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October 29, 2018 13:25

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on October 22-28, 2018

  Flooding as a result of heavy rains in Kuban; presidential election in Georgia; Nikol Pashinyan's non-election as Armenian Premier; preparations for the World Congress of the Ingush People; demand to stop "Electrozink" Factory in Vladikavkaz, – see the review on these events in the report on the week of October 22-28, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

October 29, 2018 12:57

• Zaza Saralidze accused of beating policeman

  Zaza Saralidze, the father of a schoolboy killed in Tbilisi has been charged with assaulting a policeman. His defence has disagreed with the prosecution.

October 28, 2018 11:37

• Clan members elect their delegates to World Congress of Ingush People

  On October 27, the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, hosted an emergency congress of members of Ingush clans (teips). The main topics were the Ingush-Chechen border, and the nomination of delegates to the World Congress of the Ingush People.

October 28, 2018 11:28

• Man detained for threatening to blow up building of Armenian government

  A man armed with a grenade tried to break into the building of the Armenian government and threatened to blow it up, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has reported.

October 28, 2018 11:18

• Khamkhoev condemns Daudov for his visit to Ingushetia

  Isa Khamkhoev, the Mufti of Ingushetia, has stated that he would not be responsible for the local youth, if Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament came to him again, as follows from the video posted on October 27 in social networks.

October 28, 2018 11:07

• Grandmother of killed schoolboy heads protest in Tbilisi

  Marina Begadze, Zaza Saralidze's mother, has headed an action demanding to punish those responsible for the murder of her grandson. The protesters criticized the actions of the police who forbid them to set up tents in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi.

October 28, 2018 10:57

• NKR accused Azerbaijan of 100 shelling attacks per week

  During the week of October 14-20, Azerbaijani militaries fired a thousand shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

October 27, 2018 16:45

• Azerbaijan reports 23 shelling attacks in the conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from Armenia and from territories near the "occupied villages", the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

October 27, 2018 16:36

• Ingush opposition treats Kadyrov's visits as diversion

  The authorities of Ingushetia are ignoring the initiative trips of Kadyrov's people over the republic; while the apologies and reconciliations that accompany the visits will not make the residents of Ingushetia forget about the land issue, Ingush oppositionists have stated.

October 27, 2018 16:28

• Count of victims of Kuban flooding reaches 66

  During the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory, six people perished and 60 others were injured, the fate of two persons remains unknown, the local emergency services have stated today.

October 27, 2018 16:19

• Kyrgyz natives convicted in Rostov-on-Don for belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir*

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced two citizens of Kyrgyzstan to 15 and 13 years of imprisonment, claiming their membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia by the court).

October 27, 2018 11:00

• Chechen authorities evicted about 20 people from hostels in three days

  The campaign, initiated by Ramzan Kadyrov, resulted in the eviction of about 20 people from hostels; several dozen other tenants should leave their rooms in the coming days, the office of the head of Chechnya has stated.

October 27, 2018 10:55

• Djeikhun Nabi tells about interrogation in context of his Facebook posts

  After three days in custody, Djeikhun Nabi was released from the police and said that he was interrogated in connection with his publications on the Facebook, as well as about his relations with political emigrants in Europe.

October 27, 2018 10:49

• Editor-in-chief of "realliq.info" website detained in Azerbaijan

  Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "realliq.info" website has been detained in Baku. According to the advocate Elchin Sadygov, he was detained by agents of the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan.

October 27, 2018 10:40

• Zaza Saralidze hospitalized after being detained in Tbilisi

  Zaza Saralidze, the father of one of the two murdered schoolboys, who had been holding a protest action near the Georgian Parliament since October 10, was hospitalized from a police station, where he was taken for beating a policeman.

October 27, 2018 01:05

• Karabulak rally is against border agreement with Chechnya

  About two hundred participants of a rally held in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, have unanimously demanded the cancellation of the agreement on changing the Ingush-Chechen border and elected delegates to the World Congress of the Ingush People.

October 27, 2018 01:00

• Kadyrov's visits exacerbate situation in Ingushetia

  The visits of Ramzan Kadyrov and his closest officials to Ingush activists, who had criticized the head of Chechnya, are causing tensions in Ingushetia and can lead to bloodshed, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, believes.

October 26, 2018 21:53

• Pogorov states reconciliation with Kadyrov

  The head of Chechnya and a number of his close associates have "warmly communicated" with the Ingush activist Akhmed Pogorov; the Chechen leaders apologized to Ingushes, Pogorov himself have stated.

October 26, 2018 21:46

• At rally in Gukovo, miners demand the promised coal

  Today, at their protest action, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company have stated the absence of the promised payments and coal; and that with the onset of cold weather they have nothing to heat up their homes.

October 26, 2018 21:38

• Blocked roads affect number of namaz participants in Magas

  Opponents of the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border had to walk to the venue of the Friday namaz (prayer) in Magas, since roads were blocked. Elderly believers were forced to refuse to participate in the prayer, activists have stated.