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April 16, 2022 15:23

• Over 16,000 refugees from Donbass arrive in Rostov Region during last 24 hours

  Over the past 24 hours, more than 16,000 refugees arrived in Russia from the territory of Donbass through checkpoints in the Rostov Region, the Frontier Department of the FSB has informed.

April 16, 2022 15:11

• Pashinyan was met with silent protest in Gyumri

  The city of Gyumri is holding a silent protest action on the occasion of the visit there of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan; a lot of law enforcers are present in the venue; by their silence, the protesters have expressed their disagreement with the policy of the Armenian authorities.

April 16, 2022 14:58

• Georgian NGOs force authorities to publish EU questions

  Following the demands of Georgian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the opposition, the government decided to publish the questionnaire for obtaining the candidate status of the European Union (EU) on its website.

April 16, 2022 13:41

• Residents of Stavropol Territory report attack on cars with letter Z

  Nine cars belonging to residents of the town of Ipatovo in the Stavropol Territory and marked with letter Z, a symbol of the special operation in Ukraine, were damaged by unknown culprits, a local resident has reported.

April 16, 2022 13:27

• Azerbaijan: oppositional party leader sentenced again for slander

  A court in Baku has sentenced Ali Aliev, the chairman of the oppositional "Citizens' and Development" Party, to five months in custody after finding him guilty of defamation under the lawsuit lodged by Ramin Adilov, a border guard.

April 16, 2022 13:10

• Russian MoD reports Azerbaijan's violation of contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh

  In the vicinity of the dwelling settlement of Yarymdja in the Mardakert District of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has violated the contact line, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

April 16, 2022 08:54

• Kizilyurt authorities inform about death of fellow countryman in Ukraine

  Senior Sergeant Batyr Abdulmuslimov from Kizilyurt has perished in Ukraine, the administration of the city district has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 83 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.

April 16, 2022 08:29

• Video clip about gas prices difference in Dagestan and Chechnya is risk factor for its author

  The author of the video clip about high gas prices in Chechnya will be searched for and forced to apologize, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are sure.

April 15, 2022 22:35

• Court fines Ingush politician for discrediting armed forces

  The Magas District Court found Vakha Kartoev, the head of the regional branch of the “Civil Initiative” Party, guilty of discrediting the armed forces and imposed a fine of 40,000 roubles for a pacifist post on a social media outlet.

April 15, 2022 22:05

• Complaint about torture of Vladikavkaz native Tumgoev filed to Prosecutor’s Office

  In her appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office, a sister of Timur Tumgoev noted that her brother, a native of Vladikavkaz, was tortured in a penal colony in the Vladimir Region while being transferred to a prison. The sister of the convict asked the Prosecutor’s Office to launch a check.

April 15, 2022 21:54

• Azerbaijani journalist released from police

  Zakhir Amanov, a founder and editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani news website “Cenub.az”, suspected of extortion of money, was released from custody for the period of the investigation.

April 15, 2022 18:49

• FSIN associates riot of prisoners from Northern Caucasus in Ulyanovsk Region with searches

  Amid the human rights defenders’ reports about beatings of natives of Northern Caucasus in prison, the Department for the Ulyanovsk Region of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) stated that the prisoners’ hunger strike was preceded by a mass protest against searches in cells.

April 15, 2022 18:34

• Court obliges Prosecutor’s Office to investigate responsibility of doctors on complaint of Gyulyalyev's relatives

  A court in Baku has concluded that the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan did not conduct a sufficient investigation, refusing to institute a case against the doctors who treated human rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev.

April 15, 2022 14:46

• Restrictions on covering military conflict introduced in Nagorno-Karabakh

  It is allowed to publish only official information about the situation in the conflict zone with Azerbaijan; and it is forbidden to refute authorities' reports under the threat of administrative and criminal prosecution, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh has ordered.

April 15, 2022 14:23

• Children of natives of Adygea and Dagestan returned from Syria

  Ten children have been brought today from the Middle East to Russia. After examination, they will be transferred to their relatives, including those in Adygea and Dagestan, Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian Children's Ombudsperson, has stated.

April 15, 2022 14:06

• Dimitrovgrad inmates go on hunger strike after North-Caucasians natives were beaten up

  About a hundred inmates kept in the prison located in the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region of Russia) have gone on a hunger strike in protest against beatings and humiliation of prisoners-natives of Northern Caucasus, human rights defenders have reported.

April 15, 2022 12:07

• Acting in pacifist video clip resulted in administrative protocol against Benyash

  Policemen have drawn up a protocol against the Krasnodar lawyer, Mikhail Benyash, who took part in an anti-war video clip, under the article about discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

April 15, 2022 11:45

• Experts find no extremism in Abdulmumin Gadjiev's articles

  Linguists have analyzed 26 texts by the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, accused of financing terrorism, and found no signs of extremism there, Arsen Shabanov, an advocate, has stated.

April 15, 2022 08:46

• Nagorno-Karabakh parliament urges Pashinyan to reject concessions to Azerbaijan

  Any change of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh is unacceptable; it will deprive residents of the unrecognized republic of the right to live freely and independently, the local MPs have stated. They called on the Prime Minister of Armenia to refuse negotiations with Azerbaijan, where the issue of the loss of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh is discussed.

April 15, 2022 08:33

• Moscow appoints special envoy for normalizing Armenian-Azerbaijani relations

  Russia has appointed a special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to promote the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian MFA, stated in response to a media question about the preparation of an Azerbaijani-Armenian peace agreement, the Russian MFA informed on April 14 on its website.