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September 14, 2019 11:25

• Georgia's GPO threatens to arrest Meliya

  Nika Meliya, an MP from the oppositional "United National Movement" Party, has violated the terms of his appointed freedom deprivation measure, when he took part, without a due permit, in a political talk show on a local TV channel, the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated. In case of a repeated violation, the GPO threatens to arrest him.

September 14, 2019 08:33

• Law enforcers check drivers' documents at "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala

  On September 13, several dozens of law enforcers were checking documents of the drivers who drove their cars in the vicinity of the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala, the journalist, Idris Yusupov, stated. Nobody was detained during the raid, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported in its turn.

September 14, 2019 08:22

• Defence reports need to hospitalize Uzhakhov

  Within a week, Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) has suffered two heart attacks, and needs treatment at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) medical unit, his advocate has stated.

September 13, 2019 22:16

• Relative of Dagestani Amir Vagabov claims torture in court

  Magomedamin Vagabov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Gubden, accused of rendering assistance to militants, refused to plead guilty at trial on September 12. He explained that he had incriminated himself after torture with electric current.

September 13, 2019 22:02

• Ayup Gagiev argues against changes in borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia

  On September 12, Ayup Gagiev, the chair of the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia, declared that the agreements with the authorities of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which served as the basis for the agreement on the changed administrative border signed by Ramzan Kadyrov and Yunus-Bek Evkurov, had no legal force.

September 13, 2019 18:39

• Imam Velitov freed from penal colony in Astrakhan

  Today, after leaving a penal colony in Astrakhan, Makhmud Velitov, the imam of a Moscow mosque, who had served his sentence on the charge of justifying terrorism, has said that he had gained "useful experience."

September 13, 2019 18:12

• Human rights defenders concerned over denial of asylum to Tumso Abdurakhmanov's family

  In Germany, a court unreasonably decided that relatives of Tumso Abdurakhmanov would be safe when they returned to Russia, since the Chechen authorities would be able to use them to put pressure on their political opponent, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" declared on September 12.

September 13, 2019 14:36

• Azerbaijan reports 20 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in a village located in the border area, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

September 13, 2019 14:28

• Human rights defender from Sochi reports search of his apartment

  On September 12, after a search at the apartment of Semyon Simonov, a human rights defender and an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group, the police seized laptops and documents. This was reported by Semyon Simonov himself.

September 13, 2019 11:39

• Chechen woman detained for witchcraft

  The Chechen police have detained Sekinat Ibragimova, a local resident, accusing her of rendering magical services.

September 13, 2019 11:27

• Volgograd activists demand to stop persecuting Navalny's supporters

  The picketers have demanded to stop the wave of searches in homes of supporters of Alexei Navalny in Volgograd.

September 13, 2019 11:18

• Dagestanis tell Putin about problems of highland villages and pollution of Caspian Sea

  Russian President, who visited the Dagestani village of Botlikh, has promised to develop the infrastructure of mountain villages and to discuss with the Ministry of Finance a contractor for the upgrade of Makhachkala purification facilities.

September 13, 2019 08:27

• Activists detained during Kocharyan's trial

  Three participants in the clash of supporters and opponents of Robert Kocharyan, a former Armenian President, who is accused of a putsch attempts, were taken to the police, another one was hospitalized, the police have informed.

September 13, 2019 08:17

• KBR resident cannot take out his deceased wife's body from China

  A hospital in China would not give out the body of Anisat Ervasova, a deceased resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), demanding from her husband to pay more than 1.5 million roubles for her resuscitation; 800,000 roubles are needed for embalming and transporting the body.

September 12, 2019 22:06

• Popular video blogger launches second round of debates on "Beslan Mothers" Committee

  Such committees like the "Beslan Mothers" and "Voice of Beslan" speculate on the tragedy for the sake of "political pies", the designer Artemy Lebedev has stated in his video blog. This statement caused outrage among YouTube users and controversy over whether the state should help victims of terror acts.

September 12, 2019 21:56

• Verdict for hunting "AniDag" festival triggers disputes in social networks

  Akhmad Israpilov, the administrator of the Instagram community "Imamat of Dagestan", received a conditional imprisonment for calls to disrupt the anime festival in Makhachkala, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported on September 11. Some social network users have treated the verdict as a good lesson, while others view the blogger as a "martyr for truth."

September 12, 2019 18:22

• In Southern Russia, Navalny's activists report searches and arrests of banking accounts

  Today, in Volgograd, investigators have summoned at least two Navalny's supporters for interrogation. Activists from Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar reported that their personal banking accounts were frozen.

September 12, 2019 18:12

• Chechen women's request for housing results in their apologies to Ramzan Kadyrov

  Three women from Chechnya apologized for contacting Ramzan Kadyrov with an appeal in which they stated "they had no shelter to live and no one to help." The Chechen authorities called on relatives of the Chechen applicants to "watch their women," reports the Chechen TV in its story posted on YouTube on September 10.

September 12, 2019 18:02

• Azerbaijan claims machine-gun shelling attacks in border area

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in two villages located in the area bordering Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijani reports today.

September 12, 2019 14:14

• In Southern Russia, police start searching offices and homes of Navalny's supporters

  Today, law enforcers have started conducting searches at offices and homes of employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) and Alexei Navalny's offices in 39 cities of Russia, including Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and the Stavropol Territory.