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December 10, 2018 17:16

• Court upholds sentence to Azerbaijani activist Bakhyshly

  The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) refused to satisfy the complaint against the verdict against the oppositionist Orkhan Bahyshly, sentenced to six years in prison on charges of drug possession. Orkhan insists on the political background of his case.

December 10, 2018 15:16

• Baku activists urge to consider human rights issues in Azerbaijan-EU agreement

  More than 50 Azerbaijani activists have appealed to the authorities of the country and the European Union (EU), calling to accelerate the work on a new agreement on strategic partnership. They have urged to include the issue of legal and political reforms as priorities into the agreement.

December 10, 2018 15:14

• Residents of Dagestan threaten to hold protests against changing border with Chechnya

  The transfer to Chechnya of territories of Dagestan will cause discontent among the republic's residents, experts have suggested. Residents of Dagestan have confirmed that they are ready to protests, if the issue arises of changing the republic's border.

December 10, 2018 15:06

• Political analysts name main challenges to Pashinyan's power

  Socio-economic problems will affect Nikol Pashinyan's rating; however, there will be no sharp drop in the trust in the government, the Armenian political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe. In their opinion, only concessions in the Karabakh issue can crash his rating.

December 10, 2018 15:02

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 3-9, 2018

  Early parliamentary elections in Armenia; decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia on the border agreement between Chechnya and Ingushetia; approval of the sentence to Vladimir Bessonov by the Rostov Regional Court; failed court hearing in the Vladimir Tskaev's case in Vladikavkaz; publication of report on honour killings in Northern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 3-9, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 10, 2018 12:15

• Police and Investigating Committee of Armenia state election violations

  Out of 144 reports received by the police about violations at the Armenian parliamentary elections, 58 contain crime attributes. The country's Investigating Committee has announced that 38 received reports about violations contain features of criminal offenses.

December 10, 2018 12:14

• AI's Secretary General supports Oyub Titiev

  On the eve of the court session, scheduled for December 10, on the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Kumi Naidoo, the Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), spoke in Oyub's support. He posted in the Twitter his photo in a T-shirt with Titiev's portrait.

December 10, 2018 12:12

• On December 3-9, one person fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of December 3-9, at least one person perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there is no information about any wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 09, 2018 11:18

• Law enforcers name the Dagestani casualty

  In the evening on December 7, in the Khasavyurt District, Marat Alinchiev, who had been on the federal wanted list, was shot dead, according to reports posted on the websites and Telegram channels that support law enforcers. The man, who was found by law enforcers, refused to surrender and was shot dead after he opened fire, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee has stated.

December 09, 2018 11:07

• Georgian musicians hold action against fences on border with South Ossetia

  Dozens of people gathered on December 8 for a musical protest action, which took place in the Georgian border village of Atotsi. Activists opposed the installation of pillars with barbed wire by the South-Ossetian party.

December 09, 2018 11:00

• Ingush Council of Teips offers to solve the border issue with Chechnya according to Sharia law

  On December 7, the Council of Teips (Clans) of the Ingush People suggested to the Chechen authorities to define the Ingush-Chechen administrative border with the help of the Sharia Court, emphasizing that the interrelations of the two nations depend on fixing the border.

December 09, 2018 10:52

• Human rights defender Lyudmila Alekseeva dies

  On December 8, Lyudmila Alekseeva, a Russian human rights defender, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), passed away in her 92nd year of age. She often visited Northern Caucasus and criticized the situation with human rights in the region.

December 08, 2018 16:15

• Circassian activist arrested in KBR

  The court has ruled to detain Oleg Umarov, the head of the "Dobro Cherkesov" (Circassians' Wealth) Charity Foundation, who was detained on suspicion of possessing drugs, for two days, his advocate has informed.

December 08, 2018 16:07

• Azerbaijan counts 28 shelling attacks from Armenian side

  During the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 28 times, the country's Ministry of Defence has stated.

December 08, 2018 15:51

• Kocharyan treats his arrest as Pashinyan's revenge

  Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, accused of overthrowing the constitutional order, believes that the decision to arrest him was made under pressure from Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister.

December 08, 2018 15:43

• Residents of Tuapse District tell about housing problems after flooding

  Residents of the villages of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory, whose houses were damaged by flooding in late October, have complained that they were ordered to move out, until December 15, of the sanatorium, where they were temporarily accommodated.

December 08, 2018 10:51

• Armed clash in Khasavyurt District is the fourth since the start of the year

  The murder of an alleged militant in the vicinity of the village of Endirei was the fourth combat incident in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan in 2018.

December 08, 2018 10:41

• Chechen MIA names culprit of resonant accident in Grozny

  The culprit of the resonant road accident in Grozny is not the head of the Shali District, but his second cousin; a criminal case has been initiated, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced on December 7.

December 08, 2018 10:26

• Authorities promise to give housing to victims of Spitak earthquake

  542 families-victims of the 1988 earthquake will receive housing by 2020, the Armenian government has promised.

December 08, 2018 08:33

• Relatives tell about hard custody conditions of Ingushes detained in Egypt

  The Ingush students, detained in August in Cairo, are kept in concrete cells without mattresses and normal food, their relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".