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September 09, 2019 13:39

• Three opposition activists detained at protest action in Georgia

  On September 8, policemen detained three supporters of the "Alliance of Georgia's Patriots" after a clash at a rally in Tbilisi.

September 09, 2019 13:28

• Observers report election violations in NKR

  At some polling stations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), crowds of voters were observed; attempts were recorded to vote on inappropriate documents and violations of the secrecy of the vote, observers inform.

September 09, 2019 11:05

• Dagestani women responded with flash mob to Khabib's words about wearing papakhas

  The words of UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov that only men can wear papakhas (Caucasian wool hat), because they have the honour, have been criticized on the Facebook. Already at least 18 women took part in the flash mob by posting their photos in papakhas.

September 09, 2019 10:48

• Volgograd state servants tell about use of administrative resources before elections

  Heads of some budget-funded organizations have demanded from their subordinates to vote for a particular candidate for the governor of the Volgograd Region, voters have informed.

September 09, 2019 10:18

• Krasnodar brawlers-shooters report details of their torture by law enforcers

  Shamal Madaev and Khalid Khamidov, natives of Chechnya, arrested after a mass brawl with shooting, told rights defenders that they had been beaten up and tortured with electricity after detention.

September 09, 2019 09:57

• Rights defenders and activists worry about children of Azerbaijani political prisoners

  Baku hosted a presentation of the novel by Intigam Aliev, a well-known lawyer and rights defender, which was combined with a charity action. The event included gathering of school supplies and books for children from low-income families, including those of political prisoners.

September 08, 2019 13:11

• Paris Chechens demand to speed up inquiry into Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's murder

  On Saturday, September 7, in Paris, a rally was held at the German Embassy demanding from German authorities to objectively investigate the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Pankisi native.

September 08, 2019 13:08

• Commentators define "Stockholm syndrome" in Dagestani blogger Rasul Asad

  Social network users have noted that instead of complaining about the many-hours-long detention by law enforcers of Novosasitli villagers, the blogger, Rasul Asad, has emphasized law enforcers' politeness and the fact that villagers came to police voluntarily.

September 08, 2019 12:58

• NKR accuses Azerbaijan of 110 shelling attacks during week

  During the first week of September, Azerbaijani military units fired more than 700 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

September 07, 2019 16:39

• Kadyrov invited Moscow footballers, who left colony, to rehabilitate in "Akhmat" FC

  The head of Chechnya has welcomed the decision on the conditional early relief (CER) of the football players of the "Krasnodar" and "Zenit" Football Clubs (FCs), Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, and offered them to join the "Akhmat" FC in Grozny. Kokorin and Mamaev will not accept the invitation, Chechen football fans believe.

September 07, 2019 16:35

• Journalist's walk along embankment in North Ossetia ends in detention

  A bike ride of Ekaterina Gerasimova, a journalist, along the embankment in Vladikavkaz seemed to local law enforcers like the behaviour of a drug hider. Ms Gerasimova complained about ill-treatment at detention. She missed her train, but law enforcers helped her to catch up with the train in a police car.

September 07, 2019 16:29

• Dagestani law enforcers set free detained local residents

  Several dozens of people, who were kept in a division of a power structure in the Khasavyurt District, were released nine hours after detention, local residents have informed. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) claims that none of these people was detained.

September 07, 2019 11:37

• Georgia condemns erection of new border checkpoint in South Ossetia

  Law enforcers have set up their checkpoint at a distance of less than two kilometres from the Georgian one, which became the subject of a border conflict. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated this as a compulsion to border demarcation. The OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) has supported Georgia by opposing the bordering process.

September 07, 2019 11:34

• Baku: law enforcers suppress action in support of convicts under "Terter case"

  At their protest action held in Baku, relatives of those convicted within the "Terter case" have demanded to return the case back for preliminary investigation and to release their convicted relatives. The action was stopped after police intervention.

September 07, 2019 11:32

• Organization of madrasah in Dagestan village results in conflict with law enforcers

  The Imam from the village of Novosasitli and local residents, dissatisfied with the decision to hand over the madrasah to the Muftiate, are being kept by law enforcers, sources report. They said that among the detainees, there is Rasul Asad, the author of a popular Telegram channel.

September 07, 2019 11:30

• Arrest of Ingush journalist Rashid Maisigov extended

  A Magas court has extended until October 12 the arrest of the Ingush journalist, Rashid Maisigov, accused of drug storage, his advocate has stated. The court session on the case of the Ingush activist, Zarifa Sautieva, has been postponed until September 9.

September 06, 2019 23:44

• Putin's joke about birthrate in Chechnya and Dagestan raptures Kadyrov

  In Chechnya and Dagestan, the birthrate is "three times higher than in Japan," said Russian President, Vladimir Putin, urging young people to "spend energy on creation." Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his confidence that this joke will get into a collection of aphorisms.

September 06, 2019 23:33

• Law enforcers' Friday raid at Makhachkala mosque passed without detentions

  Employees of three Makhachkala police divisions were engaged in checking documents at the "Tangim" Mosque; nobody was detained. Law enforcers claimed that the raid had nothing to do with religion.

September 06, 2019 19:51

• In Dagestan, activists hold rally against adoption of new general plan of Kaspiysk

  Three activists of the public organization "Kaspiysk is Our City" went to solo pickets in Makhachkala. They claim that the general plan "will destroy the public territories of the city."

September 06, 2019 19:47

• Defence of Azerbaijani activists treats ECtHR's decision as fair

  The administrative prosecution of Azerbaijani activists violated their rights, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) acknowledged that fact by awarding them compensation, believes advocate Asabali Mustafaev. Sagif Gurbanov, one of the complainants, also called the decision of the ECtHR fair.