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December 17, 2019 11:06

• Rights defenders question legality of Isaev's deportation to Baku

  The haste and non-transparency of the blogger Elvin Isaev's deportation from Ukraine to Azerbaijan cast doubt on its legitimacy, the Baku rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

December 17, 2019 10:53

• Native of Chechnya claims unfair accusation of fellow countrymen in Volgograd Region

  In the Volgograd Region, a prosecutor has demanded long prison terms for several natives of Chechnya, who refuse to plead guilty, a relative of one of the defendants has stated in his video appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov.

December 17, 2019 08:22

• Djambulat Umarov joins public dispute of Kadyrov with Sokurov

  Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information, has recorded an expanded video appeal to the film director Alexander Sokurov, criticizing his statement about the Heroes of Russia and his films.

December 17, 2019 08:14

• Gasanguseinovs' father upholds pickets in support of journalist Gadjiev

  Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the shepherd brothers killed in Dagestan, has taken part in a series of pickets in support of the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

December 16, 2019 21:24

• Zelimkhan Tomov, participant of rally in Magas, convicted

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced Zelimkhan Tomov, a participant in the March rally in Magas, to 17 months in a settlement colony. The activist has confessed to throwing stones at "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) fighters.

December 16, 2019 21:05

• 96-year-old Georgian detained on South-Ossetian border

  Border guards have detained a Georgian citizen, Gora Garibashvili, who crossed the demarcation line with South Ossetia, the authorities in the Georgian municipality of Kaspi have reported today.

December 16, 2019 19:37

• Head of "International Memorial" fined by 200,000 roubles

  Today, the court has imposed two fines of 100,000 roubles each on Yan Rachinsky. After an inspection, initiated by the Ingush FSB Department, the amount of fines imposed on the "International Memorial", the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and the heads of those NGOs reached 2.9 million roubles.

December 16, 2019 19:20

• Ramzan Kadyrov promises money to families of killed journalists amid persecution of critics

  The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation made a decision to allocate 100,000 roubles to relatives of 22 journalists, who were killed during combat actions in Chechnya, announced the leader of the republic on the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty. The Ramzan Kadyrov's statement was voiced amid the persecution of people who made public cases of human rights violations in Chechnya.

December 16, 2019 19:08

• Chechen residents report disappearance of their relative in Grozny

  Mairbek Amaev, a resident of Grozny, disappeared in the city centre, and there has been no information about him for the third day, his relatives report. Instagram users assumed that the man had been detained by law enforcers.

December 16, 2019 18:35

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 9-15, 2019

  25th anniversary of the outbreak of war in Chechnya; adoption by the US of a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide; fundraising for Azerbaijani human rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who still stays in a coma, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 9-15, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 16, 2019 13:01

• Court refuses to release Manvel Grigoryan

  The appellate instance has found the refusal of the court to release on bail Manvel Grigoryan, a former Armenian MP, accused of illegal possession of weapons and embezzlement as lawful.

December 16, 2019 12:44

• Week of December 9-15 passed with no victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of December 9-15, 2019, no events related to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded. No casualties or victims were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 16, 2019 11:34

• Jermuk residents refuse to unblock road to Amulsar Mine

  Opponents of the development of the Amulsar field in the resort city of Jermuk have stated that they won't open the road thereto; and if law enforcers try to break through the blockade, they will quickly mobilize.

December 16, 2019 11:16

• Social network users support Sokurov in dispute with Kadyrov

  The courage of the film director, Alexander Sokurov, who sharply answered Ramzan Kadyrov about rethinking the title of Hero of Russia, was praised by social network users. Kadyrov will never receive Sokurov's apologies, they believe.

December 16, 2019 10:59

• Protesters near South-Ossetia border demand freedom to Gaprindashvili

  On December 15, activists, politicians and colleagues of the Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili held a protest action on the border with South Ossetia demanding the release of the arrested medic.

December 16, 2019 10:49

• Reprimanding Chechens for drinking alcohol reveals poor effect of educational talks

  On December 14, a message about another educational talk in police with those detained for using alcohol and psychotropic substances was posted in the Instagram public "ChP Chechnya".

December 15, 2019 11:57

• Azerbaijan condemns recognition of Armenian Genocide by US Senate

  The resolution of the US Senate on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire was an attempt to put pressure on Turkey, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated. The resolution will worsen the US-Turkish relations, but will not affect the Karabakh settlement, Azerbaijani experts believe.

December 15, 2019 11:55

• Blogger Elvin Isaev arrested in Azerbaijan

  Elvin Isaev, a blogger, who lived in Russia, was detained in Ukraine and deported to Azerbaijan, where he was placed into SIZO (pre-trial prison). This was reported by the State Migration Service (SMS) of Azerbaijan.

December 14, 2019 18:26

• NGOs accuse "Georgian Dream" of using administrative resources before rally

  Residents of different Georgian regions are forced to take part in the event organized by the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party in honour of the country's presidency in the Council of Europe (CoE). This was stated by Nino Lomdjariya, the country's Public Defender (Ombudsperson) and several NGOs.

December 14, 2019 18:21

• NKR claims 140 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  Since December 8, Azerbaijani militaries fired more than 1500 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.