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July 09, 2022 11:55

• Rights defenders comment on incident at Krasnodar children's centre

  The forced haircutting on a 9-year-old girl is equated to physical violence, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

July 09, 2022 11:17

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev's arrest extended by three months

  The Southern District Military Court has left Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist from the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, accused of financing terrorism, in custody until October 28.

July 09, 2022 08:48

• Opposition accuses Pashinyan of lobbying Turkish and Azeri interests

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister, and his team are promoting the Azerbaijani and Turkish agendas to the detriment of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the participants in the march held in Yerevan have stated.

July 09, 2022 08:37

• Prosecutor claims Inal Djabiev's non-involvement in attempt on MIA head

  Inal Djabiev, who died after being interrogated by law enforcers, and Nikolai Tskhovrebov were not involved in the attempt on the life of Igor Naniev, a former head of the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the prosecutor stated on July 8, demanding to sentence Tskhovrebov to conditional imprisonment for arms trafficking.

July 09, 2022 08:23

• Kadyrov's serial fits into trend of discrediting Ukrainian authorities

  Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly criticized the President of Ukraine and the filming of the "serial" about Zelensky has become a continuation of the federal trend of making attacks against Ukrainian authorities, although the videos clips with Kadyrov "starring" should be treated mainly as entertainment, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

July 08, 2022 21:53

• Workers of Rustavi metallurgical plant stop their strike

  Wages of Rustavi metallurgical plant employees will gradually increase by the equivalent of 85 US dollars, the wage rate will be increased in July, a trade union representative reports. According to him, the workers have already stopped their strike and resumed work.

July 08, 2022 21:28

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Alizamin Salaev arrested for 30 days

  Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, was placed under arrest for 30 days for failure to obey the police. The activist tried to hold a protest action but was detained, his son said.

July 08, 2022 18:54

• Refugees from Gadrut and Shushi demand from UN to grant them refugee status

  Participants of a protest action held in front of the UN office in Yerevan demanded to grant refugee status to people who left the territories that came under the control of Azerbaijan as a result of the 2020 war.

July 08, 2022 18:41

• Analysts point to low incomes of Azerbaijani residents

  According to a joint study conducted by the Baku Human Rights Club and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), most of Azerbaijani residents are deprived of normal housing and access to quality medical services because of their low incomes.

July 08, 2022 14:54

• Distrust in authorities triggers scandal with investment project in Abkhazia

  The behind-the-scene format of discussing a large investment project for the construction of a dwelling settlement has caused resonance in Abkhazia. Residents demanded not to sell land to foreigners, as they perceived a threat of frauds with investments, because of which their amount could then become a burden on the republic's budget, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

July 08, 2022 14:33

• ECtHR awards compensations to two residents of Southern Russia for non-providing medical care in colony

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded 15,000 euros in compensation for the suffered material damage and moral harm, as well as for legal expenses, to Alim Khokonov from Kabardino-Balkaria and Khristofor Golovatov from Rostov-on-Don. They were diagnosed with oncological diseases, but they were not provided with medical care in colony, says the ECtHR's decision, posted on its website on July 7.

July 08, 2022 11:08

• North-Caucasian republics are among regions with lowest consumption of antidepressants

  Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia are among the top 10 regions of Russia, where residents consumed the least amount of antidepressants over the six months of this year.

July 08, 2022 10:36

• Vladikavkaz: five protesters against self-isolation sentenced to real prison terms

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has found five participants in the 2020 rally in Vladikavkaz guilty of participating in mass riots and sentenced them to terms ranging from three years and ten months to four years and three months of freedom deprivation in a general security colony.

July 08, 2022 08:34

• Armenian and Azeri MoDs exchange accusations of shelling

  Azerbaijan has shelled the Armenian positions and the road in the direction of the village of Elpin, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. In its turn, its Azerbaijani counterpart has announced the shelling of its positions in the Kelbadjar District.

July 08, 2022 08:21

• Prosecution demands five years in prison for Andrei Pivovarov

  The prosecutor has asked to sentence Andrei Pivovarov, a former executive director of the "Open Russia"*, to five years in prison and to ban him from being elected to power bodies for eight years, his advocate has informed.

July 07, 2022 23:55

• ECtHR awards compensation to widow of murdered Azerbaijani publicist

  The Strasbourg Court has concluded that the investigating authorities violated the article on the right to life of the Convention on Human Rights by refusing to investigate the murder of writer and publicist Rafik Tagi, and awarded compensation of 12,000 euros to his widow.

July 07, 2022 23:29

• Monoethnicity becomes a distinguishing feature of new Chechen battalions

  The requirement to recruit only Chechen residents into new battalions may lead to the creation of monoethnic military units, and other republics of Northern Caucasus will want to follow this trend, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” state.

July 07, 2022 20:05

• Kadyrov reveals new details about Chechen battalions

  The creation of battalions, which will be part of the Russian Ministry of Defence, will create 1800 jobs in the republic, the leader of Chechnya reports.

July 07, 2022 19:44

• Authorities of Astara District refuse to sanction Talysh festival

  The executive authorities of the Astara District of Azerbaijan did not sanction holding of a folklore festival, which was initiated by the municipal council of the Khamosham village, where ethnic Talysh live. The Public Council of the Talysh People of Azerbaijan treat the refusal as a discriminatory policy of the authorities towards the Talysh people.

July 07, 2022 19:26

• Employees of rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan arrested in a case on torture

  A court placed under arrest five employees of a drug and alcohol addiction treatment centre located in the Absheron District of Azerbaijan after one of the patients died. According to the investigators’ version, the victim was kept by force at the centre and subjected to torture there.