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February 12, 2019 01:44

• Court dealing with Titiev's case continues rejecting defence's motions

  The female judge, who is considering the case of Oyub Titiev, has refused to satisfy the defence's demand of self-disqualification. Oyub's advocates demanded to request details of Titiev's mobile phone connections on the day of his detention from mobile operators.

February 11, 2019 23:15

• "March of Mothers' Rage" disrupted in Makhachkala

  Natalia Zakharova, the organizer of the "March of Mothers' Rage" in Makhachkala, decided to change the format of the action to a solo picket in support of Anastasia Shevchenko, after law enforcers came to her home in her absence and frightened her children.

February 11, 2019 22:42

• Poland to deport native of Chechnya for links with IS*

  A native of Chechnya was detained in Poland on suspicion of having links with terrorist organizations; the authorities are preparing to extradite him to Russia.

February 11, 2019 22:19

• Five PFPA members detained during trial of their party comrade

  The court has refused to release Zakhir Mamedli, the head of one of the branches of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). Five activists, who came to the courthouse, were taken to the police station. Four of them were later released.

February 11, 2019 19:46

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 4-10, 2019

  Start of the discussion on the borders between Chechnya and Dagestan; severe earthquakes in Azerbaijan; departure of an Armenian mission to Syria, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 4-10, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 11, 2019 17:15

• Titiev's defence demands to disqualify the judge

  The judge's decisions to reject all the defence's petitions in the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", may be associated with fears for the judge's personal safety, Titiev's advocate has stated today. The prosecutors have treated the defence's demands to disqualify the court as unjustified.

February 11, 2019 17:04

• Social networks criticize KBR's Health Ministry for poor state of hospitals

  Users of the Instagram have expressed outrage at the information about dirty mattresses and bedspreads, issued to patients in the infectious diseases ward of the hospital of the dwelling settlement of Maisky and stated that a similar picture can be observed in hospitals in other cities of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

February 11, 2019 16:16

• Armenian opposition criticizes sending mission to Syria

  Officials voice contradictory statements about the reasons for sending a humanitarian contingent to Syria, state Armen Ashotyan, the deputy chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). The "Sasna Tsrer" Party described sending of armed forces to Syria as "colonial dependence on Russia."

February 11, 2019 15:54

• On February 4-10, 2019, one person fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of February 4-10, 2019, one person 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 11, 2019 15:42

• Grenade found near kindergarten in Baku

  A teenager reported to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Azerbaijan that he had found a grenade in an abandoned front garden in a yard of a house in Ganja Avenue in Baku.

February 11, 2019 11:15

• Twenty-seven Russian children get back from Iraq

  27 children from Russia aged from four to 13 years were brought to Moscow from Iraq. The children had been kept in a prison in Baghdad, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

February 11, 2019 11:03

• Astrakhan activists stand up for Anastasia Shevchenko

  Astrakhan picketers, supporting Anastasia Shevchenko have demanded to release her and stop political repressions.

February 11, 2019 10:51

• Kadyrov's idea of border crossing to Georgia reminds struggle for Pankisi

  At the promotion of the Kremlin, Kadyrov is advocating the idea of building a road and a border crossing point from Chechnya to Georgia in order to ensure control by Russian intelligence services over the Pankisi Gorge, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.

February 11, 2019 10:40

• Sending Armenian mission to Syria treated as curtsey to Russia

  Armenia has agreed to send a humanitarian contingent in order to soften the existing disagreements with Russia, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

February 10, 2019 10:27

• Calls for revising Chechen-Stavropol Territory border remind situation of the 1990s

  The statements of Cossack activists about the return of the Naursky and Shelkovskoy Districts of Chechnya to the Stavropol Territory are an attempt to earn political points on this topic, as it was in the 1990s, scientists assert, noting that the border is fixed, and the authorities have no disagreement on the issue.

February 10, 2019 10:23

• Ossetian Muslims oppose Kadyrov's involvement in the issue of Vladikavkaz mosque

  Vladikavkaz lacks mosques, the North-Ossetian Muftiate has reported, commenting on the petition for the transfer of the building where the planetarium is located, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM). Believers think that the religious building should be used for its intended purpose, but the solution of this issue should not go beyond the republic.

February 10, 2019 10:19

• Wage increase in Azerbaijan causes economists' scepticism

  The head of Azerbaijan has ordered to increase the minimum (floor) wage in the country by almost 40% starting from March 1 – up to 180 manats instead of 130. Economists are confident that the wage increase will be followed by growth of taxes on entrepreneurs and fines.

February 09, 2019 16:50

• Advocate states torture of person detainee in Dagestan

  Law enforcers have tortured Abdul Magomedov, a resident of Khasavyurt, with electric current, trying to knock out a confession to the creation of an illegal armed formation (IAF), the defence has stated. Other confessions to this case were given by two local residents.

February 09, 2019 16:44

• South-Ossetian delegates refuse discussing Archil Tatunashvili's case

  Georgia has unsuccessfully tried to raise the issue of the death of Archil Tatunashvili, who was detained on the border. Tskhinvali complained about reports of Georgian mass media on the humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia.

February 09, 2019 16:37

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of its positions in five villages

  During the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani troops were attacked for 20 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.