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January 25, 2019 15:55

• Residents of Chechnya complain about disconnections at gas inspectors' raids

  During their raid in the Chechen village of Tsotsi-Yurt, gas inspectors disconnected several private houses, local residents have reported. The gas specialists explained their raids by checking the safety and detection of possible gas thefts. The disconnections occurred amid the resonance around an attempt to write off billion-rouble debts accumulated by residents of the republic.

January 25, 2019 11:26

• Pyatigorsk activists condemn homophobia of "Yabloko" leader in KBR

  The position of the head of the "Yabloko" Party in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is contrary to the principles of the party that supported sexual minorities, said the LGBT "Solidarity" Movement from Stavropol. The party does not share Khakim Kuchmezov's homophobic statements, the press service of the "Yabloko" Party has stated.

January 25, 2019 11:23

• Attack on policemen in KBR is the third in four months

  The attack on the DPS (road-and-patrol) post in Nalchik, in which four attackers were killed and a policeman heavily wounded, was the first armed incident this year in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the third one since October 2018.

January 25, 2019 08:45

• PACE Rapporteur counts 130 political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  Ms Thorhild Sunna Evarsdottir, the Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has presented a list of Azerbaijani political prisoners. She intends to visit Azerbaijan and listen to the position of country's authorities on each of the 130 cases.

January 25, 2019 08:42

• Three men killed in attack on policemen in Nalchik

  A policeman was stabbed in an attack on a DPS (road-and-patrol service) post in Nalchik, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

January 24, 2019 23:51

• Russian authorities promise to send Hadji Murad's skull to Dagestan

  The administration of the Russian President has agreed that the Hadji Murad's skull should be transferred from the Museum of Saint Petersburg to Dagestan.

January 24, 2019 23:47

• Defence demands to free former Armenian MP Grigoryan of embezzlement charge

  The charge under the article on embezzlement filed against former Armenian MP Manvel Grigoryan does not correspond to the case materials, the defence states.

January 24, 2019 19:27

• Investigators stop the murder case of eight Dagestanis in Chechnya

  The criminal case about eight residents of Dagestan, killed in a shootout in the Gudermes District of Chechnya in October 2016, is closed. Relatives of the casualties demanded to investigate the case, but they stopped it anyway, the "Mediazona" reports quoting Andrei Sabinin, an Agora's lawyer.

January 24, 2019 19:16

• Azerbaijani militaries sent to Afghanistan and Southern Sudan

  A group of Azerbaijani military servicemen has been sent to Afghanistan to participate in the "Resolute Support" Mission. Two other officers have left for Southern Sudan as observers in the UN peacemaking mission, says the website of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

January 24, 2019 14:25

• Residents of Ingushetia, accused of terrorism, claim being tortured

  Salamkhan Sampiev, Ruslan Esmurziev, Khusen Kitiev, Magomed Amatkhanov and Elbert Kharsiev, accused of preparing terrorist acts in Ingushetia and at the French Embassy in Moscow, have declared their innocence. According to their version, they gave confessions under torture.

January 24, 2019 14:22

• Chechen MIA reports more killed militants in 2018

  In Chechnya, in 2018, 21 alleged members of the armed underground were killed, whereas in 2017 the number was 18, the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported, thus confirming the data of the "Caucasian Knot" on the number of militants killed and suspected of involvement in the armed underground.

January 24, 2019 14:16

• Residents of Gali District of Abkhazia protest against closure of border with Georgia

  A rally against the border closure at the "Ingur" checkpoint took place near the administration building of the Gali District. Residents are unhappy with the time restrictions on crossing the border with Georgia, and they are concerned about the issue of obtaining Abkhaz passports.

January 24, 2019 13:09

• Azerbaijani oppositionists tell about torture

  Agil Magerramov, Ruslan Nasirli and Salekh Rustamov told at the trial, where the case of illegal financing of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) is considered, about torture and refused from their confessions. The Prosecutor's Office took no action to check their complaints of torture, the oppositionists' advocates have reported.

January 24, 2019 13:03

• Kadyrov reproaches Russian regions for making noise around gas debts

  The decision of the court of Grozny that obliged to write off the gas debts does not mention the sum of 9 billion roubles, said the head of Chechnya. He explained the republic's debts by two military campaigns, worn-out networks and problems with consumers' accounting; he has also called on Russian regions to solve their problems with gas debts without mentioning Chechnya.

January 24, 2019 10:40

• “They will kill you anyway, be it family or strangers”: gay about life in Chechnya and flight from Russia

  A homosexual from Chechnya, who left Russia after detention, told the "Caucasian Knot" how people with non-traditional sexual orientation live in the republic, and what the fate of his acquaintances from the LGBT community was after the start of mass raids on gays. According to the man, he managed to avoid torture, but his close friend was cruelly tortured by law enforcers, and his three familiar men were killed.

January 24, 2019 01:34

• Meeting with Aliev caused criticism of Pashinyan

  The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has eloquently commented on his third meeting with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev. The society is insufficiently informed about his actions in the Karabakh settlement, the opposition asserts.

January 24, 2019 01:28

• NATO announces large-scale exercises in Georgia

  The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) is strengthening cooperation with Georgia in the Black Sea. The next exercises will be held in March with participation of military servicemen from 17 countries, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, announced at his meeting with the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili.

January 23, 2019 23:40

• ECtHR awards 1.6 million euros to relatives of those who went missing in Chechnya and Ingushetia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has issued its judgments on 20 disappearances of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2002-2005 and obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensations to their relatives. The total amount of compensations exceeds 1.6 million euros, says the website of the project "Legal Initiative".

January 23, 2019 23:36

• Political prisoners stop hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  The six oppositionists, who held a hunger strike in Azerbaijani colonies, demanding to release the blogger Mekhman Guseinov and other political prisoners, have stopped their protest. They explained this decision by the closure of the case against Guseinov and the public outcry, which they managed to achieve by their hunger strike.

January 23, 2019 23:31

• AI treats case of activist Anastasia Shevchenko as "a dangerous precedent"

  For the first time, Russian authorities have made use of the repressive law on "undesirable organizations" to prosecute the Rostov activist, Anastasia Shevchenko, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated. She faces up to six years in prison.