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November 07, 2018 01:05

• Court releases Delimkhanov's guards from punishment

  A Moscow court has re-qualified the charge to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the guards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, from extortion into arbitrariness and freed them from punishment.

November 07, 2018 00:57

• Idea of memorial in Khaibakh points to inconsistency of Chechen memory policy

  Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered to erect a memorial complex in the place of the former village of Khaibakh in the Galanchozh District of Chechnya, where several hundred locals were killed during the deportation of Chechens. The construction of a memorial in non-inhabited area after the demolition of the monument to deportation victims in Grozny is illogical, residents of Grozny believe.

November 06, 2018 21:57

• Families of perished Azerbaijani soldiers demand compensation from authorities

  Participants of a march held in Baku have expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that officials had refused to pay compensations for deaths of their relatives during the Karabakh conflict.

November 06, 2018 21:49

• Armenia: political analyst Arkady Vardanyan released by amnesty

  Today, Arkady Vardanyan, a political analyst, sentenced to 10 years in prison, has been released from the Vardashen Prison.

November 06, 2018 19:27

• A conscript soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, soldier Aristakes Azatyan has got a fatal gunshot wound under unclear circumstances, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

November 06, 2018 19:16

• Participant of "Million Mask March" released from prison under amnesty

  Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, who was serving his sentence in the case on the "Marsh of Million Masks", was released from prison after the amnesty announced in Armenia.

November 06, 2018 19:06

• Chechen authorities announce settlement of region bordering Ingushetia

  On November 5, at a field meeting in the Galanchozh District, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that within a year of the Galanchozh District, the municipality would carry out large-scale work to restore infrastructure and construct social and tourist facilities. The Galanchozh District will be fully electrified and gasified.

November 06, 2018 14:28

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of its positions in two villages

  Over the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani forces were shelled 25 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

November 06, 2018 14:18

• SC approves verdict to participants of attack on soldiers in Chechnya

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has dismissed complaints about the verdict to Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev, natives of Karachay-Cherkessia, earlier found by the court in Chechnya guilty of shelling 15 Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1999.

November 06, 2018 10:58

• Anniversary of Karachay deportation recalls problem of rehabilitation of repressed peoples

  Rehabilitation of Karachays deported 75 years ago to Central Asia and Kazakhstan did not provoke territorial conflicts, but it remained morally unfinished. Russia has not yet given a legal assessment of the Stalin's repressions against peoples, historians believe.

November 06, 2018 10:47

• "Georgian Dream" accuses its opponents of cooperation with Russian political technologists

  On November 5, on the "Imedi" TV Channel, Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the "Georgian Dream" Party, addressed residents of Georgia. In his address, he focused on Grigol Vashadze, a candidate from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who translated the politician's statement.

November 06, 2018 08:34

• Nalgievs' representatives treat story of meeting with Kadyrov as propaganda

  The man named in the report of the Chechen television as a representative of the Ingush clan (teip) of Nalgievs was not authorized to go to Ramzan Kadyrov, said Ismail Nalgiev, an activist.

November 06, 2018 08:20

• Khachaturov's resignation means Armenia's loss of post of CSTO Secretary General

  After the Armenia's withdrawal of Yuri Khachaturov from the post of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a representative of Belarus is claiming this position, informed sources have stated.

November 05, 2018 22:29

• A resident of Armenia sentenced for killing a Russian soldier

  Arman Djandjugazyan has been sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment after killing a soldier from the Russian military base in Gyumri, reports today a court official.

November 05, 2018 22:16

• Aslan Cherkesov's mother asks President Putin to transfer her son to another colony

  Sonya Cherkesova, a resident of Nalchik, has recorded a video appeal in which she asked to transfer her son Aslan Cherkesov, sentenced for killing football fan Yegor Sviridov, out of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The woman claims her son is being tortured and she has no chance to visit him.

November 05, 2018 18:07

• Social networks users discuss death of an Ingush journalist in a road accident

  A car in which Ingush journalist Ruslan Chakhkiev was killed crashed into a parked truck, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports today. The truck was not properly equipped to be visible on the road, suggested users of the social networks.

November 05, 2018 17:54

• Azerbaijan claims 26 cases of shelling per day

  Over the past day, the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was violated 26 times, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reported.

November 05, 2018 16:49

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on October 29-November 4, 2018

  Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia on the law on borders with Chechnya; outcomes of voting at presidential election in Georgia, – read about these and other events in the weekly review of the main events that happened in the Caucasus during the week from October 29 to November 4, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

November 05, 2018 14:01

• Whereabouts of Ingush residents who disappear in Chechnya revealed

  Musa Tsechoev and Ibragim Gutsariev, who left Ingushetia for Chechnya, are found, and their whereabouts are reported to their relatives, the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

November 05, 2018 13:55

• Dagestani MIA denies involvement of law enforcers in Gasanguseinov brothers' murder

  At a meeting with students of the Dagestani State University, Abdurashid Magomedov, Dagestani Minister of Internal Affairs, announced that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "had not been involved in the killing of Nabi and Gasangusein Gasanguseinov brothers