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January 25, 2021 11:28

• Military analysts in Yerevan doubt official data on combat losses

  The forecast about 4000 casualties on the Armenian party during the autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict does not inspire confidence, Armenian experts have noted.

January 24, 2021 11:50

• Krasnodar protests are most massive in recent years

  The activists of the local Navalny's office were detained in a coffee shop after the protest action; one of the office volunteers was arrested for five days. In Novorossiysk and Armavir, they detained those who shouted slogans or came out with posters, protesters have informed.

January 24, 2021 11:21

• Stavropol townspeople pointed to protest growth in the city

  Actions in support of Alexei Navalny have covered several cities of the Stavropol Territory. Residents of Stavropol, the capital of the Territory, are now more active in protests, the marchers have noted.

January 24, 2021 11:06

• Volgograd activists demand release of political prisoners

  Russia restricts civil rights and freedoms; activists and oppositionists are persecuted for political reasons, the Volgograd residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have explained their participation in the January 23 protest action.

January 23, 2021 19:08

• Suspect of beating Totrov detained in Vladikavkaz

  One of the attackers on the North-Ossetian journalist has been detained; the other has fled abroad and will be put on the wanted list through the Interpol, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has announced.

January 23, 2021 18:16

• Social network users condemn early marriage of 14-year-old girl from Derbent

  Law enforcers must figure out how a 14-year-old girl from Derbent got married, Instagram users demand.

January 23, 2021 17:42

• Police use batons to detain Navalny's supporters in Moscow

  Russian law enforcers are detaining the participants of the unauthorized rally in Moscow in support in Alexei Navalny, acting harshly and using rubber batons. The force is applied to both men and women. Among the detained protesters is the spouse of the opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

January 23, 2021 17:30

• Azerbaijan: decrease in number of political prisoners is no guarantee of real easing of authorities' policies

  The decrease in the number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan does not yet indicate any change in authorities' policies towards their opponents, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

January 23, 2021 17:10

• Participation of Stavropol Territory governor in anti-Navalny campaign sparks outrage in Instagram

  The governor Vladimir Vladimirov should have taken a neutral position, and not broadcast calls against the participation of minors in the actions of supporters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Instagram users have pointed out. They have stated that children are endangered not by protest organizers, but by those who use force against protesters.

January 23, 2021 11:11

• Over the past 24 hours, more than 130 refugees returned to Stepanakert

  The peacemakers have accompanied a group of 131 refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of residents who have returned to the region has reached 50,521, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

January 23, 2021 10:22

• Budget-funded Chechen employees complain about enforcement to vaccination

  Employees of the budget-funded organizations in Chechnya have faced the demand to get vaccinated against coronavirus; otherwise they risk losing their jobs. Some of them have stated that they had made the decision to reject vaccination, and are ready to quit at their bosses' demand.

January 23, 2021 09:53

• Teenager from Derbent released after abducting by law enforcers

  A minor girl, detained by law enforcers in Chechnya, has been released and sent home to Derbent, Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, has informed. The child was held for more than three months without explaining anything to relatives, her mother has stated.

January 23, 2021 08:45

• Djabiev's widow criticizes authorities' version of beating Totrov

  South-Ossetian authorities have tried to blame the opposition for the attack on the journalist, Ruslan Totrov, in Vladikavkaz, the widow of Inal Djabiev has stated.

January 23, 2021 08:33

• Police warn Stavropol activists about punishment for unsanctioned actions

  Activists of the Stavropol Alexei Navalny's office and local farmers are preparing solo pickets, despite the police's warnings and detentions of Alexei's supporters.

January 22, 2021 22:29

• Lawyer Mikhail Benyash detained in case on organization of a rally

  The police drew a protocol against Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash on the organization of an unsanctioned action. The lawyer himself treated the above as a law enforcers' attempt to deprive local Alexei Navalny's supporters of legal aid, since the lawyer promised to defend them.

January 22, 2021 22:16

• Journalist Ruslan Totrov reports names of his attackers

  One of the men who participated in the beating of Ruslan Totrov is a "close associate" of South-Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov, the journalist reports today.

January 22, 2021 19:18

• In Southern Russia, Navalny's supporters to hold protests despite law enforcers' pressure

  In the regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), supporters of oppositionist Alexei Navalny decided to hold marches and pickets in his support despite the fact that the law enforcement bodies warned the activists about responsibility for unsanctioned protests.

January 22, 2021 18:59

• Azerbaijani combat engineer blown up by a mine in Karabakh

  47-year-old combat engineer Azer Sultanov was injured while demining a place at the construction site of a railway in the Djebrail District, the "Sputnik Azerbaijan" reports today. This is the fifth case of a mine explosion in January in the territories that came under the control of Azerbaijan as a result of the autumn escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the "Sputnik Azerbaijan" reports.

January 22, 2021 13:43

• Head of Navalny's office detained in Volgograd

  Evgeny Kochegin, the head of Navalny's Volgograd office, and activist Maria Khudoyarova were taken to the police station, Sergey Kunitsky, an advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

January 22, 2021 13:31

• Elderly Chechen woman detained for witchcraft

  Adam Elzhurkaev, a theologian, has scolded an 80-year-old woman from the village of Assinovskaya for her many years of witchcraft, as follows from the report of the Chechen TV channel. Some Instagram users have criticized government officials for publicly reprimanding the elderly woman.