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November 05, 2018 13:46

• In Krasnodar, activist holds solo picket against torture in detention

  On November 4, in Krasnodar, activist Alexei Nikitin came out for a picket. In his hands, he was holding a poster reading: "Stop torturing people."

November 05, 2018 11:49

• On October 28-November 4, no casualties were recorded of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from October 28 to November 4, 2018, nobody fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

November 05, 2018 11:42

• Opponents of border agreement criticize pro-governmental rally in Nazran

  On November 4, in Nazran, the Ingush authorities organized a rally on the occasion of the National Unity Day, obliging, well in advance, the heads of state-run agencies and structures to ensure the attendance. Opponents of the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border also came to the same square. They decided to declare their demands by means of solo pickets.

November 05, 2018 11:32

• Two persons killed in CTO in Ganja

  Two members of the grouping that was preparing terror acts were shot dead in Ganja, the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has reported.

November 05, 2018 11:21

• NKR claims 100 shelling attacks by Azerbaijan

  During the past week, The Azerbaijani militaries carried out 100 attacks on the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

November 04, 2018 09:43

• Armenian President signs amnesty law

  Armen Sargsyan has signed the amnesty law that covers more than 600 people and was adopted by the Parliament.

November 04, 2018 09:38

• Animated serial about life of mountain villages presented in Dagestan

  A presentation of the first three episodes of the cartoon serial "Masters' Aul" about the adventures of a city teenager in a mountainous aul (village) took place in Makhachkala. The authors have promised to organize shows in Dagestani cinemas.

November 04, 2018 09:35

• Azerbaijani oppositionist complains of pressure from colony employee

  A colony warden is exerting psychological pressure and claims bribes, Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), told his relatives.

November 04, 2018 09:30

• Member of Ingush clan shows reconciliation with Kadyrov

  After the meeting of the head of Chechnya with the elder Mukhazhir Nalgiev in Ingushetia and their mutual apologies, a member of the Nalgiev family visited Grozny and thanked Kadyrov for his rendered respect.

November 03, 2018 17:33

• Seven religious activists convicted in Azerbaijan

  Firudin Zeinalov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and six other persons detained after clashes with the police at the sanctuary in Ganja, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from a year and four months to three years.

November 03, 2018 17:28

• Lawyers point to possible revision of decision of Ingush CC

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia may issue a different verdict on the Chechen-Ingush border than the Ingush CC; and it couldn't be reconsidered, lawyers say. They have noted that the decision taken by the Ingush CC is mandatory for execution by the regional authorities.

November 03, 2018 17:23

• Azerbaijan fixed no shelling from Armenian positions

  Within the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 27 times from machine guns from the territories near the "occupied villages," the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

November 03, 2018 17:20

• Residents of Grozny report enforcing to attend rally

  Employees of budgetary institutions and students of Grozny have told that they were obliged to come to the rally on November 4 on the occasion of the National Unity Day. It is planned that the rally will be 20,000 strong, the city Mayoralty has stated.

November 03, 2018 12:45

• Arrested Buynaksk residents complain of torture

  Samat Tatarkhanov and Daniyal Zagirov, residents of Buynaksk, who had been detained on charges of possessing weapons, have stated that they had been tortured with electric current, and their testimonies about links with militants were falsified.

November 03, 2018 12:41

• OSCE decision responds to silencing human rights problems in Chechnya

  The work of the Moscow Mechanism in Chechnya depends on Russia's consent to cooperate with the international mission of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), since authorities are no longer able to hide information about human rights violations in the region and escape uneasy questions.

November 03, 2018 08:49

• Rights defenders treat activists and journalists as addressees of Kadyrov's threats

  Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about "provocateurs" on the Chechen-Ingush border is a threat to the activists, who had filmed the construction equipment in the "Erzi" Nature Reserve, as well as the journalists, who would visit the pre-border area, human rights defenders have stated.

November 03, 2018 08:46

• MoJ decides to close fund of organizer of "Putin's Detachments"

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the Krasnodar Territory has initiated the liquidation of the "Social Justice" Charity Fund, created by Marat Dinaev, the head of the "Putin Detachments" movement.

November 02, 2018 21:59

• Union in support of political prisoners established in Azerbaijan

  Human rights defenders, namely, the editor-in-chief editor of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" and the head of the Union of Azerbaijani Intellectuals have announced the creation of the organization "For the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan".

November 02, 2018 21:57

• Legalized border with Chechnya is Evkurov's Pyrrhic victory

  The transfer of the dispute about the Ingush-Chechen border into the legal plane with the tacit Kremlin's support of Evkurov is a Pyrrhic victory of the head of Ingushetia over the opponents of his agreement with Kadyrov. The opposition will not give up its demands; while relations of the two nations are clouded with the mutual discontent, believe Ali Magomadov, a political analyst, and Akhmed Gisaev, the head of the Human Rights Analysis Centre.

November 02, 2018 18:28

• Georgia's Govt abandons idea of cultivating marijuana

  The Georgian Government has decided to recall the draft law on the cultivation of marijuana from the Parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the Parliament, has stated.