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April 08, 2019 21:43

• Ingush activist Mussa Pliev detained

  Today, law enforcers have detained Mussa Pliev, a participant of the rally in Magas; his exact whereabouts is unknown, the lawyer, Kaloi Akhilgov, has informed.

April 08, 2019 19:41

• Residents of Ramzan Kadyrov's native village report compensation for demolition of houses

  Land plots are allocated and compensations were paid to families whose houses near the Ramzan Kadyrov's estate in the village of Khosi-Yurt are to be demolished, villagers report.

April 08, 2019 19:30

• On April 1-7, 2019, two persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of April 1-7, 2019, two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded 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 08, 2019 19:18

• Authorities of Chechnya disclose reason for unilateral registration of border with Dagestan

  Chechnya unilaterally registered a disputed piece of land on the border with the Kizlyar District, since there had been no reaction from the Dagestani side, explained the spokesman for the Ramzan Kadyrov's administration and Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen parliament.

April 08, 2019 15:45

• Azerbaijan claims shelling attacks on its three villages in conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces were shelled 26 times in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in three villages located in the regions bordering Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

April 08, 2019 15:35

• Akhmed Pogorov promises to pay fines for Ingush activists

  Akmed Pogorov, the co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, made a video appeal to the people, in which he called the events that took place in a square in Magas a provocation and promised to pay all the fines imposed on activists.

April 08, 2019 13:30

• Ingush students go on hunger strike in Egyptian prison

  Five Ingush students who were detained in Egypt last August and who are being kept in prison, declare hunger strike with the demand to release them. According to Marem Dzeitova, a mother of one of the detained students, they demand to release them, since no charges have been filed against them.

April 08, 2019 13:21

• In Hamburg, activists demand to release Ingush activists

  On April 7, in the German city of Hamburg, Ingush natives held a rally in support of activists detained in Ingushetia who protested against the border agreement with Chechnya and who demanded the resignation of Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

April 08, 2019 13:13

• Bairam Mamedov's health gets worse after his arrest, "Nida" activists report

  Relatives and associates of Bairam Mamedov, an arrested activist of the movement "Nida", reported a rapid deterioration of his health state in the detention centre and demanded to immediately release him.

April 08, 2019 13:03

• Transgender's speech in Armenian parliament provokes resonance in social networks

  A speech delivered by transgender Lilit Martirosyan in the Armenian parliament at the hearings on human rights provoked an ambiguous reaction from users of social networks. Some of them criticized the organizers of the public hearings, who allowed Lilit Martirosyan to go to the tribune in the parliament, while others, on the contrary, spoke in defence of the rights of minorities.

April 07, 2019 12:48

• Nagorno-Karabakh states 250 shelling attacks a week

  During the week from March 31 to April 6, Azerbaijani soldiers fired over 2500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

April 07, 2019 12:43

• Georgian resident detained on Abkhaz border

  Law enforcers from Abkhazia crossed the Inguri River and kidnapped a citizen of Georgia, eyewitnesses assert.

April 07, 2019 12:28

• Military police battalion returns from Syria to Chechnya

  About 400 military policemen, who had served in Syria for several months, are back in Chechnya without losses, the Military Commandant has announced.

April 07, 2019 12:22

• Rallies in support of Ingush activists held in Belgium and Finland

  On Saturday in Brussels and Helsinki, the Ingush held rallies in solidarity with fellow countrymen protesting at home against the border agreement with Chechnya and demanding the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

April 07, 2019 12:14

• Ingush activist holds picket in Nalchik

  Ismail Nalgiev, an activist, has come out to a solo picket at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the temporary detention centre (known as IVS) in Nalchik in support of the detainees after protests in Ingushetia.

April 06, 2019 20:52

• Georgian experts assess consequences of increased NATO's activeness in Black Sea

  Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, has reiterated the Alliance's support for Georgia and urged Russia not to influence the Georgia's to join it. The NATO is increasing its presence in the Black Sea basin by scaling up its naval forces, and this can accelerate the process of Georgia's accession to the NATO, experts say.

April 06, 2019 20:51

• Armenian NGOs criticized the fight against fake news announced by Nikol Pashinyan

  After Nikol Pashinyan's instruction to counter fake news, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia reported on the detention of the author of a group on the Facebook.

April 06, 2019 20:49

• Ingush Ombudsman questions legality of keeping activists in Nalchik

  The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia was asked to check whether law enforcers had the right to send the arrested Ingush activists to serve their terms in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Djambulat Azdoev, the Ingush Ombudsperson, has stated.

April 06, 2019 10:44

• Eight activists arrested for attacking policemen during protests in Ingushetia

  A court in Nalchik has arrested eight activists suspected of using violence against state power officials and for calling to unrests during the recent protests in Ingushetia.

April 06, 2019 10:40

• Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev refuses to stop hunger strike

  Akhmed Barakhoev, an Ingush elder, arrested after the protest action in Magas, told his advocate that he would stop his hunger strike only after meeting rights defenders.