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February 15, 2022 15:01

• Azerbaijan announces shelling from Armenia

  Units of the Armenian Armed Forces have shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Kelbadjar and Tovuz Districts, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

February 15, 2022 14:37

• Chechen residents' address to healer results in public scolding

  Two residents of the village of Engel-Yurt have turned to a healer in Kabardino-Balkaria with a request to improve their family life, after which they were detained in Chechnya by law enforcers; and they were publicly reprimanded by Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine.

February 15, 2022 14:23

• Blood feud becomes exceptional phenomenon in North Ossetia

  In North Ossetia, blood feud killings are single cases; practically all conflicts are regulated within the legal field, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

February 15, 2022 11:08

• Saakashvili restricted in his right to see relatives

  The administration of the Rustavi Prison has banned family members of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, from visiting him more than once a month.

February 15, 2022 10:54

• Court in Baku refuses to ban journalist Vagifgyzy from leaving Azerbaijan

  The court has rejected the submission of court marshals, who asked to ban the Azerbaijani journalist Sevindj Vagifgyzy from leaving the country.

February 15, 2022 08:48

• HRC "Memorial"* appeals against court ruling on liquidation

  The defence has filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court (MCC) to liquidate the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*.

February 15, 2022 08:37

• ECtHR obliges Russia to report on Musaeva's condition

  Every two weeks, Russian authorities must send a report on the health condition of Zarema Musaeva to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Court has decided.

February 15, 2022 08:26

• Analysts explain Delimkhanov's reaction to Zakuskin's incident with elderly Chechen woman

  Law enforcement bodies should react to the incident of the Moscow deputy Alexander Zakuskin with the elderly Chechen woman Yusupkhadjieva and resolve the case according to the law so that the situation does not turn into an interethnic conflict, the Caucasian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out, stressing that traditional response mechanisms to Zakuskin's actions have been engaged in the absence of timely reaction by the police.

February 14, 2022 21:13

• Kadyrov softens his rhetoric on Ukraine after Kremlin’s remarks

  Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has issued a new statement on Ukraine and significantly softened the tone of his statements in comparison with his previous words about the need to “take back Ukraine,” to which the Kremlin reacted.

February 14, 2022 20:53

• Moscow delegate calls for Zakuskin’s resignation for his conflict with a native of Chechnya

  Alexander Zakuskin should leave his post of the head of the council of delegates for the Meschansky District of Moscow because of his conflict with native of Chechnya Salima Yusupkhadjieva, says Yuri Reinhimmel, a delegate of the district council. He sent his colleagues a relevant draft decision.

February 14, 2022 19:58

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 7-13, 2022

  Public outcry from the signatures under the petition for the resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov; shelling attacks in the Karabakh conflict zone and near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan; reports of law enforcers about the prevention of terror acts in Northern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 7-13, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

February 14, 2022 18:07

• On February 7-13, 2022, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of February 7-13, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 14, 2022 17:54

• Karachay-Cherkessia becomes worst region of Southern Russia in terms of quality of life

  In the rating of the Russian regions in terms of quality of life, the Krasnodar Territory took the fifth place, and Karachay-Cherkessia became the 84th.

February 14, 2022 14:10

• "Union of Veterans and Youth" declares distrust to President of Abkhazia

  The public organization "Union of Veterans and Youth of Apsny" has declared itself as oppositional, explaining this by the loss of confidence in the President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhaniya.

February 14, 2022 13:57

• Moscow deputy apologizes to elderly Chechen woman

  The Internet has posted a video by Alexander Zakuskin, the head of the council of deputies of the Meschansky District of Moscow, in which he apologizes to an elderly Chechen woman, Salima Yusupkhadjieva, for the conflict that occurred near the mosque. Because of the received death threats, the deputy was forced to change his residence and wrote an application to the police.

February 14, 2022 11:36

• 473 flash mob posts for Kadyrov against 210,000 signatures on his resignation

  The number of signatures to the online petition for the resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov increased by more than 5500 in almost two days and has reached 210,000, while the number of posts on the Instagram with the hashtag #YapekhotinetsKadyrova (I'm Kadyrov's infantry soldier) as part of the flash mob in support of Kadyrov increased by 45 over the same period.

February 14, 2022 11:25

• Four high-ranking militaries arrested in Baku within embezzlement case

  A court in Baku has sent four high-ranking officers of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) into custody on charges of embezzling the equivalent of nearly USD 6 million.

February 14, 2022 11:12

• After his reaction to incident with Chechen woman, Delimkhanov reminded of Musaeva's case

  Adam Delimkhanov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, and Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, have criticized Alexander Zakuskin, a Moscow deputy, for the latter's conflict with an elderly Chechen woman; however, they had reacted completely differently to the kidnapping of Zarema Musaeva by Chechen law enforcers, Instagram users and readers of the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

February 14, 2022 10:59

• Resident of Dagestan accused of blackmail blames law enforcers of torturing

  A resident of the Khasavyurt District, detained on a complaint from a Makhachkala woman about extorting eight million roubles from her, has stated that he was tortured with electric current, by means of which law enforcers tried to obtain a confession from him, Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, has stated.

February 13, 2022 12:31

• Delimkhanov justifies threats against deputy after his conflict with Chechen woman

  Alexander Zakuskin, a Moscow deputy, has admitted, in his conversation with Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP from Chechnya, that he "overdid it" during the incident with an elderly Chechen woman and announced his apology. Delimkhanov, in response to Zakuskin's words about the threats, said that they would not end until the issue was resolved.