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February 22, 2018 15:26

• Russia outstrips Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan by corruption level

  In late 2017, in the "Corruption Perception Index", compiled by the Transparency International (TI), Georgia took the 46th place, while Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are behind the first hundred.

February 22, 2018 15:06

• MIA reports detention of 36 militants in KBR

  In 2017, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), 36 accomplices of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were detained; 200 KBR residents are in Syria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

February 22, 2018 15:03

• Serviceman perishes in NKR

  Today, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has been killed by a shot from Azerbaijan, the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

February 22, 2018 13:31

• AI states peculiarities of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus

  Persecutions of religious minorities and dispersals of oppositional rallies throughout Russia, illegal detentions and torture in Northern Caucasus, and in Chechnya – also harassment of gays, have been mentioned in the report of the Amnesty International (AI) on the observance of human rights in the world.

February 22, 2018 10:54

• Chechnya's PO refutes threats to journalists

  The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has denied the fact of public calls to reprise the journalists of the "Novaya Gazeta", who wrote about persecutions of gays in Chechnya, rights defenders have stated.

February 22, 2018 10:01

• In Ingushetia, head of rural administration injured in a conflict with his subordinate

  In Nazran District, the head of the rural settlement of Plievo was hospitalized with a knife wound after a conflict with his subordinate, the Ingush law enforcement bodies report.

February 22, 2018 09:24

• Abkhazia: activists raise money for a chapel to be built in memory of Lata tragedy

  A chapel for commemoration of the people who fell victim to the Lata tragedy is to be built in the central park of Gudauta. This is reported by an initiator of the project.

February 22, 2018 05:54

• Orthodox believers reject idea of leaving Dagestan after Kizlyar shooting

  Orthodox believers suggest the recent mass murder of believers from the temple is a provocation which will not force Orthodox Christians to leave Dagestan.

February 21, 2018 23:27

• Dagestani state servants complain about ban on praying at work

  Employees of the Ministry for Land and Property Relations of Dagestan have drafted an appeal to Vladimir Vasiliev, the head of the republic, with a complaint against Ekaterina Tolstikova, the head of the Ministry. According to her subordinates, Ms Tolstikova forbids them to pray at work and offers to write retirement applications.

February 21, 2018 23:05

• Saakashvili banned to enter Ukraine

  The Ukrainian State Frontier Service (SFS) has prohibited the former president of Georgia from entering the country for three years, until February 13, 2021.

February 21, 2018 21:39

• Anniversary of Karabakh movement reminds Yerevan residents about national idea

  Thirty years ago, the Karabakh liberation movement united Armenians in their struggle for independence and aroused the sense of national identity, the participants the action held in Yerevan have stated. They regretted that the movement failed to achieve the proclaimed goals, while the Armenian authorities have suppressed the "rebellious spirit of the nation" and betrayed people's hopes.

February 21, 2018 20:52

• Dagestani resident's grandson brought from Iraq to Russia

  Ziyad Sabsabi, a Chechen member at the Russia's Federation Council, has brought a Dagestan boy, whose parents had perished in Iraq, from a Baghdad orphanage home. Akhmed Abdulaev, the boy's grandfather had urged the authorities to help to return his two grandsons, but the younger one was not found.

February 21, 2018 16:00

• Investigators deny involvement of Georgian snipers in events on Maidan

  The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has not found any confirmation to the version stating that Georgian snipers were involved in shooting of protesters in Kiev in 2014. This was reported by the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office itself.

February 21, 2018 13:38

• More than 400 soldiers and officers involved in trainings at Chechen training grounds

  Military exercises with the use of 50 units of military equipment, including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), took place at military training grounds in the Shatoi and Shali Districts of Chechnya.

February 21, 2018 12:11

• French MFA criticizes Ilham Aliev's statement about historical lands of Azerbaijan

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for France has urged the parties to the Karabakh conflict to avoid statements that could increase tension in the region.

February 21, 2018 10:44

• Resident of Stavropol Territory sentenced for raping his stepdaughter

  The court found a resident of the Apanasenkovsky District guilty of raping an 11-year-old daughter of his wife and sentenced him to 12 years and 4 months of imprisonment in a penal colony. This is reported by the website of the Investigating Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

February 21, 2018 06:10

• Chechen authorities announce return of a Dagestani resident's grandson from Iraq

  Akhmed Abdulaev, a resident of Dagestan, used social networks to disseminate his request to help return home his grandson after the death of his parents: a daughter of Akhmed Abdulaev and her husband. The boy was found in Iraq.

February 20, 2018 23:36

• Navalny urges residents of the Caucasus not demean themselves at election

  Alexei Navalny, an oppositional politician, has urged residents of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia to monitor the course of the presidential election and expose the deception with the traditionally high figures of voter turnout.

February 20, 2018 16:28

• Report on a bomb planted in Makhachkala school is false

  The Makhachkala police have found no explosive devices inside a school building, from which pupils have been evacuated today.

February 20, 2018 14:21

• About 5000 people come to funeral of victims of Kizlyar attack

  In Kizlyar, residents of the city and neighbouring regions came to the funeral ceremony to say farewell to the people who fell victim to an attack on believers near a city church.