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August 29, 2018 15:00

• In Armenia, house of former Court of Cassation chair shelled

  Three men in masks entered the territory of the house belonging to Arman Mkrtumyan, the former chairman of the Armenian Court of Cassation, and opened random fire from machine guns. One attacker has been detained, reports today Sona Truzyan, the advisor to the chief of the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

August 29, 2018 14:51

• ECtHR awards 20,000 euros to relatives of disappeared Dagestani resident

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded the compensation of 20,000 euros to family members of Amirkhan Alikhanov, a resident of Dagestan, kidnapped in December 2004.

August 29, 2018 14:41

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of 89 cases of shelling

  On August 28-29, the Armenian armed forces used large-calibre machine guns during the shelling, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

August 29, 2018 14:32

• Sociologists associate better attitude towards Chechens with anti-Ukrainian propaganda

  An image of the enemy, got by Russian citizens during the wars in Chechnya, fades away, and the propaganda has redirected xenophobia from Caucasians to Ukrainians, believe sociologists from the "Levada Centre".

August 29, 2018 10:57

• First ever Nagorno-Karabakh beer festival held in Stepanakert

  According to law enforcers, about five thousand people took part in the first beer festival in the history of Nagorno-Karabakh. The residents of the city, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", would like to see such topical festivals in Stepanakert more often.

August 29, 2018 10:40

• Rights defenders condemn Kadyrov for threats

  Putin must condemn the statements of Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, with threats against human rights defenders and promises to collectively punish families of alleged members of the armed underground, the human rights organizations Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Amnesty International (AI) and the Front Line Defenders (FLD) have stated.

August 29, 2018 10:18

• Abkhazia and South Ossetia mark 10 years of Russia's recognition of their independence

  Delegations from Russia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Nauru and self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have attended the festivities on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Russia's recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

August 29, 2018 08:32

• Houses of Azerbaijani residents damaged by earthquake

  This evening, two underground tremors were fixed in the Lerik District of Azerbaijan. No victims have been reported; however, cracks appeared on some houses.

August 29, 2018 08:27

• Ganja Mayor dismissed after attempt on him and residents' protests

  The President of Azerbaijan has dismissed Elmar Veliev from the post of the Mayor of Ganja, the second largest city of the country, where protests against the Mayor led to clashes with the police and human casualties.

August 29, 2018 08:18

• Testimonies of two law enforcers give arguments to Titiev's defence

  Two of four prosecution witnesses, questioned today at the trial of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", gave truthful answers to defence's questions, advocate Pyotr Zaikin said.

August 28, 2018 21:40

• Chechen authorities link mass interrogations of teens with search for recruiters

  The authorities of Chechnya have explained interrogation of teenagers from the encirclement of those who attacked law enforcers with conducting of prophylactic conversations.

August 28, 2018 21:32

• Magomed Makhachev's relative detained in Dagestan

  Magomednabi Gairbekov, a resident of Dagestan, is suspected of involvement in the criminal community, the creation of which is criminated to his relative, Magomed Makhachev, a former head of the Chief Bureau of Forensic and Social Expertise of Dagestan, investigators have reported.

August 28, 2018 21:21

• Court refuses to lift arrest from Yuri Khachaturov

  Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the defence's appeal against the arrest and subsequent release on bail of Yuri Khachaturov, the Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization), who is accused within the case of dispersing protests ten years ago.

August 28, 2018 17:59

• In Oyub Titiev's case, witness voices conflicting evidence

  Today, at the trial in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, the court questioned a law enforcer from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division). The witness denied his acquaintance with Oyub Titiev, but failed to explain why he wore the same uniform as other law enforcers who took part in the detention of the rights defender.

August 28, 2018 17:47

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of border areas

  During the past day, the ceasefire regime on the contact line was violated 94 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reports today. There were no reports about shelling of villages and towns.

August 28, 2018 14:01

• In Kuban, social network user fined for demonstration of Nazi symbols

  A resident of the Korenovsk District was fined for posting images with Nazi attributes and symbols on a social network page, the Prosecutor's Office reported.

August 28, 2018 13:50

• In Armenia, son of Syunik Region Governor wanted

  Tigran Khachatryan has been put on the wanted list. According to investigators, he forged documents to avoid military service, when his father Surik Khachatryan was the Governor of the Syunik Region in Armenia.

August 28, 2018 11:49

• Volgograd activists hold flash mob in support of Aslan Yandiev

  The action in support of Aslan Yandiev, extradited from Slovakia to Russia and accused of involvement in a series of terror acts in North Ossetia, was held in Volgograd.

August 28, 2018 11:41

• Policemen reject their participation in Oyub Titiev's detention

  Most of the law enforcers from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), who were questioned in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, stated that they did not see him at the police station, they were not acquainted with the rights defender, and they did not take part in his detention and bringing him to the police department.

August 28, 2018 11:30

• AI condemns extradition of refugee Farid Yusub from Russia to Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani refugee Farid Yusub, accused of theft, forgery of documents, and illegal crossing of the border, associated his persecution in Azerbaijan with his opposition views. The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) believes that at home, the refugee can be subjected to torture and unfair trial.