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July 22, 2020 18:17

• Social network users criticize appeal of Malizaev blogger's brother to repentance

  After a brother of Minkail Malizaev, living in Europe, had called on the blogger and other critics of the Chechen authorities to repent, Instagram users noted that appealing to a relative in public was an inappropriate gesture. They suggested that the brother appealed to Minkail Malizaev under pressure.

July 22, 2020 18:05

• Men detained after assassination attempt on Ibragim Eldjarkiev declared to be terrorists

  Investigators have begun to bring charges under an article on terrorism against the persons detained in a case on an assassination attempt on Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), a source from the law enforcement bodies reports.

July 22, 2020 17:50

• Residents of Kullar tent camp get no explanation about return to their homeland

  After a new group of residents of a tent camp near the Kullar village had been sent home, the rest claimed that the principles for the formation of groups of Azerbaijani citizens for sending them from Dagestan to the homeland were not transparent. Besides, the people noted that officials from the Azerbaijani authorities did not visit the tent camp till the eve of the departure.

July 22, 2020 13:36

• Armenian and Azerbaijani MoDs claim shelling in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 38, including those stationed in villages on the border with Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today. In its turn, the Armenian MoD has claimed seven Azerbaijan's attacks during the same period.

July 22, 2020 13:01

• Political analysts doubt efficiency of US sanctions against Kadyrov

  The decision of the US State Department to put the head of Chechnya in the sanctions list is a symbolic measure that demonstrates only the attitude towards him, but is unable to cause any practical influence, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 22, 2020 11:40

• Demands to demolish Narimanov monument stump Georgian authorities

  If the monument to Nariman Narimanov in Marneuli is dismantled, this will lead to deterioration in relations with Azerbaijan, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 22, 2020 11:26

• Elderly patient from Beno-Yurt waiting for ambulance for sixth day

  For the sixth day, the ambulance is evading a call to Abu Meduev, an elder of the Beno-Yurt village in the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, whose health has deteriorated, his son Sultan has stated. He attributes the situation to the fact that he himself was diagnosed with coronavirus; and medics avoid contact with his family.

July 22, 2020 11:14

• Baku analysts note risk of resumed warfare with Armenia

  Despite the relative stabilization of the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani troops contact line, the conflict of the two countries has not been settled, which may lead to new large-scale clashes, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 22, 2020 08:39

• Gift to Madina Umaeva's husband indicates Kadyrov's tolerance to violence against women

  The Chechen authorities have publicly demonstrated their approval of one of the parties to the conflict in Gudermes by donating a new house to the husband of Madina Umaeva, who died after complaining about domestic violence, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations. The gift to the husband supports Ramzan Kadyrov's idea that a woman should endure beatings in marriage, said Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender.

July 22, 2020 08:27

• Group of 250 Azerbaijani citizens return home from Kullar camp

  Among those who have left Kullar camp for Azerbaijan, there are 15 people who have long lived in the tent camp; others arrived there the day before, the National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis has informed.

July 21, 2020 21:50

• Law enforcers report elimination of hiding with ammunition in Chechnya

  In the Vedeno District of Chechnya, FSB agents and fighters of the National Guard of Russia discovered and destroyed a militant hiding with ammunition. The hiding was presumably arranged by militants from a grouping led by Gakaev brothers, the spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office reports today.

July 21, 2020 21:36

• Chechen teachers claim being forced to take part in flash mob in support of Kadyrov

  In Chechnya, school teachers were forced by an order of a top-ranking official to post comments on social networks in defence of Ramzan Kadyrov, who came under new sanctions imposed by the US Department of State, school teachers claimed.

July 21, 2020 18:20

• Court of Appeal upholds verdict in case on schoolchildren's murder in Tbilisi

  In Tbilisi, the Court of Appeal has upheld the verdict against Mikhail Kalandiya, who was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the case on the murder of two schoolchildren. Relatives of Mikhail Kalandiya intend to appeal against the court's decision.

July 21, 2020 18:04

• Chechen authorities respond with flash mob to sanctions of US Department of State

  After Ramzan Kadyrov had learned about the new sanctions imposed against him by the US State Department, he promised that the Chechen people will support the leader of Chechnya, accused of violating human rights. After that, the authorities of Chechnya initiated a flash mob on social networks in support of Ramzan Kadyrov.

July 21, 2020 15:13

• Georgian MFA reacts to accusation of involvement in arms supplies to Armenia

  The information that Serbia has supplied mortars and ammunition to Armenia via the territory of Georgia has nothing to do with reality, the Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated. It is unprofitable for Georgia to worsen its relations with Azerbaijan by contributing to the escalation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian armed conflict, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 21, 2020 14:58

• Azerbaijan and Armenia exchange accusations of shelling

  During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 62 times with the use of sniper rifles, including those stationed in the villages on the border with Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today. A representative of the Armenian MoD reported 17 shelling attacks for the last day.

July 21, 2020 14:45

• Chechnya: call to cut number of cars in wedding corteges turns impracticable

  The appeal of the Mufti of Chechnya to organize sparsely crowded weddings and to limit the number of cars in wedding processions down to two cars has found no support in the republic. The local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have also treated the demand of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) to observe the mask regime in restaurants same unfeasible.

July 21, 2020 11:05

• Gubden residents treat law enforcers' checks as act of pressure

  During the raids conducted by law enforcers in Gubden, no one was detained; but the house-to-house visits themselves became an act of pressure on the villagers, the locals interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 21, 2020 10:52

• PFPA reports new detentions and arrests of its activists

  Eight more activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) have been detained; and three earlier detainees have been arrested on criminal charges in connection with the July 15 action in Baku. The total number of detained PFPA activists has reached 17; and the number of those arrested is already five.

July 21, 2020 08:53

• Moscow threatens USA with retaliation for new sanctions against Kadyrov

  Russia, although not in the mirror-like way, will respond to the new sanctions of the US State Department against Ramzan Kadyrov, Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated. Kadyrov himself, in response to the imposition of sanctions, posted his photo with a weapon, inscribed that he was "accepting the fight."