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February 26, 2019 10:44

• Petition against rewarding Armenian officials gathered thousands of signatures

  The participants of the protest action held at the building of the Armenian Government have demanded to return the premiums issued to state officials back into the budget. Within 12 days, the letter of demand addressed to the government gathered 12,000 signatures, said Ani Kaginyan, one of the protesters.

February 26, 2019 08:26

• Investigators find it unlikely that attack in Bakhtemir village was a terror act

  The man, who was shot dead after attacking a policeman in the village of Bakhtemir of the Astrakhan Region, had not attracted law enforcers' attention and was not registered by psychiatrists. No terrorist motives can be seen in the attacker's actions, the spokesman of the regional branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has stated.

February 26, 2019 08:18

• Georgian court refuses to release David Kirkitadze

  The Gurdjaani District Court has refused to release David Kirkitadze, an activist of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, from custody, despite the petition with 15,000 signatures, presented by the defence.

February 26, 2019 08:12

• Kadyrov makes forced concessions on deportation anniversary

  The dissatisfaction of residents of Chechnya with the ban on official mourning events on the anniversary of deportation became so obvious in eight years that the authorities had to reckon with it, believes Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations. Dmitry Oreshkin, a political analyst, has added that by making concessions to his people, Ramzan Kadyrov improved his authority, while not making the Kremlin angry.

February 25, 2019 23:15

• Egyptian authorities blame Ingush detainees for extremism

  The four students from Ingushetia detained in Cairo found their custody conditions in prison to be tolerable, but complained about the non-provision of an advocate and an interpreter at the trial, their relatives said. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has called the fifth detainee, whose fate is unknown, to be an alleged recruiter of militants.

February 25, 2019 23:06

• Armenian resident detained after attempting suicide outside government building

  Policemen have detained the man, who tried to commit suicide near the building of the Armenian Government, where an action was held today demanding the resignation of the head of the Urtsadzor community.

February 25, 2019 22:45

• Residents of Chechnya receive charity support on deportation anniversary

  On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of deportation of the Vainakhs, Chechnya has organized a large-scale distribution of foodstuffs to the poor. Religious rites have been held in the republic's cities and district centres.

February 25, 2019 20:09

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 18-24, 2019

  The 75th anniversary of the deportation of Chechen and Ingush people; CTO in Dagestan; update in the list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 18-24, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 25, 2019 18:40

• Attack on law enforcers in Astrakhan District becomes first incident since April 2017

  On February 24, residents of the Bakhtemir village reported to the police about a man with a gun walking down the street. Law enforcers came to the place and demanded from the man to hand over his gun, but he opened fire on them and was killed by return fire. One policeman was hospitalized with wounds in serious condition. He stays in a coma, investigators report today.

February 25, 2019 18:19

• Azerbaijan reports ceasefire violation in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani forces in the Karabakh conflict zone have been shelled 25 times over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

February 25, 2019 14:01

• On February 18-24, 2019, one person fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of February 18-24, 2019, a man was killed in 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 other open sources.

February 25, 2019 13:48

• Participants of Moscow march in memory of Nemtsov call for release of political prisoners

  Participants of a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov demanded to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, Rostov activist Anastasia Shevchenko, and all Russian political prisoners. The marchers also called for the investigation into the murders of Natalia Estemirova and Anna Politkovskaya.

February 25, 2019 11:00

• Volgograd activists demand to find the customer of Nemtsov's murder

  On the anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's murder, in Volgograd, seven activists held solo pickets, criticizing the superficial investigation of the crime.

February 25, 2019 10:51

• Nemtsov commemoration marchers demand to release Oyub Titiev

  The employees of the international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) have joined the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow demanding the release Oyub Titiev, a Chechen human rights defender. The action also included a collection of signatures in support of Titiev, activists told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

February 25, 2019 10:40

• Baku: rights defenders demand to lift bans on freedom of travel

  The practice of prohibiting travel abroad, as a method of political pressure, is widespread in Azerbaijan, says the 20-page study entitled "Freedom of Travel in Azerbaijan: Politically Motivated Travel Bans", published by the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies (CEMDS).

February 25, 2019 10:09

• Akkin Chechens mark deportation anniversary

  Commemoration of 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingushes took place on February 23 at the monument to victims of Stalinist repression in the village of Yaryk-Su in Dagestan. Akkin Chechens and delegations from Chechnya and Ingushetia took part in the event.

February 24, 2019 11:08

• Georgian priest Giorgi Mamaladze transferred to prison hospital

  The Archpriest Giorgi Mamaladze, convicted for an attempt to poison the secretary of the Patriarch of Georgia, has been brought, at the request of the penitentiary administration, from a civilian clinic to a prison hospital.

February 24, 2019 10:59

• Social networks users disbelieve NAC's message about killing militant in Dagestan

  The information that the person killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Belidji was a militant and had an explosive device on him is false, social network users have suggested. While expressing their mistrust to law enforcers, they referred to the resonant murder of Gasanguseinov brothers.

February 24, 2019 10:56

• NKR blames Azerbaijan for 150 shelling attacks during the week

  On February 17-23, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan fired more than 1500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has announced.

February 24, 2019 10:53

• Memory of deported nations honoured in Volgograd mosque

  About 150 people have visited the Volgograd mosque on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of deportation of Ingushes and Chechens.