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February 06, 2021 12:14

• Pandemic corrects plans for Circassians' resettlement to Adygea

  Due to the closed borders because of the coronavirus pandemic, some participants of the resettlement programme for Circassian compatriots to their homeland could not enter Russia, said Asker Shkhalakhov, the head of the committee on ethnic affairs, relations with compatriots and mass media of Adygea.

February 06, 2021 12:01

• Baku court rejects opposition journalist's complaint against prosecutor's office

  The Binagadi District Court of Baku has dismissed the complaint of Mustafa Gadjibeili, an opposition journalist and activist. He intends to appeal against the court decision.

February 06, 2021 08:37

• Kidnapping of natives of Chechnya in Nizhny Novgorod was preceded by a deal with Telegram channel

  The advocate of the natives of Chechnya, detained in Nizhny Novgorod, is in Gudermes, but has no information about his clients and could not meet them. Human rights defenders had discussed with the young men strict restriction of their contacts for security reasons, but one of them broke the rules, said David Isteev, an employee of the Russian LGBT Network.

February 06, 2021 08:20

• Attack on Totrov treated as obstruction to journalist's work

  The North-Ossetian Investigating Committee has opened a criminal case on the attack on the journalist, Ruslan Totrov, under the article on obstruction to journalistic activities with the use of violence.

February 05, 2021 23:48

• Human rights defenders report seven arrested after rallies in Anapa and Novorossiysk

  In Novorossiysk, 21 people were detained after the protest action on January 31. Of them, five were arrested, and the rest were fined. In Anapa, at least two activists were arrested. This was reported by Marina Dubrovina, a lawyer from the "Agora" human rights group. The lawyer has also announced her intention to challenge the court decisions.

February 05, 2021 23:32

• Georgian authorities blame Russia for Gakheladze's verdict

  Today, the Supreme Court of South Ossetia has sentenced Georgian citizen Zaza Gakheladze to 12.5 years of imprisonment for illegally crossing the border with South Ossetia and opening fire at Russian soldiers. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the State Security Service blamed Russia for the decision pronounced by the South-Ossetian Supreme Court and demanded to release the prisoner.

February 05, 2021 17:47

• In Baku, police stop protest action against domestic violence

  On February 4, in Baku, activists came to the Government House to protest against domestic violence, but the police stopped their action. One of the female protesters explained that the street protest was triggered by a murder of a 32-year-old woman.

February 05, 2021 17:15

• In Kuban, a teacher detained after participating in a protest action

  The law enforcement bodies accused Eduard Kunaev, a teacher from the village of Dinskaya, of disobeying the police at a protest action that took place in Krasnodar on January 31, advocate Mikhail Benyash reported.

February 05, 2021 15:21

• For Grozny woman, appeal to witch turns into public scolding

  Khadizhat Malaeva, a resident of Grozny, tried to turn to a sorceress for a promotion at work; but after a conversation with Adam Elzhurkaev, a theologian, she admitted that she had violated Islamic traditions, the republic's TV channel has reported.

February 05, 2021 15:07

• ECtHR requests data on POWs from Azerbaijan and Armenia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has received complaints about rights violation from 228 captured residents of Armenia, and from 13 captured citizens of Azerbaijan, the ECtHR reported on February 4 and demanded from the authorities of both countries to provide information about all these prisoners of war (POWs).

February 05, 2021 14:54

• Action of Inal Djabiev's relatives in Tskhinvali lasts for two months

  Participants of the round-the-clock action organized by the widow and mother of Inal Djabiev, who died after being interrogated by the police, stay in the square in Tskhinvali for 60 days already.

February 05, 2021 11:49

• Search for perished militaries in Nagorno-Karabakh suspended

  Since February 3, the Azerbaijani party does not allow Karabakh rescuers to carry out their searches in the places of hostilities, rescuers have complained.

February 05, 2021 11:33

• LGBT Network reports kidnapping of Chechen natives in Nizhny Novgorod

  Law enforcers are bringing two natives of Chechnya detained in Nizhny Novgorod to Gudermes, the Russian LGBT Network has reported. The detention of young people may have to do with their activeness in the oppositional Telegram channel, David Isteev, the coordinator of the Network's emergency help programme, has suggested.

February 05, 2021 08:51

• Political analysts predict decay of protests in Southern Russia

  Navalny's arrest triggered no mass protests in Krasnodar, Volgograd and Rostov-on-Don, since many of the participants in the January actions were not his supporters, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted and predicted a further decay of protest activeness in the regions.

February 05, 2021 08:40

• Polad Aslanov removed from session after skirmish with judge

  Polad Aslanov, a journalist, accused of treason, expressed dissatisfaction with the presence of law enforcers at the court session on his case under the guise of journalists, and was removed from the courtroom.

February 04, 2021 22:57

• Djumaev's friends respond to a campaign to discredit him on social media sites

  Authors of a video collage, who tried to show Said-Mukhammad Djumaev as a cheeky person, distorted the facts by editing the video footage, claim friends of the Chechen native in their response video. Instagram users criticized attempts to discredit Said-Mukhammad Djumaev with fakes.

February 04, 2021 22:17

• Armenian authorities set payments to residents of Shurnukh and Vorotan

  Residents of the villages of Shurnukh and Vorotan, whose houses are in the territory controlled by Azerbaijan, will receive a one-time assistance in the amount of 300,000 drams and monthly payments in the amount of 68,000 drams, reports Mesrop Arakelyan, Armenian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. The government also announced the construction of new houses for those people.

February 04, 2021 18:56

• Rights defenders oppose an idea of "special forces" tour to Chechnya on February 23

  Organization of "special forces" tours to Chechnya on the anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakh people offends the feelings of the republic's residents, Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, and human rights defender Oyub Titiev believe.

February 04, 2021 18:43

• Russian media to repost materials of "Mediazona"

  Independent Russian media announced their decision to repost materials of the "Mediazona" in protest against the prosecution of its editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov, who was arrested for 25 days on the charge of violating the procedure for holding a public event.

February 04, 2021 14:45

• Defence of Ingush activists criticize testimony of secret witness

  At the trial of the leaders of Ingush protests, two prosecution witnesses have spoken. One of them described the participants in the March 2019 protest action as extremists, but was unable to justify his statement with specific facts. The second witness testified in favour of the defendants.