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September 21, 2017 08:04

• Reports on terror threats in Nalchik prove to be false

  Law enforcers failed to find any explosive devices in the shopping centres, from which residents of Nalchik were evacuated on September 20.

September 20, 2017 22:06

• KBR residents call Adygs Day a unifying holiday

  Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has marked the Adygs Day for the fourth time. Nalchik townspeople treat it as a unifying holiday, but saw some opposition to the Revival Day of Balkar Nation in it.

September 20, 2017 20:57

• Police explain gays’ detentions in Baku by townspeople complaints

  The detention raids of Baku gays were triggered by citizens’ complaints that people with non-traditional sexual orientation are engaged in prostitution, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated. Local LGBT activists assert that homophobic sentiments are very strong in the country.

September 20, 2017 14:50

• Moskalkova reports about inquiry into disappearances in Chechnya

  Chechen investigating bodies have opened criminal cases on disappearance of 18 persons, Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russia’s Ombudsperson, has stated.

September 20, 2017 12:48

• Former Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov refused pardon

  Despite 189 appeals in support of the former Mayor of Makhachkala, a commission has unanimously refused to pardon Said Amirov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. This was reported by the newspaper "Orenburzhye" with reference to the Vice Governor of the Orenburg Region.

September 20, 2017 11:48

• In Grozny, Timati's burger restaurant opened under snipers’ control

  On September 19, at the opening of the Timati's restaurant in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov handed out burgers to the first visitors, being guarded by armoured vehicles and soldiers. This was reported by local residents.

September 20, 2017 11:23

• Archive documents from Vatican transferred to Armenian Genocide Museum

  The number of the documents from the secret archives of the Vatican, earlier unpublished and donated to the Museum, includes the records of diplomats who worked in the Ottoman Turkey in the period from 1914 to 1917.

September 20, 2017 09:26

• Azerbaijan registers 127 cases of shelling per day

  During the past 24 hours, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 127 times at the contact line. This has been reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

September 20, 2017 08:10

• Tatiana Moskalkova announces her intention to meet alleged gays in Chechnya

  According to the law enforcement agencies, two residents of Chechnya, mentioned in the publications of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" as dead, are alive. This has been reported by Tatiana Moskalkova, Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, during her trip to Grozny. Tatiana Moskalkova intends to meet them.

September 20, 2017 05:59

• Chechen authorities deny information about IS member Tagirov's return to Russia

  Khasan Tagirov, a native of Chechnya, detained in Iraq, is kept in prison in Baghdad and will be brought to trial in accordance with the Iraqi laws. This was reported by the administration of the Chechen leader.

September 20, 2017 05:14

• PACE co-rapporteurs call on Baku to release political prisoners

  Stefan Schennach (Austria) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania), the co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee, have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to speed up the reform of the penitentiary system, bring the country's legislation on NGOs to European standards and release activists arrested and sentenced for political reasons.

September 20, 2017 04:15

• Journalist Aziz Orudjev arrested for his professional activities, his brother asserts

  In Baku, a trial in the case against Aziz Orudjev is scheduled for September 27. The journalist is being prosecuted in connection with his professional activities, claims his brother Anar Orudjev, a founder of the "Kanal-13".

September 20, 2017 03:47

• ECtHR refuses to reconsider case of journalists beaten in Ingushetia

  Judges from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have refused to send for reconsideration the case of beating in Ingushetia of rights defender Oleg Orlov and three journalists. Russia is obliged to pay 84,000 euros of compensation to the complainants.

September 19, 2017 23:52

• Police stop AIP congress

  The police have blocked the building, where an event was scheduled in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Azerbaijani Islamic Party (AIP).

September 19, 2017 22:30

• Law enforcers give the body of killed Khasavyurt resident out to his relatives

  Sakhrudin Ibragimov, a resident of Khasavyurt, was killed in a shootout with policemen, the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has stated.

September 19, 2017 19:22

• Chechen authorities react to appeal of disappeared singer's mother to Kadyrov

  On September 18, in Chechnya, the Ministry for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) almost simultaneously rejected the political and criminal subtext in the disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev. The Ministries have assured they are making all efforts to find him.

September 19, 2017 18:55

• Defence achieves initiation of criminal case on attack on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent

  In Makhachkala, three months after an attack on a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, investigators have instituted a criminal case under the Article stipulating up to six years of imprisonment.

September 19, 2017 18:53

• Central Grozny blocked because burger restaurant opening

  Policemen have partly blocked Putin Avenue in connection with the opening of a rapper Timati’s burger restaurant in the capital of Chechnya.

September 19, 2017 18:37

• ECtHR refuses to reconsider its decision on Beslan terror act

  The Judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have refused to send the case on the capture of hostages in the Beslan School for reconsideration. Thus, Russia is obliged to pay over 2.9 million euros of compensation to the applicants.

September 19, 2017 16:03

• German law enforcers suspect Chechen native of involvement in IS

  A Russian citizen of Chechen origin was detained in Germany on suspicion of involvement in the banned terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS). This was reported by the Hamburg General Prosecutor's Office.