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August 05, 2019 19:24

• Surkov's visit outlines Kremlin's interests in presidential election in Abkhazia

  It is not so important for the Kremlin who wins the presidential election in Abkhazia, while the stability in the region is of more importance for Moscow. This opinion was voiced by Alexander Krylov, a researcher from the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), when he commented on the meeting between Vladislav Surkov and Raul Khadjimba. The visit of the President Putin's aide to Abkhazia testifies to the support of the current president of the republic, objects Arthur Ataev, the associate professor at the Moscow State Institute of Culture.

August 05, 2019 15:07

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 29-August 4, 2019

  Completion of registration of candidates for the posts of heads in four regions of Southern Russia; rise in prices for food and gasoline after the fall of lari in Georgia; emergency situations caused by bad weather in Southern Russia; start of Russian pilgrims' journey to Hajj, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 29-August 4, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 05, 2019 13:20

• Released heavily sick Dagestani native tells about life in colony

  Magomedsaid Gazaliev, who was released from imprisonment because of his grave disease, flew with his female relative to Makhachkala. In the colony, he had to seek transfer to prison hospital when his condition worsened, said a former prisoner.

August 05, 2019 13:07

• Gadjiev's friends hold sport tournament in his support

  An amateur futsal tournament in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an arrested journalist of the "Chernovik", held in Makhachkala, attracted 14 teams.

August 05, 2019 11:18

• Adjara village rally demand resignation of head of Georgian MIA

  During the visit of Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgian Premier, to village of Beshumi in Adjara, about a hundred persons held a rally demanding to dismiss Giorgi Gakhariya, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). There was a skirmish of the participants of the rally and law enforcers.

August 05, 2019 11:05

• Georgian railwaymen demand higher wages

  The trade union of Georgian railwaymen has called for a 1.5-fold wage increase, otherwise threatening a mass strike. The "Georgian Railways" have treated the workers' demands as unjustified.

August 05, 2019 10:52

• Nine homemade bombs found in Dagestani village

  Law enforcers have liquidated the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) found in an abandoned warehouse in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the Russia's FSB has reported.

August 05, 2019 10:41

• Orientalists believe blood feud atypical for modern Azerbaijan

  In the past, the practice of blood feud was widespread among Azerbaijanis, but for the modern country it is an atypical phenomenon, Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

August 04, 2019 11:19

• MP Fikret Radjabov arrested again in Makhachkala

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has arrested Fikret Radjabov, an MP of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Dagestan, for two months on suspicion of a fraud.

August 04, 2019 11:10

• Igor Kalyapin detained during protest action in Moscow

  The head of the Committee against Torture (CaT), Igor Kalyapin, was detained in Moscow at an unauthorized rally against the non-admission of opposition candidates to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. This time, the total number of detainees was 600 people.

August 04, 2019 10:58

• NKR counts 90 shelling attacks in conflict zone during week

  From July 28 to August 3, Azerbaijani military servicemen fired about 600 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 03, 2019 16:31

• Adjara music festival postponed due to clergymen's protest

  160 residents of Adjara and local priests signed against holding the "Georgian Rave" electronic music festival in the ancient fortress. The organizers said they would find another venue for the festival to avoid conflict.

August 03, 2019 15:56

• Detainee's death raises problem of torture in Abkhazia

  It is necessary to tighten the criminal liability for the use of torture by law enforcers, and record on video interrogations of detainees, Asida Shakryl, the Abkhaz Ombudsperson, has stated in connection with the resonant case of the death of the detainee, Anzor Tarba.

August 03, 2019 15:43

• Yerevan: garbage removal operator accuses Mayoralty of raiding

  Tax inspections and fines are desolating the garbage collection operator in Yerevan and prevent it from duly and efficiently performing its work, the head of the "Sanitek" Company has stated.

August 03, 2019 11:51

• Prosecutor suggests mitigating punishments to convicts for riots in Ganja

  The prosecutor has spoken at the Appeal Court and offered to re-qualify charges into softer ones for 11 people earlier convicted for participating in the events in Ganja in July 2018. The session was held amid the action held in front of the courthouse by convicts' relatives.

August 03, 2019 11:38

• Volgograd: activists plant trees in protest against construction near university

  Graduates of the Volgograd State University (VolSU) and local residents have opposed the construction of a children's hospital near the university, and laid out a park in this place.

August 03, 2019 11:26

• Participants in Baku meeting call to resume civil dialogue with Yerevan

  Contacts of civil society activists of Armenia and Azerbaijan may help in peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, but the informal dialogue of its parties has degraded, the authors of the study on possibilities of civil diplomacy, presented in Baku, have stated.

August 03, 2019 08:38

• Election Commission refuses to register Shevchenko for elections in Rostov-on-Don

  The Territorial Election Commission (TEC) has rejected 23 out of the 155 signatures collected in support of the nomination of Anastasia Shevchenko as a candidate for the Rostov City Duma. However, Ms Shevchenko herself claims that the handwriting examination, on the basis of which the signatures were rejected, was unreliable.

August 03, 2019 08:29

• Law enforcers' raid at Makhachkala mosque passes without detentions

  On Friday, August 2, after the traditional namaz (prayer), mobile patrol units checked documents of the parishioners of the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala. Law enforcers explained the checks by the conducted operations "Alcohol" and "Seat Belt".

August 02, 2019 21:51

• Court leaves "Musavat" Party activist under arrest

  Elman Guliev, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, sentenced to administrative arrest, declared an attempt to recruit him at a police detention centre. He made this statement during the consideration of his complaint about the arrest. The court has left the activist in custody.