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May 17, 2018 18:56

• Five participants of Orthodox march detained in Tbilisi

  In the capital of Georgia, policemen have detained three participants of the march dedicated to the Family Day of Holiness; before the march, two other members of the neo-Nazi association were detained.

May 17, 2018 18:07

• Two opponents of LGBT movement detained in Tbilisi

  The police have detained Giya Korkotashvili, one of the leaders of the "Georgian March", and Guram Palavandishvili, the chairman of the "Society in Defence of Children's Rights", who came to the action against sex minorities.

May 17, 2018 17:25

• Over 1100 people sign petition in defence of Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev

  Lana Estemirova, the daughter of the rights defender Natalia Estemirova, prepared a petition calling on the Russian president to transfer the criminal case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for consideration at the federal level.

May 17, 2018 15:27

• Armenian Premier Pashinyan urges residents to stop protests

  All problems should be solved through contacting relevant bodies and authorities, rather than going to protest actions, Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, has stated in his page on the Facebook.

May 17, 2018 14:53

• Eleven natives of Dagestan deported from Egypt

  The residents of Dagestan, who were detained in Cairo, including women and children, and whose relatives had reported their disappearance, have arrived in Russia. During the control, Sakinat Baisultanova, a native of Dagestan and a mother of several children, was detained.

May 17, 2018 06:58

• Chechnya opens sixth Hafiz School

  A Hafiz School (where they train reciters of the Koran by heart) was opened in the mountain village of Pachu in the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, becoming the sixth such school opened in the republic during the last 8 years.

May 17, 2018 05:08

• Kalmykia marks sacred Buddhist month Ur Sar

  This year, the month of Ur Sar, sacred for all Buddhists, will last in Kalmykia from May 16 to June 13. During this period, believers traditionally refuse consuming meat and alcohol. The main festive events are scheduled for May 29, when the Buddhists of the world will celebrate the birthday, enlightenment and departure of Buddha Shakyamuni to the parinirvana.

May 16, 2018 22:03

• Ingush authorities report sending a military police battalion to Syria

  Today, the leadership of Ingushetia have seen off to Syria the third group of servicemen of the military police battalion from the 19th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Southern Military District.

May 16, 2018 20:37

• Dagestan resident accused of links with militants

  A resident of Dagestan tried to go abroad to participate in armed hostilities, but was detained by border guards and brought to trial.

May 16, 2018 19:54

• PACE imposes sanctions on the head of Azerbaijani delegation

  Samed Seyidov, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is among the four members of the Assembly, whose powers are limited by the results of the corruption investigation conducted with the PACE.

May 16, 2018 15:52

• OSCE monitoring reveals no incidents in Karabakh conflict zone

  Today, OSCE observers have conducted monitoring of the troops contact line and fixed no violations of the ceasefire, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan have stated.

May 16, 2018 10:15

• 53 human rights organizations demand to unblock Telegram

  Telegram was used in Russia as a new media tool for publishing free and independent information, and the decision to block it can only be seen as a violation of people's freedom to express their opinion, human rights activists said today.

May 16, 2018 07:06

• Political analysts associate actions of Georgian youth with "velvet revolution" in Armenia

  In Georgia, the mood of youth was influenced by the change of power in Armenia as a result of street actions, but the resumption of protests in Tbilisi will not lead to serious political changes. This opinion was voiced by political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

May 16, 2018 05:09

• Experts: NATO exercises in Georgia do not threaten Russia

  NATO warships, which arrived in the port of Georgia for exercises, do not threaten Russia. A training group mainly consists of warships of the Black Sea countries, which do not carry powerful weapons, military experts note.

May 16, 2018 04:10

• In Nalchik, dormitory tenants appeal to rights defenders for help

  At a roundtable held on May 15 at the Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre, tenants of a dormitory located in 10 in Ashurov Street in Nalchik complained about the difficult living conditions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

May 16, 2018 02:16

• A KBR woman from describes captivity conditions in Iraq

  Aisha Efendieva, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who awaits trial in Iraq, has written a letter to her relatives and described inhuman conditions of detention and abuse. The woman asks her relatives to return her with her children home from captivity.

May 16, 2018 00:00

• A case on torture of an Ingush resident entrusted to new investigator

  The Investigating Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has taken control over the investigation into a complaint of torture used by law enforcers against Rustam Kuchmenov, a resident of Nalchik, the Committee Against Torture reports.

May 15, 2018 19:55

• French Foreign Minister argues with Ramzan Kadyrov

  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made a harsh comment on the statement voiced by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the responsibility of Paris for an attack on passers-by committed by Chechen native Khamzat Azimov.

May 15, 2018 16:30

• Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian Premier, fires six officials

  Today, Nikol Pashinyan, the new Prime Minister of Armenia, has signed decrees on the dismissal of the chief court superintendent, the head of the department for state property management, three deputy ministers and the chief secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

May 15, 2018 12:52

• Kadyrov accuses 60 well-known Russians of putting pressure on court in Oyub Titiev's case

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov treats a letter, in which cultural figures, journalists and religious figures asked President Vladimir Putin "to put an end to the persecution of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) 'Memorial'."