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May 01, 2019 09:42

• Painters' family from Krasnodar achieves asylum in Sweden

  A court in Sweden has ruled to grant political asylum to Krasnodar painters Alexei Knedlyakovsky and Lusine Djanyan, known for their oppositional actions.

May 01, 2019 09:36

• Pankisi People's Assembly called on Georgian authorities to jointly overcome crisis

  The People’s Assembly of the Pankisi Gorge has condemned the April 21 unrests and expressed its readiness to do everything to prevent further clashes. Members of the assembly have called on the Georgian authorities to jointly overcome the difficulties.

May 01, 2019 08:30

• Activists condemn ban of motor rally with Circassian flags in KBR

  The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is the only republic, where Circassian activists were not allowed to hold a motor rally on the Circassian Flag Day. The authorities are afraid of national movement strengthening, but the prohibition policy is fraught with the situation getting out of control, Martin Kochesoko, a Circassian activist, and Valery Khatazhukov, a human rights defender, believe.

May 01, 2019 08:28

• Court refuses to release Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev from arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has upheld the decision to arrest the Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev until June 11, 2019.

April 30, 2019 21:39

• Armenian Diaspora criticizes Belgian Parliament for genocide law

  The Belgian authorities have acted inconsistently by criminalizing the denial of a number of genocides, but failed to include the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire into the law. This was stated by members of the Armenian community in Europe.

April 30, 2019 21:33

• Robert Kocharyan, ex-President of Armenia, accused of receiving bribe of USD 3 million

  The Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) voiced out the amounts of bribes, received, according to the GPO, by the second Armenian President, Robert Kocharyan, accused also of suppressing the 2008 protests.

April 30, 2019 18:17

• Armenian soldier wounded on border with Azerbaijan

  A contract soldier was severely wounded during the shelling from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Armenia reported.

April 30, 2019 18:14

• Court leaves chair of Ingush Council of Teips in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to release Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), under house arrest.

April 30, 2019 15:54

• Azerbaijan reports machine gun shelling of two villages

  Within the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 22 times; the villages located in the regions bordering on Armenia came under fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

April 30, 2019 15:45

• Zhalaudi Geriev, "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, leaves his colony in Chechnya

  Today, Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, is back at large was released today after serving his three-year prison term.

April 30, 2019 11:25

• Relatives publicly renounce Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov

  The relatives of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who live in Chechnya, have renounced him and declared that they would not avenge his death. This was done by authorities' pressure; and the blogger's relatives just wanted to safeguard themselves, human rights defenders believe.

April 30, 2019 11:21

• Activist Magomed Nalgiev detained in Ingushetia

  In Nazran, law enforcers have detained Magomed Nalgiev, a participant in March protests, sources inform.

April 30, 2019 11:17

• Armenia thanks Portugal for recognition of Armenian Genocide

  The Portuguese Parliament has recognized the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed gratitude to Portuguese MPs.

April 30, 2019 08:10

• Activists demand to resume inquiry into death of blogger Mekhman Galandarov

  The activists, who gathered to commemorate Mekhman Galandarov, have criticized the official version of his death at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). According to their version, the blogger was arrested for political reasons; and his death could have been violent.

April 30, 2019 07:56

• Rights defenders urge to release all Ingush activists

  The mass arrests of Ingush oppositionists are heating up the already tense situation in the republic; all the arrested activists should be released under recognizance not to leave, human rights defenders assert.

April 29, 2019 22:29

• Border guards would not let Russian bikers to Georgia

  Bikers from Russia were denied entry because border guards treated the information about the aim of their journey as false, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. The motorcyclists claim that their group of 30 bikers was driving to a rally in Greece.

April 29, 2019 22:18

• Armenia accused Azerbaijan of shelling border road

  Today in the afternoon, a section of the Yerevan-Tbilisi road near the village of Baganis, Tavush Region of Armenia, was fired from Azerbaijani positions this afternoon, the village headman and the press secretary of the head of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have reported.

April 29, 2019 22:03

• Organizer of terror act in Pyatigorsk imprisoned for 15 years

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Rustam Ismailov, accused of committing a terror act in Pyatigorsk and preparing an explosion in Stavropol, to 15 years in colony investigators have informed.

April 29, 2019 19:18

• On April 22-28, 2019, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of April 22-28, 2019, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 29, 2019 19:01

• Court fails to find Akhmed Barakhoev in Nalchik SIZO

  After finding out that Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev was not kept at the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison), the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria postponed the consideration of a complaint about the Ingush activist's arrest.