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June 29, 2018 17:06

• Two detained border Georgian guards returned by Russia

  Two officers of the Georgian Border Police, detained at the Dagestan section of the Russian border, have been released, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

June 29, 2018 15:18

• Film by director from Nalchik presented at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

  The film "Deep Rivers" by Vladimir Bitokov, a film director from Nalchik, will be screened in the programme "To the East of the West" at the festival that opens in Karlovy Vary today.

June 29, 2018 15:15

• Five people injured by explosion at fuelling station in Chechnya

  One of the five people injured in the explosion at a car fuelling station in the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya was hospitalized, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported.

June 29, 2018 10:59

• Kuban residents criticize Kadyrov's project of Transcaucasian HSR

  Residents of Kuban need no high-speed railway (HSR) from Chechnya to Krasnodar; and it is unacceptable to cover the expenses for its construction from the budget against the background of plans on the retirement age growth. This opinion was voiced by residents of the Krasnodar Territory interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 29, 2018 10:59

• French authorities change Kerimov's status to a witness

  In France, the criminal case against Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, accused of violating the procedures to purchase real estate objects, is not closed, but he is granted the status of a witness, the Prosecutor's Office reports.

June 29, 2018 08:25

• Georgia: Saakashvili sentenced to six years in jail

  The Tbilisi City Court has found Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, guilty of beating up the MP Valery Gelashvili in 2005, and sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison.

June 29, 2018 08:13

• Rostov activists undress in protest against pension reform

  Women-activists of the Democratic Coalition have held a flash mob against raising the retirement age; they appeared in the street without clothes with posters "They've robbed us to panties!"

June 29, 2018 08:10

• Russian militaries in Abkhazia and Armenia change uniform because of heat

  Servicemen of Russian military bases in Abkhazia and Armenia were provided with new field military uniforms to protect them from thermal shocks; soldiers call new clothes "tropikanka".

June 28, 2018 23:34

• Three Azerbaijani MPs fall under CoE's sanctions

  Based on the outcomes of the inquiry into corruption at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), access into the building of the Council of Europe (CoE) is banned for life for two active and one former Azerbaijani MPs. One of them, Gyultekin Gadjibeili, has stated that Azerbaijani authorities prevented her from proving her innocence.

June 28, 2018 23:33

• French authorities remove all charges from Dagestan billionaire Kerimov

  All the charged on violations during real estate purchases in France have been removed from Senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov.

June 28, 2018 23:24

• Kadyrov's project raises payback issue of HSRs in Caucasus

  The Transcaucasian high-speed railway (HSR) proposed by Ramzan Kadyrov will be in demand; however, there are no full calculations of its efficiency, experts assert. Users of social networks doubt the need for high-speed trains in Northern Caucasus.

June 28, 2018 18:06

• Azerbaijan announces military exercises involving missiles and aircrafts

  The military exercises will involve 20,000 soldiers and officers, reports the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). The maneuvers will be apparently held in conditions close to combat as possible, experts believe.

June 28, 2018 18:00

• Chief of bodyguards for former Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan arrested

  The court arrested Major General Vachagan Kazaryan on the charge of illegally enriching and concealing incomes.

June 28, 2018 14:54

• Ingush native sentenced in case of plotting a terror act in Saint Petersburg

  The court sentenced Aliskhan Esmurziev, a native of Ingushetia, to two years of imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons and failure to report on the preparation of a terror act. After their detention, Aliskhan Esmurziev and Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, sentenced in the same case, complained of torture.

June 28, 2018 14:52

• Armenian observers alarmed about cruise missiles at parade in Baku

  Despite the Azerbaijan's demonstration of modern types of weapons, it is too early to talk about a change in the balance of forces for the parties to the Karabakh conflict. However, Armenia should be ready for a new aggravation of the conflict, Armenian experts believe.

June 28, 2018 11:46

• Kadyrov responds to report on torture in Chechnya and calls not to pay to PACE

  According to Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechen Republic, the report on persecution of gays in Chechnya prepared by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is based on false stories about human rights violations and "media pseudo events" on the topic.

June 28, 2018 11:40

• PACE calls on Russia to investigate persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution calling on Russia to investigate the "persecution of LGBTI communities" in Chechnya or allow it to be conducted by an international human rights organization.

June 28, 2018 08:25

• Ingush rights defender complains to prosecutor's office about detention of Caucasians in Anapa

  Moussa Bekmurziev, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Ingushetia, has sent a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory against the actions of Anapa policemen, who massively detained residents of the Caucasus.

June 28, 2018 08:20

• Authorities try to save their ratings by holiday of Kuban and Crimea entering Russia

  The State Duma has begun considering a bill on establishing a new memorable date. The celebration on April 19 of the Day of Crimea, Taman and Kuban entering Russia is intended to return the patriotic theme to the agenda and distract people from their economic problems, political scientists believe.

June 27, 2018 21:20

• Egyptian authorities got interested in national team's failure after it came to Grozny

  An inquiry has been launched in the Egyptian parliament into the failed performance of the national team at the FIFA World Cup-2018, and the team's participation in promotional actions of Chechen authorities. Ramzan Kadyrov has denied any links of the team's failures with its accommodation in Grozny.