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March 02, 2020 21:56

• Ingush activist Magomed Ozdoev released from settlement-colony

  Today, Ingush activist Magomed Ozdoev has been released from a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria. He was met by his relatives and fellow villagers.

March 02, 2020 21:43

• Supporters of anti-corruption laws go on hunger strike in Sukhumi

  Today, Ivan Achba, Asida Kortua, and Djansukh Adleiba, members of an anti-corruption laws initiative group, have declared an indefinite hunger strike. They demand an urgent ratification of the original version of Article 20 "Illicit Enrichment" of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). The activists insist that the amendments should enter into force before the presidential election.

March 02, 2020 18:53

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 24-March 1, 2020

  Actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and Southern Russia; assassination attempt on Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov; penetration of coronavirus into the countries of the Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 24-March 1, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 02, 2020 18:28

• Video with detainee's repentance in Dagestan causes indignation among Instagram users

  Social network users criticized the police of Dagestan for making public an apology from an author of a video about a street conflict between law enforcers and local residents. Many users of the social networks also called on the police to post apologies from the policemen for foul language they used as the video showed.

March 02, 2020 18:15

• Journalists demand new investigation into Elmar Guseinov's murder

  Participants of a rally in memory of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Guseinov demanded from the authorities to find and punish the persons responsible for his death.

March 02, 2020 18:02

• Residents of Chechnya criticize law enforcers for video with condemnation of detainees

  The publication of a new video in which the chief of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) is reproaching detainees for drinking alcoholic beverages and using psychotropic substances indicates the inefficiency of the public condemnation practice, local residents note.

March 02, 2020 14:00

• Azerbaijan reports shelling attacks on villages bordering Armenia

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijani reports today.

March 02, 2020 13:48

• Chechen TV viewers criticize report in memory of Pskov paratroopers

  A story prepared by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Company) about events in memory of the Pskov paratroopers killed 20 years ago near Ulus-Kert provoked indignation among social network users, and a number of followers of the "Grozny" ChGTRK's page on Instagram decreased by 3000 people.

March 02, 2020 11:21

• Tumso Abdurakhmanov reports his good health condition after attempt

  The blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who was attacked in late February, has warned his relatives that for some time he would not be able to keep in touch with them.

March 02, 2020 11:05

• Advocates attract public attention to Khamukovs' case

  Magomed Abubakarov and Ramzan Uzuev have urged as many people as possible to write letters to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation ICRF) asking them to stop the criminal prosecution of residents of Baksan, Asker and Lianna Khamukov.

March 02, 2020 10:51

• Dagestani police ignore Minister's call not to publish detainees' repentances

  A resident of Dagestan has apologized for foul language when filming a street conflict of local residents with policemen. The video of repentance was posted by the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), despite the request of the head thereof not to post videos with apologies.

March 02, 2020 10:42

• Suspect of leak of operative video in Ingushetia detained

  A resident of Ingushetia is suspected of the leak of the operative video, after which a woman who got into it was killed.

March 01, 2020 11:59

• In Baku, women-activists support Ibragim, arrested oppositionist

  Female activists from the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) tried to hold a protest action outside the building of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), demanding to release the arrested Mamed Ibragim. The police prevented the action and ousted the activists away from the MIA building.

March 01, 2020 11:57

• Advocate states investigators' inaction in Nemtsov's case (+video)

  There is virtually no investigation into the murder of the oppositional politician, Boris Nemtsov, stated the advocate for the Nemtsov family, who took part in a protest rally in Moscow.

March 01, 2020 11:53

• Dagestanis' defence divulges lie of secret witness

  The secret witness, who testified in the case of four residents of Buynaksk, was able to identify only Ali Ramazanov among the defendants; he mixed up the names of others.

March 01, 2020 11:50

• Health condition of Azerbaijani activist worsens on third day of hunger strike

  Elman Guliev, the head of the youth wing of the "Musavat" Party, has sharply dropped blood pressure; and doctors advised him to stop his hunger strike. But he continues it together with Elshad Israfil, another activist.

March 01, 2020 11:46

• Stepanakert resident pay tribute to victims of Sumgait pogroms

  A ceremony of laying flowers in memory of victims of Sumgait pogroms was held at the Memorial Complex in Stepanakert. Housing problems of about 20 percent of refugee families have not been resolved yet, said Saro Saryan, the head of the NGO "Artsakh Union of Armenian Refugees from Azerbaijan".

March 01, 2020 11:44

• Residents of Chechnya outraged by events in honour of perished Pskov paratroopers

  On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the battle of the 6th company of the Pskov Airborne Division with militants in Chechnya, mourning events were held with the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov. Local residents have accused the authorities of cynicism and offered to perpetuate the memory of war victims, not of paratroopers.

February 29, 2020 11:21

• Yerevan commemorates victims of riots in Sumgait

  Mourning events in memory of the victims of riots in Sumgait were held at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan. Eyewitnesses of the Sumgait events told about the killings of Armenians and about how they themselves managed to escape.

February 29, 2020 11:17

• Ingush activist, Barakh Chemurziev, complains second time to ECtHR

  He claims a violation of the principle of parties' contentiousness at trial, and a violation of the right to the freedom of assembly. Earlier, Barakh Chemurziev filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also claiming a violation of his rights, in particular, of the right to personal liberty and immunity.