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July 23, 2018 11:39

• South Ossetia and Syria establish diplomatic relations

  On July 22, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) for South Ossetia and Syria signed an agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations. Another important outcome of the meeting was an agreement on the visit of the South-Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov to Damascus.

July 23, 2018 11:35

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 16-22, 2018

  Attack of IS* militants on policemen in Dagestan; workers killed by explosion in Georgian mine; start of Oyub Titiev's trial in Chechnya; ECtHR's decision on inefficiency of investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, – read about these and other main events in the Caucasus during the week of July 16-22, 2018, in the review prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 22, 2018 10:02

• Convict in Sefilyan's case stops hunger strike

  Arthur Movsisyan, who was found guilty of transferring firearms to the participants of the movement "100 Years Without Regime" in Armenia, has stopped his hunger strike because of health problems, his advocate has stated.

July 22, 2018 09:48

• "European Georgia" nominates its presidential candidate

  The "European Georgia" Party has announced nomination of David Bakradze as its candidate for the Georgia's presidency, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 21, 2018 22:06

• Five persons stay in hospitals after a road traffic accident near Izberbash

  This morning, a road traffic accident involving a minivan and a car has occurred at the 860th kilometre of the federal highway "Kavkaz". As a result of the road traffic accident, two persons were killed and other ten were hospitalized.

July 21, 2018 21:55

• In Volgograd, "Dynasty" real estate investors demand to finish their house until winter

  In Volgograd, a developer and officials from the "Gosstroinadzor" (Federal Construction Supervision Service) attended a meeting arranged by real estate investors of the residential complex (RC) "Dynasty" and promised to complete the construction in several months. The real estate investors have met the promise with mistrust.

July 21, 2018 20:22

• Soldier killed in Azerbaijan

  Soldier Samed Alyshov was killed during the shelling in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

July 21, 2018 20:17

• In Tbilisi, a witness of schoolboys' murder arrested

  The Tbilisi City Court has pronounced the decision to take into custody a teenager suspected of giving false testimony in a resonant case on the murder of two minors in Khorava Street.

July 21, 2018 20:04

• Relatives demand an urgent surgery for Mamed Ibragim

  Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), went blind in prison to his left eye. He can completely lose his sight without immediate surgery, his relatives reported. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has requested the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to provide medical treatment for Mamed Ibragim.

July 21, 2018 19:57

• Residents of Chechnya complain about method to distribute free trips to Mecca

  300 residents of Chechnya will be able to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at the expense of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, the Chechen authorities reported. Local residents claim the lack of transparency in the distribution of free trips.

July 21, 2018 15:06

• Borozdinovskaya villager suspected of recruiting a young woman for militants

  Kurban Kurbanaliev, a resident of the Borozdinovskaya village, is suspected of attempting to recruit a young woman into the ranks of Syrian militants, and two of his fellow villagers are suspected of failure to report the above crime, reports the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). On the air of the local TV channel, the detainees pleaded guilty, but their relatives expressed doubts about the reliability of those confessions.

July 21, 2018 14:59

• Ship owner explains salary non-payment to sailors in Azov by US sanctions

  The money for Russian sailors from the "Riroyl-5" ship on the hunger strike at the Azov port has been transferred, but it has not yet come because of the sanctions imposed on Russia, announced the spokesman for the Palmali Group, an owner of the ship.

July 21, 2018 12:26

• Residents of Pankisi Gorge demand to stop construction of three HPP

  Residents of the Duisi village located in the Pankisi Gorge have conducted a protest action against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in the gorge. Local residents believe the construction of new HPPs in the Pankisi Gorge will pose a threat to the environment, agriculture, and tourism.

July 21, 2018 12:18

• Shelling of a DPS service car becomes 15th IS* attack in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, the killing of policemen in the Kizilyurt District has become the third incident since the beginning of the year, the responsibility for which was claimed by the IS*. Since 2015, it was reported about 15 attacks of IS militants in Dagestan.

July 21, 2018 11:55

• IS* claims responsibility for attack on policemen in Dagestan

  The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia by the court has claimed the responsibility for shelling a car of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, as a result of which two policemen had been killed.

July 21, 2018 10:41

• Residents of Dagestan associate searches in Novostroy with migrants' problems

  The confiscation of documents from the administration building of the Novolak District located in the dwelling settlement of Novostroy was carried out by law enforcers, who arrived in several service cars accompanied by a military Ural truck; there were people in civilian clothes among them, Novostroy residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 21, 2018 10:33

• Court denies CER for Azerbaijani oppositionist Akhmedli

  The court has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the youth committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), said his father, promising to file a complaint against this refusal.

July 21, 2018 08:21

• Laureates of 2017 Akhmednabiyev Award cover acute Caucasian problems

  On July 21, the "Caucasian Knot" announced the laureates of the annual award set up in memory of the Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev.

July 21, 2018 08:10

• Dagestan: two policemen attacked and killed

  A car of the DPS (road-and-patrol service) was shelled on the "Kavkaz" Highway in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan; two policemen were shot dead and one was wounded; the attackers managed to escape.

July 21, 2018 01:45

• Court leaves Abdusamad Gamidov under arrest

  Today, the Moscow City Court has dismissed a complaint about extension of the arrest for Abdusamad Gamidov, the former chair of the Dagestani government, and three other defendants, accused of large-scale embezzlement of funds from the budget.