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September 11, 2018 14:28

• Azerbaijan reports machine-gun fire in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 84 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

September 11, 2018 14:20

• Three teens injured at building collapse in Tbilisi

  The health condition of one of the three children who received traumas, when a wall of the garage located in Gardabani Highway in Tbilisi collapsed, is grave, the Georgian Ministry of Public Health has reported.

September 11, 2018 14:08

• Human rights defenders criticize Albert Khamkhoev's verdict

  In the course of judicial investigation, no proofs of Khamkhoev's guilt, accused of possessing weapons, were presented; and the sentence rendered on him is unfair, Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", believes.

September 11, 2018 09:52

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Ilgar Mamedov demands to punish judges

  Ilgar Mamedov, the Chairman of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party has appealed to the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office demanding to punish the judges involved in his arrest and imprisonment.

September 11, 2018 09:37

• Lawyer Benyash arrested for 14 days

  Lawyer Mikhail Benyash, detained in Krasnodar at an unsanctioned march against the pension reform, was arrested for 14 days and sentenced to 40 hours of compulsory works.

September 11, 2018 09:29

• Four Ingush Vice-Premiers dismissed

  Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was elected to the post of the head of Ingushetia for the third time, reduced the number of Vice-Premiers in the republic's government.

September 11, 2018 08:38

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia goes on hunger strike

  At the protest actions "Don't kill – together on guard of justice" in Tbilisi, Zaza Saralidze announced a hunger strike demanding resignation of the Georgian government.

September 11, 2018 08:27

• Lawyer Benyash tells he was beaten up after arrest

  Doctors have fixed numerous bruises on the lawyer Mikhail Benyash, detained in Krasnodar. About 200 lawyers from various Russian regions have signed an appeal to the Federal Bar Association demanding to investigate the beating of their colleague.

September 11, 2018 08:19

• Participants of "Don't kill!" action demand resignation of Georgia's Govt

  In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, at the action "Don't kill – together on guard of justice", protesters have demanded to punish those guilty of killing the schoolboy, David Saralidze, and create an interim government.

September 10, 2018 22:10

• Khazbiev complains to ECtHR about his custody conditions

  The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about inhuman treatment and unjustified isolation, said his advocate.

September 10, 2018 22:00

• Investigators get interested in ballot stuffing in Kalmykia

  The spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has informed about the start of checking the video record of the incident at the elections to the People's Khural of Kalmykia. The female-observer, who shot the video, is out of contact for the second day, the office of the regional branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party informs.

September 10, 2018 17:31

• At OSCE conference, activists demand to release Titiev

  Activists dressed in T-shirts with inscriptions in support of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and film director Oleg Sentsov came today to the OSCE conference in Warsaw.

September 10, 2018 17:23

• Serzh Sargsyan's nephew released on bail

  The court has ruled to release Hayk Sargsyan, a nephew of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, from custody, the defence has stated.

September 10, 2018 16:45

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 3-9, 2018

  Elections in Southern Russia; elections of leaders for Dagestan and Ingushetia; death of the Prime Minister of Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 3-9, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 10, 2018 15:38

• Zaur Dadaev transferred to another penal colony for violating custody regime

  Zaur Dadaev, sentenced in the case on the Nemtsov's murder, was transferred from a penal colony in Irkutsk to a penitentiary institution in Angarsk, where he would serve his sentence in more severe conditions, the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) reports today.

September 10, 2018 15:28

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling its two villages

  The Armenian armed forces 95 times violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone during a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

September 10, 2018 15:22

• Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh note high competition at by-elections to parliament

  More than 50 percent of voters came to the by-elections to the parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh at the 10th and 11th precinct districts. According to local residents, these elections differ from the previous ones by the number of candidates participating in them. The growth of political activity is connected with the revolution in Armenia, believes Hayk Khanumyan, the leader of the opposition "National Revival" Party.

September 10, 2018 11:29

• Volgograd: march against pension reform was over 300 people strong (+video)

  More than 350 people took part in an unsanctioned march of Alexei Navalny's supporters in Volgograd. At least 16 people were detained; two of them were hospitalized.

September 10, 2018 11:16

• Evkurov heads Ingushetia for the third time

  On September 9, by a majority of votes, local MPs of Ingushetia re-elected Yunus-Bek Evkurov to the post of the republic's head.

September 10, 2018 11:05

• Three Navalny's supporters detained in Rostov-on-Don

  The coordinator of Alexei Navalny's office in Rostov-on-Don and two activists were detained at an unsanctioned protest action held in central city.