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October 04, 2018 13:38

• Ingush parliament approves change of republic's borders

  Out of 25 MPs who attended a session of the Ingush parliament, 17 voted in favour of ratifying the agreement on the administrative border with Chechnya, reported the press service of the Ingush leader.

October 04, 2018 13:34

• Ingush residents start protesting against transfer of lands to Chechnya

  Participants of a protest action went to the centre of Magas, reported Ingush activists. Law enforcement forces are accumulated in the capital of Ingushetia, reported Magomed Mutsolgov, a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot".

October 04, 2018 11:39

• Political analysts: early elections to become last stage of velvet revolution in Armenia

  The velvet revolution will end if earlier parliamentary elections are held in the coming months, believes journalist Boris Navasardyan. The early elections will end in victory for supporters of the Prime Minister, suggests political strategist Armen Badalyan.

October 04, 2018 11:36

• Media report about suspected killer of policeman in Baksan District

  According to sources, a 26-year-old resident of the Atazhukino village was put on the wanted list on suspicion of killing a policeman in Kabardino-Balkaria.

October 04, 2018 11:27

• In Ingushetia, calls for protest action disseminated amid threats from law enforcers

  In Ingushetia, law enforcers warned activists against launching new protests in connection with the change in the Chechen-Ingush border. However, social networks disseminated a call to gather on the day of the Ingush parliament session.

October 04, 2018 08:35

• Three Caucasian natives captured in Syria

  The Syrian Democratic Army has announced the capture in Syria of six militants of the "Islamic State" (IS) (a terrorist grouping banned in Russia by the court). Among them, there are two natives of Dagestan, including a woman, and a native of Azerbaijan.

October 04, 2018 08:31

• Policeman killed in KBR

  The body of a policeman with traces of violent death was found in the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

October 03, 2018 22:02

• ECtHR blames state servants for death of KBR resident

  On October 2, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 74,500 euros to relatives of Rasul Tsakoev, a resident of the village of Khasanya in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), having found law enforcers guilty of his torture and death.

October 03, 2018 21:59

• Rights defenders achieve new inquiry into death of Anapa resident at police

  The death case of Ivan Geliev, a resident of Anapa, after his detention by law enforcers has been resumed by decision of the Prosecutor's Office, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has stated.

October 03, 2018 21:55

• Georgia's Ombudsperson tells about beating of Otinashvili arrested in South Ossetia

  Maya Otinashvili, a resident of the Georgian village of Khurvaleti, was arrested in South Ossetia for ten days, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has reported. After being detained, the woman was beaten up, the Georgian Ombudsperson has stated.

October 03, 2018 21:53

• Pashinyan tells about outcomes of meeting with Aliev

  No Azerbaijani-Armenian operative communication line on the truce observance in the Karabakh conflict zone has been created; however, an agreement about it has already affected the situation in the conflict zone. This was stated by Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has noted a decline in the shelling intensity in the conflict zone.

October 03, 2018 19:13

• Four rally participants hospitalized in Yerevan

  One of the Nikol Pashinyan's supporters who suffered at a rally experienced head failure.

October 03, 2018 19:10

• In Chechnya, residents of Nadterechny District disappointed with loss of lands

  Under the agreement on the border change, Chechnya handed over to Ingushetia the agricultural lands of the former "Goragorsky" state-owned farm in the Nadterechny District. The lands handed over to the neighbouring republic are good for farming, local residents complain.

October 03, 2018 19:06

• In Armenia, two "Sasna Tsrer" members go on hunger strike

  Pavel Manukyan, accused of seizing a police regiment in Yerevan, has declared an indefinite hunger strike with the demand to change the pre-trial restriction measure to him. Armen Bilyan, accused of killing a policeman during the seizure of the regiment building, has joined the demand voiced by Pavel Manukyan.

October 03, 2018 19:02

• Relative of oppositional journalist sentenced in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, Emin Shagiev, a relative of Turkel Azerturk, a reporter of the opposition "TuranTV" TV Channel, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment on the charge of drug trafficking. Turkel Azerturk has associated the prosecution of his relative with his opposition activities.

October 03, 2018 13:40

• Activists tell about the relevance for Ingushetia of lands transferred to Chechnya

  People live and there are graves of Ingush ancestors in the lands handed over to Chechnya within the framework of the agreement on fixing borders. The border re-delineation will affect the residents of the mountainous part of Ingushetia, in particular, Dattykh villagers, said Sarazhdin Sultygov, the co-chairman of the "Mekhk Kkhel" movement.

October 03, 2018 13:38

• Azerbaijan counts 30 acts of shelling in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in four villages were shelled, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

October 03, 2018 13:37

• Armenian President approves dismissal of six ministers

  Armen Sargsyan has supported the decision of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to dismiss the ministers-members of the "Prosperous Armenia" and "Dashnaktsutyun" Parties, who had supported the amendments to the Regulations on the National Assembly (Parliament).

October 03, 2018 10:50

• Russia finds Imam Velitov's complaint to the ECtHR unjustified

  The Russia's representative at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) responded to the court's request on the complaint of Imam Makhmud Velitov and asked the court to reject it.

October 03, 2018 10:45

• Over 500 Stepanakert residents light candles in memory of Charles Aznavour

  By lighting candles, Stepanakert townspeople have honoured the memory of the French chansonier Charles Aznavour. The participants in the mourning ceremony, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", called him a great artist and a real man.