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October 24, 2019 18:16

• Chechen authorities explain personnel changes by Magomed Daudov's intensive activities

  Sources from the administration of Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned an engagement in different tasks and challenges as the reason for the release of Magomed Daudov from his duties of a supervisor of two Chechen districts. Meanwhile, the sources also pointed to a nervous atmosphere among subordinates of the leader of Chechnya.

October 24, 2019 18:06

• Tretyakov Gallery to return to Chechnya a painting lost during war

  An Alexander Golovin's painting is removed from an exhibition and will be returned to the museum in Grozny, the Tretyakov Gallery reports.

October 24, 2019 14:39

• Instagram users shocked by Malika Djikaeva's provocative video

  Social network users criticized Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, for posting a frivolous video in hijab. Some of the users treated the video as a way for the promotion of the young woman's account.

October 24, 2019 14:27

• Human rights defenders detect problems of compliance with safety standards at Georgian enterprises

  On October 23, the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC) held a meeting at the Open Society Georgia Centre, where the results of a survey of labour safety conditions at Georgian enterprises were presented to the public.

October 24, 2019 11:28

• Dagestan resident complains about law enforcer's torture and threats

  In his complaint to Yuri Chaika, the General Public Prosecutor of Russia, Musa Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, demanded to take the investigation of his application about torture under control. According to Aliev, law enforcers first beat him up, trying to get a confession to raping a girl, and then began threatening his family.

October 24, 2019 11:15

• Publication of phone talks of US and EU diplomats results in scandal in Baku

  Azerbaijani pro-governmental media have published records of conversations of Gyultekin Gadjibeili, an oppositional politician, with US and EU diplomats regarding the dispersal, on October 19, in central Baku, by law enforcers of participants of the unsanctioned protest action.

October 24, 2019 11:02

• Officials' salary increase by Pashinyan triggers criticism

  The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has increased salaries of some top-ranking officials, but this measure was not discussed in the parliament or by the public. Rights defenders and lawyers have criticized the Premier for making the decision in secrecy.

October 24, 2019 08:48

• Gadjiev allowed family visits

  After his detention, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a Dagestani journalist, arrested under the case of financing terrorism, was for the first time visited by his wife and four children.

October 24, 2019 08:36

• Criticism of Sufism tells on Tumso's popularity

  The Mufti of Chechnya has damned the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, for his harsh criticism of the Sufi rites widespread in the republic. The blogger has violated the rules of a religious dispute, and pushed some of his supporters away, Islamic scholars believe.

October 24, 2019 08:26

• Economists specify reasons for low ratings of North-Caucasian regions

  The shadow economy, deficit of qualified workforce and corruption lead the republics of Northern Caucasus to last places in socioeconomic ratings, the economists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. In their opinion, the financing of outsiders from Moscow will continue.

October 23, 2019 22:19

• US authorities explain detention of Akhmed Bilalov

  Akhmed Bilalov, the former head of the "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" Company, has been detained in the United States for violating the immigration regime and is currently in custody pending removal proceedings, reports the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

October 23, 2019 22:07

• In Armenia, railway employees go on strike

  The movement of passenger and freight trains along the South Caucasus Railway was paralyzed because of a strike. Locomotive drivers demand to increase their salaries.

October 23, 2019 21:53

• Irakli Okruashvili left in custody in Tbilisi

  Today, the court has refused to release on bail Irakli Okruashvili, the leader of the "Victorious Georgia" Party, who was arrested in a case on organization of riots in front of the parliament building.

October 23, 2019 18:12

• Actors of musical "Nord-Ost" share their memories on anniversary of terror act

  Artists Sergey Lee and Ekaterina Guseva spoke about the events that took place 17 years ago, when at least 130 hostages died during the assault of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre seized by terrorists.

October 23, 2019 18:00

• Court supports Kuban resident in case on torture

  The court found Nikita Khatskevich, a resident of the town of Gulkevichy, not guilty of disorderly conduct and confirmed the illegality of his detention by law enforcers. Lawyers from the Committee against Torture (CaT) claim they will seek an investigation into a case on torture about which Nikita Khatskevich complained and a punishment of law enforcers for the illegal administrative prosecution.

October 23, 2019 13:49

• Russian Embassy reacts to Bilalov's detention in USA

  The Russian Embassy to the USA has asked the US authorities to confirm the media reports about the detention in Miami of Akhmed Bilalov, a former president of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "North-Caucasus Resorts".

October 23, 2019 13:26

• Organizer of terror act in Armenian Parliament asks for release

  Nairi Unanyan, sentenced to life under the case of a terror act committed in the Armenian Parliament on October 27, 1999, has filed a petition on conditional early relief (CER). Human rights defenders doubt that he will be set free.

October 23, 2019 11:39

• Journalist Gleb Pyanykh reports his detention in Krasnodar Territory

  Law enforcers have detained Gleb Pyanykh in the village of Dinskaya, where he filmed the construction of some bureaucrats' summer cottage, the journalist himself said.

October 23, 2019 11:28

• Rights defenders question education of Georgian Prosecutor General

  Georgian NGOs have demanded to check the authenticity of the higher education diploma of Shalva Tadumadze, the country's Prosecutor General, who takes part in the contest for the post of Supreme Court Judge. The dates of his study given in his diploma fail to coincide with the time of work of the university he had graduated from.

October 23, 2019 11:17

• Kurbanov brothers tell the court details of torture after detention

  Mukhtar and Ismail Kurbanov, residents of Dagestan, have told at questioning in the court how they were tortured after detention. They denied all the accusations and stated that they had self-incriminated under threats.