hospital. This was reported on September 25 by Elene Khoshtariya, an MP from the "European Georgia-Freedom Movement" Party, who visited the Gldani prison.

September 26, 2019 15:01

• In Nazran, law enforcers conduct a search at home of head of "Institute for Social Changes"

  A search has been conducted at the house of Zalina Dzeit, the head of the Ingush regional NGO "Institute for Social Changes". Law enforcers seized reporting documents.

September 26, 2019 11:16

• Orientalists explain persecution of sorcerers in Chechnya by authorities' run for rating

  The fight against sorcerers raises the rating of Chechen leadership amid the support of this campaign by many Muslims, Akhmet Yarlykapov, an Orientalist, believes. Chechen authorities are trying to extend their influence onto the sphere of occultism, demonstrating their intention to totally control the whole society, Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, believes.

September 26, 2019 11:04

• Advocate treats Elizaveta Alieva's complaint to the ECtHR as Russia's precedent

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has combined the complaint of Elizaveta Alieva, a resident of Ingushetia about her abduction with another complaint lodged by her about the murder of her sister Marem Alieva.

September 26, 2019 10:52

• Rights defenders assess fair trial chances of Chechen resident extradited from Georgia

  Relatives' concerns about the fate of Ramzan Akhyadov, accused of terrorism and extradited to Chechnya, are not ungrounded, since in his homeland, he may be subjected to torture and illegal prosecution, rights defenders believe.

September 26, 2019 08:37

• Mukhtarly's wife demands his treatment after hunger strike

  The Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, needs medical care after his hunger strike in jail, but is ready to resume his protest, his wife has stated.

September 26, 2019 08:29

• Tkibuli townspeople support protesting miners by action near Mayoralty

  Workers from Chiatura and Zestafoni, Mayoralty employees and schoolchildren have joined the protest action of Tkibuli miners, who demand payment of their wage debts.

September 25, 2019 21:26

• NKR reports downed Azerbaijani drone

  An Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) has been shot down today during reconnaissance, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

September 25, 2019 21:12

• Defence compares arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses in Dagestan with Soviet practice

  The ban on Jehovah's Witnesses* as a religious organization is no basis for persecuting for faith, but law enforcers ignore it, Maxim Pervunin, a lawyer for four Dagestani believers, has stated at a press conference today. He pointed to parallels of persecutions of Jehovah's Witnesses in modern Russia with the Soviet-time practices.

September 25, 2019 19:24

• Social network users surprised by Makhi Idrisov's house arrest

  By placing Makhi Idrisov, who boasted of his friendship with Ramzan Kadyrov, under house arrest, the court chose a soft pre-trial restriction measure for him, users of social networks believe.

September 25, 2019 19:12

• Djambulat Umarov's phrase highlights distrust of election of Chechen leader

  In Chechnya, there is no political figure capable to compete with Ramzan Kadyrov at the election of the leader of Chechnya, but statements of common support for Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya are not credible. This opinion was voiced by analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" when they were commenting on the statement of Djambulat Umarov about the election where Ramzan Kadyrov was actually the only alternative for the position of the Chechen leader.

September 25, 2019 14:29

• Azerbaijan claims 20 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from the territories controlled by the Armenian side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

September 25, 2019 14:13

• Said Amirov and Rasul Kudaev complain of lack of medical treatment in penal colony

  Andrei Babushkin, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), demanded to provide medical assistance to Said Amirov, the former Mayor of Makhachkala, and Rasul Kudaev, a former Guantanamo prisoner, who are being kept at the "Black Dolphin" penal colony.

September 25, 2019 11:05

• Azerbaijani citizen complains about persecution of his family in Russia

  Tatiana Syrycheva, a mother of three children, has confessed to calls for terrorism under pressure of law enforcers. Her husband, a citizen of Azerbaijan, Ramil Ibragimov, has linked this with his refusal to cooperate with special services.

September 25, 2019 10:54

• Afghan Mukhtarly stops hunger strike

  On September 24, Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, stopped the hunger strike in jail, held in protest against pressure on his advocate Nemat Kerimli. The reason for terminating it was a sharp deterioration of his health and appeals from civil society figures.

September 25, 2019 08:35

• NKR hands body of killed soldier over to Azerbaijan

  The remains of the soldier, Ramin Abdulrakhmanov, killed in the Karabakh conflict zone, were handed over to the Azerbaijani side with the mediation of the Red Cross.

September 25, 2019 08:28

• Kantemir Balagov's "Beanpole" nominated for Oscar

  The movie "Beanpole" made by Kantemir Balagov, a filmmaker from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been nominated from Russia for the Oscar Award in the nomination "Best Movie in Foreign Language".

September 25, 2019 08:21

• One of those killed in Chegem buried in Dagestan

  Magomed Kurbanaliev, who was killed on September 18, in a special operation conducted in the city of Chegem, was buried into the cemetery of the village of Kosyakino near Kizlyar. Kurbanaliev grew up in a problem family; and his brother was convicted for links with militants, local authorities have informed.