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June 08, 2019 19:26

• Witness in Timur Tumgoev's case denies his testimony

  Only one of the four witnesses has confirmed his earlier testimony against Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, accused of links with Syrian militants. One of the witnesses said that he had slandered Tumgoev under pressure, fearing for his own life.

June 08, 2019 19:07

• Azerbaijan counts 19 shelling attacks from Armenian side

  During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 19 times in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

June 08, 2019 12:27

• Editors-in-chief of Krasnodar media come out in support of Golunov

  Artyom Besedin and Vlad Yanyushkin, the editors-in-chief of the "Yuga.ru" and "Free Media", have held solo pickets in Krasnodar in support of the journalist Ivan Golunov arrested in Moscow.

June 08, 2019 12:15

• Experts report uniqueness of exhibition of 3D-models of Kala-Koreish monuments

  An exposition of 3D-models of monuments from the hard-to-reach ancient village of Kala-Koreish is held in Makhachkala. This project helps not only to fix and preserve the monuments, but also contributes to popularization of them, scientists believe.

June 08, 2019 12:03

• Arrest of Barakh Chemurziev, Ingush activist, extended

  The Nalchik City Court has extended, until September 25, the arrest of Barakh Chemurziev, one of the leaders of Ingush protests. His defence demanded to disqualify the judge, but the motion was rejected.

June 08, 2019 11:49

• Journalist-researcher of Kadyrov's entourage detained in Moscow

  Colleagues of Ivan Golunov, a "Meduza" journalist, detained in Moscow on suspicion of drug dealing, associate his persecution with his professional activities.

June 08, 2019 08:29

• Grozny residents distrust outcomes of prosecutor's check of woman's death

  The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has refuted the media version that in Grozny, in order to hide a road accident, a woman's body was dropped from a high-rise building. However, local residents have pointed to precedents, when perpetrators of road accidents were whitewashed by means of frauds.

June 08, 2019 00:00

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

June 07, 2019 21:45

• Prosecutor demands 6.5 years in jail for Azerbaijani journalist

  At the trial in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, the prosecutor asked to sentence Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "Realliq.info" website, to 6.5 years in prison. The journalist denies the charge and believes that his case is customized and related to his publications.

June 07, 2019 21:11

• Muslims of Southern Russia criticize high cost of Hajj

  The quotas for the regions of Southern Russia for pilgrimage to Mecca, provided within last year's amounts, have not been fully bought out yet. Residents of Chechnya and Dagestan are outraged by the rising prices for the 2019 Hajj.

June 07, 2019 19:00

• Arrest of Ingush elder Malsag Uzhakhov extended

  A Nalchik court has extended, until September 25, the arrest of Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Council of Teips (family clans) of the Ingush People. The arrest is telling negatively on Uzhakhov's health, because he cannot take medicines regularly, his defence has stated.

June 07, 2019 18:44

• Azerbaijani journalist Fuad Abbasov is prepared for deportation from Russia

  The advocate of the Azerbaijani journalist, Fuad Abbasov, said that his client would be expelled from Russia today.

June 07, 2019 14:34

• Armenian villagers threaten to change riverbed to stop two HPPs

  The operation of two small hydropower plants (HPPs) built on the Gegarot River led to a deterioration of water quality. If the authorities fail to stop the HPPs, the river bed will be changed, local residents have threatened.

June 07, 2019 14:24

• South Ossetia reached final at ConIFA Championship

  At the European Football Championship of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA), which is underway in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), finalists have been defined: the teams of South Ossetia and Western Armenia. 

June 07, 2019 10:41

• Jehovah's Witnesses'* Hall in KBR set on fire amid persecutions of believers

  Jehovah's Witnesses* have reported the arson of a building in the dwelling settlement of Prokhladny, where religious services had been held before the ban of the religious organization. The arson was the result of an information campaign launched by official media, said a representative of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses (the organization has been banned in Russia by the court).

June 07, 2019 10:24

• Barakh Chemurziev demands to transfer arrested activists from Nalchik to Ingushetia

  Keeping the Ingush activists, arrested after rallies in Magas, in Nalchik creates problems for their legal defence and meetings with relatives, said Barakh Chemurziev, an activist. He asked human rights defenders to facilitate the transfer of those arrested to Ingushetia.

June 07, 2019 10:11

• Grozny residents complain about extortions at schools

  At the end of the school year, schools of Grozny announced raising money for renovation of premises, pupils' parents report to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, specifying the amounts from 100 to 1500 roubles. The lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" recommend parents to apply to the Prosecutor's Office.

June 07, 2019 08:49

• "Dashnaktsutyun" members admit en masse of beating Kocharyan's opponent

  Supporters of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" have appeared at the police station in Yerevan and other cities of Armenia and pled guilty of beating up Vardan Arutyunyan, an activist. They stated that they had punished the activist for insulting the supporters of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia.

June 07, 2019 08:42

• Tbilisi court arrests person accused of killing schoolboy

  Mikhail Kalandiya, accused of killing a schoolboy in Tbilisi, has been placed in custody. His advocate claims that the prosecution has failed to gather sufficient evidence.

June 06, 2019 21:34

• Temirlan Machalikashvili's relatives file complaint to ECtHR

  A complaint about an ineffective investigation into the murder of Temirlan Machalikashvili during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge was submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Tamta Mikeladze, a human rights defender, has stated today.