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November 11, 2021 14:02

• ECtHR denies Saakashvili's transfer from prison hospital to civil one

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has denied the petition lodged by representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, that asked to oblige the authorities to transfer him to a civil clinic. Saakashvili's personal doctor, Nikoloz Kipshidze, has recorded injuries on his patient's body.

November 11, 2021 13:34

• Elene Khoshtariya needs medical care

  At doctors' insistence, due to deteriorating of her tests, on the eighth day of her hunger strike, Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, was made a blood transfusion.

November 11, 2021 11:10

• Ingush protest leaders outraged by prison terms claimed by prosecution

  The prison terms demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO) for the figurants in the Ingush case are excessive and undermine ordinary people's trust in the authorities, the defendants have stated.

November 11, 2021 10:51

• Dagestani resident's mother apologizes to Moscow metro attack victim

  Relatives of Gasan Galibekov, a Dagestani accused of beating up a passenger in Moscow metro, have apologized to the victim, Roman Kovalyov and his mother, offering to help him with rehabilitation.

November 11, 2021 09:01

• Head of Armenian village reports shelling of tractor from Azerbaijani side

  A tractor with a local resident inside was shelled by Azerbaijani militaries, the head of the Khachik village of the Areni community said on November 10.

November 11, 2021 08:48

• Azerbaijani activist Salekh Rustamov placed into dungeon

  Salekh Rustamov, convicted within the case of financing the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) of the prison hospital. Doctors have threatened him with forced feeding if he didn't stop his hunger strike, his son has informed.

November 11, 2021 08:34

• Rights defenders point to importance to prove torture of Caucasian natives in Saratov

  The video proofs of torture of residents of Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov gives hope that the perpetrators will be punished; however, in other Russian institutions the situation is similar, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

November 11, 2021 00:16

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of a military provocation at Black Lake

  About 60 Armenian soldiers tried to cut the lines of communication between the posts of the Azerbaijani army in the border area, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan claimed.

November 10, 2021 23:54

• Volgograd residents appeal to President Putin with a request to cancel QR codes

  In their video appeal addressed to the President of Russia, Volgograd residents claim that the requirement for QR codes violates the constitutional rights of citizens. The activists who took part in recording the appeal said that they spoke not against vaccination, but against coercion to it.

November 10, 2021 23:34

• Court hearing on Saakashvili’s case held in his absence

  Despite a court’s request to bring Mikhail Saakashvili to the trial, the special penitentiary service refused to do that, fearing an attack by the opposition on a convoy car.

November 10, 2021 17:37

• MMA fighter from Chechnya arrested in drug case

  A Moscow court ruled to detain Salman Zhamaldaev, a former winner of the World Fighting Championship Akhmat, until January 6. The athlete faces 10 years of imprisonment under the article on drug trafficking.

November 10, 2021 17:12

• Police preventively detain Saakashvili’s supporters in Tbilisi

  At least ten activists were detained even before the start of the rally in front of the building of the State Security Service of Georgia. Two more protest actions against the transfer of Mikhail Saakashvili to a prison hospital are taking place near the buildings of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Public Health.

November 10, 2021 14:34

• Tbilisi doctors demand to transfer Saakashvili to private clinic

  About a dozen doctors have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Government in Tbilisi, where they demanded to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, to a multifunctional private clinic.

November 10, 2021 14:11

• "Chechen scandal" leaves trace in Russian-Turkish relations

  Well prior the scandal with the detained Russians, the Turkish-Russian relations were unstable, and reports about the preparations for an assassination attempt on representatives of the Chechen Diaspora will not improve these relations, the Russian Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

November 10, 2021 11:47

• Ingush activists' defence asks court to acquit them

  On November 9, during the parties' debate at the trial held in the city of Yessentuki, the advocates of the Ingush activists, accused of creating an extremist community, delivered their speeches. They asked the Kislovodsk City Court, which is considering the case, to pass an acquittal, since, in their opinion, the crimes imputed to their clients have not been proved in any way.

November 10, 2021 11:29

• Saakashvili's supporters announce daily protest actions

  Actions demanding to protect the rights of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, will be held every day in different places, which will be announced the evening before, Nika Meliya, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has proclaimed.

November 10, 2021 11:16

• Armenian opposition marks anniversary of end of "autumn war" with protest rallies

  At a rally in Yerevan, supporters of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, accused the authorities of failures in all spheres of politics and economy.

November 10, 2021 08:41

• Stepanakert and Baku blame each other over shelling of workers near Shushi

  The November 8 shelling of four workers near the city of Shusha (the Armenian name is Shushi), one of whom died, is being investigated in Nagorno-Karabakh under the article about a terror act. Because of the incident, Baku and Stepanakert have accused each other of an attempt to discredit the work of Russian peacemakers in Karabakh.

November 10, 2021 08:27

• Yana Antonova demands to release Pivovarov

  Yana Antonova, a Kuban (Krasnodar) activist, has held a solo picket in support of the opposition politician, Andrei Pivovarov, aiming to draw public attention to the start of his trial.

November 09, 2021 21:28

• Norwegian media: police kill a native of Chechnya in Oslo

  In Oslo, the police shot and killed a man who threatened passers-by with a knife and attacked police officers. The killed suspect was a native of Chechnya, who had an earlier criminal record for stabbing a passer-by, Norwegian media reported.