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June 25, 2019 21:57

• Archil Talakvadze elected Speaker of Georgian Parliament

  By majority of votes, Georgian MPs have elected Archil Talakvadze as their Speaker. Immediately after election, he assured that he would not allow any Russian State Duma MPs to the parliamentary sessions.

June 25, 2019 18:40

• Robert Kocharyan's advocates boycott trial

  Advocates of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, accused the court of bias and decided to boycott the today's pronouncement of the court's decision concerning the appeal filed by the General Prosecutor's Office.

June 25, 2019 18:26

• Ramzan Kadyrov's bike ride shows forced calm after shooting in Chechnya

  A night bike ride of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov through Grozny several hours after an attack on law enforcers in the centre of the Chechen capital "promoted" a calm situation in the region for citizens and tourists, noted local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 25, 2019 18:17

• Opposition MPs with scandal leave meeting of Georgian parliament

  The refusal to discuss at the meeting of the parliament the question concerning the resignation of the Georgian Interior Minister caused discontent of the opposition. After the conflict with members of the ruling party, the oppositionists left the parliamentary meeting in protest.

June 25, 2019 14:51

• Concessions of "Georgian Dream" fail to satisfy protesters

  Protesters found the resignation of Irakli Kobakhidze, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament that followed after the dispersal of the June 2 action, to be inadequate. The protesters' demands to dismiss the Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhariya, change in the parliamentary electoral system, release all the detained activists and punish the involved law enforcers remain unfulfilled.

June 25, 2019 14:37

• Armenian rights defenders support Khachaturyan sisters

  Armenian activists have joined the international solidarity action in support of Khachaturyan sisters, accused of killing their father. The public should not remain indifferent to manifestations of domestic violence, the participants of the action in Yerevan have stated.

June 25, 2019 11:05

• Military experts state militants activation in Northern Caucasus

  The incident in Grozny and the shootout in Dagestan are not directly interrelated, but evidence to some militants' revitalization in Northern Caucasus, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

June 25, 2019 10:50

• Action at Georgian Parliament ended in live chain

  In Tbilisi, the protesters demanding resignation of Giorgi Gakhariya, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), formed a live chain around the building of the parliament.

June 25, 2019 00:57

• Evkurov's decision to resign inspires residents of Ingushetia

  Residents of Ingushetia have welcomed the news of the possible resignation of the head of the republic with fireworks and car horns.

June 25, 2019 00:39

• Martin Kochesoko tells court about planted drugs

  Martin Kochesoko, an activist, has stated at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) that law enforcers beat him up and planted drugs on him, forcing him to confess to drug dealing in the presence of witnesses.

June 24, 2019 21:53

• Head of Ingushetia announces his resignation

  Yunus-Bek Evkurov has asked President Putin to dismiss him from his post of the head of Ingushetia before term.

June 24, 2019 21:42

• Father of killed Chechen resident damns him for attacking policemen

  Alkhazur Barzaev, a resident of Chechnya, has publicly repudiated his son, who was killed in the attack on policemen in Grozny. The casualty's relatives have also damned him on the air of the Chechen television.

June 24, 2019 21:31

• "Georgian Dream" states fulfilment of protesters' second demand

  Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party, has announced the initiative to switchover to the proportional system of parliamentary elections in 2020.

June 24, 2019 18:27

• Investigation launched into dispersal of protest in Tbilisi

  A criminal case has been instituted on abuse of power during the dispersal of the rally in front of the parliament building, and the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has promised to punish policemen even for minor offenses.

June 24, 2019 18:17

• IS* claims responsibility for attack on law enforcers in Grozny

  Two law enforcers were injured in an attack on the police in the Leninsky District of Grozny, the police reported. The "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, claimed that a local resident killed in a shootout was its militant.

June 24, 2019 18:08

• Activists start hunger strike in centre of Tbilisi

  Today, in Tbilisi, several activists have set up tents in Rustaveli Avenue and announced the beginning of their hunger strike.

June 24, 2019 17:34

• Infographics.Statistics of victims in Northern Caucasus in May 2019 under the data of the Caucasian Knot

June 24, 2019 15:31

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 17-23, 2019

  Mass protests in Tbilisi and Russia's ban on flights to Georgia; release of Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev; sentence of a law enforcer in the case on the murder of a Kabardino-Balkarian resident; armed incidents in Dagestan and Chechnya; protest actions in connection with the arrest of a Dagestani journalist, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 17-23, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 24, 2019 14:51

• Relatives of detained Derbent residents go on hunger strike

  Today, the mothers of the detained Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov began a protest rally in Derbent, demanding to release their sons, a Kurbanov's female relative has informed.

June 24, 2019 14:39

• On June 17-23, at least five people perished in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from June 17 to June 23, 2019, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, at least five people died, whereas no information was received about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.