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December 19, 2019 08:30

• Ingush singer criticized for song in Kadyrov's honour

  Aina Getagazova performed the song "Nokhchiy Pachchakh" ("Chechen Padishah") during her solo concert in Grozny. Ramzan Kadyrov was present in person at the concert. Prior to performing the song, Getagazova announced that she dedicated the song to Kadyrov.

December 19, 2019 08:18

• Data on Yeltsin's direct contacts with Dudaev during Chechen War announced

  During the war in Chechnya, direct communication was maintained of Boris Yeltsin and Djokhar Dudaev; and the Kremlin ensured the Ichkeria* president's freedom of travel, Ruslan Alkhanov, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said in his interview with the RBC (RosBusinessConsulting).

December 18, 2019 21:47

• Kadyrov's relative changes his post in MIA to chair of district head

  On December 17, Sakhab Zakriev, the former chief of the Migration Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, who is a brother of a husband of a Ramzan Kadyrov's sister, was approved by delegates of the Gudermes District as the head of the local administration.

December 18, 2019 21:32

• In Georgia, court fines three persons detained on protest actions

  On December 17, participants of protests in front of the Georgian parliament building were fined for petty hooliganism and rendering resistance to the police, while the fourth detainee was acquitted by the court. The activists expressed their indignation about large amounts of fines.

December 18, 2019 18:29

• Bild and Bellingcat: Germany deports GRU officer after Khangoshvili's murder

  One of the diplomats declared by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) as persona non grata after the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin was an agent of the Russian secret services, foreign editions Bild and Bellingcat report.

December 18, 2019 18:10

• "Novaya Gazeta" compares stories of Nukhanov and Tumso

  Like Tumso Abdurakhmanov, blogger Islam Nukhanov was prosecuted in Chechnya after he had made an attempt to raise a socially significant problem, noted Elena Milashina, a journalist of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

December 18, 2019 15:59

• Story of blogger Isaev's deportation from Russia and Ukraine cast doubt on Baku's version

  The Russian authorities sought an accelerated deportation of Saint Petersburg blogger Elvin Isaev, and the unusual procedure of deportation from Ukraine to Baku may indicate the involvement of secret services. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by members of the Kharkov human rights group and advocates from the "Migration and Law" human rights network, who were engaged in the Elvin Isaev's case.

December 18, 2019 15:48

• South-Ossetian law enforcers release 96-year-old resident of Georgia

  Gora Garibashvili, detained on the border with South Ossetia, was released, the Georgian State Security Service reported on December 17.

December 18, 2019 11:31

• Armenian rights defenders suggest measures to prevent suicides in the army

  In order to stop soldiers' suicides in Armenia, it is necessary to force officers to bear responsibility for hazing, increase the number of women in the army and create a monitoring group to monitor the situation, the human rights defender interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

December 18, 2019 11:17

• Rights defenders treat Amaev's disappearance as typical of Chechnya

  The disappearance of Mairbek Amaev, a Grozny resident, cannot be unambiguously qualified as a kidnapping, but this incident is typical of Chechnya, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

December 18, 2019 11:01

• Netizens note Chechen authorities' manipulation in dispute with Sokurov

  Ramzan Kadyrov and Djambulat Umarov claim that Alexander Sokurov said about the Chechen people; however, such words were not present in his interview. Sokurov's words referred only to Chechen leaders, netizens (social network users) have indicated.

December 18, 2019 08:38

• Azerbaijani GPO starts investigation against advocate Gumbatova

  The General Directorate for Combating Corruption under the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has launched an investigation against the advocate Shakhla Gumbatova. Gumbatova herself treats it as unjustified.

December 18, 2019 08:30

• Ingush activist Oziev complains about severe conditions of convoying

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has ruled to leave Timur Oziev, a rally participant in Magas, in custody until March 4. Oziev has complained that he and three other defendants spent one and a half days during convoying to the court without food and sleep.

December 17, 2019 22:34

• Analysts see no change of Chechen ruling system in Chalayevs' appointment

  The appointment of the Chalaev brothers as heads of Chechen ROVDs (District Interior Divisions) is not connected solely to the fact that they belong to the same teip (Family clan) as Kadyrov, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 17, 2019 22:12

• ECtHR appoints compensation to mother of missing resident of Chechnya

  Russian investigators have failed to check statements of Khusein Badurgov's relatives that authorities has been involved in his disappearance in Grozny, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has concluded today, treating the investigation as inefficient. Badurgov's mother was awarded a compensation of 26,000 euros.

December 17, 2019 18:04

• Alexander Sokurov's critics note Chechen authorities' attitude to freedom of speech

  Workers of culture and art, like film director Alexander Sokurov, criticized in Chechnya for commenting on the Ramzan Kadyrov's title of Hero of Russia, should voice in public their attitude to controversial political and social issues, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and actress Yuliya Aug believe.

December 17, 2019 17:52

• Anastasia Shevchenko left under house arrest

  Today, in Rostov-on-Don, the court has extended the term of Anastasia Shevchenko's house arrest until January 18. The activist claims that the pre-trial restriction measure negatively affects her children.

December 17, 2019 14:47

• "Memorial" sends to ECtHR complaints of four protesters in Magas

  Murat Bekov, Ilez Barakhoev, Vakha and Ruslan Dzeitov, whose interests are represented by lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", filed complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about violations of the rights to personal integrity, fair trial, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly. This is reported by the HRC "Memorial" on its website on December 16.

December 17, 2019 14:29

• Kurbanov brothers explain by torture their refusal of defenders during investigation

  At trial, Ismail and Mukhtar Kurbanov from the Kayakent District of Dagestan claimed that they refused defenders during the investigation because of pressure from law enforcers. In Dagestan, investigators resumed a verification of the Kurbanov brothers' complaints of torture.

December 17, 2019 11:19

• Georgian SC Judge accused of falsifying his lawyer's diploma

  Shalva Tadumadze, a former Georgian Prosecutor General, appointed a termless Judge of the Supreme Court (SC), has failed to confirm his higher legal education, the coalition "For Independent and Transparent Judiciary" asserts.