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October 26, 2018 18:20

• Daudov tells about night visit to Mufti's house in Ingushetia

  The video record of Magomed Daudov's arrival in Ingushetia, posted on the YouTube, shows the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament [Daudov] standing in darkness in front of the house of Isa Khamkhoev, the Mufti of Ingushetia. Magomed Daudov has himself confirmed the information about his trip to the Mufti of Ingushetia.

October 26, 2018 17:49

• 50 people turn to doctors for help after Kuban flooding

  13 out of 50 injured persons during flooding in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) were hospitalized, the Territorial Ministry of Public Health has stated today.

October 26, 2018 12:54

• Number of flood victims in Kuban reaches seven

  Six people perished and one suffered in the emergency zone in the Tuapse and Apsheron Districts, local authorities and emergency services have stated.

October 26, 2018 12:47

• Azerbaijan counts 30 shelling attacks from Armenia within 24 hours

  Armenian militaries have shelled positions of the Azerbaijani Army in different sections of the frontline for 30 times during the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

October 26, 2018 11:18

• Relatives report disappearance of detained Azerbaijani activist Nabi

  The fate of the activist Djeikhun Nabi, who was detained on October 23 in Azerbaijan, remains unknown. Relatives and human rights defenders cannot establish his whereabouts. Advocates have now joined the search.

October 26, 2018 11:04

• Rights defenders tell about problems of combating domestic violence

  Russia fails to take sufficient measures to solve the problem of domestic violence, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserts.

October 26, 2018 10:52

• Court rejects complaint of "Yerevan Today" about search

  The Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has found the search conducted at the editorial office of the website "Yerevan Today" legitimate. The search and the court judgement are examples of pressure on mass media, the website's advocate has stated.

October 26, 2018 08:25

• Kuban authorities extended state of emergency on Apsheron District and Sochi

  The state of emergency regime, in force in the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) after heavy rains, was also introduced in the Apsheron District and in the city of Sochi. Thousands of people living in the dwelling settlements in the north of the Tuapse District have lost their transport communication, electricity and gas supplies.

October 25, 2018 20:59

• Rights defenders express concern over Ramzan Kadyrov's call to Ingush Elder

  A visit of Ramzan Kadyrov's representatives to the Ingush village and the call of Elder Akhmed Barakhoev to the Sharia court could provoke interethnic conflict between the Ingush and Chechen people, suggest Irina Starodubrovskaya and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya.

October 25, 2018 20:51

• Ingush Constitutional Court pronounces no decision on border with Chechnya

  Today, the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia has started to consider the legality of the law on the border with Chechnya. It will take several hearings to resolve the issue, the court spokesperson reports.

October 25, 2018 20:32

• "Committee against Torture" sums up investigation into attack on rights defenders and journalists in Ingushetia

  Despite 30 months of investigation into the attack on journalists and rights defenders in Ingushetia on the border with Chechnya, there are no defendants in the case, and investigators do not respond to requests from victims to examine the case materials, the NGO "Committee against Torture" reports today.

October 25, 2018 20:25

• A native of Stavropol sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment after deportation from Austria

  The court has found Bekkhan Zubairaev, a native of the Stavropol Territory, who had been earlier deported from Austria, an organizer to the financing of Syrian militants.

October 25, 2018 20:12

• A police officer detained after beating a resident of Buynaksk

  The chief of the GIBDD (road police) Department for the Buynaksk District is suspected of abuse of office, the law enforcement bodies report today.

October 25, 2018 13:16

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of a village in conflict zone

  Over a day, positions of the Azerbaijani army, including in the village of Zamanly, were shelled 28 times in the Karabakh conflict zone, reports today the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan.

October 25, 2018 13:04

• Five persons fell victim to flooding in Kuban

  Two persons were killed and other three were injured. The fate of one more person still remains unknown after heavy rains in the Krasnodar Territory, reports today the regional Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

October 25, 2018 11:01

• Kadyrov summons Ingush elder to Sharia trial

  Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, arrived in the Ingush village of Novy Redant on behalf of Ramzan Kadyrov and invited the Elder Akhmed Barakhoev to a Sharia trial because of his statement at a rally in Magas. Barakhoev refused to come to Kadyrov.

October 25, 2018 10:47

• Lawyers on outcomes of considering border agreement by Ingush CC

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Ingushetia will unlikely recognize the law on fixing a new Chechen-Ingush border as legitimate, since it indicated earlier the need for a referendum on this issue. If the law is found unconstitutional, the CC will oblige the Parliament to amend it, the lawyers polled by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

October 25, 2018 01:15

• Armenian government offers broadest amnesty in the country's history

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Armenia has submitted a bill to the Parliament on a mass amnesty, which covers, among others, the members of the "Sasna Tsrer" detachment and the "Constituent Parliament".

October 25, 2018 01:07

• Woman dies in flooded area of Krasnodar Territory

  In the area of flooding in the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory, the body of a woman was found; investigators are studying the circumstances of her death.

October 25, 2018 00:59

• Two Georgian residents set free after detention at South-Ossetian border

  Law enforcers of South Ossetia have released two residents of the Georgian village of Okami, who were detained on October 20 on suspicion of violating the border.