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January 29, 2019 19:46

• Chechen public employees forced to come to subbotniks to restore Kurchali village

  Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to hold subbotniks (voluntary cleaning activities on Saturdays) to prepare within two weeks empty houses in the village of Kurchali for accommodation of people. Public employees say they are involved in cleaning the territory and premises under the threat of dismissals.

January 29, 2019 19:31

• Rights defenders challenge refusal to investigate torture of Nalchik resident

  Investigators explain the decision to suspend the case on torture of Rustam Kuchmenov, a resident of Nalchik, by the fact that a suspected law enforcers cannot participate in a criminal case. Representatives of Rustam Kuchmenov found the above decision "strange" and challenged it in court, the Committee against Torture (CaT) reports today.

January 29, 2019 15:02

• Prosecutor takes time-out to respond to Titiev's defence

  Today, the state prosecutor has asked to give him time to prepare a response to Oyub Titiev's advocates, who demanded to exclude the package with drugs from the list of proofs, which, according to investigators, was seized from rights defender's car.

January 29, 2019 14:45

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of five border villages

  During the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 20 times by Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

January 29, 2019 14:35

• Final exams for 11-graders cancelled in Georgia

  In 2019, pupils of Form Eleven will have no final examinations; however, finals for 12-graders are still preserved in 2019. Fully, final exams in Georgian schools will be cancelled since 2020.

January 29, 2019 11:19

• Attack on law enforcers in Chechnya was the first this year

  The attack on the mobile police post in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, as a result of which two law enforcers were wounded and one attacker killed, was the first armed incident in Chechnya in 2019 and the fifth since August 2018

January 29, 2019 11:14

• Ilham Aliev orders to allocate money to shehids' families after protests

  One-time compensations will be paid additionally to families of 2725 Azerbaijani soldiers and policemen, who perished in the course of the Karabakh conflict. The country's authorities have made this decision after the protest action organized by family members of the servicemen who had been denied compensations.

January 29, 2019 11:01

• Bride abduction in Vladikavkaz outrages social networks

  Social network users have expressed their concern for the health of a young girl from Vladikavkaz, who was hit twice with her head against the asphalt during the bride abduction rite.

January 29, 2019 08:36

• Chechen MIA reports attack on law enforcers' post

  A resident of the Ingush village of Psedakh was killed after he attacked a mobile police post in the Sunzha District of Chechnya; two law enforcers were wounded, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

January 29, 2019 08:29

• Vasiliev's words about accidental death of Gasanguseinov brothers anger social networks

  The Gasanguseinov brothers were not intentionally killed by law enforcers, but fell victim to a tragic mistake, the head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, believes. Such an assessment of the shepherds' death has caused a negative reaction in social networks.

January 28, 2019 22:24

• Court denies petition of Titiev's defence on repeated investigative experiment

  The judge has rejected the defence's request for re-creating the circumstances of the inspection of Oyub Titiev's car anew. The advocate's petition to summon two experts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to the court was also rejected.

January 28, 2019 22:10

• Attackers on DSP post in Nalchik buried in Ingush village

  The four residents of Ingushetia, killed during the attack on the DPS (road-and-patrol service) post patrol in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, were buried in their native village of Sagopshi. Their relatives said they did not know anything about the reasons of the attack.

January 28, 2019 22:00

• On January 21-27, 2019, five persons fell victim to armed conflict

  During the week of January 21-27, 2019, at least five persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: four perished and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 28, 2019 18:40

• Chechen law enforcers count 15 persons eager to join IS* militants

  In 2018, none of residents of Chechnya joined the Syrian militants, although 15 people tried to do it, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported, stating the success of their actions to prevent extremism.

January 28, 2019 18:30

• "Muslim Unity" claims torture of its supporters in Azerbaijani jails

  Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM), and others convicts under the "Nardaran case", are exposed to "unprecedented pressure" in prison, Mr Bagirzade's supporters announced on January 27. The Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service has denied this information.

January 28, 2019 18:14

• Titiev's defence demands holding new investigative experiment

  Investigators have incorrectly reproduced the circumstances, in which policemen had allegedly found narcotic drugs in the car of Oyub Titiev, a rights defender and the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", his advocate has stated today.

January 28, 2019 15:59

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 21-27, 2019

  Start of the Chechen and Dagestani authorities' activities to clarify the borders; attack on policemen in Nalchik; closure of blogger Mekhman Guseinov's case in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 21-27, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 28, 2019 13:44

• Video of oath of attackers on Dagestan law enforcers to IS* leader posted

  The video, in which three natives of Kaspiysk swear allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS, earlier, the ISIL), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, was found on them after the shootout at the DPS (road-and-patrol service) post, sources have reported.

January 28, 2019 13:35

• Azerbaijan claims machine-gun shelling attacks in conflict zone

  Within the last 24 hours, the armistice regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 24 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

January 28, 2019 13:24

• Over 3000 Russian militaries took part in exercises in Abkhazia

  Abkhazia has hosted exercises of the personnel of the Russian military base. The servicemen have mastered reconnaissance of transport routes and ensuring the anti-aircraft and anti-sabotage defence.