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December 08, 2019 11:38

• Theatrical action in support of Sidorov and Mordasov held in Rostov-on-Don

  At a flash mob rally in Rostov-on-Don, activists spoke out in support of prisoners of conscience and against repressions.

December 08, 2019 11:18

• NKR accuses Azerbaijan of 130 shelling attacks during week

  Since December 1, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than a thousand shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) informed on December 7.

December 08, 2019 10:59

• Children evacuated from Syria handed over to relatives in Dagestan and Volgograd

  Three minors evacuated from Syria have returned to their mother in Dagestan; one girl was met by her grandmother from Volgograd.

December 07, 2019 18:20

• Rights defenders condemn pressure on Azerbaijani advocates

  Azerbaijani authorities should restore the powers of the lawyer Shakhla Gumbatova and her colleagues, also deprived of their powers for their defence of human rights, four international human rights organizations have stated.

December 07, 2019 17:55

• Ingush Senator rents a flat for family of girl with amputated arm

  Ingush authorities are now solving the issue of providing housing to the needy family, in which, after discharging from hospital, the girl, who had her arm amputated as a result of domestic violence, will live. In the upcoming year, they will live in a rented apartment in Magas.

December 07, 2019 17:26

• Azerbaijan claims shelling by Armenian snipers

  The positions of Azerbaijani troops stationed on the border with Armenia and in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict area were shelled for 24 times over the past 24 hours, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

December 07, 2019 16:53

• Chechen woman fined for rubbing baby with snow

  A court has found the rite of "hardening" a three-month-old child, whom his grandmother rubbed with snow, to be an offense. The mother of the baby was fined, although, according to Chechen customs, parents have no right to object to their own parents, local residents have noted.

December 07, 2019 12:42

• Journalists discover that Khangoshvili's murderer worked for FSB

  As stated by the authors of an international journalistic investigation, the alleged killer of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, shot dead in Berlin, had served in the "Vympel" (Pennant) FSB Special Forces unit and was involved in at least two murders in Russia.

December 07, 2019 12:31

• HPP construction aggravated confrontation among Pankisi residents

  The Georgian Govt's plans to build the "Khadori-3" hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have split residents of the Pankisi Gorge into two camps; the conflict was exacerbated by the political confrontation.

December 07, 2019 12:13

• Public humiliation remains officials' tool for fighting dissent in Chechnya

  Chechen authorities are making use of public humiliations by relying both on the Soviet experience and on the long-standing traditions of the nation. However, over time, people's systematic demonstrative humiliations start generating the opposite effect, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 07, 2019 08:58

• German journalists learn about transfer of suspect of killing Khangoshvili under guard

  A Russian suspected of assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili has been transferred from the Moabit Prison into the high security prison in Tegel. The decision was made by employees of the State Criminal Investigation Department: they received information that the killer is in danger of liquidation, the "Berliner Morgenpost" newspaper has written.

December 07, 2019 08:47

• Five Jehovah Witnesses* left in custody in Volgograd

  On December 6, a Volgograd court extended by two months the detention of five Jehovah Witnesses*. Their relatives complain that investigators ban to visit the detainees.

December 06, 2019 21:01

• Ecologists voice skepticism about initiative to save Lake Sevan

  A bill adopted by the Armenian parliament and restricting water withdrawal from Lake Sevan is inefficient, since it does not prohibit the use of large volumes of water from the lake, say ecologists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 06, 2019 20:47

• Number of protocols drawn up against "Memorial" reaches 28

  In addition to 20 administrative protocols on the absence of a "foreign agent" mark drawn up against the "International Memorial" and Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" after the inspection conducted by the Ingush FSB, the "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) drew up eight more protocols on a complaint filed by an individual.

December 06, 2019 19:42

• Six suspects detained in case on Ibragim Eldjarkiev's murder

  In Moscow and Ingushetia, six persons have been detained in a case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"). Entrepreneur Khasan Polonkoev, one of the detainees, led the grouping involved in the murder, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) suggests.

December 06, 2019 14:54

• Ogtai Gyulyalyev's wife reports deterioration of his health condition

  Azerbaijani human rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who is being treated in Turkey, has got a new complication: liver problems, but the question concerning further financing of his medical treatment still remains open, his spouse reports.

December 06, 2019 14:38

• In Astrakhan, ship captain claims falsification of case on storage of a bomb

  Nail Mukhanov, a resident of Astrakhan, accused of illicit trafficking of ammunition and explosive devices, claims that the case against him has been fabricated.

December 06, 2019 11:35

• Bagautdinov's mother outraged with refusal to rehabilitate her son

  While refusing to rehabilitate Vali Bagautdinov, who was killed in the attack on a policeman, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has failed to take into account the testimony of a witness, who had stated that he was forced to slander the defendant. The SC has also neglected other arguments of the defence, Gulnara Bagautdinova, Vali's mother, has stated.

December 06, 2019 11:22

• ECtHR awards nearly 6000 euros to Azerbaijani oppositionist

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the complaint of Beibala Abil, an Azerbaijani oppositionist, about violation of his right to free elections and obliged the country's authorities to pay a monetary compensation to him.

December 06, 2019 11:04

• Khangoshvili's acquaintances see interest of Georgian special services in his murder

  Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was killed in Germany, had cooperated with Georgian special services only under Mikhail Saakashvili. After the change of power, these services began contacting their Russian colleagues; and Khangoshvili was forced to leave the country, his acquaintances have told.