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March 28, 2019 14:45

• Female pilot accuses Georgian MoD of discrimination

  In its lawsuit filed to the Tbilisi City Court, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Georgia demanded from armed forces female pilot Ekaterina Kvlividze to pay a fine for the premature termination of her contract. In response, the armed forces pilot filed a lawsuit against the Georgian MoD.

March 28, 2019 11:36

• NGO activists refuse treating David Kirkitadze's case as political

  The defence of David Kirkitadze, an activist of the "United National Movement" (UNM) oppositional party, has demanded to remove Judge Nuna Nemsitsveridze from running the trial on the attack on the policeman, arguing that she is biased about the case. Oppositional activists treat the charges as political; however, there are no reasons for this, the NGO activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

March 28, 2019 11:28

• Over 200 NKR families receive payments for birth of fourth child

  The "Tashir" Charitable Fund has paid 4000 US dollars to each of the families, in which the fourth child was born in 2018. These payments have affected the increase in the birth rate of fourth children, Samvel Avanesyan, the Minister for Social Matters, Labour and Migration of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated.

March 28, 2019 11:17

• Baku military experts link escalation in conflict zone with upcoming leaders' meeting

  The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have associated the March 26 aggravation of the conflict on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border with the upcoming Ilham Aliev's meeting with Nikol Pashinyan.

March 28, 2019 08:19

• Kvaratskheliya's relatives question his suicide

  Relatives found bruises on the body of Irakli Kvaratskheliya, who died after being detained in Abkhazia. He was very religious and could hardly commit suicide, his relatives in Georgia and Abkhazia assert.

March 28, 2019 08:14

• Taxi drivers' protest in Tbilisi resulted in detention of one driver

  On March 27, drivers held a rally at the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi, demanding to cancel the taxi reform. One protester was detained on charges of disobeying the police.

March 28, 2019 08:08

• Organizers of protests in Ingushetia consider activists' persecutions inevitable

  None of the organizers and participants of the mass protest in Magas has been detained, but the authorities will react to the rally with persecutions of activists, the protest leaders are sure. The demand for the resignation of Yunus-Bek Evkurov became the most popular among the protesters, they have stated.

March 27, 2019 23:05

• Soldier arrested after killing colleague in NKR

  Law enforcers have arrested a soldier of the army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), who opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one and wounding another of them.

March 27, 2019 22:59

• Activists unblock entrance to Nazran

  After the appeal by Akhmet Pogorov, the co-chairman of the Congress of the Ingush People, to gather in the mosque, the protesters, who had blocked the highway at the entrance to Nazran, began dispersing.

March 27, 2019 22:46

• Stavropol law enforcers report detention of IS* supporter

  A native of Dagestan, suspected of plotting terror acts in the Stavropol Territory, has been detained, the FSB has stated today.

March 27, 2019 18:56

• Protesters block Caucasus highway in Ingushetia

  In Magas, participants of a rally gathered at the entrance to Nazran and blocked the federal highway. Activists called on the protesters to free the road.

March 27, 2019 18:47

• Georgian resident sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Smith family

  Today, the Gori District Court has sentenced shepherd Malkhaz Kobauri to life imprisonment in the case on the murder of three members of the Smith family, including a child.

March 27, 2019 13:55

• Soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  In the evening on March 26, a soldier of Nagorno-Karabakh was fatally wounded under unclear circumstances, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

March 27, 2019 13:46

• Protesters leave square in Magas

  Residents of Ingushetia stopped their protest action after the authorities had promised to sanction a new rally in five days.

March 27, 2019 13:37

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of machine gun fire

  Units of the Armenian armed forces 24 times violated the ceasefire and used large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

March 27, 2019 12:24

• NKR: initiative of "Sasna Tsrer" provokes discontent of pro-government parties

  The "Sasna Tsrer" Party, which organized the collection of signatures for the annexation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) to Armenia, reported that it had collected 230 signatures in support of the initiative. Three parties in the parliament of the unrecognized republic condemned the collection of signatures and spoke for the independence of the NKR.

March 27, 2019 11:56

• Mikhail Benyash's defence catches Krasnodar officials on false testimonies

  At trial, two officials from the district administrations of Krasnodar reported how participants in the protest action against the pension reform were detained and how Mikhail Benyash was brought to the UVD (Interior Department). Witnesses were physically unable to observe both events, since they had occurred in different places at the same time, the defence noted.

March 27, 2019 09:17

• In Magas, protesters refuse to leave square despite threat of dispersal

  In Magas, after the police voiced threats to disperse a rally using water cannons, none of the protesters left the square, reported human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov. Users of social networks noted a peaceful atmosphere in the square.

March 27, 2019 08:31

• Militaries start shootout on Armenian-Azerbaijani border

  Azerbaijani military servicemen have tried to bring their positions closer to the Armenian ones and opened fire in response to the warning, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated. In its turn, the Azerbaijani MoD refuted this information, announcing the death of its soldier in another section of the frontline.

March 27, 2019 08:24

• Law enforcers ban Magas protesters from setting up tents

  At least 2000 protesters have stayed in the square cordoned off by law enforcers in Magas; they were warned that the continuation of the rally was not sanctioned, said Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender.