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March 04, 2019 11:21

• Georgian activists oppose LGBT propaganda among children

  On March 3, activists held an action at the UN office in Georgia, demanding to ban programmes aimed at propaganda of LGBTs at schools and kindergartens.

March 04, 2019 11:18

• Over a thousand spectators watched the cartoon "Brave Horseman" in Makhachkala

  The show of the cartoon "Brave Djigit" (Horseman) about Caucasian traditions has attracted the attention of the Dagestan public, Idris Magomedov, the project leader, believes.

March 04, 2019 11:06

• Some 30 people came to first screening of film about torture of Anapa residents

  In Krasnodar, the presentation of the film about the four residents of Anapa, who were tortured and became figurants of a robbery case, was visited by about 30 people came. The authors hope that the film will spread on the Internet and watched by bosses of power structures. Parents of the young people have stated that now they have hope for a fair investigation.

March 03, 2019 10:38

• Volgograd activist calls on Putin to resign

  Olga Karpukhnova has stated at a picket, held in Volgograd, that constitutional rights of Russian citizens are violated.

March 03, 2019 10:33

• NKR claims 200 shelling attacks on its positions

  During the period from February 24 to March 2, 2029, Azerbaijani militaries fired more than 3000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has claimed.

March 03, 2019 10:24

• Mekhman Guseinov released from Azerbaijani prison (+video)

  On March 2, immediately after his release from jail, Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger, took part in commemoration of the assassinated journalist, Elmar Guseinov. He recalled that he was arrested two years ago after the same rally.

March 02, 2019 19:14

• Azerbaijani activist Guseinov arrested for 30 days

  Rafael Guseinov was again placed under administrative arrest in the Apsheron District just four days after his release, his father has reported, adding that the police failed to explain the reason for his son's new arrest.

March 02, 2019 19:03

• Grozny resident gets under trial for a walk with Nazi flag

  The administrative case against a resident of Grozny, who appeared in the city centre with a flag with swastika put on him, has been sent to the court. This is an atypical offense, the Chechen Prosecutor's Office (PO) has noted.

March 02, 2019 18:53

• Blogger Kamikadze reports threats from Khabib Nurmagomedov's supporters

  A call addressed to the fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, to stop attacks on theatre has caused a wave of threats, said the blogger Kamikaze. He refused to apologize to Nurmagomedov and criticized the "fighters for morality" in Dagestan for inattention to social problems of the region.

March 02, 2019 18:42

• Karasin's statements on Georgia-NATO relations trigger Tbilisi's reaction

  Grigory Karasin, a Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, has warned the Georgian authorities about the "unpleasant surprises" that could be caused by Georgia-NATO cooperation. Georgian politicians have treated this statement as a hidden threat. However, the official Tbilisi abandoned any harsh retaliatory rhetoric.

March 02, 2019 12:03

• Givi Targamadze demands to find the customer of attempt

  Givi Targamadze has expressed dissatisfaction that, while investigating the attempt on him, the Georgia's Prosecutor's Office and the Tbilisi City Court failed to establish the customer of the crime.

March 02, 2019 11:51

• About 30 houses burned down in Dagestani village

  A fire that broke out in the village of Tissi-Akhitli of the Tsumadin District of Dagestan has destroyed about 30 houses.

March 02, 2019 11:40

• Armenian authorities treat verdict to Kazaryan as violation of international law

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint against the verdict to Karen Kazaryan, sentenced in Azerbaijan to 20 years in prison, and decided to consider the case in an accelerated manner, the defence of Kazaryan, a citizen of Armenia, has stated.

March 02, 2019 08:41

• Armenian residents commemorate victims of March 2008 protest suppression

  Five thousand people took part in the march on the 11th anniversary of the clashes of oppositionists with law enforcers. The authorities will never solve internal problems by force, the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has promised.

March 02, 2019 08:30

• Residents of Chechnya voice out conditions for returning to Galanchozh District

  Commenting on the authorities' promises to build housing for the resettlers and pay installation allowances to them, natives of the Galanchozh District have expressed concern that the necessary infrastructure would not be fully built.

March 02, 2019 08:22

• Flooding in Sochi linked with Olympic construction

  The Sochi authorities claim that there is no danger to townspeople living near the Kepsha River. Activists have linked the flooding in Sochi with large-scale extraction of gravel from the river and the construction of Olympic facilities.

March 01, 2019 21:24

• KBR's SC closes Akopyan's case

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided that after the mitigation of the article on extremism, there was no crime element in the case of Arkadi Akopyan, a believer of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religious organization, recognized as extremist and banned by the court decision.

March 01, 2019 21:15

• Witness in Mikhail Savostin's case tells about threats from law enforcer

  The testimony about the joint use of drugs with Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Assembly of Mineralnye Vody", was given under pressure, said the witness, Sergey Didenko, at the court session on February 28 and named the law enforcer who threatened him.

March 01, 2019 18:20

• Talysh activist extradited from Russia to Azerbaijan

  Russia has given Fakhraddin Abbasov, a Talysh activist, out to Azerbaijan; he is accused in his homeland of appeals against territorial integrity and of hostility incitement.

March 01, 2019 18:10

• Rights defenders make film about torture of four Anapa residents

  The film "Extreme South", the presentation of which is scheduled for March 2, tells about the fate of four residents of Anapa, who were tortured and became figurants of a criminal case on robbery. For the fourth year, they are under house arrest, whereas there is not a single suspect in the torture case, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.