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July 31, 2018 22:36

• Journalist Orkhan Djemal killed

  In the Central African Republic (CAR), journalist Orkhan Djemal was killed together with his two colleagues while working on a documentary film about the private military company "Wagner". The information is confirmed by his wife and journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

July 31, 2018 22:22

• In Vladikavkaz, investigators charge Aslan Yandiev

  Aslan Yandiev, extradited from Slovakia to Russia against the UN position, has been charged. He is accused of committing grave and especially grave crimes in the territory of Vladikavkaz, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

July 31, 2018 18:47

• Armenian political analysts criticize Robert Kocharyan's words about political persecution

  Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, arrested in the case of the dispersal of demonstrators in 2008, no longer has any serious political influence and has not earlier announced his participation in the election, political analysts stated.

July 31, 2018 18:36

• TV story about Ibragim Yangulbaev causes distrust in Chechen people

  On July 30, the "Grozny" TV Channel stated that Ibragim Yangulbaev, accused of extremism, had not filed any complaint about the lack of medical assistance at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). People who watched the TV story drew attention to the fact that Ibragim Yangulbaev himself had not been given a chance to speak.

July 31, 2018 15:05

• Imam Makhmud Velitov hospitalized, his defence reports

  Makhmud Velitov, Imam of the Moscow mosque "Yardyam", sentenced on the charge of justifying terrorism, was transferred to a prison hospital with complaints of heart pain, his advocate reported.

July 31, 2018 14:59

• Press service rejects Ramzan Kadyrov's connection with a scandalous film company

  The state-owned enterprise "Chechenfilm", against which leaders a criminal case on fraud has been instituted, is liquidated and its general director left Russia, reported Alvi Karimov, the spokesman for the leader of Chechnya.

July 31, 2018 14:49

• Court arrests a native of Chechnya for attacking a Moscow policeman

  On July 30, a minor, born in Chechnya, accused on suspicion of attacking a policeman in Moscow, was arrested for two months.

July 31, 2018 11:54

• Kadyrov ignores complaints about tortures of Chechens in Russian colonies

  Within a week, the authorities of Chechnya failed to react publicly to the appeal of two women from Chechnya to Ramzan Kadyrov, in which they complained about inhuman treatment of their relatives kept in Russian colonies.

July 31, 2018 11:47

• Georgian activists achieve legalization of marijuana

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia has granted the claim of activists of the "Girchi" Party, having recognized the administrative punishment for the use of marijuana to be unconstitutional.

July 31, 2018 08:24

• Law enforcers deny information about shootout in Dagestan

  The information about the shelling of policemen in the Novolaksky District is untrue, said the spokesperson of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). According to his version, there were no attempts to attack law enforcers.

July 31, 2018 08:17

• Azerbaijani activists criticize inquiry into "Ganja case"

  The four suspects of committing assassination attempt on the head of Ganja and organizing subsequent riots were killed by law enforcers, dozens of people were arrested or declared wanted, the Azerbaijani General Public Prosecutor has announced. However, a rights defender told the "Caucasian Knot" that the investigation is not transparent.

July 30, 2018 23:09

• A native of Chechnya explains his attack on a policeman by hatred

  In Moscow, a charge has been brought against a young man detained after an attack on a policeman with a knife. During an interrogation, the native of Chechnya has voiced his dislike of law enforcers, a source reported.

July 30, 2018 22:55

• Law enforcers check information about shooting in Dagestan

  Secret services check information about the shelling of a police squad in the Novolaksky District. No information about possible victims is reported, a source reports today.

July 30, 2018 22:49

• Activists call on Azerbaijani authorities to let Mekhman Guseinov visit his mother

  Today, members of NGOs and journalists have appealed to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a request to let blogger Mekhman Guseinov, sentenced for slander, visit his seriously ill mother.

July 30, 2018 20:15

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 23-29, 2018

  Guilty verdicts to Ingush CCE agents in the case on torture; arrest of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan in the case on dispersal of demonstrators in 2008, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 23-29, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 30, 2018 19:27

• "Russian LGBT-Network": 125 gays leave Chechnya because of persecution

  Since early 2017, 125 people, who fell victim to persecution, left Chechnya, the "Kommersant" reports today in the article "In the Chechen Republic, there are no sex minorities or their number drops" with reference to a member of the movement "Russian LGBT-Network".

July 30, 2018 19:19

• Sochi authorities disclose information about fire victims

  The death toll of eight people includes a child, investigators reported. The dead were workers from the CIS countries, who lived in a temporary shelter on a railway right-of-way, the Sochi administration reported.

July 30, 2018 19:09

• Million-rouble thefts in "Chechenfilm" to be investigated after complaint from Minister of Culture - RBC

  A criminal case has been instituted against chiefs and employees of the film studio "Chechenfilm" after a complaint filed by Vladimir Medinsky, Russian Minister of Culture, the RBC reports today.

July 30, 2018 15:47

• In Sochi, death toll of fire reaches eight people

  Today, early in the morning, a fire has broken out in a private apartment building in Sochi. Various sources reported at least nine victims of the fire, including seven dead.

July 30, 2018 15:39

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of its positions in five villages

  On July 29-30, the ceasefire regime on the contact line at the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated 92 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.