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June 27, 2019 14:22

• Social network users are optimistic about Kalimatov's appointment

  When being Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov was in conflict with the then Ingush president Murat Zyazikov, despite their family relations. Kalimatov's family members are respected in the republic, social network users note.

June 27, 2019 11:04

• Rights defenders criticize Savostin's conviction

  The court was to acquit Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Veche (Council) of Mineralnye Vody", since no proofs of his guilt were presented; the conviction was politically motivated, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

June 27, 2019 10:51

• Parliament allows court to arrest oppositional MP Nika Meliya

  Georgian MPs have satisfied the motion of the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to suspend the parliamentary immunity of Nika Meliya, an MP from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, accused under the case of organizing group violence at a protest action in Tbilisi.

June 27, 2019 08:06

• Picketers recall torture of four Anapa residents

  Relatives of the Anapa residents, tortured after being detained by law enforcers, and lawyers of the Committee against Torture (CaT) have held a series of solo pickets in the city centre.

June 27, 2019 07:45

• Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov appointed acting head of Ingushetia

  On June 26, President Putin accepted resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and appointed Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov as acting head of Ingushetia.

June 26, 2019 22:26

• Conscript soldier dies in Armenia

  Investigators have begun checking the version of driving a soldier to suicide in Armenia.

June 26, 2019 22:14

• Derbent women-hunger-strikers achieve meeting with their sons

  On the third day of their hunger strike, two female residents of Derbent received a permit to meet their detained sons, and stopped their protest.

June 26, 2019 21:55

• North-Ossetian minister excludes any changes of border with Ingushetia

  Authorities of North Ossetia have completed the coordination of the border with Chechnya and are ready to do the same with other neighbouring republics, Aslan Tsutsiev, the Minister for National Relations of North Ossetia, has announced. His republic denies any territorial claims of Ingushetia and would not revise the border therewith, Mr Tsutsiev has stressed.

June 26, 2019 18:28

• In Tbilisi, all detained protestors set free

  At a request of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court released 51 protesters detained during the protest action held at night on June 21, the press service of the Tbilisi City Court reports today.

June 26, 2019 18:17

• Azerbaijani activist claims threat of his re-arrest in Georgia

  The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia filed an appeal against the decision of the court of Marneuli to release Azerbaijani citizen Avtandil Mamedov on bail after his detention at a request from Baku.

June 26, 2019 18:06

• Nika Meliya accused in case on riots in Tbilisi

  Today, officials from the Prosecutor's Office have handed over to a defender of MP Nika Meliya an indictment in the case on organization of group violence during a protest action in Tbilisi. The MP himself did not appear in the Prosecutor's Office.

June 26, 2019 13:14

• Timur Tumgoev sentenced to 18 years

  Today, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has found Timur Tumgoev, a native of Vladikavkaz, to be a member of a group of Syrian militants and sentenced him to 18 years in a high-security colony.

June 26, 2019 13:03

• Ingush activists tell their expectations of Evkurov's resignation

  In case of resignation of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the new head of Ingushetia should release all the arrested protesters and revise the border agreement with Chechnya, the activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are convinced.

June 26, 2019 11:35

• Fuad Abbasov deported from Russia to Azerbaijan

  Fuad Abbasov, who returned from Moscow to Baku on June 25, has assured that he would continue his journalistic activities.

June 26, 2019 11:22

• Baku and Yerevan political analysts link some calmness in Karabakh conflict zone with talks

  After a meeting of officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the shelling on the troops contact line has almost stopped. The parties agreed on mutual concessions, but if the process of peace negotiations is stalled, the conflict may escalate again, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

June 26, 2019 11:08

• Analysts dispute about Georgian opposition's role in protests

  Most of the actions underway in Georgia are controlled by political forces, including the current protests, Zaal Andjaparidze, the programme coordinator of the International Centre for Conflicts and Negotiations, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 26, 2019 08:23

• Opposition activist Eldaniz Agaev arrested in Baku

  Eldaniz Agaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest under an article on disobeying police. He was arrested on a false accusation because of his political activities, the PFPA believes.

June 25, 2019 22:42

• Gadjiev's colleagues treat refusals to sanction rally in his support as politically-motivated

  By the three refusals to sanction rallies in support of the arrested Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the Dagestani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has relayed the authorities' position, activists believe.

June 25, 2019 22:17

• Martin Kochesoko transferred under house arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided to transfer Martin Kochesoko, the head of the Circassian NGO "Khabze", accused of drug dealing, under house arrest.

June 25, 2019 22:06

• Court rules to re-arrest Robert Kocharyan

  The Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has satisfied the complaint of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and cancelled the decision to release the former President, Robert Kocharyan, from custody.