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July 21, 2018 01:35

• Two "Sasna Tsrer" members released from custody

  Today, the defence of Tatul Tamrazyan and Gevorg Iritsyan, members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun), has convinced the court to release them under recognizance not to leave.

July 21, 2018 01:22

• A man sentenced in Zhirair Sefilyan's case goes on a hunger strike

  Today, an advocate of Arthur Movsisyan, found guilty of transferring weapons to members of the movement "100th anniversary without regime", has reported that his client has started a hunger strike with a demand to release him from custody. 40 activists supported the Arthur Movsisyan's demand by blocking the entrance to the court building in Yerevan.

July 20, 2018 14:53

• Turkish media: a daughter of a Chechen official detained for involvement in IS*

  Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of Asu Dudurkaev, the former chief for the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Department for Chechnya, left for Syria several years ago. She is detained in Istanbul on suspicion of having ties to the terrorist organization, the Turkish media reported.

July 20, 2018 14:42

• Maria Lasitskene wins Russian Championship

  An athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria has won the gold medal of the Russian Athletics Championship. The silver medal went to Anna Chicherova, a Volgograd high jumper, who served a disqualification for violating anti-doping rules.

July 20, 2018 10:47

• Arthur Khamkhoev's mother turns to head of Investigative Committee for help

  Aza Khamkhoeva, a resident of the Ingush village of Yandare, has appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), with a demand to investigate the torture that had been applied to her son.

July 20, 2018 10:35

• Author of monument to abandoned villages urges Dagestanis to go back to mountains

  The names of more than one hundred disappeared mountain villages are immortalized in a stone monument erected in the village of Nizhnee Gakvari, Tsumadin District, on July 18. The initiators of erecting the monument believe that these villages should be restored.

July 20, 2018 08:26

• Suspect in two schoolboys' murder case detained in Tbilisi

  A minor, who witnessed the murder of two schoolboys, is suspected of giving false testimony, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

July 20, 2018 08:20

• Law enforcers refuse to explain detention of six Chechen residents to their relatives

  Relatives know nothing about what the six detained residents of the village of Borozdinovskaya are accused of; and are afraid to comment on what happened, fearing "additional problems," said one of the villagers.

July 19, 2018 23:26

• In Oyub Titiev's case, six witnesses fail to describe his detention

  At the today's hearing at the Shali City Court in the Oyub Titiev's case, the Court has questioned six policemen witnesses, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports, which has arranged text broadcast of the court hearing on its Telegram channel.

July 19, 2018 23:16

• Two soldiers injured in an explosion not far from Volgograd

  Soldiers were injured while clearing the bombs of World War II in the Gorodische District of the Volgograd Region.

July 19, 2018 23:07

• Vladimir Vasiliev promises to continue personnel cleanups in Dagestan

  Today, Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting leader of Dagestan, has announced that an anti-corruption campaign among officials in the republic will be continued.

July 19, 2018 23:02

• Emir-Usein Kuku stops his hunger strike in Rostov SIZO

  Political prisoner Emir-Usein Kuku, who is kept at the Rostov-on-Don SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the charge of involvement in the terrorist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir", banned in Russia, has stopped his hunger strike and began the process of restoration.

July 19, 2018 19:51

• Abkhaz GPO announces demands of Russian businessman's kidnappers

  Maxim Yakovlev, a shareholder of the Kirov Factory, kidnapped a month ago in Abkhazia, has delivered a note to his wife, stating that kidnappers demand a ransom of 200 million roubles for his release, the Abkhazian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has sated today.

July 19, 2018 19:44

• NATO Secretary General reminds Putin of Georgia's independence

  Russia has no right to influence the Georgia's decision to become a member of the NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO's Secretary General, said on July 18 in response to the Russian president's promise of a tough reaction. The decision to join NATO is no threat to any other country, Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgia's Prime Minister, has assured.

July 19, 2018 19:36

• Titiev's trial launched despite advocate's absence

  Today, the state prosecutor has persuaded the Shali City Court to start trying Oyub Titiev in the absence of Ilya Novikov, one of the defenders.

July 19, 2018 14:38

• Resident of Grozny sentenced for possessing ammunition

  In Grozny, the court has found a local resident guilty of illegal acquisition, storage and carrying of ammunition and sentenced him to 1.5 years of imprisonment.

July 19, 2018 14:29

• OSCE observers criticize presidential election in Azerbaijan

  During the presidential election in Azerbaijan, there were cases when public sector employees had been forced to participate in actions of the pre-election campaign. Violations committed on the day of voting on April 11 require an investigation, states the final report prepared by the election observation mission (EOM) of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

July 19, 2018 11:13

• Dagestani student beaten in Moscow recovers from coma

  Amir Abumuslimov, a student from Dagestan, on suspicion of beating whom, an MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter was detained, has recovered from coma. However, the young man is still in grave condition, his father reported.

July 19, 2018 11:02

• AI: authorities fail to conduct full investigation into Anna Politkovskaya's murder

  The decision pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in favour of relatives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in 2006, confirms that the Russian authorities did not conduct a full effective investigation into the crime, announced the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

July 19, 2018 10:46

• Relatives of detained Chechen resident not aware of his fate for eight days

  Since July 10, relatives of a 24-year-old resident of the Novye Atagi village are not aware of his whereabouts. Magomed-Emin Arsamirzaev was detained without explanations, and no official charges were filed against him, a relative of the disappeared man reported.