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August 17, 2020 13:32

• On August 10-16, nobody fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from August 10 to 16, 2020, no casualties or victims were recorded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

August 17, 2020 11:42

• MPH's report on efficiency of mask regime ridiculed in Chechnya

  The tightening of the mask-wearing regime has led to a 40 percent decrease in the number of people infected with coronavirus in Chechnya, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) reported on August 15. Instagram users and local residents have ridiculed this statement, pointing out that the mask regime in Chechnya is only formally observed.

August 17, 2020 11:28

• FSB reports on detention of five militants in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, five teenagers were detained who had planned attacks on policemen, law enforcers have reported.

August 17, 2020 11:02

• Stories of film heroes "Chechen War against LGBT" impress spectators

  The commentators to Karen Shainyan's documentary "Chechen War against LGBT" have treated the persecution methods of gays and lesbians in Chechnya as the wildest Middle Ages. The problems of film heroes need maximum publicity, spectators have pointed out.

August 16, 2020 10:26

• Special operation near Makhachkala worries local residents

  Law enforcers have blocked a residential area near the Mount Tarki-Tau and began a special operation in the forest. Instagram users are concerned that civilians may perish there, as happened with the Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers.

August 16, 2020 10:23

• Kullar riot defendants reject their confessions

  Azerbaijani citizens, Elmar Musaev and Taral Giyasov, have stated that they have been deceived when they signed confessions in the case of protests in the tent camp in Kullar. Seven out of ten accused have been left in custody.

August 16, 2020 10:18

• Eyewitnesses tell about sudden onset of war in Abkhazia 28 years ago

  In August 1992, the Georgian society was busy with internal confrontation and did not immediately realize the ethnic background of the conflict in Abkhazia, said Paata Zakareishvili, an ex-minister for reconciliation. The feeling of war was in the air, but its start was still a surprise, the eyewitness has recalled.

August 16, 2020 10:11

• Torture victims complain about law enforcers to North-Ossetian Ombudsperson

  Seven people, beaten up by law enforcers in Mozdok, have met Tamerlan Tsgoev, the Ombudsperson in North Ossetia. Law enforcers and local authorities fail to react to complaints of torture, the victim's advocate has stated.

August 16, 2020 01:27

• Revenge treated as possible motive for killing former law enforcer in Ingushetia

  After the conflict in Ekazhevo, claims had been put forward against the former law enforcer shot dead in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. He had provided his car to employees of Centre "E"; and the detained conflict participants were taken away in the car, which caused claims from members of their vird (a sort of praying community), fellow villagers of the casualty believe.

August 15, 2020 23:31

• Teenagers' apologies to Dagestani MMA fighter Nurmagomedov spark discussions

  Despite the resonance, the apologies of teenagers to Khabib Nurmagomedov will have no consequences for them, says Mikhail Roschin. However, the procedure itself is humiliating, said Alexei Malashenko.

August 15, 2020 23:18

• Chechen policemen publicly rebuke young people in Kurchaloi

  Law enforcers have gathered offenders in the building of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) and recorded a "prophylactic" conversation with them on video. Such videos serve as reports to the authorities, local residents have noted.

August 15, 2020 12:21

• Law enforcers check documents of visitors of the "Tangim" Mosque

  After the Friday (August 14) namaz (prayer), several dozen law enforcers stopped the cars of visitors of the Makhachkala "Tangim" Mosque and examined their documents.

August 15, 2020 12:18

• Teenager's comments in social networks provoked his detention in Chechnya

  Law enforcers have detained a 16-year-old resident of the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali District. According to the boy's relatives, the reason was in his comments he posted in social networks.

August 15, 2020 11:44

• Three Dagestanis lost in Grozny declared wanted

  Investigators have put three residents of the Dagestani city of Derbent on the wanted list after they disappeared in Grozny in winter. A criminal case was initiated under the article of "Murder of two or more persons."

August 15, 2020 11:28

• Defence treats arrest of Azerbaijani activist Atakishiev unjustified

  Tural Atakishiev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), came to the police on a summon, but was arrested under the pretext of disobeying law enforcers, his advocate has stated.

August 15, 2020 08:59

• Social network users outraged by apologies of head of Belarusian MIA for detentions

  Yuri Karaev, a native of North Ossetia, now the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Belarus, has expressed his regret that "random people" had suffered during the dispersal of protests. Social network users were outraged by Karaev's words and the actions of his subordinates.

August 15, 2020 08:55

• Three people wounded in shootout in Makhachkala

  Three people have been hospitalized in Makhachkala following a firearm conflict, the police said.

August 15, 2020 08:51

• Women-rights defenders persuade Dagestani Muftiate to condemn female circumcision

  An official religious explanation on the prohibition of female circumcision in Islam will significantly reduce this practice in Dagestan. The decision of the republic's Muftiate to issue such a Fatwa was the result of a campaign to condemn mutilation surgeries, rights defenders assert.

August 14, 2020 23:59

• Defendant in Kullar protest case transferred under house arrest

  In Dagestan, a court mitigated the pre-trial restriction measure to Azerbaijani citizen Anvar Muradov, who was arrested after clashes in a camp on the border. Anvar Muradov insists that he was not throwing stones at law enforcers.

August 14, 2020 23:52

• Members of Chechen group "Guardians of Morality" detained in Austria

  In Austria, the police detained six natives of Chechnya after complaints from their compatriots about beatings for posting photos in swimsuits or dating non-Chechens.