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March 12, 2018 11:55

• Azerbaijan starts military exercises involving tanks and aviation units

  Today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that up to 25,000 people, armoured vehicles, aviation and rocket-artillery units were involved in the military exercises. Meanwhile, the place of the military exercises has not been specified.

March 12, 2018 11:02

• Levan Kutashvili and Iosif Pavliashvili return to Georgia

  Levan Kutashvili and Iosif Pavliashvili, detained together with Archil Tatunashvili in South Ossetia, returned to the territory of Georgia on March 11. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported that the men's bodies did not bear any signs of torture.

March 12, 2018 09:05

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 5-11

  Explosion of gas in a Krasnodar high-rise building; 74th anniversary of deportation of the Balkar people; crash of a border service helicopter in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 5-11, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 12, 2018 08:00

• Four Dagestani natives are on the list of richest people in the world

  In 2017, according to the Forbes, the list of the richest people in the world included the natives of Dagestan Leonid Mikhelson, Suleiman Kerimov, Gavriil Yushvaev and Ziyavudin Magomedov.

March 12, 2018 06:57

• Krasnodar police detain activists with posters in "Three Billboards" style

  Activists have held a picket in the central street of Krasnodar with election campaigning posters styled as banners from the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".

March 12, 2018 05:27

• On March 5-11, there were no victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of March 5-11, 2018, there were no casualties or wounded persons in 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.

March 11, 2018 12:16

• Chechen fighter withdrawn from fight in USA because of visa problems

  Mairbek Taisumov, a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, was removed from a fight with American Evan Dunham in New York because of problems with obtaining an American visa.

March 11, 2018 05:22

• Armenian political analysts are sceptical about opposition's potentials

  The opposition of Armenia is unlikely to achieve mass protests, because the society is apathetic and disappointed in politics, Armenian experts told the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the protest rally held in Yerevan.

March 11, 2018 02:10

• Volgograd activist complains about flat-to-flat visits on election eve

  Boris Pylin, the Chairman of the NGO "Union of Volgograd Region's Locals", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on March 9 he sent a complaint to Ella Pamfilova, the Chair of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) demanding to cancel the decision of the Volgograd Regional CEC to undertake flat-to-flat propaganda visits ahead of presidential elections in Russia scheduled for March 18.

March 11, 2018 01:12

• About 600 cartridges found in water canal of Azerbaijani village

  A message that unexploded ammunition was found in the Upper-Karabakh water canal in the territory of Yukhary Salambeili village was received by the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) on March 10.

March 11, 2018 00:13

• Dead baby found in Batumi

  The body of a newborn child was found on the beach of the resort city of Batumi. Law enforcement bodies have launched an inquiry into the murder case.

March 10, 2018 22:08

• Baku protesters demand free elections

  As reported by the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), some 10,000 people took part in the rally against the presidential election in Azerbaijan. The protesters have stated that the authorities had initiated early election in order to make them non-alternative.

March 10, 2018 19:30

• Armenian opposition demands to remove President Serzh Sargsyan from power

  About 300 people gathered at a rally in Yerevan demanding to remove Serzh Sargsyan from power and release political prisoners.

March 10, 2018 16:30

• Animation project organizers cover fathers-daughters relations in Caucasus

  On March 9, at a presentation in Makhachkala, organizers of the project "Fathers and Daughters", designed to break a stereotype about an authoritarian power of a head of a Caucasian family, admitted that the project had also revealed problems in family relations.

March 10, 2018 16:08

• Opposition holds rally to protest against presidential election in Azerbaijan

  In Baku, the action under the slogan: "No robbery, stop the monarchy!" has been arranged by the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) and the "Musavat" Party. This is the first joint rally arranged by those opposition forces since 2013.

March 10, 2018 15:39

• Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of 220 cases of shelling per week

  In the period from March 4 to 10, the Azerbaijani armed forces more than 2500 times shelled the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

March 10, 2018 03:46

• Georgia affected by hurricane

  Residents of Georgia are affected by a hurricane. The strong wind damaged roofs of dozens of houses and fell down trees. Besides, rivers left their banks and damaged roads and flooded houses.

March 10, 2018 02:51

• In Azerbaijan, rights defenders launch educational resource for prisoners

  An electronic library with legal acts, teaching aids, fiction and scientific books will provide prisoners with knowledge about their rights and the opportunity to get engaged in self-education. This was reported by rights defenders who presented the project of the Internet resource "Prison Library" in Baku.

March 10, 2018 01:49

• Rights defenders criticize MEPs' refusal to observe Azerbaijani election

  The European Parliament (EP) refused to observe the presidential election in Azerbaijan. Rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" associate the refusal of MEPs with their fear to spoil relations with Baku on the eve of signing of a new partnership agreement and to provoke its turn towards Moscow.

March 09, 2018 22:20

• Georgian opposition criticizes invitation to dialogue with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Georgian Prime Minister, has announced his readiness for a dialogue with the authorities of Russia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Oppositional MPs treat it as a sign of Georgian authorities' "powerlessness".