News

January 05, 2019 17:07

• Azerbaijan reports machine gun fire from Armenia

  During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the truce on the troops contact line for at least 23 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

January 05, 2019 12:41

• Two persons suffer from hurricane in Batumi

  Part of the roof of a multi-storey building collapsed and fell to the ground during a strong wind in Batumi; two passers-by were injured and taken to hospital.

January 05, 2019 12:30

• Sale of tickets to "Love Yourself" concert film suspended in Chechnya

  A Grozny cinema has stopped selling tickets to the film about the BTS Korean pop group against the background of a similar decision taken in Makhachkala.

January 05, 2019 01:38

• AI urges Poland to cancel Abdurakhmanov's extradition

  The return of the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov to Russia threatens him with torture and unfair persecution, says the statement of the "Amnesty International" (AI), an international human rights organization.

January 05, 2019 01:30

• US PEN International urges to stop new case against Mekhman Guseinov

  The US PEN International (PEN America) has linked the new criminal case against the blogger Mekhman Guseinov with the suppression of the dissent in Azerbaijan. Guseinov, who is on hunger strike at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) in protest against the new indictment, needs an urgent surgery, Shakhla Gumbatova, his advocate, has stated today.

January 04, 2019 22:26

• Authorities of Chechnya and Ingushetia report about thousands participants of Kunta-haji Kishiev's Memorial Day

  Chechnya and Ingushetia have held events in memory of Saint Kunta-haji Kishiev on the occasion of the 155th anniversary of his deportation. According to the Ingush authorities and the Chechen clergy, several thousand people took part in events. Residents of Chechnya said that Imams had warned them about the must to participate in religious ceremonies.

January 04, 2019 22:13

• Chechen family spends five hours at checkpoint in North Ossetia

  Five residents of Chechnya, whose car was stopped by law enforcers at the entrance to Vladikavkaz, have complained about the nationality-based prejudiced attitude.

January 04, 2019 22:03

• Mekhman Guseinov's supporters arrested and fined

  Today, a court in Baku has found eight participants of the action in support of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov to be infringers of the rules of holding meetings. The activists themselves disagree with the judgement.

January 04, 2019 17:33

• Major fire occurs in marketplace in Pyatigorsk

  Today, a large pavilion has burned down at the Upper Marketplace in Pyatigorsk. There were no victims. According to eyewitnesses, the fire-fighting teams could not drive to the venue because of concrete blocks.

January 04, 2019 17:29

• Request for extradition of Serzh Sargsyan's nephew sent to Czech Republic

  The Armenian party has asked to extradite Narek Sargsyan, who was detained in Prague within the case of possessing narcotic drugs and firearms, the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) announced on January 3.

January 04, 2019 15:57

• Distribution of Mercedes cars from Kadyrov Foundation provokes criticism in Chechnya

  Over the week, after returning to Chechnya, two participants of all-Russian contests received Mercedes cars from the Kadyrov Foundation. Residents of the subsidized republic recognized the merits of the contestants, but criticized the authorities of Chechnya for such expensive gifts.

January 04, 2019 15:34

• Azerbaijan claims 26 cases of shelling in conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in two border villages, have been shelled, reports today the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan.

January 04, 2019 12:01

• CDSI notes high non-combat losses in Azerbaijani Army

  The number of non-combat losses in the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan remains high; and information about them is silenced, experts told the "Caucasian Knot".

January 04, 2019 11:52

• Five persons left in custody after a rally in defence of Mekhman Guseinov

  Three journalists and two activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained at a rally in defence of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov in Baku on January 3, are in custody pending trial. The other ten detainees were released.

January 04, 2019 11:42

• Residents of Chechnya claim groundless detention at North-Ossetian checkpoint

  Law enforcers for several hours are detaining five residents of Chechnya at a checkpoint in North Ossetia, insisting on a special inspection of their car. The staff of the checkpoint failed to motivate the need for the inspection and took the documents away from all the family members, Malika Mazaeva, 31, a resident of Grozny and one of the detainees, told the "Caucasian Knot".

January 04, 2019 08:17

• Doctors find it impossible to send the boy wounded in Derbent to Moscow

  Moscow doctors are consulting their colleagues who have operated on the three-year-old boy wounded in Derbent. The boy's health condition does not yet allow transporting him to other medical institutions, the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan has informed.

January 03, 2019 20:57

• Baku police break up rally in support of Mekhman Guseinov

  Four journalists and other activists have been detained today in Baku for holding a rally in support of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov; the police stopped the action five minutes after the start thereof. Still, it was a success, as many passersby managed to pay attention to it, the participants of the event believe.

January 03, 2019 18:12

• Armenian authorities announce a method not to raise price of gas

  On January 2, Arman Yegoyan, the press secretary for the Prime Minister of Armenia, reported that the cost of Russian gas for Armenian consumers will not rise due to reduction of the expenses incurred by the Gazprom Armenia.

January 03, 2019 17:50

• Tenants of a Derbent five-storey building report their version of fire

  Today, in Derbent, a fire has broken out on a roof of a five-storey residential building. All tenants have been evacuated.

January 03, 2019 14:15

• Azerbaijan registers 30 cases of shelling from Armenian side over a day

  Positions of the Azerbaijani army have been shelled in two districts, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.