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March 08, 2020 12:03

• KBR scientists speak out against amendments to Russian Constitution

  Employees of the Institute for Humanitarian Studies (IHS) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have criticized the amendments to the Russian Constitution for the wording of support for compatriots and the state-forming nation.

March 08, 2020 11:45

• NKR counts 160 shelling attacks in the conflict zone over the week

  Since March 1, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 1700 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

March 07, 2020 19:06

• Second in three days Azerbaijani border guard dies

  Eltun Garaev, a soldier, was mortally wounded on the border with Armenia. Like Orkhan Pashazade, another border guard, who died on March 5, Garaev was on an alert duty in the Gazakh District of Azerbaijan.

March 07, 2020 18:22

• Resident of Chechnya publicly apologizes for coronavirus fake

  The author of the resonant message that urged people to stock up on foodstuffs because of the coronavirus epidemic threat said on the air of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) that he was repenting of his act.

March 07, 2020 18:06

• Akhmed Chakhkiev, a rally participant in Magas, arrested

  The Nalchik City Court has ruled to arrest Ahmed Chakhkiev, a participant in the rally held in Magas. He was detained by law enforcers the day before, and then placed into the isolation facility.

March 07, 2020 17:53

• Zarifa Sautieva claims that investigators have no proofs

  At a session of the Yessentuki City Court, where her custody was extended by three months, Zarifa Sautieva, an Ingush activist, stated that investigators had no proofs of her guilt in the use of violence against a state official and participation in an extremist community.

March 07, 2020 12:47

• Coronavirus quarantine lifted in NKR schools

  The Ministry of Public Health of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has lifted the quarantine introduced earlier in educational establishments. Pupils will resume classes on March 9, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has confirmed.

March 07, 2020 12:23

• Woman detained under Tumso's attack case in Sweden

  The Swedish Prosecutor's Office (PO) believes that a woman, a Russian citizen, was involved in the attack on the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

March 07, 2020 12:01

• Residents of Abkhazia support hunger-strikers' demands

  With the support of activists from Abkhazian regions, the Sukhumi hunger-strikers, who demand to ratify the article on illegal enrichment of the UN Convention against Corruption, have collected 1800 signatures in support of the anti-corruption law.

March 07, 2020 11:43

• Anti-alcohol campaign is element of Kadyrov's image

  The campaign against drinking alcoholic beverages unleashed in Chechnya is mainly aimed not at countering drunkenness, but at supporting the authorities' image as defenders of traditional values, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

March 07, 2020 08:39

• Visitors to Makhachkala mosque voice out problems related to "prophylactic registration"

  On March 6, law enforcers conducted their regular raid in the vicinity of the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala. Believers said that because of the entry into the database of extremists, law enforcers are subjecting them to checks at stationary posts.

March 07, 2020 08:27

• Georgian law enforcers significantly tighten control over protest actions

  The protest actions held in Tbilisi in February 2020 were attended by more law enforcers than protesters, employees of the Institute for Democracy Studies have informed.

March 07, 2020 08:15

• Gasanguseinov applied for 58th time for a rally in Makhachkala

  For the third day in a row, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered shepherd brothers, has held his solo picket in Makhachkala demanding an efficient investigation of the murder case. He has notified the Dagestani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) about an intended mass protest action.

March 06, 2020 21:25

• In Moscow, Chechen native hospitalized after clash with law enforcers

  In Moscow, policemen wounded Zelimkhan Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, who was armed with a knife. The man has been hospitalized. He is suspected of trying to attack the policemen.

March 06, 2020 21:14

• Relatives complain about ban on visits to Zarifa Sautieva

  Investigators do not allow visits of relatives to Zarifa Sautieva at a SIZO (pre-trial prison), and today, due to the fact that the court was declared to be held behind closed doors, only participants of the trial were allowed to attend the court hearing, relatives of the Ingush activist report.

March 06, 2020 17:09

• Armenian soldier wounded on border with Azerbaijan

  A soldier got a slight wound as a result of an act of sabotage in the north-eastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

March 06, 2020 16:57

• Social network users call on to punish author of fake on coronavirus epidemic in Chechnya

  Ismail Denilkhanov, the chairman of the Chechen Public Chamber, appealed to residents of the republic and called reports of the alleged coronavirus epidemic in the region a fake. Instagram users supported the Ismail Denilkhanov's statement. They also called on to put amendments to the law on dissemination of false information on social networks.

March 06, 2020 13:23

• Georgia is behind Armenia in WHO's ranking for epidemic preparedness

  The rating of the World Health Organization (WHO) has placed Georgia among the countries with weak epidemic prevention capabilities. Insufficient measures have been taken to protect the population, the WHO has noted.

March 06, 2020 13:04

• ECtHR agrees with Azerbaijani authorities' proposal in Gyulyalyev's case

  At the request of the Azerbaijani government, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has excluded from the list of considered complaints the application of Ogtai Gyulyalyev, the coordinator of the public alliance "Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners". The country's authorities have undertaken to pay compensation for his arrest.

March 06, 2020 12:17

• Thirty-seven Jehovah's Witnesses* in Southern Russia are under inquiry after MoJ's lawsuit

  Over almost three years after the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to liquidate all the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses, announced as extremist, hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses* in different regions of Russia were criminally prosecuted. By March 5, 2020, the number of such believers has reached at least 320, says the website containing information about criminal cases against Jehovah's Witnesses*. Almost 12% of them are residents of Southern Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" has counted.