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November 15, 2018 09:58

• Experts are sceptical about military tourism in Chechnya

  In Russia, the sphere of military tourism, which the authorities of Chechnya decided to promote, is poorly developed, experts of the tourism industry have noted. To promote the project, a lot of hard and delicate work is needed, says Dmitry Danilenko, the editor-in-chief of a tourist portal, believes.

November 15, 2018 09:56

• Native of Ingush Dattykh tells about life of abandoned village

  The village of Dattykh, which Ingush intend to restore, was abandoned by residents after shelling in 2015. People come here to look after cattle and cemeteries. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has visited the ravaged village, which has attracted attention amid the confrontation because of the change of border with Chechnya.

November 15, 2018 09:51

• Oppositionist Nemat Panakhly released in Azerbaijan

  Nemat Panakhly, the Chairman of the National Statehood Party of Azerbaijan, has been released from arrest.

November 15, 2018 08:29

• Authorities suspend return of Russians from IS controlled territory

  About 7000 Russian women asked Russian authorities to help them return home from the warfare zone in the Middle East, but since the start of the year, none of the wives of former militants has returned to Russia, the participants in a press conference in Moscow have stated.

November 15, 2018 08:26

• Attacker on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent refuses to admit guilt

  Karim Kasumov, who is accused of assaulting a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at a rally of Alexei Navalny's supporters in Makhachkala, has refused to plead guilty. In his turn, he has accused the victim and her colleagues of lying, insisting that he had no idea about their professional status.

November 15, 2018 08:23

• Case of Delimkhanov's guards continues practice of sheltering law enforcers

  The sentence to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the bodyguards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, is an example of the widespread in Russia law enforcers' impunity. They are using their service and personal contacts to influence investigators, and "no one wants to deal with Chechen law enforcers," rights defenders assert.

November 15, 2018 08:20

• ECtHR gets interested in separation of Chechen woman with children

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent questions to Russian authorities on the complaint of Luiza Tapaeva about the decision of a Chechen court, which left her four children under the care of her deceased husband's father. For the first time, the ECtHR is considering the issue of gender discrimination in guardianship cases in Northern Caucasus, rights defenders report.

November 15, 2018 00:04

• Russia's CC agrees to consider Evkurov's request on border with Chechnya

  The session of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which will assess the legality of the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border, is scheduled for November 27.

November 15, 2018 00:04

• Law enforcers tell about search for accomplice of victims of shootout in Chechnya

  The police are looking for an alleged accomplice of the two men killed in a shootout in the Urus-Martan District. Relatives of the casualties have complained about the ban to hold a commemoration ceremony.

November 14, 2018 23:58

• Religious scholars treat Baku ritual beating as obscurantism

  The beating with the aim of "exorcising ghosts" for healing sick patients, in particular, Murad Soltanov, an Azerbaijani resident, who died during the ritual, has nothing to do with religion, theologians have stated.

November 14, 2018 18:43

• Azerbaijani SC slightly mitigates sentence to activist Gezyal Bairamly

  A complaint filed by Gezyal Bairamly, the deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), sentenced to three years of imprisonment on the charge of smuggling, was partially granted by the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan. The SC reduced the term of imprisonment by two months. The defence intends to challenge the case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

November 14, 2018 14:11

• Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev reports circumstances of assassination attempt

  On November 13, the court questioned oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, accused of insulting Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and decided to proceed to listening to the oral statements of the parties without questioning the leader of Ingushetia.

November 14, 2018 14:04

• Azerbaijan claims 29 cases of shelling in conflict zone

  Over the past day, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 29 times, reported the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan.

November 14, 2018 11:00

• In Georgia, presidential campaign leads to politicization of military men

  Salome Zurabishvili continues to receive threats. A group of veterans of the Georgian armed forces condemned the use of military men and veterans for political purposes.

November 14, 2018 10:58

• In Ingushetia, an activist's relative reports details of kidnapping

  Kidnappers of Rustam Lyanov forced him to record three copies of a video message to his uncle Ibragim Lyanov, the head of the European Ingush Association, with a call to him not to criticize the authorities. According to Rustam Lyanov, he surrendered to the demands for fear for his younger brother kidnapped together with him.

November 14, 2018 08:24

• Azerbaijan: arrest of persons accused of financing PFPA extended until March

  The Baku court has extended until March 7 the arrest of the activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), namely, of Babek Gasanov, Agil Magerramov, Ruslan Nasirli, Salekh Rustamov and Vidadi Rustamli, accused of illegally sponsoring the PFPA.

November 14, 2018 08:21

• Ingush court refuses to drop charges against athlete Khamkhoev

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has taken the arrest term already served by the athlete Albert Khamkhoev into account of his conditional imprisonment, but refused to declare him innocent of arms possession.

November 14, 2018 08:21

• Court rules in favour of victims in case of payments to KBR's Chernobyl liquidators

  The Urvan District Court has held its first session on the criminal case on improper payments to the liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP), who are sufferers in the case. Given the large number of them living in different districts of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the court agreed to hold travel sessions at their residences.

November 13, 2018 22:24

• Two North-Ossetian residents suspected of involvement in Syrian militants

  The FSB has put two women-residents of North Ossetia, who, according to law enforcers, went to Syria and are fighting for terrorist organizations, on the wanted list.

November 13, 2018 22:20

• For Ingush activists, participation in rally results in fines

  Administrative protocols were drawn up on 22 activists, who participated in the protest rally in Magas in October, said the journalist Isabella Evloeva and the human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov. At least three rally participants were fined.