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September 13, 2018 08:16

• SC approves Ruslan Rakhaev's conviction

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has announced its decision on the appeal complaint lodged by Ruslan Rakhaev, the deputy head of the Department for Cherkessk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was found guilty of beating up a detainee to death. The SC has reduced Rakhaev's prison term by three months. His defence has announced its intention to file a cassation against the verdict.

September 12, 2018 21:06

• More than 60 Georgian citizens deported from Germany

  Today, 65 Georgian citizens have been expelled from Germany. Of them, 59 applied for asylum in Saxony, but were refused.

September 12, 2018 21:00

• Advocate finds out reasons for Zaur Dadaev's transfer to another penal colony

  Zaur Dadaev will serve his sentence in more severe detention conditions because of the violation of the regime in 2016, reported advocate Rosa Magomedova. She associates the transfer of the man sentenced in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder with law enforcers' attempt to get new testimony.

September 12, 2018 18:17

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia resumes his hunger strike

  Today, Zaza Saralidze, hospitalized from the place of his hunger strike, has returned to the building of the Georgian parliament, demanding resignation of the government.

September 12, 2018 17:52

• Head of Armenian village reports shelling by Azerbaijan

  The pre-border village of Baganis of the Tavush District of Armenia was shelled several times by Azerbaijan; no one was injured, Narek Saakyan, the head of the village community, has stated today. Ceasefire violations in the conflict zone are "permanent in nature," the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

September 12, 2018 17:41

• AI announces Kuban lawyer Benyash prisoner of conscience

  The human rights Amnesty International (AI) has demanded to release the lawyer Mikhail Benyash from administrative arrest. Benyash himself has explained that he came to the protest rally in Krasnodar on September 9 as a defender of the detainees.

September 12, 2018 15:13

• Pickets against pension reform held in Volgograd without detentions

  On September 11, in Volgograd, three activists held their alternative solo pickets against the pension reform.

September 12, 2018 15:04

• Azerbaijan announces about 90 machine-gun attacks per day

  During the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 90 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

September 12, 2018 14:51

• MPs argue about legalization of marijuana growing in Georgia

  The Government of Georgia has drafted a legislative initiative that allows cultivation of marijuana for pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for export. The appearance of the draft is premature, as it lobbies the interests of certain people, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

September 12, 2018 10:45

• After wiretapping scandal, Pashinyan orders to conduct searches at oligarchs and officials

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, has ordered to conduct raids and searches of the houses of oligarchs and former high-ranking officials, and find the organizers of wiretapping of the telephone conversation of Arthur Vanetsyan, the head of the National Security Service (NSS) with Valery Osipyan, the head of the Armenian Police.

September 12, 2018 10:36

• Mother of defendant in case of attempt on Ganja Mayor states pressure on her son and his advocate

  The mother of Yunis Safarov, accused of an assassination attempt on Elmar Veliev, the Mayor of the city of Ganja, has announced that the well-known advocate Elchin Sadygov had been removed from defending her son. According to her story, her son is under pressure to testify against the Sadygov.

September 12, 2018 10:29

• New charge presented to Robert Kocharyan

  Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, is accused of financial frauds and money laundering, Arthur Vanetsyan, the head of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia, has stated.

September 12, 2018 08:32

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia felt bad during conflict with policemen

  Policemen did not allow the participants of the "Don't kill!" action, who demand resignation of the Georgian government, to set up tents in the central Tbilisi avenue. The initiator of the action Zaza Saralidze fainted and was taken away by an ambulance.

September 12, 2018 08:24

• Kadyrov supports "Rosgvardia" boss' challenge to Navalny

  Victor Zolotov, the head of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) is defending the honour of his organization by inviting the oppositionist Alexei Navalny to a duel, said Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya.

September 11, 2018 21:50

• Kalmykia: observer disappears after talking to investigator

  For the last time, Aisa Khulaeva, who shot a video about ballot-stuffing at a polling station, was seen in the investigator's office; she is out of contact for the second day, the Kalmyk branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party has informed.

September 11, 2018 21:41

• Azerbaijani activist placed in dungeon after going on hunger strike

  Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is on the fifth day of his hunger strike in colony, was placed into the dungeon (a punishment cell), his brother, Natig Adilov, has reported. In its turn, the Penitentiary Service asserts that Adilov refused from his hunger strike.

September 11, 2018 21:31

• Timati-Nurmagomedov conflict sparks disputes on radicalism in Dagestan (+video)

  The virtual dispute of the performer and producer Timati with the Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov that broke out after the cancellation of the concert of singer Yegor Krid in Makhachkala caused a heated discussion among social network users about the admissibility of banning the music, which fails to meet religious and traditional values of Dagestan.

September 11, 2018 17:41

• Appeal to Kadyrov raises problem of extortions in Chechen schools

  An appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov with a complaint about money extortions from parents at schools was spread on the WhatsApp by a user who introduced herself as a resident of the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny District.

September 11, 2018 17:35

• Oppositionists report ballot-stuffing at polling stations in Volgograd

  Observers from oppositional parties told the "Caucasian Knot" about ballot-stuffing, falsifications during vote tabulation and threats of physical execution, which they fixed during the recent elections in Volgograd; they filed complaints about violations.

September 11, 2018 14:32

• "Vayfond" head stops hunger strike against Chechen's extradition to Russia

  Mansur Sadulaev, the head of the "Vayfond" Swedish charitable association, has stopped, after a deterioration of his health condition, the hunger strike announced on September 6 in protest against the decision of Bosnian authorities to extradite Akhmed Altamirov, an ethnic Chechen and a native of Ingushetia, to Russia.