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November 01, 2018 13:09

• Scientists discuss methods to resist radical Islam in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia

  In Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, violence on religious grounds is associated with the destruction of traditional hierarchies, increased individualism, and urbanization, believes Irina Starodubrovskaya, an author of the report on religiously-motivated violence.

November 01, 2018 08:17

• Court postpones decision on CER of Geriev, "Caucasian Knot" correspondent

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has postponed the decision on the appeal for the conditional early relief (CER) of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, until November 8.

November 01, 2018 08:15

• Refusal from street action splits Ingush opposition

  The decision of the organizing committee to stop the rally in Magas has nullified the two weeks of protest of Ingush activists; none of the demands have been fulfilled, the co-chairs of the "Mekhk Khel" movement have stated.

October 31, 2018 21:52

• Diaspora members opposed the Ingush-Chechen border agreement

  At the Congress of the Ingush People, delegates from foreign Ingush Diasporas expressed their disagreement with the transfer of land to Chechnya and opposed the Ingush-Chechen border agreement. Residents of Chechnya pointed to the negative consequences of the decisions of the congress.

October 31, 2018 21:51

• Media: agreement on Chechen-Ingush border threatens "Erzi" Reserve

  The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation is studying the issue of changing the territory of the "Erzi" Natural Reserve in connection with the border agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border, the "Kommersant" reports. Environmentalists fear that the reserve will lose the land that was passed over to Chechnya.

October 31, 2018 18:18

• Kremlin distances itself from problem of border between Ingushetia and Chechnya

  Lawyers are engaged in studying the agreement on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, said Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov when answering a question about the Moscow's intervention in the situation.

October 31, 2018 18:16

• Armenian parliament approves amnesty law amid protests

  Armenian MPs adopted the law on amnesty in the first reading. The pardon will affect more than 6500 people, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported. The hearing was held against the background of a protest held by relatives of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment who demanded that the amnesty should be extended to them.

October 31, 2018 18:15

• OSCE monitoring reveals no violations in Karabakh conflict zone

  While monitoring the contact line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, OSCE observers did not reveal any violations of the ceasefire regime.

October 31, 2018 18:11

• Organizers call on people to finish rally in Magas

  In Magas, an action against the change in the border with Chechnya was finished earlier than planned, and protesters expressed their intention to act in a legal way, stated protest organizers. The co-chairs of the NGO "Mekhk Khel" did not agree with the decision.

October 31, 2018 14:58

• Lawyers argue about significance of decision pronounced by Ingush Constitutional Court

  Ibragim Doskiev, the deputy chairman of the Ingush Constitutional Court, has stated that the Court's decision declaring the law on the border with Chechnya unconstitutional is final and takes effect from the moment it is pronounced.

October 31, 2018 14:53

• Sochi residents pay tribute to victims of political repression

  Sochi residents laid flowers to the monument to victims of repression and paid tribute to their memory by lighting candles. The people voiced the stories of their repressed relatives and called on their compatriots to remember the past to prevent it from happening again.

October 31, 2018 12:09

• Ingush SC recognizes a search at activist Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as illegal

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has cancelled the decision of the Magas District Court, which recognized a search at the Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as lawful, advocate Magomed Gagiev reported.

October 31, 2018 12:09

• Azerbaijani journalist complains about torture after detention

  In Baku, law enforcers kept journalist Ismail Islamoglu for three days and did not recognize the fact of detention, an advocate reported. Ismail Islamoglu himself complained that he had been tortured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the journalist was not brought to a police station until his bride filed a complaint about his disappearance.

October 31, 2018 08:59

• Boulder placed into foundation of monument to repressed people in KChR

  The monument, into foundation of which the first boulder was placed today, will be erected in the village of Bavuko of the Khabez District. The construction was initiated by a local resident who himself fell victim to political repressions.

October 31, 2018 08:58

• Armenia: experts associate economic decline with political situation

  In the opinion of Bagrat Asatryan, an economist, one of the reasons for a significant decline in economic activity in the country is the Armenia's political uncertainty. Artak Manukyan, an advisor to the Acting Premier Nikol Pashinyan on economic issues, has acknowledged that the structure of the economy should be radically revised.

October 30, 2018 23:59

• Zaza Saralidze, father of schoolboy killed in Georgia, discharged from hospital

  Zaza Saralidze spent four days in hospital, and, after being discharged, joined the protest action held outside the building of the Georgian Parliament. He expressed his mistrust in the Prosecutor's Office, which runs the case of his beating up a policeman.

October 30, 2018 23:58

• Evkurov doubts decision of Ingush CC on border with Chechnya

  The decision of the Ingush Constitutional Court (CC) does not cancel the border agreement with Chechnya, as it has entered into force, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has stated. In his opinion the CC of Russia should settle the issue.

October 30, 2018 22:56

• Resident of Dagestan complains about torture to ECtHR

  After the detention of Abutalip Shakhruev, a resident of Makhachkala, law enforcers forced him by torture to defame himself. Shakhruev has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

October 30, 2018 22:55

• Rights defenders achieve new check of Murad Amriev's case

  After the complaint lodged by lawyers of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), investigators began the 18th check of the application of the Chechen athlete, Murad Amriev, about torture by law enforcers in Grozny.

October 30, 2018 18:41

• Ingush CC declares law on Chechen border unconstitutional

  The law on fixing a new border with Chechnya fails to comply with the Constitution of Ingushetia, this border issue should be resolved by a referendum, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ingushetia has decided.