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October 28, 2017 14:05

• South Ossetia expresses its willingness to recognize Catalonia as an independent state

  South Ossetia will consider the issue on recognition of the Catalonia's independence. This was announced by Dmitry Medoev, South-Ossetian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in connection with the resolution on independence from Spain adopted by the Parliament of Catalonia on October 27.

October 28, 2017 13:15

• Kuban activist arrested for reposting video with swastika

  Raisa Pogodaeva, an opposition activist from the town of Goryachiy Klyuch, has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for reposting a video of Kuban blogger Leonid Kudinov with a swastika. This has been reported by activist Darya Polyudova.

October 28, 2017 11:48

• Zhirair Sefilyan's advocate calls on Armenian General Prosecutor to resign

  At a court hearing held on October 27, in the Zhirair Sefilyan's case, the judge announced the completion of questioning the witnesses and the beginning of a new stage to study the evidence, reported the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 28, 2017 04:26

• Victims criticize judgement on Dmitry Batyrev's death case

  Some of those convicted in the case of Dmitry Batyrev's death in Kalmyk Colony No. 1 received unduly short prison terms, the victims' advocate has stated.

October 28, 2017 03:26

• Sochi: activist holds picket demanding to release Gudimov and Khristosenko

  Ekaterina Voloshina, an employee of one of Sochi legal firms, has held a solo picket in protest against the actual ban on opposition protests and with a demand to release the arrested activists Konstantin Gudimov and Olesya Khristosenko.

October 28, 2017 02:31

• Volgograd activist appeals against Mayoralty's refusal to sanction picket

  Anatoly Eldyrkin, a member of the Volgograd Human Rights Council (HRC) and a participant in "Strategy-31" actions, has filed a lawsuit demanding to recognize illegal the Mayoralty's refusal to sanction a picket scheduled by activists for October 29.

October 27, 2017 23:19

• Resident of Mozdok found in IVS after kidnapping

  Alim Chervaev, a resident of Mozdok, who was kidnapped by armed people from the city marketplace on October 26, is kept at the temporary isolation facility (known as IVS) of the Mozdok District, his relatives have reported. Power agents assert that they had found firearms and drugs on him, but his friends and relatives are sure that he is innocent.

October 27, 2017 19:32

• Saakashvili repeatedly asks asylum in Ukraine

  The former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has repeatedly, this time in person, filed an application for granting him additional protection status in Ukraine, Markiyan Galabala, his advocate, has stated today.

October 27, 2017 16:26

• Azerbaijani journalist Guseinli released in Ukraine

  Today, the court has released the journalist Fikret Guseinli, arrested in Ukraine at the request of Azerbaijan, on bail, said People's Deputy Nikolai Knyazhitsky.

October 27, 2017 15:45

• Migrants go on hunger strike in Makhachkala special detention facility

  Eleven persons are on hunger strike; they have sent 11 applications to the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting head of the republic, demanding attention and a check of their detention centre, the "Chernovik" writes.

October 27, 2017 13:38

• Activists detained in Moscow for "Nord-Ost" poster

  Three persons, who stuck a poster reading "Putin will answer for 'Nord-Ost'!" outside the White House were sent to a police station, said the coordinator of the Moscow Navalny's office.

October 27, 2017 12:05

• Relatives of victims of Dubrovka terror act treat it as most terrible tragedy for last 15 years

  In Moscow, on October 26, at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, 130 white balloons were released into the sky – equal to the number of casualties of the 2002 terror act. The participants of the action told about the pain that they still feel when recollect the events of 15 years ago.

October 27, 2017 10:13

• Makhachkala: rally organizer adjudges 25,000 roubles from MIA

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has partially satisfied the claim lodged by Marat Ismailov, the organizer of the anti-corruption rally on March 26, by collecting 25,000 roubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as compensation for his moral harm.

October 27, 2017 09:15

• Commander of "Rosgvardia" fighters who perished in Chechnya dismissed

  The commander of the unit of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), where on October 23 an officer shot dead four of his colleagues, was dismissed and is giving testimonies within the service check.

October 27, 2017 06:49

• Journalists criticize calls for boycotting Halloween in Dagestan

  The topic of boycotting Halloween is artificially inflated, the journalists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

October 27, 2017 05:45

• Chechnya: kidnappings become systematic

  The situation with people's disappearances in Chechnya is similar to the one observed during the second Chechen campaign, and kidnappings committed by law enforcers have turned into a system, rights defenders assert. According to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", since the start of this year, relatives of at least 43 people have reported their kidnappings.

October 27, 2017 01:43

• Lawyers criticize Dagestani power agents for arresting Russian women-returnees from Syria

  A complaint has been filed against the decision to arrest Zagidat Abakarova and Muslimat Kurbanova after their voluntary return from the warfare zone in Syria, Djuma Magomedova, an advocate, has stated.

October 26, 2017 21:04

• Azerbaijani oppositionists doubt terror act version at the rally

  The report of special services that the liquidated militants had been plotting a terror act at an opposition rally in Baku is able of intimidating the protesters and thereby affecting the number of them, the politicians and experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

October 26, 2017 17:29

• Afghan Mukhtarly granted Pavel Sheremet Award

  In Estonia, the Pavel Sheremet Award granted to Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was handed over to his wife Leyla Mustafaeva.

October 26, 2017 15:49

• For Dagestanis, minimum cost of going for Hajj reaches 2400 US dollars

  Next year, pilgrims from Dagestan will be able to choose several programmes to go to Mecca. So far, only two tours ‑ "Economy" and "Standard" ‑ have been approved. The least expensive option for 2400 US dollars involves sending pilgrims from Makhachkala to the city of Aqaba in Jordan and then to Medina.