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April 25, 2019 11:16

• Chechen MIA reports decrease in number of militants killed in Q1 2019

  In Chechnya, in January-March this year, one alleged member of the armed underground was killed, whereas in the same period of 2018, there were six of them, an official of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed, thus, confirming the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about the number of alleged members of the armed underground killed during these periods.

April 25, 2019 11:08

• Relatives report grave condition of convict in "Nardaran case"

  Farkhad Muradov, a supporter of the "Muslim Unity" (MU) movement, is denied a transfer to a prison hospital; his condition is worsening, his relatives have complained.

April 25, 2019 08:42

• Vano Merabishvili denied CER

  The commission has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Vano Merabishvili, the former Georgian Interior Minister, who had been convicted in the case of beating an MP. The defence has treated the denial as politically motivated.

April 25, 2019 08:37

• Court legalizes refusal to investigate torture of Grozny resident

  A court in Grozny has refused to satisfy a complaint against a refusal to open a case on the application of Ibragim Yangulbaev about his torture by law enforcers, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has reported today. The defence intends to appeal against the ruling.

April 25, 2019 08:32

• Ingush activist Aushev arrested for two months

  A court in Kabardino-Balkaria has ruled to imprison Ruslan Aushev, suspected of involvement in clashes with law enforcers at a rally in Magas. While justifying the arrest, investigators presented uncertified copies of documents, but the court ignored this, the advocates Akhmed Kaloev and Magomed Bekov affirm.

April 24, 2019 21:44

• In Moscow Region, three policemen suspected of cruel beating of Dagestani native

  Three policemen suspected of beating a man in Orekhovo-Zuevo, who later died in hospital from the injuries he got, were arrested. A source from the law enforcement bodies reported that the deceased man was a father of MMA world champion Magomed Yunusilau.

April 24, 2019 21:35

• "Mothers of Beslan" gets MIA's support in struggle for checkpoint

  The Chief Directorate for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NFCD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) found rational an appeal filed by the NGO "Mothers of Beslan" with a request to preserve the "Chermen" checkpoint at the border with Chechnya, a member of the NGO reports today. The "Mothers of Beslan" opposed the Ramzan Kadyrov's call to remove all checkpoints between the regions of Northern Caucasus.

April 24, 2019 18:55

• Ingush students arrested in Egypt face sharp health deterioration, their relatives report

  Four Ingush students kept in a Cairo prison were transferred to a medical unit because of deterioration of their health state after a hunger strike, their relatives reported. After a meeting with family members of the arrested students, human rights defenders promised to contact the Russia's Ombudsperson.

April 24, 2019 18:35

• ICRF: two residents of Stavropol Territory involved in Shamil Basaev's raid on Dagestan

  Takhir Begeldiev and Nariman Otepov, two residents of the Stavropol Territory, were involved in an attack on Dagestan led by Shamil Basaev and Emir Khattab in 1999, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

April 24, 2019 15:43

• Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh demand compensation for Armenian Genocide

  In Stepanakert, participants of a torchlight procession urged the international community to give the legal assessment of the Armenian Genocide and force the guilty party to pay compensation to the Armenian people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 24, 2019 15:31

• NATO ship arrives for joint exercises with Georgian military personnel

  The US Navy USS Ross DDG-71 destroyer has arrived in Batumi. The US ship will take part in joint exercises with two Georgian patrol boats, and then it will leave the territorial waters of Georgia on April 25.

April 24, 2019 15:20

• Key witnesses testify in favour of Aslan Yandiev

  Umar Khadziev and Ruslan Tsurov, sentenced in cases on terror acts committed in North Ossetia, deny the prosecutor's version in the Aslan Yandiev's case. Both witnesses state that they do not know Aslan Yandiev and that they confessed to the crimes under torture.

April 24, 2019 11:34

• Armenian residents commemorate genocide victims with torchlight marches

  Armenia has held torchlight marches in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In the capital of the country, the event was held under the motto "Full and fair compensation".

April 24, 2019 11:22

• Dagestan: detainee confesses to preparing attack on policemen

  One of the five persons detained in Chechnya and Dagestan on suspicion of preparing terror acts, has told law enforcers their plan to attack policemen with the help of a quadcopter.

April 24, 2019 11:13

• Over 2300 take part in torchlight march in Stepanakert (+video)

  More than 2300 residents of Stepanakert have participated in the traditional torchlight march in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Apart from torches and candles, the marchers carried flags of the countries, which have recognized the Armenian Genocide.

April 24, 2019 01:27

• Construction of hippodromes in Chechnya raises payback issues of Kadyrov's projects

  The second hippodrome in Chechnya has been opened in Shali; the third one is being built in Grozny; it will be the largest in Northern Caucasus. Horse races in Chechnya are held very rarely, local residents said. To make a hippodrome profitable, it must have hundreds of races per year and take toto bets, said the branch workers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 24, 2019 01:07

• Idea of installing sculpture in Kaspiysk sparks debates about garbage in social networks

  A sculpture to a citizen who has brought garbage to a bin will be installed in Kaspiysk in order to draw attention to the problem of spontaneous dumps in the city. The initiative of one of the construction companies has caused a hot debate in social networks about the sources of garbage in the streets of Kaspiysk and other cities of Dagestan.

April 23, 2019 23:09

• Third Ingush activist detained over the day

  Rashid Aushev has become today, together with the activists detained earlier, Khasan Katsiev and Akhmed Nalgiev, the third suspect in the case of clashes with law enforcers at a rally in Magas, the advocates, Akhmed Kaloev and Magomed Bekov, have informed.

April 23, 2019 22:54

• Five persons suspected of plotting terror acts in Chechnya and Dagestan

  Five members of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, were preparing attacks on law enforcers in the cities of Kaspiysk and Grozny, the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has informed.

April 23, 2019 22:33

• Daudov and Abdurakhmanov dispute about Aslan Maskhadov's Russian passport

  Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has entered a remote dispute with the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, and supported Ramzan Kadyrov's opinion.