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February 10, 2021 22:27

• Parents of Sunzha schoolchildren outraged by organization of police exercises

  In Sunzha, the police exercises caused a panic among schoolchildren. Their relatives said they were not aware of the police exercises and perceived everything that was happening as a real threat of a terror act.

February 10, 2021 19:11

• Prosecutors listen to Nagavkin after his detention in Volgograd

  After the detention of Igor Nagavkin during a picket, the Prosecutor's Office for the Volgograd Region accepted his complaint against investigators and promised to examine the case before confirming the indictment.

February 10, 2021 18:57

• Mishustin treats Adygea and Kalmykia as problem regions

  After his visit to Adygea and Kalmykia, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has claimed that the republics remain the regions with the most difficult social and economic situation. The leaders of Adygea and Kalmykia failed to properly use the Russian Prime Minister's visit to solve the "systemic problems" of their republics, political analyst Andrei Reshetov notes.

February 10, 2021 13:06

• Law enforcers detain Volgograd activist at solo picket

  Today, Igor Nagavkin, an activist, was detained at his solo picket, where he demanded that the prosecutor's office pay attention to his criminal prosecution under a theft case. After his conversation with an investigator, Nagavkin was released and decided to continue his picket.

February 10, 2021 12:48

• Film about Novocherkassk execution shortlisted for Oscar

  A film by Andrei Konchalovsky "Dear Comrades!" about the shooting of workers in Novocherkassk is among 15 films shortlisted for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Feature Film nomination.

February 10, 2021 11:14

• Protest action against COVID-19 restrictions held in Zugdidi

  At night on February 10, several dozen activists came out to a protest action in the Western Georgian city of Zugdidi, demanding from the authorities to lift the curfew imposed earlier due to coronavirus spread.

February 10, 2021 11:03

• Armenia: reform of power agencies faces rights defenders' criticism

  In Armenia, the reform of the law enforcement system is an attempt to take full control over power structures and can become an instrument for setting up dictatorship, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

February 10, 2021 08:59

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay compensations to North-Ossetian residents in torture case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has appointed 60,000 euros of compensation to each of the following residents of North Ossetia: Rustam Tsurov, Umar Khadziev and Alikhan Ozdoev, who are serving long prison terms on terrorism charges. The ECtHR found a violation of the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on the prohibition of torture and the right to a fair trial.

February 10, 2021 08:58

• Chechen Djumaev, arrested for brawl with law enforcers, hospitalized with COVID-19 suspicion

  Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, arrested after a brawl with law enforcers at a rally in Moscow, has been hospitalize due to suspected coronavirus.

February 10, 2021 08:53

• Director of "Goryanki" film poses identity problem of residents of Northern Caucasus

  The film "Goryanki" (Mountain Women) by Maryam Makhieva, a filmmaker from Kabardino-Balkaria, covers a conflict of the traditional culture and Islam that was reborn in Northern Caucasus in the 1990s, said Anastasia Rytsina, the film producer. All the film heroines defend their understanding of freedom, despite others' resistance, Ms Makhieva has noted.

February 09, 2021 23:20

• Police control drivers more severe after Vismuradov's threats to Chechen residents

  After Abuzaid Vismuradov, Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, threatened people with reprisals for alcohol consumption, residents of the republic report that the police conduct anti-alcohol raids and fine people who bring alcoholic drinks to Chechnya.

February 09, 2021 23:10

• Dagestani SC supports father of killed shepherds

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has granted a complaint against a court's refusal to institute a case on negligence and forgery by an official against the former chief of the Shamil OVD (Interior Division), who declared the Gasanguseinov brothers as terrorists. Murtazali Gasanguseinov, a father of the killed brothers, is satisfied with the decision pronounced by the Dagestani SC.

February 09, 2021 19:11

• Two Azerbaijani officers and three soldiers blown up on a mine

  Two officers and three soldiers were hospitalized in severe condition after a mine explosion in the Tartar District. Since November 10, 2020, the total number of Azerbaijani residents blown up on mines has reached 74, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan reported.

February 09, 2021 19:10

• ECtHR awards compensation to Chechen resident under complaint about torture

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized a complaint filed by Roman Gastemirov, a resident of Chechnya, about torture by the police in 2005 as justified and awarded him 50,000 euros in compensation.

February 09, 2021 19:07

• In Baku, police disperse female protestors supporting political prisoners

  In Baku, women came to the US Embassy to hold an action in defence of political prisoners. The police seized posters from the protestors' hands and pushed the female activists, including spouses of Polad Aslanov and Afghan Sadygov, away from the building.

February 09, 2021 18:58

• Activists report detentions at protest action in Yerevan

  Today, members of the "Dashnaktsutyun" Party went out to a protest rally in Yerevan demanding the resignation of the government. Law enforcers brought dozens of protesters to police stations, activists report.

February 09, 2021 18:52

• Witnesses testify innocence of Ingush activist Magomed Khamkhoev

  In March 2019, in Magas, Magomed Khamkhoev, an Ingush activist, did not incite protesters to resist "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) agents, 15 defence witnesses told the court on February 8.

February 09, 2021 18:46

• Ombudspersons get interested in video about girl's engagement in Georgia

  After watching the posted video about the engagement in Georgia of an 11-year-old Azerbaijani girl and a 15-year-old boy, the Azerbaijan Ombudsperson has appealed to his Georgian colleague; the latter's office has launched a check.

February 09, 2021 11:23

• Coordinator of Navalny's Volgograd office complains about poor conditions in custody

  The inmates kept at the special detention centre in Volgograd have not enough clean bedding; there are no hygiene means there; and detainees are not given medicines, Evgeny Kochegin, the coordinator of Alexei Navalny's Volgograd office, has complained. He intends to appeal against his arrest at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

February 09, 2021 11:19

• ECtHR orders Russia to admit doctors and advocates to detained natives of Chechnya

  Russian authorities are obliged to ensure access of advocates, doctors and relatives to the two natives of Chechnya, convoyed from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has ruled.