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July 27, 2018 15:46

• Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew approved as Mayor of Grozny

  On July 26, members of the Grozny City Duma approved to the post of City Mayor Ibragim Zakriev, a nephew of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

July 27, 2018 10:17

• Journalist Afghan Mukhtarly hands his testimony about kidnapping over to Georgian investigators

  Law enforcers have explained the protraction in the investigation of the kidnapping of the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Tbilisi by the absence of his testimony. Now, they have all the data for an objective and timely completion of the investigation, the defence has stated.

July 27, 2018 10:12

• Fight against deforestation triggers riots in Georgia

  In Georgia, the fight against illegal felling led to clashes of residents of two villages with law enforcers. Locals treat felling as their only source of livelihood.

July 27, 2018 08:05

• Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan accused of dispersing demonstrators in Yerevan

  Investigators have requested the arrest of the second Armenian President, Robert Kocharyan, accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in connection with the dispersal of protests in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008.

July 27, 2018 08:05

• Residents of Dagestan scarify law on native languages

  Russian State Duma MPs adopted the law on the native (national) languages on July 25. The new order of studying them will encourage some of the parents to refuse from their children's studying the mother tongue in favour of the Russian language; while Russian authorities will continue pursuing their policy of assimilating minor nations, residents of Dagestan have stated.

July 26, 2018 21:53

• Court leaves Oyub Titiev under arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has denied the defence's request to transfer Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under house arrest and left him in custody until December 22.

July 26, 2018 21:52

• Law enforcers tell about militants blocked in Derbent high-rise apartment block

  In an apartment of the residential building cordoned off in Derbent, there are two alleged militants, a law enforcement source has reported.

July 26, 2018 18:01

• Chechen law enforcers announce the number of persons willing to join militants in Syria

  In January-June this year, Chechen law enforcers prevented the departure of 10 people to Syria, while in the first six months of 2017, 50 residents of Chechnya were detained for trying to join terrorists.

July 26, 2018 18:00

• "Truth of Beslan" website partially blocked for posting Shamil Basaev's letter

  The "Roskomnadzor" (the Russian Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media has demanded to block the page of the website "Pravda Beslana" (Truth of Beslan), which posted a copy of the letter sent by terrorists in 2004 from the captured school.

July 26, 2018 14:56

• Azerbaijan claims 105 cases of shelling from Armenian side

  The Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone and used large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

July 26, 2018 14:55

• Political analysts see only symbolic benefits in South Ossetia's cooperation with Syria

  Economic cooperation will allow Syria and South Ossetia to enter the markets of other countries, reported Syrian Prime Minister Anatoly Bibilov. The political aspect is more important than economic agreements between countries, noted Russian political analysts.

July 26, 2018 11:33

• Ingush State Archive gets unique documents about deported Vainakh people

  Ingushetia has got a large archive containing documents about the life and activities of special settlers during the years of deportation. As a result of the specialists' work in the archival institutions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, 2000 sheets and personnel documents concerning the lives of special settlers were found.

July 26, 2018 11:30

• Aslan Yandiev, accused of terrorism, convoyed to North Ossetia

  Aslan Yandiev, who had been extradited from Slovakia on the charge of involvement in terror acts, was taken from Moscow to Vladikavkaz and placed to the FSB SIZO (pre-trial prison).

July 26, 2018 08:21

• Political analysts forecast fight on corruption after election of the head of Dagestan

  The political will to combat Dagestani corruption originates from the Kremlin, but it is not known to what extent this process will continue if Vladimir Vasiliev is elected the head of the republic, political analysts and journalists believe.

July 26, 2018 08:19

• UN CaT points to human rights violations in Northern Caucasus

  The situation in Northern Caucasus is a matter of serious concern: extrajudicial executions, torture, kidnappings are fixed there but remain non-investigated, Claude Heller, a member of the UN Committee against Torture (CaT), has stated. Russian human rights defenders have called on the UN to pay special attention to human rights violations in Chechnya.

July 25, 2018 21:43

• Oyub Titiev's defence in Chechnya has chance to prove case falsification

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has satisfied the complaint of the defence of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to check the records of bout the examination of the DVRs (digital video recorders) installed along the Oyub's path on the day of his detention.

July 25, 2018 21:43

• Sources report detention of Makhachkala Deputy Mayor

  Kurban Kurbanov, the Deputy Makhachkala Mayor and the head of the department of architecture and town-planning, has been detained.

July 25, 2018 17:20

• Umar al-Shishani's brother killed in Syria

  Tamaz Batirashvili, an elder brother of Tarkhan Batirashvili, one of the leaders of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, died in the warfare in Syria. This was reported by residents of the Pankisi Gorge.

July 25, 2018 17:17

• Azerbaijan: suspected organizer of assassination attempt on Ganja Mayor shot dead

  The suspect was killed at detention, Azerbaijani law enforcement sources report.

July 25, 2018 13:51

• Three people suffer from explosion in Armenian capital

  The victims of a blast in the glass-making shop have been taken to hospital, the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported.