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October 25, 2017 02:18

• Sochi activist arrested for making photo near Navalny's office

  The court has recognized making a photo with a balloon as holding an unsanctioned picket and sentenced Olesya Khristosenko to eight days of administrative arrest.

October 25, 2017 01:17

• Observers' car burned down in Georgia

  In the Mtskheta-Mtianeti District, unidentified persons threw a Molotov cocktail bottle into the car of Makhare Sisauri and Ramaz Gvaladze, members of the NGO "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights".

October 25, 2017 00:13

• Chechen student reports about scholarships for active football fans

  In Chechnya, students got increased scholarships for attending all football matches. However, most of the students came to the stadium only for fear of not passing an academic session. This has been reported by a former student from Chechnya.

October 24, 2017 20:45

• Ukraine expels 20 Saakashvili's supporters

  The Migration Service has started the procedure of deporting 20 Mikhail Saakashvili's supporter, whom the former head of the Odessa Region had brought to Ukraine as figures of culture, a source from the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated.

October 24, 2017 19:57

• Sochi: Navalny's supporter responds with hunger strike to arrest

  The court has sentenced Konstantin Gudimov, who pedalled his bicycle across Sochi with a balloon, to 12 days of arrest. In protest against police's actions and the court's judgement, the activist went on a hunger strike.

October 24, 2017 19:18

• Seven Chechen women from Syria released from criminal liability

  Rights defenders have supported the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to release from criminal liability seven women who were brought from Syria to Chechnya.

October 24, 2017 18:43

• Mikhail Saakashvili refused asylum in Ukraine

  The State Migration Service of Ukraine has denied Mikhail Saakashvili a refugee status, and therefore, there are no obstacles for his extradition any more. This was announced by the General Prosecutor of Ukraine. Mikhail Saakashvili himself claims he has not received a refusal.

October 24, 2017 17:25

• IS* threatens to commit terror acts at 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia

  Supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS - banned in Russia by court's decision) have published two banners with threats to commit explosions during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the events of which will take place also in the cities of Southern Russia.

October 24, 2017 14:37

• Kabardino-Balkaria marks 190th anniversary of accession to Russia

  Stones from Balkarian villages, a horse made of straw, kitchen utensils and a record shashlik (shish kebab) were shown to residents of Kabardino-Balkaria at the folk festival dedicated to the 190th anniversary of Balkaria's accession to Russia.

October 24, 2017 14:00

• Cinemas in Yeisk and Chechnya refuse to screen "Matilda"

  The Cinema Centre "Premier" of the city of Yeisk, Krasnodar Territory, will not screen "Matilda", its director has stated. Chechnya has also refused to screen the resonant movie.

October 24, 2017 11:53

• CNN presenter put on Azerbaijani "black list"

  Anthony Burden, a chef, who is running his show at the American CNN TV Channel, has been put on the undesirable persons' list for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, Khikmet Gadjiev, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated today.

October 24, 2017 09:26

• Father of Krasnodar resident explains his son's involvement in IS* by creditors' pressure

  On October 23, it became known that Turkey had given Denis Khisamov, 33, a former Captain of the Russian Ministry of Defence, out to Tajikistan; Denis was detained in April after his return from Syria.

October 24, 2017 07:29

• Makhachkala opens Sheikh Chirkeisky Mosque

  The mosque named after Sheikh Said-Afandi Chirkeisky, killed in 2012, has been opened in the village of Shamkhal in the Kirov District of Makhachkala. It is able to accommodate 300 people at once.

October 24, 2017 07:23

• In Sochi, leaders of oppositional parties express solidarity with Navalny's supporters

  A trial against activists of the Navalny's office in Sochi is a political persecution. This was stated by Igor Vasiliev, the branch leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). People are being punished for a photo on the office porch and a walk with a balloon, declared Iren Ilienkova, the leader of the local "Yabloko" Party branch.

October 24, 2017 03:53

• In Samvel Babayan's case, witness confesses to ordering Igla missile system

  At a trial, a witness has confessed to the court that he himself purchased the man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) "Igla" for the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh. Earlier, Samvel Babayan, the former Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, has been accused of importing the missile system.

October 24, 2017 03:02

• About 90 miners hold protest action in Gukovo

  At a picket in Gukovo, miners have claimed no improvement with payment of wage arrears and said they would continue to hold protests every day.

October 24, 2017 00:00

• Two Russian soldiers die in "Alagyaz" Armenian training ground

  In Armenia, a Russian serviceman has accidentally shot his colleague dead from a submachine gun, and then committed suicide, the press service of the Southern Military District (SMD) reports.

October 23, 2017 22:33

• Chechen "Rosgvardia" fighters killed at point-blank by a native of Dagestan

  In Chechnya, a serviceman of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) killed his colleagues after a conflict with them, the shots were fired "practically at point-blank," said a source from the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya.

October 23, 2017 21:19

• Nerses Pogosyan stops his hunger strike

  Nerses Pogosyan, a figurant in the case of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the oppositional movement "100 Years without Regime", has stopped his protest hunger strike on the 24th day thereof, in the evening on October 22, his advocate Araik Papikyan told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

October 23, 2017 19:58

• "Rosgvardia" serviceman shoots his four colleagues dead in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) soldier opened fire in the barracks and wounded four of his colleagues, who died from the wounds. The shooter was liquidated (killed), the "Rosgvardia" has reported.