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October 08, 2019 22:36

• In Chechnya, psychic hunt leads to persecution of clients

  Several residents of Chechnya, who went to North Ossetia to visit a fortune-teller, repented on the air of the Chechen state-run TV Company after a local theologian criticized their behaviour from the point of view of Islam and threatened them with hell. In the TV story, the women vowed that they would no longer address people providing occult services.

October 08, 2019 22:22

• In Baku, opposition holds picket amid detentions of activists

  In Baku, law enforcers let only 50 people to attend a rally in defence of freedom of assembly. About 20 activists who tried to break through the police cordon were detained, oppositionists report.

October 08, 2019 17:18

• Fans call on Chechen MMA fighter to leave ring after his rival's death

  Today, Uzbek athlete Bekzod Nurmatov who died after a fight in Grozny will be buried in his homeland. Users of social networks expressed their hope for the completion of the sports career of his rival Beslan Isaev, a fighter of mixed martial arts (MMA), and also demanded to ban the sport.

October 08, 2019 17:10

• ECtHR awards 400,000 euros of compensation to families of persons disappeared in Northern Caucasus

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 80,000 euros to families of each of five natives of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, who were kidnapped in 2007-2001.

October 08, 2019 14:45

• Law enforcers publicly reproach two Chechen residents for their posts in social networks

  Messages on social networks about the kidnapping of a child in Kurchaloi became a pretext for an "explanatory conversation" with two local residents at the building of the police department. Instagram users criticized law enforcers for the public reproach.

October 08, 2019 14:35

• Azerbaijan registers 20 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from sniper rifles, reports today the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

October 08, 2019 14:23

• In Barda, protesters demand to release convicts in Terter case

  On October 7, at an action in Barda, relatives of soldiers killed and sentenced in the Terter case demanded to rehabilitate the deceased defendants and release the imprisoned relatives.

October 08, 2019 11:14

• "Beanpole" by Kantemir Balagov included in Oscar longlist

  The film "Beanpole" directed by Kantemir Balagov from Kabardino-Balkaria became one of 93 Oscar nominations in the Best International Feature Film category.

October 08, 2019 11:03

• Georgian NGO criticizes case on dispersal of protests in June

  The authorities took a selective approach while investigating the case on dispersal of a protest rally in Tbilisi on June 20 and avoided the indicative punishment of the responsible persons, suggests the NGO "International Transparency-Georgia".

October 08, 2019 10:52

• Activists call for removing barriers to fair elections in Azerbaijan

  The basic rights and freedoms that guarantee holding of fair municipal elections are limited in Azerbaijan by the current electoral legislation, concludes the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDS).

October 08, 2019 08:33

• Activists in Moscow and Saint Petersburg commemorate Anna Politkovskaya

  Residents of Moscow laid flowers at the house, where 13 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", was shot dead; and Petersburg residents held a massive picket in Anna's memory.

October 08, 2019 08:24

• Gadjiev states law enforcers' pressure on court

  Judges are not allowed to make decisions that run counter law enforcers' demands, the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, has stated at a session of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. Even if Gadjiev is released from custody, he will be arrested on another charge, his defence is sure.

October 07, 2019 21:27

• Tumso blames Kadyrov for breaching Chechen traditions

  Prior to blaming participants of wedding parties for demonstrating their feelings, the head of Chechnya himself spoke on the federal channel about his relations with wife, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has pointed out. YouTube users agree that Kadyrov has no moral right to criticize violators of Chechen traditions.

October 07, 2019 21:12

• Advocates complain about ban on visiting Ingush activists in SIZO

  The staff of the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison) refuses to let advocates to the Ingush activists kept there. Refusals are motivated by the list of those advocates who are allowed to visit the SIZO.

October 07, 2019 17:56

• Kadyrov's press service reacts to plot reports

  Today, Alvi Karimov, the press secretary for the head of Chechnya, has neither confirmed nor denied the reports on an attempted assassination on Ramzan Kadyrov, having refused to comment on "rumours".

October 07, 2019 17:44

• Court cancels extension of Gadjiev's arrest

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has ruled to revise the decision on the extension of the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly.

October 07, 2019 17:34

• Dismantling memorial in Grozny highlights authorities' indifference to memory of deportation victims

  For the second time in five years, the memorial complex of victims of deportation has been moved to a new place in Grozny; however, this fact caused no resonance in the society.

October 07, 2019 15:18

• On September 30-October 6, two persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from September 30 to October 6, 2019, the North-Caucasian armed conflict resulted in at least two wounded persons; no information was received about the dead ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

October 07, 2019 15:06

• Ortsin-Mokhk residents criticize quality of new apartments

  The dwelling neighbourhood of Ortsin-Mokhk located in Grozny has transformed after reconstruction, but builders left unfinished work in apartments and used cheap materials.

October 07, 2019 14:59

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev's colleagues hold solo pickets

  Today, about a dozen Gadjiev's colleagues and friends have come to the central square of Makhachkala to support the journalist, since at 12:00 a.m. Moscow time, a session was scheduled at the Supreme Court (SC) on election of his freedom restraint measure.