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September 17, 2019 00:16

• Azerbaijan reports machine-gun attacks from Armenian side

  The ceasefire in the conflict zone was violated 22 times within 24 hours, and the troops used large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

September 16, 2019 23:06

• Relatives of people from Chechen "execution list" turn to ECtHR

  The authorities of the Russian Federation have failed to conduct an efficient inquiry into extrajudicial executions of Chechen residents, their relatives complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

September 16, 2019 22:57

• Chechen woman publicly repents of witchcraft

  Esimat Uspakhadjieva has become at least the third in two months heroine of the plot of the "Grozny" TV channel, who repented of providing occult services. Following Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction, law enforcers are searching for people engaged in "fraudulent activities" in Chechnya, the police have explained.

September 16, 2019 17:41

• Residents of South Ossetia are against new rules of exporting cars to Russia

  Car owners with South-Ossetian license number plates held a rally at the "Nizhny Zaramag" checkpoint, telling that because of the new rules of exporting cars, they have to go to Russia by taxi.

September 16, 2019 17:36

• Amid Russian sanctions, Georgia reports increase of ecotourists

  In January-August of 2019, the number of visitors to Georgian nature reserves increased by 8% compared to the same period of 2018, the Agency for Country's Protected Areas has informed.

September 16, 2019 17:26

• Ingush woman complains about law enforcers' threats in colony

  Law enforcers are putting pressure on Leyla Chemurzieva, accused of links with militants, demanding from her to testify against residents of Ingushetia unknown to her, her advocate has stated. One of the persons mentioned by law enforcers said that he had never heard of Chemurzieva.

September 16, 2019 13:39

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 9-15, 2019

  Election results on unified voting day in Southern Russia; claim to court after summing up of the voting results at the presidential election in Abkhazia; closing of the border of South Ossetia with Georgia for an indefinite period; searches at offices and homes of Navalny's activists in Southern Russia; President Putin's trip to Dagestan on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the defeat of militants – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 9-15, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 16, 2019 10:25

• Karabakh activists upset with election outcomes to Stepanakert Council of Elders

  Among the newly elected members of the Stepanakert Council of Elders there are no women. Rita Mnatsakanyan, an MP of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has suggested ensuring the election of women to bodies of power at the legislative level. The society is scornfully treating women in politics are, NGO activists believe.

September 16, 2019 10:21

• Co-Chairs of Geneva debates call to open Georgian-South-Ossetian border

  The closure of checkpoints on the Georgian-South-Ossetian border creates difficulties for the local population and increases tension, the co-chairs of the Geneva international debates have stated.

September 16, 2019 10:17

• On September 9-15, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from September 9 to September 15, 2019, one person perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there was no information about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

September 15, 2019 11:43

• "Musavat" Party activist fined in Baku on drug case

  A Baku court has imposed an administrative fine on Ilgar Makhmud, an activist of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, accused of drug use; the activist himself denied the charge.

September 15, 2019 11:30

• Gukovo miners distrust promises to pay debts

  The bankruptcy manager has assured that in October, after the sale of underground courses, money will appear to pay off the wage debts to former workers of the "Kingcoal" Company, Tatiana Avachova, a member of the protest group, said at a picket in Gukovo. The picketers noted that this was not the first such promise.

September 15, 2019 11:19

• Death version of paratrooper in Chechnya raises doubts

  The name of the paratrooper, Mikhail Bezelt, who, according to the official data, blew himself up on a mine in Chechnya, has appeared in the list of Donbass casualties. On the whole, the version of the contractor's death during exercises looks plausible, but it's strange that the exercise area had not been inspected by sappers, the law enforcers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

September 15, 2019 11:06

• NKR accuses Azerbaijan of 95 shelling attacks during week

  On September 7-14, Azerbaijani military servicemen fired more than 650 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has informed.

September 14, 2019 18:48

• Social media users argue about actuality of fight against witchcraft in Chechnya

  The detention of a witch in Chechnya and the report shown by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company), where she was criticized by a doctor from the Centre for Islamic Medicine, was treated by some social networks commentators as a return to Middle Ages. Their opponents have supported the persecution of sorcerers in the republic.

September 14, 2019 18:33

• Rights defenders tell Pasquier about political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  After her two-day visit to Baku, Liliane Maury Pasquier, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called for an open dialogue and enhanced cooperation of the Council of Europe with Azerbaijan. The PACE's position can seriously affect the solution of the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders believe.

September 14, 2019 18:19

• Schoolchildren tell about forced subbotniks in Chechnya

  Schoolchildren and employees of budget-funded organizations were enlisted in large numbers to take part in the environmental subbotnik (community works), held yesterday in the Shali and Gudermes Districts of Chechnya.

September 14, 2019 18:08

• Krasnodar activists complain about bank account arrests after law enforcers' raids over Navalny's offices

  During searches in Krasnodar, law enforcers seized computers and telephones local activists have stated, adding that by a Moscow court judgement their bank accounts were blocked. Political analysts treat this law enforcers' reaction as a response to the "Smart Voting" system.

September 14, 2019 11:49

• Volunteers to help children-returnees from Syria to Dagestan

  The adaptation to peaceful life of the children returned to Dagestan is undertaken not only by state bodies, but also by volunteers, who help to bring the returnees' knowledge up to the level of their peers.

September 14, 2019 11:36

• After meeting in Ergneti, South Ossetia refuses to open Georgian border

  Georgia has refused to remove the block-post erected near the village of Tsnelis, but demanded from South Ossetia to open the border for the passage of residents of the pre-border regions, Irakli Antadze, the spokesman of the Georgian State Security Service (SSS), has stated. The South-Ossetian party will take steps to relieve tensions, if Georgia makes concessions, said Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South-Ossetian delegation.