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July 30, 2019 14:56

• Law enforcers search "EcoWatch" and Krasnodar activists

  Today, searches were conducted in the office of the "Ecological Watch for North Caucasus" (EcoWatch) and in the home of activists Leonid and Marina Zaprudin, Andrei Rudomakha, the "EcoWatch" coordinator, Arina Lisovets, an eco-activist, have reported.

July 30, 2019 14:35

• Azerbaijan reports shelling attacks on pre-border areas

  The ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 19 times during the last 24 hours; two villages in the districts bordering on Armenia came under fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

July 30, 2019 14:24

• Tbilisi: rally organizers state protest activeness decline

  On July 29, only about 300 people rallied in Tbilisi; therefore, organizers decided that actions in August will continue in the format of conversations and performances, and will resume in the former format from September.

July 30, 2019 10:59

• Malkhaz Machalikashvili links his nephew's arrest with collection of signatures for creation of parliamentary commission

  Law enforcers have detained Morice Machalikashvili so that his relatives would stop collecting signatures to the petition demanding to set up a parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances of Temirlan Machalikashvili's death, said the father of the young man killed in a special operation.

July 30, 2019 10:48

• Adjara media ignore pro-Russian rally

  Several tens thousand people never took part in the rally of the oppositional "Alliance of Georgian Patriots" Party in Batumi; the number of participants was barely three thousand, Georgian experts told the "Caucasian Knot". The media of Adjara practically did not cover the rally.

July 30, 2019 08:24

• "Musavat" activist arrested for 30 days

  A court in Baku has arrested Elman Guliev, the head of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, who was detained on July 29 during a protest against the criminal prosecution of Azad Gasanov. The rest of the detainees have been released.

July 30, 2019 08:15

• GPO gets interested in Gadjiev's case

  After the appeal of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (known as the HRC), the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia has initiated a check of the inquiry of the case of financing of terrorism, in which Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) edition, is a figurant.

July 29, 2019 22:06

• LGBT activist leaves Russia after Djambulat Umarov's comment on Instagram

  Karolina Kanaeva, an activist from Mordovia, who stood in defence of Chechen gays, has left Russia after threats received from opponents of LGBT people. A wave of threats was preceded by Kanaeva's appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov and a comment by Djambulat Umarov, a Chechen Minister.

July 29, 2019 21:52

• KBR resident complains about torture and falsification of proofs

  Ruslan Kasheshov, an entrepreneur from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has stated that he had confessed to the illegal dealing with explosives, drugs and complicity with the IS ("Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court) under torture.

July 29, 2019 21:39

• Azerbaijani rights defender goes on hunger strike in colony

  Aliabbas Rustamov, a rights defender has been hunger-striking in his colony for five days already, demanding a positive decision on his conditional early relief (CER), Azerbaijani journalist, Shakhveled Chobanoglu, has informed today.

July 29, 2019 20:23

• North Ossetia opens Dargavs Necropolis for tourists

  The authorities have enhanced the security at Dargavs Necropolis, which was temporarily closed for visits after tourists started to post selfies with buried skulls, reports today Valery Kubalov, the director of the National Museum of North Ossetia.

July 29, 2019 20:11

• In Chechnya, practice of public apologies affects teenagers

  A TV report with apologies of a 16-year-old teenager for criticizing the Chechen authorities provoked indignation of local residents. The purpose of the new report prepared by the "Grozny" TV Channel is to intimidate young people and potential critics of the Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, believe experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 29, 2019 18:19

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 22-28, 2019

  New information about the Chechen "execution list"; adoption of the law on the Dagestani volunteer militia; Agile Spirit 2019 multinational military exercises, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 22-28, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 29, 2019 14:48

• Armenian government to grant housing to victims of Spitak earthquake

  The Armenian authorities registered 453 families affected by the earthquake of 1988 to be moved from temporary buildings to new housing. About 6.3 million US dollars are planned to be allocated for the above purposes, Nikol Pashinyan announces.

July 29, 2019 14:36

• Azerbaijan reports shelling attacks on three villages in conflict zone

  The ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated 17 times during a day, and villages in the regions bordering Armenia were shelled, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

July 29, 2019 11:25

• Armenian MoD reports death of soldier on the border

  A soldier was killed in a shelling attack from the Azerbaijani side, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

July 29, 2019 11:13

• Georgian opposition rallies in Batumi on relations with Russia

  On July 28, a rally was held in central Batumi, at which its participants called for the establishment of relations with Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Russia.

July 29, 2019 11:01

• Change of Argun Mayor raises townspeople's questions to Kadyrov

  The appointment of the 28-year-old Khas-Magomed Kadyrov as Mayor of Argun has continued the practice of appointing relatives of the head of Chechnya to senior positions without taking into account their managerial experience, local residents said.

July 29, 2019 10:50

• Online demonstration in support of Gadjiev launched in social networks

  On July 28, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani edition "Chernovik" (Draft), arrested under the case of financing terrorism, have held an action in his support in social networks.

July 28, 2019 11:50

• Volgograd activist pickets against LGBT discrimination

  At his solo picket, Vlad Pogorelov, a Volgograd activists, demanded to protect lives and rights of members of the LGBT community. Some of the passers-by supported the picketer; but one man snatched a poster from the activist and threw it into the garbage bin.