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April 03, 2019 09:44

• Policemen attacked in KBR

  A car driver opened fire on the policemen, who stopped him to check documents in the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The shooter managed to escape, a source said.

April 03, 2019 08:33

• Relatives demand to fix traces of torture in Dagestan resident

  A sister of Omar Abdurashidov, a resident of Makhachkala, accused of financing terrorism, has held a picket demanding a medical examination of her brother for torture traces, and to punish the guilty law enforcers. An advocate has stated that the latter are pulling time for the wounds to heal up.

April 03, 2019 08:31

• Demonstrative Kadyrov Fund's charity raises Islamic ethics issues

  The TV reports about the charity actions of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund are contrary to Islamic canons, which forbid any promotion by means of good deeds, Orientalists believe.

April 03, 2019 08:29

• Rights defenders state that law enforcers were right during detention of Sochi resident

  By using force during the detention of Roman Gabaev in Sochi, who refused to go to the police station, law enforcers acted within the bounds of the law, the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) has concluded. Gabaev insists that he resisted the unjustified detention.

April 03, 2019 08:25

• Forced migrants threaten to go on hunger strike in Georgia

  300 temporarily displaced persons from Abkhazia, who have occupied apartments in a residential complex in Tbilisi, have demanded to remove the police cordon and let an advocate and journalists visit them. The developer has blamed them for spoiling property in the building.

April 02, 2019 22:32

• Week of March 25-31 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from March 25 to March 31, 2019, no casualties and victims were reported in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

April 02, 2019 22:21

• Residents of Chechnya reproach authorities of obtrusive promotion of Kadyrov Fund

  The spread of 3000 food packages among poor families on behalf of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund was not such a large-scale action to tell about it on local TV, residents of Chechnya believe.

April 02, 2019 19:57

• Four activists arrested for participating in protests near Nazran

  In Magas, the court arrested for 10 days four participants of a spontaneous rally in highway at the entrance to Nazran. Other two protestors were fined.

April 02, 2019 19:50

• Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliev reach no consent on Karabakh's status in negotiations

  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reported that the issue on participation of Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiations was discussed during a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev. There is a need for holding trilateral negotiations to resolve the Karabakh conflict, agree Armenian politicians.

April 02, 2019 19:34

• Authorities of Dagestan accuse Chechnya of establishing border unilaterally

  The parliament of Dagestan demanded from the Chechen Department of the "Rosreestr" (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography) to cancel the registration of the right to a land plot as a part of the Kizlyar District.

April 02, 2019 14:37

• Six participants of "Solidarity with Workers" action detained in Tbilisi

  The action demanding to protect workers' rights held in Tbilisi after the death of two builders at a construction site, ended in detention of six persons.

April 02, 2019 14:07

• Residents of Chechnya treat video appeal of blogger Malizaev's wife to him as forced one

  The wife of Minkail Malizaev, an active critic of Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, living in Germany, has posted a video clip, in which she publicly renounced her husband. Residents of Chechnya suggest that the clip was recorded video was shot under pressure in order to humiliate Malizaev.

April 02, 2019 11:33

• Kadyrov improves practice of public apologies for Chechens who are outside the republic

  Muslim Djambekov, arrested for a fatal road accident in Moscow, is the second Chechen lately, who has apologized to the people, not to the authorities of Chechnya. Kadyrov sees a threat to his image in any negative events involving Chechens, said Ruslan Kutaev, an activist, and Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst.

April 02, 2019 11:28

• Editor of "Pravda Beslana" explains re-publication of Basaev's letter to Putin

  For the second time since July 2018, the "Roskomnadzor" has demanded to remove the page from the "Pravda Beslana" (Beslan Truth) website, which shows a copy terrorists' note from the school captured in 2004, Marina Litvinovich, the editor of the website dedicated to the inquiry into the terror act, has reported. She treats the demand as absurd and renamed the page with the letter.

April 02, 2019 11:24

• Makhachkala: people with disabilities open their café

  A social café "Time for Change", which employs people with disabilities, has opened in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

April 02, 2019 08:26

• New protests in Ingushetia bring Evkurov's resignation closer

  In Ingushetia, the second wave of mass protests within the last six months has undermined Yunus-Bek Evkurov's reputation in the eyes of the Russian federal authorities. The Kremlin is ready to replace the head of the republic in the near future, when it will not look like a concession to protesters' demands, political analysts believe.

April 02, 2019 08:22

• Yerevan residents commemorate victims of 2016 April war in NKR

  In Yerevan, the participants of the memory action gathered in Freedom Square, and lit candles and torches to commemorate those who perished in the April 2016 war in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR); then, they went to the military cemetery.

April 01, 2019 23:51

• Artists persuade Nikol Pashinyan to intervene in scandal with dismissal of theatre director

  After a meeting with participants of the protest action, who expressed their indignation about the dismissal of Konstantin Orbelyan and demanded the resignation of the Armenian Minister of Culture, Nikol Pashinyan agreed not to appoint a new director of the Opera Theatre. The Prime Minister offered the artists to refute the arguments of the Minister of Culture, who dismissed Konstantin Orbelyan.

April 01, 2019 23:48

• Advocate complains of being not allowed to visit Azerbaijani activist Bairam Mamedov

  Advocate Elchin Sadygov complained that the prison administration did not allow him to visit Bairam Mamedov, an arrested member of the movement "Nida".

April 01, 2019 20:31

• Defendants tortured in case on Ganja riots, their relatives complain

  In the cases on the attempted assassination of the Ganja Mayor and on the killing of two policemen, defendants were tortured, while law enforcers had no evidence of their guilt, relatives of the arrested persons complained.