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November 29, 2018 11:52

• In Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili wins election with more than 59% of votes

  In Georgia, after the counting of votes from 99.7% of polling stations in the presidential election, the independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili supported by the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party is in the lead. She gained 59.56% of the votes. Grigol Vashadze, a candidate of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, gained 40.44% of the votes.

November 29, 2018 09:12

• Mikhail Saakashvili calls on people for mass disobedience to Georgian authorities

  Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, has claimed he does not recognize the outcome of the presidential election.

November 29, 2018 09:08

• Rapper Husky's case draws attention to trend of musical censorship

  The release of rapper Husky, who was arrested in Krasnodar, did not solve the problem of relations between musicians and the authorities. The rapper Husky's case has turned out to be one among other cases of pressure on performers popular with young people, whose concerts are cancelled in different cities of Russia.

November 29, 2018 09:06

• Observers refuse to recognize election in Georgia as fair

  Among the violations registered by observers from Georgian NGOs during the second round of the presidential election there were bribing of voters and use of the administrative resource. Bidzina Ivanishvili actually recognized the victory of Salome Zurabishvili.

November 29, 2018 09:02

• Supporters of Ingush activists accused of disobeying police

  All activists, detained in Saint Petersburg during solo pickets held to support opponents of the agreement on the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya, have been released. Two of them are accused of rendering resistance to the police.

November 29, 2018 08:59

• Expert: stealing votes at presidential election in Georgia may provoke a revolution

  In Georgia, voting at the presidential election has a pronounced protest nature, and attempts of the ruling party to steal the victory of the opposition will turn into rallies of "unprecedented scale," believes political consultant Vitaly Shklyarov.

November 28, 2018 18:42

• Opposition claims large-scale violations at Georgian presidential election

  The Georgian opposition and the police expressed different opinions when assessing violations committed during the election. The "United National Movement" (UNM) Party reported that voters were bribed at polling stations all over Georgia, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) noted the calm situation during the voting.

November 28, 2018 18:41

• Law enforcers detain a Petersburg resident for action on Akhmat Kadyrov bridge

  Law enforcers accused a 17-year-old activist detained in Saint Petersburg of violating the procedure for holding a public action for "transferring" the Akhmat Kadyrov bridge to Ingushetia. After that, the teenager was released from the police station.

November 28, 2018 16:29

• Soldiers of Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army baptized in Shushi

  60 soldiers of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army were baptized at the Cathedral of Holy Christ the Saviour in the city of Shushi.

November 28, 2018 16:25

• Media: relatives of Dagestani singer Mashidat Omaraskhabova find out who shot at her

  Relatives of wounded singer Mashidat Omaraskhabova have stated they found out who had shot at her and are ready to prove that.

November 28, 2018 12:36

• Families of killed soldiers and officers demand compensation from Azerbaijani authorities

  At a rally in Baku, about 80 family members of soldiers and officers killed in the Karabakh conflict have demanded compensation. The authorities declare the money has been paid, but there are no payment documents, the protesters state.

November 28, 2018 12:29

• A resident of Chechnya confesses to connections with Syrian militants

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court has started a consideration of the case against Shamil Soltamuradov, a 28-year-old resident of Gudermes. He is accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization in Syria and attending a training there.

November 28, 2018 11:40

• Dagestani journalists note an increase in aggression in society

  The authorities do not have any clear position on aggression in Dagestani society, note analysts. According to them, aggression in the republic is associated with the system of social and religious classes in society.

November 28, 2018 08:24

• A disabled person from Dagestan complains about having no housing

  In Makhachkala, Abidi Ramazanov held a picket at which he declared he had been illegally deprived of housing in the Novolaksky District of Dagestan.

November 28, 2018 08:21

• Journalist Afghan Sadygov arrested in Azerbaijan

  People in civilian clothes detained Afghan Sadygov, who highlighted a rally in Baku, and the court sentenced him to 30 days of arrest for disobeying the police, reported a wife of Afghan Sadygov.

November 28, 2018 08:18

• Organizers of anime festival in Makhachkala refuse to complain to police

  Participants and organizers of the anime festival disrupted in Makhachkala did not complain to the police about aggressive actions, and the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) did not find any direct threats voiced on the Internet against activists of the anime festival.

November 27, 2018 23:59

• CaT: law enforcers beat a resident of Kuban

  A resident of the Tuapse District has addressed rights defenders and complained that law enforcers beat him and demanded from him to confess to a crime, reports the "Committee against Torture" (CaT).

November 27, 2018 23:58

• ECtHR recognizes cancellation of gay parades in Sochi and Nalchik as illegal

  The authorities that did not allow LGBT activists to hold protest actions in Sochi, Nalchik, and other Russian cities had violated their right to freedom of assembly, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled. The organizers of the gay parades were not satisfied with the European Court's decision, since no compensation was awarded to them.

November 27, 2018 23:56

• A picket in support of Ingush people ends with detention of two Petersburg residents

  Law enforcers detained for several hours activist Olga Smirnova, who was holding a picket near the building of the Constitutional Court of Russia to support opponents of the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border. Ilya Tkachenko, who was filming the picket, was also detained.

November 27, 2018 23:42

• Opponents of border agreement hold rally in Nazran

  Participants of a sanctioned action against the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border signed by Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov left the place of the rally.