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January 02, 2020 19:26

• Grozny residents report anti-alcohol raids by law enforcers

  On the eve of New Year, in the capital of Chechnya, law enforcers visited houses of city residents and warned them of responsibility for drinking alcoholic beverages on the New Year's Eve, residents of Grozny reported.

January 02, 2020 16:12

• Four residents of Dagestan face fines for dancing lezginka on roadway

  Internet users argue about the behaviour of four residents of the Kayakent District, accused of administrative offence after they had danced lezginka in the middle of the roadway in Derbent. The young people face administrative penalties for violating parking rules.

January 02, 2020 15:46

• Popularity of army service highlights social inequality in Chechnya

  Modern Chechen young people perceives the Russian army not as a participant of the military campaigns in the republic, but as a chance to avoid the fate of unemployed people by gaining the right to serve at the law enforcement bodies, explain experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 02, 2020 13:39

• Machalikashvili announces re-collection of signatures for inquiry into his son's murder

  After the authorities removed his tent set up near the Georgian parliament, Malkhaz Machalikashvili has informed about disappearance of 22,000 signatures gathered in support of the parliamentary investigation into the death of his son. Machalikashvili has announced a new campaign, saying that he needs some 12,000 signatures more.

January 02, 2020 13:25

• Alleged Magas attacker regains consciousness

  Akhmed Imagozhev, who was hospitalized after the attack on the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post in Magas, whom law enforcers treat as one of the attackers, has come to senses and started talking; investigators are working with him. The resources that are tracing the activities of the "Islamic State"* have reported that the IS* had claimed responsibility for the attack.

January 02, 2020 13:10

• Kocharyan's supporters hold New Year protest action at SIZO

  Dozens of activists with posters in support of Robert Kocharyan gathered at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the second president of Armenia is kept, and congratulated him and Armen Tavadyan, the owner of 5TV Channel on the New Year.

January 02, 2020 08:26

• Facebook users disbelieve official version of attack on DPS post in Magas

  The photo depicting the alleged participants of the New Year's attack on the post near Magas of the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post with their knives at the background of the flag of the "Islamic State" (IS*, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court) is a fake, some Facebook users assert. The attackers had been recruited by law enforcers themselves, other social network commentators have suggested.

January 02, 2020 08:16

• Eyewitnesses of "New Year assault" tell about tragedy of Russian Grozny residents

  In December 1994, many Russian citizens, who could not evacuate from the city to their relatives, fell victims to the assault of Grozny, eyewitnesses of the events of 25 years ago assert.

January 02, 2020 08:04

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev treats FSB letter as pressure on court

  The Dagestan journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, has treated the arguments of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) in favour of his arrest extension as an attempt to influence the investigators' position.

January 02, 2020 07:51

• Protesters stay inside building of Georgian Ministry for Refugees for New Year holidays

  Two forced migrants from Abkhazia, who demand to provide them with housing, stay for the second day in the locked building of the Ministry for Refugees, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. The protesters said they had no money to celebrate the New Year.

January 01, 2020 17:51

• Searches conducted in Nazran and Magas after attack on DPS post

  Law enforcers have searched the homes of the two suspects of attacking policemen in Ingushetia, as well as the Cultural Heritage Centre in Magas, where, according to law enforcers, one of the attackers had worked, sources have informed.

January 01, 2020 16:21

• Data collection on pupils' beliefs triggers claims to KBR officials

  The interest of the antiterrorist commission of the Elbrus District in the schoolchildren, who refuse to celebrate the New Year because of their religious beliefs is inappropriate in a secular state, lawyers have noted.

January 01, 2020 15:56

• Azerbaijan: after elections, independent candidates face fraud and slander accusations

  The independent candidates, who have claimed violations after municipal elections in Azerbaijan, now face accusations themselves. The blogger, Mekhman Guseinov, was accused of falsifying the vote; and Rabiya Mamedova, an activist, was charged with defamation.

January 01, 2020 14:07

• Sources name Magas attackers

  During the attack on policemen in Magas, Mikail Miziev was killed, whose relative committed a similar attack on policemen officers in Ingushetia in 2017, a source said. The second Magas attacker has been identified as Akhmed Imagozhev, a master of sports in arm wrestling.

January 01, 2020 13:49

• Machalikashvili urges to abandon entertainments at parliament building

  The father of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was killed during a special operation in Pankisi, said that he would again set up a tent near the Georgian parliament, where the Mayoralty has already installed attractions.

January 01, 2020 13:34

• Attack on policemen was this year's third armed incident in Ingushetia

  According to the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", the attack on the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) post, located at the entrance to the city of Magas, the Ingush capital, committed on the eve of the New Year, was the first such incident since November 2017.

January 01, 2020 02:24

• Rights defenders call on to restore powers of Azerbaijani advocate Shakhla Gumbatova

  The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemned the suspension from work of Shakhla Gumbatova, a well-known Azerbaijani advocate. In its joint appeal with four international human rights organizations, the IBAHRI called on the Bar Association of Azerbaijan to restore the Shakhla Gumbatova's powers.

January 01, 2020 02:12

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev left in custody for other two months

  The court refused to transfer Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani newspaper "Chernovik"(Draft), under house arrest and extended his detention in custody until March 13, 2020.

December 31, 2019 21:33

• Three persons killed in attack on DPS checkpoint in Ingushetia

  At a checkpoint at the entrance to Magas, law enforcers killed two attackers and wounded another one, while one of three injured law enforcers died, sources reported.

December 31, 2019 17:44

• Grozny residents tell how they survived during city storming 25 years ago

  The assault on Grozny, launched by Russian militaries on December 31, 1994, was remembered by the endless shooting and awareness of the outbreak of a real war, eyewitnesses of those events told the "Caucasian Knot".