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January 16, 2019 11:18

• Machalikashvili relatives accuse law enforcers of violating presumption of innocence

  Family members of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was killed during a special operation, accused the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia of violating his right to presumption of innocence.

January 16, 2019 11:03

• In Azerbaijan, police detain 13 PFPA supporters in front of court building

  More than 100 people came to the Baku Court on Grave Crimes to support members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) accused of money laundering. The police dispersed supporters of the defendants and detained 13 people.

January 16, 2019 10:52

• A native of North Ossetia voices new information about torture of gays in Chechnya

  A young man, who left Northern Caucasus, called on all LGBT people to leave Chechnya and appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov.

January 16, 2019 08:20

• Wounded Ingush policeman transported to Chechnya

  Adam Khamkhoev, a Police Junior Lieutenant, who was wounded during the shelling of the car of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush "E" Centre (Centre for Combating Extremism), has been taken to the Chechen city of Khankala, where it was decided to transport him to Moscow for further treatment.

January 16, 2019 00:14

• In Shakhty, death toll in explosion increases to four persons

  In Shakhty, under the ruins at the place of explosion in a nine-storey building, rescuers found two more bodies. So, the death toll from the explosion increased to four persons. The fate of one more tenant still remains unknown.

January 16, 2019 00:06

• Armenian Prosecutor's Office reports about 63 casualties in 2018

  In 2018, 38 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army were killed in the line of duty, and other 25 casualties were not related to the military service, the General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has reported today.

January 15, 2019 18:47

• Oyub Titiev reproaches Prosecutor's Office for bias

  The court dismissed the request of the Oyub Titiev's defence to attach to the case file the materials refuting the testimonies given by witnesses for the prosecution. Advocates pointed to the creation of unequal conditions for the parties to the trial. Oyub Titiev himself stated that the above materials should have been collected by the Prosecutor's Office.

January 15, 2019 18:38

• Azerbaijan reports 30 shelling attacks per day

  The ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was violated, and Azerbaijani positions in two villages came under fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

January 15, 2019 18:32

• Opponents of Manvel Grigoryan want a meeting with Prime Minister

  Activists have suspended their actions demanding to change the court decision on release on bail of General Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP. If Nikol Pashinyan, the chair of the government, does not meet the activists within three days, the protest actions will be resumed, says a representative of the protesters.

January 15, 2019 14:43

• Mekhman Guseinov's brother accuses Azerbaijani authorities of misinformation

  Emin Guseinov treats the information disseminated by the Azerbaijani authorities about a new criminal case against Mekhman Guseinov and his hunger strike as "tactical tricks."

January 15, 2019 14:36

• In Shakhty, death toll in explosion of a nine-storey building increases to two persons

  In Shakhty, while examining the ruins at the place of the explosion in a multi-storey building, rescuers found the body of the deceased woman, who lived in the building.

January 15, 2019 14:27

• Sources report fourth man wounded in shelling of policemen in Ingushetia

  Murad Kodzoev, a son of the former head of the Nasyr-Kort administration, was wounded in an attack on a car of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE or "E" Centre), in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. Murad Kodzoev was hospitalized, hospital sources reported.

January 15, 2019 11:39

• Three more political prisoners join hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  Three more convicts, an activist Giyas Ibragimov, a blogger Rashad Ramazanov and a journalist Fikret Faramazoglu, have joined the hunger strike announced earlier by four political prisoners kept in Azerbaijani jails.

January 15, 2019 11:27

• Head of the LGBT network states stiffening of gays' torture in Chechnya

  According to victims, mockeries over detained LGBT people in Chechnya are becoming more and more refined: the death of two young men was the result of "monstrous torture", while relatives of those released are forced to punish them themselves and prove it, Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network, told "Caucasian Knot".

January 15, 2019 08:25

• MIA head reports to Vasiliev on fighting militants

  Law enforcers have achieved a "significant breakthrough" in combating the armed underground in Dagestan, but eight militants are still wanted, Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has announced.

January 15, 2019 08:20

• Sixteenth death of swine flu confirmed in Georgia

  A ten-month-old baby has died from swine flu in Georgia. As a result, the death toll from the consequences of the H1N1 flu virus has reached 16 humans. At the same time, doctors record a decrease in the flue morbidity in the country.

January 14, 2019 22:08

• Authorities name gas explosion as the only reason for house collapse in Shakhty

  Contrary to assurances of gas industry professionals that the gas equipment in the collapsed house in the city of Shakhty was in proper order, Vasily Golubev, the head of the Rostov Region, believes that the gas leak was the only version of the explosion. Social network users doubt the official version, recalling the tragedy in Magnitogorsk.

January 14, 2019 21:57

• Ingush authorities join to rescue students detained in Egypt

  The whereabouts of the Ingush students from the Cairo Islamic is being established; the information about their detention has been confirmed today by the Ambassador of Egypt, Yunus-Bek Evkurov has informed.

January 14, 2019 19:13

• 86 people seek help after collapse of house in Shakhty

  This morning, an explosion has occurred in a multi-storey building in the city of Shakhty. Four apartments on the eighth and ninth floors of the residential building are destroyed. One person died, and other seven, including a two-year-old girl who was hospitalized to the regional children's hospital, were rescued from the ruins.

January 14, 2019 19:04

• US Congressman calls for release of Mekhman Guseinov

  US Congressman Chris Smith has called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev to "immediately and unconditionally" release blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who is on a hunger strike in prison.