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March 16, 2018 12:04

• Defender and Prosecutor visit Magomed Khazbiev on hunger strike in Ingush SIZO

  On March 15, advocate Kheda Ibrieva managed to visit Magomed Khazbiev who went on a hunger strike in the Karabulak SIZO (pre-trial prison).

March 16, 2018 10:20

• Scouts start ski training in Elbrus region

  On March 15, more than one hundred ski instructors and scouts of mountain motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District started to take part in skiing special training at the Terskol training ground in Kabardino-Balkaria.

March 16, 2018 08:33

• Dagestani leader announces shortage of teachers in republic

  Dagestan needs more than 2000 school teachers, and the lack of places in educational institutions still remains a problem, the acting Dagestani leader, Vladimir Vasiliev, has stated.

March 16, 2018 06:08

• Dagestan leads in complaint count on "Election Violations Map" in NCFD

  Out of fifteen reports of violations committed during the presidential election campaign in the republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), eight entered the project "Election Violations Map" from Dagestan.

March 16, 2018 00:50

• Assets of Dagestani natives in Forbes list several times exceed republic's budget

  According to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", the assets of natives of Dagestan, included in the list of the richest people in Russia by the Forbes, exceed the budget of the republic by 17 times.

March 15, 2018 19:08

• Opposition demands report on Georgia's relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Today, 12 Georgian opposition parties have asked Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the Prime Minister, to appear at the Parliament and explain his statement about the country's readiness for dialogue with the authorities of Russia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

March 15, 2018 18:16

• Dagestani Minister of Construction wanted

  Today, acting Dagestani leader Vladimir Vasiliev has announced that Ibragim Kazibekov, Acting Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services for Dagestan, is put on the wanted list.

March 15, 2018 17:00

• Investigators retract refusal to institute a case on drugs planted to Oyub Titiev

  The chief of the Investigating Department has cancelled a decision to refuse to institute a criminal case, made after an investigation into a complaint filed by rights defender Oyub Titiev about the drugs planted on him by law enforcers. This has been reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

March 15, 2018 14:20

• Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of not letting OSCE observers to enter front lines

  Members of the OSCE mission, who have carried out monitoring today at the contact line of the armed forces, have not registered any violations of the ceasefire, the parties to the Karabakh conflict report. The Azerbaijani side did not let observers enter its front lines, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) states.

March 15, 2018 13:23

• Azerbaijan treats Sahakyan's visit to US as a threat to negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh

  On March 14, Bako Sahakyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, who stayed in Washington with a visit, handed over awards to a group of US congressmen and senators. Official Baku expressed its protest in connection with the above.

March 15, 2018 10:32

• Rostov residents support toughening of punishment for false reports on bombs

  On March 14, the Chief Department for the Rostov Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced the institution of a criminal case under Article "A knowingly false report on a terror act" against a 22-year-old man detained in Rostov-on-Don.

March 15, 2018 09:11

• CTO legal regime cancelled in three Dagestani districts

  On March 14, the law enforcement bodies lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime introduced a year ago in the Khasavyurt, Kazbek and Kizilyurt Districts.

March 15, 2018 08:39

• Phone calls of Dagestani officials wiretapped - source

  Today, a source of the "Kommersant" close to investigators has reported that since 2014, the FSB had been wiretapping phone calls of members of the Dagestani government, including Abdusamad Gamidov.

March 15, 2018 05:15

• SIZO warders refuse Magomed Khazbiev's advocate in visiting her client

  On March 14, Khedy Ibrieva, an advocate of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, could not visit her client, kept in the SIZO-1 of Karabulak.

March 15, 2018 00:56

• Housing investor reports arrest threat for holding pickets in Gelendjik

  Dalia Zaviatskene has held a solo picket in central Gelendjik, demanding to cancel the decision to demolish her house, and resignation of the city head. She said that policemen threatened to arrest her in case of continuing her pickets.

March 14, 2018 19:18

• CTO regime lifted in Tsumada District

  The counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Tsumada District of Dagestan on March 4, has been cancelled today, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated.

March 14, 2018 14:55

• Chechen state employees report being forced to take part in pre-election campaign

  On March 13, the Chechen authorities initiated a pre-election flash mob in social networks. Employees of public institutions told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they were obliged to take part in the flash mob.

March 14, 2018 13:21

• North Ossetia: LDPR member apologizes for attacking "Yabloko" branch leader

  On March 13, after the TV debate on the "Alania" GTRK (State TV and Radio Company), Soslan Bestaev, an authorized representative of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, attacked Badri Gazzati, an authorized representative of Grigory Yavlinsky and the chair of the local branch of the "Yabloko" Party, the press service of the "Yabloko" Party reported on the same day.

March 14, 2018 12:41

• Suspected Dagestani journalist's blackmailers detained

  On March 13, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported detention in Dagestan and Moscow of nine persons suspected of extorting money and threatening the head of one of Dagestani mass media and his relatives, and of attacking the journalist.

March 14, 2018 11:38

• "Caucasian Knot" sums up 2017 armed conflict in NCFD

  In 2017, an overall decrease in the number of victims to the armed conflict in the regions of Northern Caucasian occurred against the backdrop of an increase in the number of civilian casualties. This is evidenced by the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot".