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October 13, 2018 16:06

• Policeman wounded at CTO in Dagestan

  Today, within the counterterrorist operation (CTO), law enforcers began storming the house in the village of Endirei, Khasavyurt District, where the alleged militants, who wounded a policeman, were hiding.

October 13, 2018 11:32

• Analysts assess Pashinyan's risk of losing post as minimal

  Nikol Pashinyan's opponents failed to venture an aggravation of the political crisis; it allowed the Armenian Premier to speed up preparations for the early parliamentary elections. At the same time, Pashinyan managed to draw a part of the members of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) to his side, which will allow him to undertake the so-called "technical resignation" without any fear to occupy the Premiership again, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

October 13, 2018 11:26

• Azerbaijani activist Elgiz Gakhramanov placed into dungeon in his colony

  Elgiz Gakhramanov, a member of the NIDA Movement, who is serving his sentence in Colony No. 14, has been placed into dungeon (punishment cell), said Djamal Gakhramanov, his father.

October 13, 2018 11:20

• Refusal to sanction rally in Gasanguseinovs' support found illegal

  The court has obliged the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan to reconsider the notification about a rally in support of the parents of the murdered Gasanguseinov brothers scheduled in Makhachkala. Representative of the Gasanguseinov family said the rally would have to be rescheduled for a later date.

October 13, 2018 08:33

• Geriev's case is a core of PEN-Centre's report on pressure on journalists

  Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, convicted in Chechnya, should be immediately released, the PEN-Centre-Moscow Association has said in a report on the restriction of the freedom of speech in Russia.

October 13, 2018 08:24

• Opponents of Chechen-Ingush border agreement appeal to Putin

  The organizing committee of the rally in Magas has called on Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to cancel the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border, signed by the heads of these republics.

October 12, 2018 21:24

• Evkurov treats signing of agreement on Chechen-Ingush border as spontaneous

  The border agreement was signed "spontaneously", against the conflict over road works, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has stated today, stressing that the document had been prepared in advance and without any Moscow's participation.

October 12, 2018 21:13

• Nurmagomedov suspended from UFC fights

  The Nevada State Athletic Commission has disqualified the Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov and his rival Conor McGregor for 10 days because of the brawl that broke out after their fight in Las Vegas.

October 12, 2018 18:38

• Monument to repression victims erected for money of KBR residents

  Residents of the village of Psygansu in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic have raised about 200,000 roubles for a monument to their relatives, who fell victim to Stalinist repressions. On October 10, about 250 people came to the opening of the monument.

October 12, 2018 18:27

• Chechen residents treat employment of scandalous video hero as humiliation

  Turpal Khasiev has again publicly apologized for throwing a metal can at a metro passenger in Moscow. Residents of Chechnya have treated Turpal Khasiev's employment as a humiliation of the young man.

October 12, 2018 18:16

• Evkurov promises not to disperse Magas rally

  The dispersal of the protest rally in Magas against the change of the Chechen-Ingush border will bring no fruit, the head of Ingushetia said today, thanking the federal authorities for refraining from using force.

October 12, 2018 14:09

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of two villages in Karabakh conflict zone

  Over the past day, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 27 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

October 12, 2018 13:59

• Defence asks court to acquit Islam Gugov

  The guilt of Islam Gugov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of involvement in activities of Syrian militants, has not been proven, his advocates state. Islam Gugov himself has expressed regret that he had gone to Syria.

October 12, 2018 11:17

• Magomed Davudov denies involvement in preparing terror act in Moscow metro

  Magomed Davudov, a native of Dagestan, refused, at a court session, to plead guilty in the case of preparing a terror act in Moscow metro. He also denied an accusation of having links with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

October 12, 2018 11:03

• Shepherd hit a mine in Karabakh conflict zone

  Azad Gasanov, a 22-year-old resident of the Tartar District, was blown up by a mine while grazing cattle. He was operated on and his leg was amputated, the hospital said.

October 12, 2018 10:51

• Ingush residents sue Yunus-Bek Evkurov

  A group of residents of Ingushetia has lodged their administrative claims to the court, challenging the actions of Yunus-Bek Evkurov at conclusion of the border agreement with Chechnya and the voting outcomes in the parliament on October 4.

October 12, 2018 08:39

• Kadyrov sends scandalous video hero to clean streets

  The Chechen, who threw a metal can at metro passengers in Moscow with the words "Akhmat is power!" has urgently arrived in Grozny. In the Chechen capital, the young man was immediately employed: he would clean the streets and plant flowers, said Ramzan Kadyrov.

October 12, 2018 08:30

• British investigators study spending of Azeri banker's wife

  The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has got interested in the income sources of Zamira, the wife of Djakhangir Khadjiev, a former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, after she spent a lot of money at the department store and purchased expensive real estate.

October 11, 2018 22:21

• Khabib Nurmagomedov threatens UFC to terminate his contract

  Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, a lightweight champion, has announced his intention to break his contract with the UFC in case if his assistant Zubair Tukhugov, a Chechen native, is dismissed.

October 11, 2018 22:10

• In Magas, rally participants describe role of women in protest

  In Magas, women are on duty around the clock in the square which hosts a rally against the change in the border with Chechnya. They help to cook food and solve the everyday issues of the protesters.