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March 17, 2019 11:11

• Two residents of Dagestan detained on suspicion of financing IS*

  Residents of Makhachkala and Kizilyurt District are suspected of having transferred more than 10 million roubles to members of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

March 16, 2019 18:21

• Azerbaijani resident wounded on Armenian border

  The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported a detention of a violator of the Azerbaijani border. The man was a resident of the border area; the militaries wounded him in the leg.

March 16, 2019 18:11

• HRW treats Titiev's case as "shame of Russian justice"

  The international Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded to immediately release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

March 16, 2019 18:03

• Amid believers' complaints, Dagestani law enforcers refuse from raiding mosques

  Law enforcers would not conduct the traditional Friday raid near the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala, fearing inspections by the prosecutor's office, where believers have turned to, believes Magomed Magomedov, a member of the mosque public council.

March 16, 2019 17:51

• Analysts exclude political context from conflict around cafés in Yerevan

  Opponents of the new authorities are trying to give a political colouration to the protests against the demolition of cafés in Yerevan, but in reality it does not exist, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. They blame the city Mayoralty for the escalation of the conflict.

March 16, 2019 10:34

• Two Mormons condemned in Kuban for missionary outreach among passersby

  The court has ruled to fine David Gaag and Cole Brodovsky, American missionaries, and deport them from Russia. They refused to plead guilty of handing out leaflets in the streets in Novorossiysk, but refused to appeal against the judgement.

March 16, 2019 10:13

• Pankisi residents tell about militant killed in Syria

  Amiran Borchashvili, a resident of the village of Dumasturi, who perished in Syria, grew up in a respected family and studied at the university; his departure for the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, surprised his friends, local residents told the "Caucasian Knot".

March 16, 2019 10:02

• New US sanctions create no threats to Kadyrov

  The US sanctions imposed in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov are not fundamentally new and unable to create problems for Ramzan Kadyrov. They could even increase the popularity of Kadyrov in the Middle East, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

March 16, 2019 08:55

• Kremlin refuses to react to Daudov's words about blood feud to Abdurakhmanov

  The Kremlin has granted complete freedom to Chechen leadership, the blogger Tumso Abdurkhmanov assessed the federal authorities' reaction to the words of the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, who declared blood feud to Tumso. Oppositionist Alexei Navalny has noted that Magomed Daudov's words are contrary to the status of a high-ranking official.

March 16, 2019 08:44

• Residents of Stavropol Territory report details of shootout with militants

  The farmyard of Balki, near which an armed clash broke out on March 14, is a very quiet place, populated mostly by pensioners, said local residents, noting that they heard loud shots at night of the special operation.

March 16, 2019 08:35

• CPRF achieves verification of legality of Rauf Arashukov's senator post

  The Federation Council is engaged in a check initiated by Valery Rashkin, a State Duma member from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), concerning verification of the information stating that when Rauf Arashukov got his senator's mandate in 2016, he had a residence permit in the UAE, the "Kommersant" reports.

March 16, 2019 08:25

• Anastasia Shevchenko's arrest extended for three months

  The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended until June 17 the term of house arrest to activist Anastasia Shevchenko, accused of involvement in an undesirable organization. The defence's request to let Anastasia Shevchenko take her children to school and go for walks was dismissed.

March 15, 2019 20:05

• Navalny urges "United Russia" to react to Chechen MP's statement about Russians

  Magomed Khanbiev, a member of the Chechen parliament, published a video in which he declared himself "the son of Ichkeria" and said that he "did not like Russians." Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny drew attention to the fact that the authorities of the country failed to react to the statement voiced by the MP.

March 15, 2019 19:50

• Commander of Southern Military District included in EU sanctions list

  Alexander Dvornikov, the commander of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, has become one of the Russian citizens included in the EU sanctions list. After the incident in the Kerch Strait, Alexander Dvornikov is banned from entering the territory of the EU member countries.

March 15, 2019 19:40

• In Yerevan, all protestors released (+video)

  In Yerevan, after drawing up protocols on administrative violations, the police released participants of a protest action against the dismantling of cafes.

March 15, 2019 13:31

• Activists support US State Department's criticism of human rights situation in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani authorities fail to persecute and punish those who violate human rights; and this creates an atmosphere of impunity, says the report of the US State Department about the state of human rights in the world in 2018. Azerbaijani activists agree with the criticism and believe that sanctions should be imposed on the country's authorities.

March 15, 2019 13:21

• Two teenagers wounded in Dagestan

  Children were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after they played with weapons found in the Levashi District.

March 15, 2019 10:20

• Café owner in Yerevan urges to stop protests

  Armen Petrosyan, one of the owners of the "Jazzve" café chain, has called upon his colleagues, café owners and workers, to stop protests in view of the current explosive situation, and move the struggle exclusively to the legitimate field.

March 15, 2019 10:11

• South Ossetia hands over two citizens to Georgia

  Alan Margishvili and Giorgi Chitishvili, who were detained by South-Ossetian law enforcers, were released and, after paying a fine for violating the border, handed over to Georgian law enforcers.

March 15, 2019 10:00

• Former Chechen law enforcer complains about detention of his son

  A man, who introduced himself as a retired law enforcer, recorded an audio message on the YouTube service, criticizing his former colleagues, after his son was detained in Gudermes.