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February 06, 2020 17:19

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling attacks on two villages

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 24 times within 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

February 06, 2020 14:50

• Film about women's lives in Dagestan approved by Moscow audience

  The premiere screening of a documentary in memory of Aishat Magomedova was held in Moscow. The film made people think about the hard lives of women living in the mountains of Dagestan, the audience notes.

February 06, 2020 14:39

• Four new suspects arrested in case on Magas rally

  On February 5, the Nalchik City Court pronounced a decision to detain four alleged participants of clashes with law enforcers at a rally in Magas. Information about the new detentions came as a surprise to residents of Ingushetia, notes advocate Magomed Bekov.

February 06, 2020 14:26

• Participants of Moscow meeting note worsening position of women in Caucasus

  On February 5, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (known as MGIMO) hosted a seminar entitled "Gender in Northern Caucasus: new challenges, everyday life, and stereotypes (between tradition, religion and modernity)".

February 06, 2020 11:18

• Chechnya: resettlers from dilapidated housing complain about poor repairs in new houses

  The residents of new houses, who have moved there from the landslide zone of the Nozhai-Yurt District, said that after moving in, they now have to eliminate the results of poor-quality repairs, while the school and hospital are located outside the new settlement.

February 06, 2020 11:06

• CEC partially satisfies blogger Mekhman Guseinov's complaint

  Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger, insisted on cancellation of registration of Faradj Guliev, his rival at parliamentary elections, but the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has only made a warning and decided to wait for the outcome of the investigation initiated by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).

February 06, 2020 08:22

• Court refuses to investigate Salaev's allegation of torture

  Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has told at the trial that he had been tortured by law enforcers, but the court rejected the defence's motion demanding to investigate this statement.

February 06, 2020 08:11

• Three Vagram Avagyan's colleagues accused under his death case

  Investigators have charged two other colleagues of the soldier, Vagram Avagyan, who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), with non-statute relations (hazing); therefore, there are now three persons accused in his death base.

February 05, 2020 22:10

• Defence of Ingush activist Amir Oskanov requests to summon law enforcers to court

  An advocate of Amir Oskanov, a participant of a rally in Magas, requested the court to question both law enforces, with the use of force against whom Amir Oskanov was charged.

February 05, 2020 21:52

• Political analysts associate Caucasus exercises with Syrian conflict and crisis in Georgia

  In the course of the regular military exercises in Northern Caucasus, soldiers and officers are practicing defensive tactics, explain Russian political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Their Georgian counterparts associated the military exercises in Russia with the political crisis in Georgia.

February 05, 2020 18:05

• Imran Aliev's murder reveals threat to Chechen activists in Europe

  The murder in France of blogger Imran Aliev is an act aimed to intimidate critics of the Chechen government, believes Tumso Abdurakhmanov. The killer was hunting for Minkail Malizaev, whom the French authorities refused to provide police protection, suggested activist Djambulat Suleimanov and human rights defender Daniel Mihailovic.

February 05, 2020 17:23

• Chechen law enforcers continue mass warning conversations with detainees

  A new "warning conversation" with people detained for driving cars in a state of alcoholic intoxication, for using of narcotic and psychotropic substances, and "for other illegal actions" was arranged by Rustam Aguev, the chief of the Department for the Kurchaloi District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

February 05, 2020 17:10

• Karabakh activist Mher Pogosyan ends his hunger strike

  Today, Mher Pogosyan, a resident of Stepanakert, has ended his protest rally against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP). The protestor says that he is satisfied with the creation of a commission to examine environmental harm. Mher Pogosyan called for an anti-corruption inspection.

February 05, 2020 13:19

• Ramzan Kadyrov appoints a relative Chechen minister to continue own personnel policy

  Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed his cousin Idris Baisultanov the Minister of Education of Chechnya. Earlier, Idris Baisultanov held the post of the deputy head of the Chechen leader's administration. Ramzan Kadyrov continues to build his own "power vertical axis" in Chechnya, local residents suggest.

February 05, 2020 13:06

• Human rights defenders assess degree of Internet control in Caucasus

  Four out of the six regions of the Southern Federal District, including the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, the Krasnodar Territory, and Adygea, are in the "red" area, the report suggests. This means that 30 or more facts of restriction of digital freedom were registered in the region or at least one case of violence as a result of online activity of citizens. In the North-Caucasian Federal District, the "red" area included Ingushetia, Chechnya, and the Stavropol Territory.

February 05, 2020 11:29

• Russian soldier accused of killing woman in Gyumri failed to appear at court for fifth time

  The court session on the murder of Julietta Gukasyan in Gyumri has been postponed for the fifth time because of the non-appearance of the accused Russian soldier. The Russian party has demanded to ensure his safety. The command of the Russian military base does not want in principle to bring soldier Razgeldeev to court, Arthur Sakunts, a human rights defender, has stated.

February 05, 2020 11:14

• Alexander Kananyan stops his hunger strike

  Alexander Kananyan, a resident of Karvachar, a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stopped his protest hunger strike after the start of a commission on studying the environmental impact of minor hydropower plants (HPPs). Meanwhile, his supporter, Mger Pogosyan, continues his hunger strike.

February 05, 2020 11:02

• ECtHR awards compensations on North-Caucasian kidnapping complaints

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 80,000-88,000 euros to residents of Dagestan and Ingushetia, who complained about kidnapping of their relatives by law enforcers.

February 05, 2020 08:46

• Resident of Chechnya declared wanted after blogger Aliev's murder

  French investigators consider a politically motivated killing to be the main version of the death of the Chechen blogger, Imran Aliev, sources have informed.

February 05, 2020 08:31

• NKR soldier accused of Vagram Avagyan's death

  A colleague of Vagram Avagyan, a conscript soldier, who perished in a military unit of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has been charged with non-statute relations (hazing).