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February 17, 2021 15:18

• FSB reports prevention of terror acts in Northern Caucasus

  In four regions of southern Russia, a total of 19 people have been detained who had planned terror acts in Northern Caucasus; extremist materials, weapons and ammunition have been seized from them, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) has reported today.

February 17, 2021 14:53

• Nagorno-Karabakh presents names of 132 perished military servicemen

  On February 16, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) released a new list of servicemen who perished in the hostilities during the last autumn escalation of the conflict. The list includes 132 names of militaries, the "News.am" has reported.

February 17, 2021 11:36

• Plans to change status of Teberda Reserve triggers Karachais' protests

  The Teberda Nature Reserve in the Karachai-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) is being transformed into a national park. It is unknown how the reserve's lands will be used after the status change, social activists and ecologists assert.

February 17, 2021 11:20

• Defence criticizes proofs in Ingush activists' case

  The correspondence in social networks and telephone messages presented at the Essentuki City Court have nothing to do with the leaders of the protest action in Magas, while the many hours of announcements of materials at the trial only protract the process, the advocates have stated.

February 17, 2021 08:37

• Azerbaijan hands more than 100 bodies over to Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Azerbaijani party has handed the bodies of 106 people killed in the conflict zone over to the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, the president of the unrecognized republic has informed.

February 17, 2021 08:24

• Dagestan: fake pregnancy case raises problem of women's rights violation

  In Northern Caucasus, women are forced into the role of a sort of "children-producing bag"; and the act of a Dagestani woman who invented a story about the death of her twins during childbirth could have been the result of psychological pressure, Saida Sirazhudinova, the head of the "Caucasus. Peace. Development" Centre, said in an interview with the "Lenta".

February 16, 2021 22:45

• Baku court refuses to cancel sentence of oppositionist Imanly

  The Baku Court of Appeal upheld the verdict to Mukhammad Imanly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), sentenced to imprisonment on the charge of spreading COVID-19. The defence will file a cassation appeal and has already addressed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint about the pre-trial arrest of Mukhammad Imanly, advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.

February 16, 2021 22:11

• Ingush activist Magomed Khamkhoev sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment

  In Yessentuki, a court found Magomed Khamkhoev, who took part in a rally in Magas, guilty of inciting an attack on law enforcers. Taking into account the term served by the man at a SIZO (pre-trial prison), he is to spend eight months in a penal colony.

February 16, 2021 21:57

• Kremlin takes interest in "Novaya Gazeta" data on extrajudicial executions in Chechnya

  The press secretary of Vladimir Putin decided to familiarize himself with the material released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about the detention by Chechen law enforcers of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions later.

February 16, 2021 18:51

• ECtHR demands to reconsider verdicts to persons sentenced for murder of Markelov and Baburova

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision that the Supreme Court of Russia should reconsider the unjust verdicts to Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis, sentenced for the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

February 16, 2021 18:27

• Residents of Adjara demand from authorities to solve social problems

  More than 200 residents of Adjara, including those dissatisfied with the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, forced migrants, and farmers affected by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Chorokh River, held at a protest action on February 15. The protestors request the government to solve their problems.

February 16, 2021 13:31

• Native of Dagestan arrested for shooting in "Moscow City"

  A Moscow court has ruled to arrest for three months Said Asadulaev, a Russian kickboxing champion, accused of involvement in the shootout in the "Moscow City" Business Centre in 2017.

February 16, 2021 13:05

• Melikov's promise to solve garbage problem causes social network users' scepticism

  The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, promised to launch, since March 1 on, systematic work on removing garbage dumps in the republic. Instagram users have urged authorities to move from promises to deeds and demonstrate a real solution to the problem of garbage collapse.

February 16, 2021 11:13

• Rights defenders urge to pardon Azerbaijani convicts

  The Baku Human Rights Club has appealed to Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, with a request to release 110 persons sentenced to various prison terms, including life imprisonment, the "Turan" News Agency reported on February 15.

February 16, 2021 11:01

• Instagram users support demand to punish organizers of flash mob on Mamayev Kurgan

  The participants of the flash mob in support of Vladimir Putin, held on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, were involved there by deception, for which the organizers of the action should respond, social network users insist.

February 16, 2021 10:45

• Analysts treat action with flashlights in Southern Russia as successful

  The action "Love is stronger than fear" was successful, despite the fact that not all of Navalny's supporters reacted thereto, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

February 16, 2021 08:43

• Ingushetia and Kalmykia are leaders in Russian rating of fighting HIV

  The authors of the study of the situation with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) detection and treatment in Russia have placed Ingushetia and Kalmykia into the group of 13 best regions. Doctors of the Stavropol and Volgograd Regions are also successfully coping with the problem, while in other regions of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) the problem is expressed at an average level.

February 16, 2021 08:28

• Rights defenders point to the political reasons for talk with youngsters at Gudermes police

  Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, believe that the head of the Gudermes ROVD (District Interior Division) by scolding the guys for supporting the "Euroichkerians" has supported the federal government's confrontation vector with Western countries.

February 15, 2021 23:09

• BCA upholds verdict to Polad Aslanov

  The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) upheld the verdict of guilty to journalist Polad Aslanov. The sentenced journalist claimed that he would continue his hunger strike in protest against the unjustified criminal prosecution.

February 15, 2021 22:53

• Armenian side reports shelling near villages of Syunik Region

  The Azerbaijani armed forces use small- and large-calibre weapons to shell the immediate vicinity of the villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia, the Ombudsman of Armenia claims today. The head of the Agarak village community also reports about the shelling.