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July 17, 2018 19:04

• Vladimir Putin announces Russia's tough reaction to Georgia's accession to NATO

  The NATO's advance to Russia's borders and, in particular, Georgia joining the alliance, will pose a threat to the country and will provoke a response, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has noted that the number of NATO soldiers has been increased in the areas where "there should not be any of them."

July 17, 2018 16:14

• Relatives of attack victim succeed in urging Karachay-Cherkessian investigators to react

  A criminal case of an attack on Rustam Laipanov, wounded by unidentified people in Karachay-Cherkessia, was instituted against the background of a rally held by the victim's relatives who threatened the authorities of the republic to arrange mass protests.

July 17, 2018 16:01

• Experts report mistakes in design of "Volgograd Arena" Stadium (+video)

  A slope at the "Volgograd Arena" Stadium was subjected to erosion due to shortages of storm sewage system, reported Sergey Kamin, the director of the project "Construction of Stadium in Volgograd". Engineers should have calculated the reserve capacities of a storm sewage system, believes Igor Shkopinsky, the chairman of the board for the "Rosgrazhdanproekt" design and survey institute.

July 17, 2018 11:08

• Two miners stay at resuscitation ward after explosion in Tkibuli

  The condition of two out of six victims of an explosion at the Mindeli mine in Tkibuli is assessed by doctors as severe, while the condition of the rest is not a cause for concern.

July 17, 2018 10:59

• Blogger Maddison gets 1.5 years of conditional sentence for a joke about Koran

  Video blogger Ilya Davydov (Maddison) has been sentenced to conditional sentence under Article 282 for the video "Joke about the Koran". Earlier, the scandalous video was recognized as an extremist material by the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny.

July 17, 2018 10:47

• In Nalchik, authorities ban action in defence of native languages

  In Nalchik, activists tried to get a sanction to hold on July 17 a rally and a picket against a bill on the voluntary study of national languages. However, the city authorities dismissed both notifications for formal reasons.

July 17, 2018 08:33

• Circulation of moloko+ confiscated in Krasnodar after attack on journalists

  Law enforcers have seized all the copies of the moloko+ almanac during its presentation in Krasnodar.

July 17, 2018 08:19

• Chechen TV shows accusatory story about Titiev two days before the trial

  The main prosecution witness in Oyub Titiev's case, a drug addict himself, appeared on the air of a Chechen TV channel. However, local residents assert that the story with accusations against Titiev and his colleagues from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" was unconvincing.

July 16, 2018 22:10

• Activists call on Presidents Trump and Putin to stop violence in Chechnya

  Before the meeting of the US and Russian Presidents in Helsinki, activists of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Donald Trump to condemn the persecution of gays in Chechnya during his conversation with Vladimir Putin.

July 16, 2018 21:56

• Dagestan: Ramazan Aliev's arrest extended

  Ramazan Aliev, the former deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, has been charged with abuse of authority, and his arrest has been extended up to two months, reports a source from the Dagestani law enforcement bodies.

July 16, 2018 17:39

• Georgian authorities stop Mindeli Mine operation after miners' deaths

  The Georgian government has pronounced the decision to suspend the operation of the Mindeli Mine in Tkibuli. Today, according to the preliminary version voiced by investigators, a methane explosion has occurred and four persons have been killed. The trade unions believe the authorities pronounced the decision to stop the mine operation too late.

July 16, 2018 17:32

• On July 9-15, 2018, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of July 9-15, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

July 16, 2018 14:59

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 9-15, 2018

  Mass riots in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja; resignation of the Mayor in Yerevan; the approval of the new Cabinet of Ministers in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 9-15, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 16, 2018 14:37

• Four miners perish in Tkibuli

  The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched an investigation into an accident at the Mindeli mine, as a result of which four persons have been killed and six others have been injured today.

July 16, 2018 14:30

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, villagers complain of long-standing problems with water

  In the village of Vtoroy Lesken, residents of Kumakhov Street have disseminated a video appeal with a complaint about the long absence of water supply. According to the villagers, they are willing to pay for the necessary work to restore the water supply, but the local authorities ignore their proposal.

July 16, 2018 14:19

• Muslims of Egypt and Iran got no support from Caucasus at FIFA World Cup

  The participation of Muslim teams, namely, of the national teams of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, in the FIFA World Cup aroused no surge of interest in Northern Caucasus, even taking into account the accommodation of the Egyptian team in Chechnya. This opinion was voiced by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 16, 2018 11:20

• Rights defenders mark anniversary of Natalia Estemirova's murder

  On the ninth anniversary of the death of Natalia Estemirova, a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, rights defenders have declared their willingness to continue fighting to release their colleague Oyub Titiev, accused of drug possession.

July 16, 2018 11:12

• Azerbaijani MoD reports detention of Armenian saboteur

  On July 15, at the border, according to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), Azerbaijani soldiers detained a member of an Armenian reconnaissance and sabotage grouping, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.

July 16, 2018 10:59

• Mothers of Russian women captured in Iraq ask Putin to return their daughters home

  About 50 women from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and other regions of Russia appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return their daughters and grandchildren from Iraqi prisons.

July 15, 2018 10:38

• Fifty families blocked in Georgian mountains after bridge collapse

  Residents of the highland region of Racha are cut off from the outside world after the river high water after downpours washed off the bridge, said Archil Djaparidze, the governor of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.