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June 11, 2018 11:55

• In Tbilisi, an organizer of protests detained

  In Tbilisi, rights defender Zviad Kuprava and three protesters were detained for failure to obey to the police.

June 11, 2018 11:00

• Four Azerbaijani villages shelled, MoD reports

  Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh 97 times violated the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reports

June 11, 2018 09:05

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 4-10, 2018

  Arrival of participants of the FIFA World Cup in the cities of Southern Russia; special operation carried out in Nazran; two-day strike of metro drivers in Tbilisi; detention of a top-ranking police officer from Dagestan; strong earthquake in Azerbaijan; approval of Taimuraz Akhokhov as Mayor of Nalchik, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 4-10, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 10, 2018 19:07

• Father of the schoolboy killed in Tbilisi demands resignation of two ministers

  Giorgi Gakhariya, the Georgian Interior Minister, and Teya Tsulukiani, the Justice Minister, should leave their posts, Zaza Saralidze, the father of one of the stabbed schoolboys, has stated at the protest action.

June 10, 2018 18:01

• Residents of Grozny complain about traffic jams caused by arrival Egyptian footballers

  Policemen gave blocked streets at the "Akhmat Arena" Stadium and the Grozny Airport several hours before the arrival of the national football team of Egypt, thus created traffic jams, the townspeople have reported.

June 10, 2018 05:30

• Reproach addressed to Kadyrov at "Direct line" with Putin shows Kremlin's discontent

  The reproach to Kadyrov for his appointment of a relative to the post of the Grozny police boss was not accidentally pronounced on air of the "straight line" with Vladimir Putin. The Chechen cadre policy has long been raising questions in the Kremlin, political analysts believe.

June 09, 2018 23:25

• Official of Georgia's GPO admits guilt of schoolboys' murder

  Today, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has disclosed the inquiry details into the pressure on witnesses of the murder of two schoolboys in Tbilisi; however, protesters have retained their ultimatum on the June 10 protest action.

June 09, 2018 22:26

• Sentsov declares his condition normal

  Doctors have examined Oleg Sentsov, a citizen of Ukraine, convicted in Rostov-on-Don, the local branch of the Russian Penitentiary Administration (known as FSIN) has reported today.

June 09, 2018 17:29

• Ingush residents indignant with CTO in Nazran

  Persons killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia were members of a retired colonel's family, and none of them had any links with militants, and none of them opened fire on law enforcers, local residents assert.

June 09, 2018 13:32

• Schoolboy lost in Kuban forest found

  A twelve-year-old participant of the orienteering run in the Crimean District of the Krasnodar Territory, who disappeared in a forest on June 8, was found. His search involved 350 people.

June 09, 2018 13:13

• Azerbaijan reports liberation of Gunnut village

  In the evening on June 8, the "Nukhchykhan", a public news agency of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, reported on the restoration of the Azerbaijan's control over the village of Gunnut, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

June 09, 2018 11:23

• Stanislav Klykh goes on hunger strike in a Russian penal colony

  Stanislav Klykh, a citizen of Ukraine, sentenced in Chechnya to 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony, declared hunger strike. The Ukrainian authorities announced their willingness to exchange prisoners, including Stanislav Klykh, with Russia.

June 09, 2018 10:23

• In Magomedov brothers' case, court arrests property and accounts of "Summa" Group

  Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has announced imposing security arrest on cars, apartments and a share in the authorized capital of legal entities in the criminal case against Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, co-owners of the "Summa" Group of Companies.

June 09, 2018 09:55

• In Kuban, a schoolboy disappears during orienteering competitions

  In the evening on June 8, the 12-year-old orienteering competition participant disappeared during a training run in the forest in the Crimean District of the Krasnodar Territory. His search is underway, investigators report today.

June 09, 2018 07:52

• Grozny enhances security measures prior to arrival of Egyptian national football team

  Residents of the Chechen capital noted the enhancement of security measures in the area of "The Local" Hotel and the "Akhmat Arena" Stadium, where athletes from the Egypt national football team will be accommodated and trained for the period of the FIFA World Cup.

June 09, 2018 07:14

• Muftiate of Chechnya defines zakat of 100 roubles

  The minimum amount of this year's zakat (a form of alms-giving, treated in Islam as a mandatory religious charity that each believer should make upon completion of fasting in the month of Ramadan) should make 100 roubles (about $1.6), the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM of Muftiate) of Chechnya has informed.

June 09, 2018 04:09

• Pashinyan states NKR's right to run talks with Azerbaijan

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, has stated at the session of the parliament that the talks on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict are inefficient, unless one of the conflicting parties – the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) – take part in them, the TASS reports.

June 08, 2018 18:34

• Suspect of killing two schoolboys detained in Georgia

  Today, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported detention of a man who is suspected of exerting pressure on the witnesses of the murder of two schoolboys.

June 08, 2018 16:08

• ReAl activist arrested in Azerbaijan

  Anar Mamedov, a member of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for disobeying law enforcers. Mamedov's arrest has to do with his participation in a protest action, the father and party colleagues have stated.

June 08, 2018 15:49

• Soldier of NKR's Defence Army wounded

  Gevorg Khachatryan, a serviceman of the Defence Army was wounded by shelling from the Azerbaijani side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.