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January 28, 2018 01:29

• Gannushkina tells about "re-education" practice of European Chechen women

  Rights defenders know about young Chechen women from Europe, who are forcibly kept in Chechnya by their relatives and are exposed to domestic violence and forced to marry, Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Civil Assistance Committee, said in her interview with the "Kommersant" on January 27.

January 27, 2018 17:36

• Circassian activists notify Mayoralty about planned rally

  The "Adyge-Khase" youth movement has filed a notification to the Mayoralty of the city of Cherkessk about a rally scheduled for February 5 and dedicated to the unsolved murders of activist Aslan Zhukov and an adviser to the head of the republic Fral Shebzukhov.

January 27, 2018 17:00

• USA condemn ratification of Russia-South Ossetia military agreement

  The United States would not recognize the agreement on the inclusion of South-Ossetian army units into the Russian Armed Forces, which has been ratified by the Russian State Duma. This was stated by Heather Neuert, the spokesperson of the State Department. According to her version, the document "is not a valid international agreement."

January 27, 2018 14:42

• NKR reports 200 bombardments of its positions within a week

  On January 21-27, the Azerbaijani militaries made over 2000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

January 27, 2018 14:08

• Georgian sumo wrestler wins Emperor's Cup in Japan

  Levan Gorgadze has become the third European in the history of professional sumo, who won the Emperor's Cup.

January 27, 2018 10:51

• KBR resident tried to kill his baby

  A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) stripped the man, convicted for an attempt to kill his eight-month-old son by throwing him out of the window in the fourth level, of his parental rights.

January 27, 2018 10:08

• Two people injured by gas explosion in a Baku store

  A gas explosion and a fire occurred in a stationery store in Baku; the police have reported two victims. Tenants of a thousand apartments stay without gas supply.

January 27, 2018 05:54

• Armenia to send three athletes to 2018 Winter Olympics

  The Armenian delegation to the Winter Olympic Games-2018 includes two ski racers and an Alpine skier.

January 27, 2018 00:49

• Talekh Bagirzade regards new charge against him as authorities' order

  Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" movement, who is serving his 20-year prison term under the riot case, has rejected the charge of keeping prohibited items in his prison cell.

January 26, 2018 22:04

• "Veduchi" Resort in Chechnya opened under enhanced security measures

  On the eve of the solemn opening of the "Veduchi" Ski Resort, law enforcers blocked the roads in the Itum-Kali District of Chechnya and carefully inspected all the cars, local residents have stated.

January 26, 2018 19:13

• 20 people get poisoned with sandwiches in Tbilisi

  The patients, hospitalized with poisoning, said that they ate chicken sandwiches bought in the "Carrefour" network in Tbilisi, Levan Baidoshvili, the spokesman for the Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, has stated. The "Carrefour" Company promised to eliminate the violations.

January 26, 2018 18:18

• Saakashvili placed under night house arrest in Ukraine

  A court in Kiev has obliged Mikhail Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, to stay at home at night and forbade him to leave the Ukrainian capital without the prosecutor's permit.

January 26, 2018 17:10

• Teenager detained for desecrating memorial in Kizlyar

  On January 25, inscriptions on the memorial in memory of the victims of militants' attack on Kizlyar were made by a teenager from a problematic family, law enforcers have reported.

January 26, 2018 16:44

• Kadyrov answers to Sobchak's demands in Titiev's case

  The appeal of Ksenia Sobchak to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", makes no sense, since this is beyond the competence of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

January 26, 2018 15:04

• Sochi nurses to be fired after incident with patient left in the street

  In Sochi, two hospital nurses were fired after they drove a patient into the street and left him there.

January 26, 2018 10:22

• US reporters banned from attending Dagestani Parliament

  On January 25, 85 MPs of the Dagestani Parliament voted in support of the resolution to ban reporters of the US media recognized as foreign agents to attend meetings of the Parliament of Dagestan.

January 26, 2018 09:35

• Azerbaijan fixes shelling of five villages

  The positions of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were shelled for 116 times over the past 24 hours.

January 26, 2018 09:27

• KBR resident suspected of joining Syrian militants

  A 30-year-old resident of the Cherek District illegally moved to Syria, where he joined a terrorist organization, investigators report.

January 26, 2018 05:46

• Sochi teacher complains of dismissal after shooting a video about depletion in school

  Elena Nosova, a school teacher from Sochi, went to court and demanded to reinstate her in position. The teacher associates her dismissal with the fact that she posted on the Internet her video about poor condition of one of the classrooms in the school.

January 25, 2018 20:46

• Oyub Titiev's defence claims falsification of evidence in his case

  Washouts from the Oyub Titiev's hands were taken without an advocate and sealed in the absence of the rights defender himself, and law enforcers inclined him to self-incrimination during many hours, stated advocate Pyotr Zaikin in court.