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May 12, 2021 17:54

• Russian sappers demine highway in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Martakert-Madagiz village highway and the outskirts of the village have been cleared of explosive items; 15 shells and mines were found and destroyed, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

May 12, 2021 17:41

• Nine Azeri residents detained for visiting Karabakh

  Residents of the Agdam District tried to enter non-demined territories' policemen have detained them, the Azerbaijan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

May 12, 2021 11:37

• Police suspect Pashinyan’s opponent of drug possession

  The police found a yellow-green substance during a search of pockets of Sevada Gukasyan, a resident of the Tavush Region, who was detained while trying to lead a donkey to the building of the Armenian parliament.

May 12, 2021 11:32

• Case on beating of a journalist in North Ossetia transferred to court

  Investigators have sent to court a case on an attack on journalist Ruslan Totrov in North Ossetia, who was beaten for posting critical articles.

May 12, 2021 01:35

• Georgian protesters stitch up their mouths

  The production facilities of the "Georgian Manganese" Company cause huge damage to the houses of residents of the Georgian village of Shukruti, it has become life-threatening to live in them, the protesters have noted. In their turn, the company officials treat the action as engaged one and reminded that villagers are being paid compensations.

May 12, 2021 01:23

• "Meduza" tells about fate of Chechen women in IS* territory

  Mothers of Chechen girls who left for Syria in the mid-2010s are still hoping to bring their daughters home. Finding themselves in the territory controlled by militants of the "Islamic State"*, some of these girls went missing, while others were sentenced to long prison terms, up to life-long ones.

May 11, 2021 22:21

• In Dagestan, schoolteachers go on strike

  In the village of Gutatli in the Tsuntinsky District of Dagestan, teachers of a secondary school are continuing a protest rally with the demand to dismiss the principal, who has recently been reinstated at job through the court.

May 11, 2021 22:06

• Court arrests relatives of Ingush man killed by law enforcers

  A court pronounced a decision to place under a two-month arrest two relatives of Magomed Kodzoev, a resident of the Kantyshevo village, who was killed in a shootout with law enforcers: explosive devices and weapons were found at home of one of the arrested relatives, sources reported.

May 11, 2021 17:28

• Court refuses to grant Kocharyan a respite to prepare for elections

  In Yerevan, a court dismissed a request filed by the defence of the second President of Armenia to postpone court hearings for the period while Robert Kocharyan was preparing for the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 20. A judge scheduled the next court hearing in the criminal case against Robert Kocharyan for May 25.

May 11, 2021 17:03

• Pashinyan’s opponent released after detention in Yerevan

  A resident of the Tavush Region, detained in front of the Armenian parliament at a protest action against Nikol Pashinyan, was released after a protocol on an administrative violation had been drawn up against him, the Yerevan Police reports today.

May 11, 2021 13:41

• Announcement of pass control in Chechnya alarms social network users

  During the celebrations of Eid al-Fitr (Uraza-Bairam), the access control regime will be introduced at entrances to Chechnya; and raids are planned to detect illegal transportation of passengers, the republic's authorities have announced. The novelty has worried Instagram users, who called for presenting the details of the planned restrictions.

May 11, 2021 13:20

• Art critics find it logical to include Chechen and Adyg painters into Forbes Rating

  The inclusion of painters, Aslan Goisum from Chechnya and Vova Perkin from Adygea, into the top 10 young painters of the Russian Forbes Magazine is natural, because their works are in demand by the public, the art critics interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

May 11, 2021 11:26

• Azeri Prosecutor General treats noise around "Terter case" as groundless

  The "Terter case" was investigated back in 2017; judgments were made on the criminal offenses related thereto; and the public was informed of all its details, the Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan has stated.

May 11, 2021 11:10

• Ingush Council of Teips opposes construction of tank training ground

  Members of the Council of Teips (Family Clans) of Ingushetia have addressed Sergey Shoigu, the Russia's Defence Minister with a request not to place a military training ground in the territory of the republic.

May 11, 2021 10:58

• Aliev reports return of about 1600 bodies of perished militaries to Yerevan

  At his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev stated that Baku had returned to Armenia all the prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, as well as about 1600 bodies of dead Armenian military servicemen.

May 11, 2021 08:43

• Social network users report forced vaccination in KBR

  Almost 29,000 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been vaccinated against coronavirus, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has reported. Instagram users have reported that vaccination is not always voluntary; some have to get vaccinated under threat of dismissal.

May 11, 2021 08:28

• Two persons injured in accident with Pashinyan's motorcade

  A woman is in grave condition after a road accident with an escort car from the motorcade of the head of the Armenian Government (Prime Minister), Nikol Pashinyan. A man, the second victim refused hospitalization, a source from a Yerevan hospital said.

May 10, 2021 23:09

• In Yerevan, Pashinyan’s opponent detained at an action with a donkey

  A resident of Ijevan brought a donkey to the Armenian parliament and announced that he would use the animal to return Nikol Pashinyan to his hometown. The police did not allow the activist to approach the parliament building and took him to a police station

May 10, 2021 22:46

• Rights defenders succeed in seeking compensation to a Dagestani woman for poor-quality treatment

  A court of appeal increased to one million roubles the compensation to a woman from Dagestan, who got disability after a course of radiation therapy. The compensation for non-pecuniary damage should be three times higher, and the victim has the right to monthly payments in connection with the disability she got, the NGO “Patient Monitor” claims, which lawyers represented the woman’s interests in court.

May 10, 2021 18:04

• On May 3-9, 2021, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of May 3-9, 2021, 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.