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July 19, 2018 08:26

• Appeal court confirms Saakashvili's three-year sentence

  The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Tbilisi has upheld the verdict to the third Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in the case of abuse of authority in pardoning convicts for the murder of Sandro Girgvliani.

July 19, 2018 08:17

• FSB confirms Yandiev's extradition to Russia

  Aslan Yandiev, a native of Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, suspected of involvement in a series of resonant terror acts, has been extradited to Moscow from Slovakia, the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) reported on July 18.

July 18, 2018 23:59

• "Golos" states fivefold overstating the voter turnout at election in NCFD

  According to new analysis of video records made at polling stations during the Russian presidential election on March 18, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya occurred among the regions with the highest overstating of voter turnout, says the report of 'Golos' movement.

July 18, 2018 23:48

• Russian militaries apologize for shooting in Armenian village

  The exercises that Russian servicemen conducted in the Armenian village of Panik scared the locals. The deputy commander of the Russian military base in Gyumri confessed to the mistake made and promised to punish the perpetrators.

July 18, 2018 23:37

• Armenian authorities promise help to 9000 settlers from Syria

  Yerevan hosted presentation of an assistance programme to settlers from Syria "Increasing resilience of Syrian Armenians and local residents to challenges". A three-year programme is designed to integrate settlers from Syria into the Armenian society and provide them with the conditions for a decent life, said Mkhitar Airapetyan, the Armenian Diaspora Minister.

July 18, 2018 19:39

• CE reports regular human rights violations in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Council of Europe (CE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture has announced that the Azerbaijani government's consent to publish the reports on the practice of ill-treatment of detainees in the country testifies to the authorities' willingness to improve the situation with violations of human rights. Azerbaijani rights defenders have refused to share the optimism of their European counterparts.

July 18, 2018 19:24

• Political analysts intrigued by Vladimir Vasiliev's frequent meetings with President Putin

  During nine months at the post of the acting leader of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev met the Russian President four times. This fact proves the Kremlin's special interest in anti-corruption measures in the republic, believe political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 18, 2018 19:10

• Defence convinces Court to wait for Oyub Titiev's advocate

  Today, a court hearing in the case against Oyub Titiev has been postponed for a day after the defenders declared the absence of one of the Oyub Titiev's advocates to be a violation of the right to defence.

July 18, 2018 13:53

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of its positions in eight villages

  On July 17-18, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 98 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

July 18, 2018 13:41

• A woman from Ingushetia suspected of involvement in Syrian militant grouping

  A 24-year-old woman from Ingushetia is suspected of providing medical assistance to members of a terrorist organization in Syria, cooking food, washing clothes, and cleaning premises for them.

July 18, 2018 11:11

• Four persons detained in case of riots in Ganja

  Four residents of Azerbaijan are accused of plotting and organizing a terror act and riots in Ganja.

July 18, 2018 11:03

• Opening of biennale "Kubachinskaya Tower" gathers over 100 people

  About 100 people came to the opening of the graphic prints biennale "Kubachinskaya Tower", presented in the old watchtower of the Kubachi village in Dagestan.

July 18, 2018 10:52

• Slovakia extradites to Russia a native of North Ossetia accused of terrorism

  Aslan Yandiev, a native of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, has been handed over to Russia by the Slovak authorities. In Slovakia, he was kept under extradition arrest since 2011.

July 18, 2018 10:41

• Father of Victoria Budaikhanova denies version of her involvement in ISIL*

  A father of Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, who after her return from Syria was accused of involvement in militant groupings, told the court that his daughter left Russia for studies under the influence of her colleagues.

July 18, 2018 08:37

• Tourists tell about 12-hour-long queues at "Verkhni Lars" checkpoint

  Over the past 24 hours, the waiting line of cars at the Russian-Georgian border checkpoint "Verkhni Lars" has grown; the waiting time is 8-12 hours, tourists have stated.

July 18, 2018 08:25

• Kuban MIA accuses policemen of spreading fake after World Cup

  Policemen, sent to Sochi for the time of the FIFA World Cup-2018, returned home by overcrowded train, and had to sleep on the floor, eyewitnesses assert. The Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated the photos that appeared on the Internet to be faked, and promised to establish the employees who spread them.

July 17, 2018 22:40

• ECtHR awards compensation to Anna Politkovskaya's relatives

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found ineffective the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", and ordered Russia to pay 20,000 euros of compensation to her relatives.

July 17, 2018 22:34

• CE Commissioner demands to release Oyub Titiev

  Today, Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic has called on the General Prosecutor of Russia to take measures to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the "Memorial" in Grozny. She has also spoken in favour of transferring the rights defender's case to be considered outside Chechnya.

July 17, 2018 22:26

• In Karachay-Cherkessia, two Ministers resign after searches

  Rustam Elkanov, Minister of Finance and Labour, and Muradin Kemov, Minister of Social Development, left their posts three weeks after searches had been carried out in the government building.

July 17, 2018 19:13

• Georgian workers demand not to close a mine in Tkibuli

  Participants of a protest action in Tkibuli have called on the authorities not to suspend the operation of the mine after the deaths of four miners, but to observe security measures there.