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February 17, 2019 10:57

• NKR claims 220 shelling attacks during the week

  On February 10-16, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 1700 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

February 17, 2019 10:48

• Workers of Armenian smelter stop their protest

  After the meeting with the Armenian Vice-Premier, workers of the Alaverdi Copper Smelter unblocked the Yerevan-Tbilisi railway, agreeing to wait for the outcomes of the talks on the resumption of the factory operation.

February 16, 2019 16:55

• Law enforcers release one of detained residents of Grozny District

  One of the three residents of Tersky was released without charging, two others are suspected of having links with militants, their relatives have informed.

February 16, 2019 16:45

• Kuban residents support version of homophobia-based murder of fellow villagers

  Two residents of the dwelling settlement of Ilsky were killed because of their sexual orientation, their fellow villagers are convinced. The fact that investigators have voiced out this version as one of the basic ones is a rare case, activists of the Russian LGBT Network have noted.

February 16, 2019 16:25

• Dagestani activists show disputable territories on Chechen border to Shikhsaidov

  Members of the Dagestani Public Commission on the border with Chechnya have shown Khizri Shikhsaidov, the Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament, the potentially disputable territories for the demarcation. In his turn, he has assured that Dagestan has no intent to give any land to Chechnya.

February 16, 2019 16:09

• Azerbaijani and Chechen authorities withdraw from interethnic conflict in Moscow

  The parties in the mass brawl in the Pechatniki Moscow district were natives of Chechnya and Azerbaijan; mutual insults kindled the conflict, sources have reported. Employees of the Chechnya's permanent mission and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Moscow did not contact the parties, said the sources from both institutions.

February 16, 2019 13:25

• Investigation of the "March 1" case over in Armenia

  The Special Investigating Service (SIS) of Armenia has completed the inquiry into the case of riots in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008, and presented charges against the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, and other officials.

February 16, 2019 13:16

• Sochi Buddhist fined for meditation

  The court has found the resident of Sochi, who conducted collective Buddhist meditations, guilty of illegal missionary activities and fined him by 5000 roubles. The court ruling has caused resonance among Facebook users.

February 16, 2019 13:07

• Nurmagomedov pays fine for his brawl after fight with McGregor

  Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Dagestani MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter, who was fined for the brawl he initiated after his fight with Conor McGregor, has paid the fine of 500,000 US dollars. Khabib has also paid the fines for his team members, Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov.

February 16, 2019 08:28

• Chechen law enforcers launch campaign against wearing camouflage

  The popular wearing of elements of military uniforms by Chechen residents undermines the law enforcers' authority and scares tourists away, law enforcers have stated. Raids were conducted in the Gudermes District, during which policemen warned men about the inadmissibility of wearing camouflage and other military clothes.

February 16, 2019 08:24

• HRC "Memorial" treats inquiry into attack on Datsiev as inefficient

  During a year, the investigation of threats received by the staff of the Makhachkala branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", arson of rights defenders' car, and beating up of Sirazhudin Datsiev, has not progressed; investigators shy away from contacts with victims and their lawyers, stated the participants of the press conference that took place in the capital of Dagestan on February 15.

February 16, 2019 08:16

• Two believers detained at Salafi mosque in Makhachkala

  On February 15, policemen conducted a preventive raid in the area of the mosque in Omarov Street; all the detainees are already back at large, the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has stated. Such raids are held every Friday, the journalist, Idris Yusupov, has added.

February 15, 2019 21:32

• Islamic scholars point to growing Islamic leaders' influence in Ingushetia

  Mass protests of residents of Ingushetia against the agreement on the border with Chechnya have demonstrated the significance of the religious factor in the region, the participants of the seminar on the history and modern state of Islam, held on February 13 at the Institute of Oriental Studies, have stated.

February 15, 2019 21:21

• Copper Smelter workers resume protest action in Armenia

  Workers of the Alaverdi Copper Smelting Factory have again blocked the Yerevan-Tbilisi railway after the disruption of the meeting of governmental officials, the factory owner and the bank, Armen Kirakosyan, one of the organizers of the rally, has stated.

February 15, 2019 21:11

• Religious activist Tural Allakhverdiev arrested for 20 days

  On February 14, Tural Allakhverdiev, a believer and an active Facebook user, was arrested for 20 days for disobeying the police, the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM) has reported. MUM activists believe that Allakhverdiev was persecuted for calls to render material help to families of political prisoners.

February 15, 2019 17:46

• "Golos" counts overstated voter turnout at election in SFD and NCFD

  Analysis of video records from polling stations in the Krasnodar Territory, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia has shown that the voter turnout in 2018 was overstated by 23-52%, the report of the movement for voters' rights named "Golos" (Vote) states.

February 15, 2019 17:29

• Umarov offers making Abdurakhmanov Chechen authorities' envoy in Poland

  The videos criticizing the authorities of Chechnya, which the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov posts on the Internet, spoil the image of the Chechen people, Djambulat Umarov, the Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information, has stated. He invited the blogger to present a concept for the implementation of Chechnya's foreign relations, promising to solicit for him to Ramzan Kadyrov.

February 15, 2019 17:15

• Woman suspected of organizing IS* unit arrested in Astrakhan

  According to the Russia's FSB, the detained woman-resident of the Astrakhan Region was one of the organizers of the secret unit of the international terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in Russia by the court. She is suspected of financing terrorists, investigators have stated.

February 15, 2019 15:01

• Azerbaijan registers 23 shelling attacks per day

  On February 14-15, units of the Armenian armed forces 23 times violated the ceasefire in various directions of the front, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

February 15, 2019 14:53

• In Armenia, workers report consequences of their plant's closure

  In the city of Alaverdi, people have already felt the consequences of the copper plant's suspension. As a result, the purchasing power in the city decreased and people began to accumulate debts on their loans. If the plant is closed, at least 630 people will lose their jobs, workers of the plant report.