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December 21, 2019 08:13

• Tbilisi activists express support to family of deceased teen

  Parents of the young people who perished in Georgia over the past three years have criticized law enforcement bodies in the context of the high-profile case of the schoolboy's suicide after interrogation.

December 20, 2019 23:46

• Magas rally participant Adam Badiev left in custody

  Today, in the Stavropol Territory, the court has extended for three months the detention of Ingush activist Adam Badiev. The defence has announced the intention to appeal against the extension of the arrest and the decision to consider the case outside Ingushetia.

December 20, 2019 22:21

• Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili sentenced in South Ossetia

  Today, the Leningor District Court has found Tbilisi doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili guilty of violating the border and sentenced him to a year and nine months of imprisonment. The Georgian authorities announced they would seek the release of Vazha Gaprindashvili with the mediation of international institutions.

December 20, 2019 18:52

• Georgian investigators: law enforcer threats teenager before his suicide

  A questioning of a teenager at a police station lasted more than six hours and took place at night, while an investigator threatened the minor with creating problems for his relatives, the State Inspector General reports the details of a case on the schoolboy's suicide. The investigator is arrested.

December 20, 2019 18:12

• Lawyers treat expulsion of Grozny college students as excessive measure

  In Grozny, the ban on shooting videos in a building of the College of Culture and Arts does not comply with the requirements of the law, and expulsion of students for re-singing a rap hit at the educational institution can be challenged in court, lawyers suggest.

December 20, 2019 13:05

• Sokurov's status reduces his chances of falling victim to pressure after dispute with Kadyrov

  The fame of film director Alexander Sokurov, who questioned the right of Ramzan Kadyrov to the title of Hero of Russia, minimizes the likelihood of pressure on him from the Chechen authorities, note experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 20, 2019 12:50

• Participants of Karachayevsk conference demand compulsory study of native languages

  Schools are not supplied with mother tongue textbooks, classrooms do not meet modern requirements, and many teachers are poorly prepared, emphasize participants of the conference. They have adopted an appeal to the parliament of the republic with a request to take the legislative initiative and invite the Russian State Duma to repeal the amendments to the Law "On Education in the Russian Federation".

December 20, 2019 11:44

• Samvel Babayan blames court for unwillingness to consider his citizenship claim

  A court in Stepanakert has postponed the consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Samvel Babayan, a former commander of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), who demands to restore his citizenship. The court session was postponed for the eighth time, since the court doesn't want to consider his lawsuit, Mr Babayan is sure.

December 20, 2019 11:20

• Commander of Kadyrov regiment ranks all offenders as "traitors"

  Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the Chechen patrol-and-post service (PPS) regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov, has explained to his subordinates that all the offenders should be treated as "traitors."

December 20, 2019 08:33

• "Hromadske": son of disgraced Chechen suspected of attempting Deputy in Kyiv

  Ukrainian law enforcers put a son of a former Chechen presidential candidate on the wanted list in connection with the attempt on a Deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council. Abuev presented himself as "a participant in the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasus" and suggested a fighter of the "Azov" battalion to apologize to Kadyrov, the "Hromadske" TV Channel has found out.

December 20, 2019 08:21

• Mairbek Amaev's father asks police to find his son

  The Grozny police have accepted the application submitted by the father of Mairbek Amaev about the disappearance of his son; policemen warned him that it could take a month to check the application.

December 19, 2019 21:27

• Change of investigator in case on torture of Kuban resident encourages rights defenders

  The Prosecutor's Office cancelled the decision to close a case on torture by law enforcers of Yevgeny Bunin, a resident of the Tuapse District, and entrusted the case to another investigator, reported the Committee Against Torture (CaT). The human rights defenders express the hope that the new investigation will be effective.

December 19, 2019 21:15

• Dispute on Hero of Russia title puts Sokurov on a par with Kadyrov's critics

  Doubts voiced by film director Alexander Sokurov concerning whether Akhmat and Ramzan Kadyrov deserved the title of Hero of Russia provoked a harsh reaction from subordinates of the Chechen leader, and the film director entered the list of people who dared to criticize Ramzan Kadyrov directly.

December 19, 2019 18:45

• Ingush activist Vyshegurov goes on hunger strike in SIZO

  Mustafa Vyshegurov, a participant of a March rally in Magas, has stopped accepting food since today in protest against the conditions of detention at the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the demand to shave his beard. The court extended his arrest until March 11.

December 19, 2019 18:31

• Kadyrov gets gratitude letter from President Putin after a dispute with Sokurov

  On December 18, the presidential envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) handed over to Ramzan Kadyrov a gratitude letter from Vladimir Putin "for active participation in public and political life." The gratitude was announced back in April. The leader of Chechnya got the Russian President's encouragement amid a public discussion with film director Alexander Sokurov concerning whether Ramzan Kadyrov deserved the title of Hero of Russia.

December 19, 2019 14:52

• Serzh Sargsyan's property arrested

  During the investigation into a criminal case, instituted on the fact of the embezzlement of state funds on an especially large scale, an arrest was imposed on the property of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, and Barseg Beglaryan, the president of the "Flash" Company.

December 19, 2019 14:37

• In Volgograd, idea to erect a monument to Stalin provokes disputes on Facebook

  In Volgograd, members of the Communist Party announced the erection on December 21 of a monument to Joseph Stalin. Many Facebook users criticized the idea, but some of them expressed their support to the idea.

December 19, 2019 11:19

• Protesters in Georgia demand to investigate teenager's suicide

  Several protest actions were held in Tbilisi after it became known about a teenager's suicide. The protesters assert that authorities should be held accountable for what has happened.

December 19, 2019 11:08

• Advocate complains about ban to visit blogger Isaev in Azerbaijan

  The Saint Petersburg blogger Elvin Isaev, who was deported from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, is accused of anti-state calls for "mass riots". The advocate, hired by his relatives, has stated that the investigating body is protracting with his access to the client; therefore, the advocate doubts the objectivity of the inquiry.

December 19, 2019 10:56

• Students expelled from Grozny college after performing a rap hit

  Magomed Basnukaev and Khalimat Tepsurkaeva, students of the College of Culture and Arts, have been expelled from the college after re-singing "Propaganda", a composition by rapper Miyagi. The college bosses have explained the expulsion by a ban on video filming in the building.