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September 28, 2019 10:44

• Kadyrov forces four wedding participants to apologize

  Two more wedding participants criticized by Ramzan Kadyrov for breaching Chechen customs have posted their video apologies on the Internet. Kadyrov improves his rating by using Chechens' traditionalism of condemning such behaviour, said Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

September 28, 2019 08:38

• ICRF ignores experts' conclusions about torture of Grozny resident by law enforcers

  Investigators have four times refused to initiate a criminal case on the application of Timur Debishev, an actor of the Grozny theatre, who claimed torture after his detention.

September 28, 2019 08:28

• Police work check begins after Gagieva's resonance murder

  Investigators have promised to check the information that the death of Regina Gagieva, a resident of Vladikavkaz, was caused by law enforcers' inaction.

September 27, 2019 22:15

• Journalist ridicules investigator's refusals to investigate kidnapping in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor's Office found no violations in the eighth investigator's refusal to investigate the kidnapping of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, in Chechnya. The journalist himself doubts that any checks were carried out at all on the complaint about his kidnapping.

September 27, 2019 22:04

• Talekh Bagirzade's spouse suspected of delivering prohibited things to prison

  Leyla Ismailzade, a wife of Talekh Bagirzade, the sentenced leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", tried to smuggle a mobile phone to prison, investigators suggested. Leyla Ismailzade denies the allegations.

September 27, 2019 21:52

• Magomed Daudov's video report on his trip to Ingush border provokes indignation in social networks

  Users of social networks criticized Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, for using bad language on a video selfie made while waiting for an opponent on the border with Ingushetia.

September 27, 2019 17:49

• Ramzan Kadyrov demands to find authors of reports about fire in Grozny

  The leader of Chechnya instructed his subordinates to search for users of social networks who disseminated false information about victims of a fire in a Grozny shopping and entertainment centre or expressed malicious joy about the incident.

September 27, 2019 17:30

• Natives of Northern Caucasus detained in case on IS*financing

  In the Moscow Region, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Dagestan, nine people were detained on the charge of financing a terrorist organization.

September 27, 2019 13:25

• Azerbaijan reports machine-gun fire in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 22 times, including from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

September 27, 2019 13:15

• Islamic scholars support Anzor Gubashev in his dispute with FSIN officers

  A complaint filed by Anzor Gubashev, sentenced in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder, about the prison administration's demands to interrupt namaz (prayer) when a warder appears is justified, confirm experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". However, the prisoner can perform namaz in non-canonical form, the experts note.

September 27, 2019 11:49

• Azerbaijani journalist Ragimov sent to colony

  The verdict to Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "Realliq.info" website, who went on a hunger strike demanding his acquittal, came into force – on September 26, the journalist was convoyed from prison to the colony.

September 27, 2019 11:38

• Advocate points to no progress in Marem Alieva's murder case

  The murder case of Marem Alieva, a resident of Ingushetia, who disappeared four years ago, remains unsolved. The communication of her sister's complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) could lead to a resumption of the investigation in Russia, said Olga Gnezdilova, an advocate.

September 27, 2019 08:30

• Miners stop protest action in Tkibuli

  In the Georgian city of Tkibuli, workers of the Mindeli and Dzidziguri Mines, who demanded the payment of their wage debts, have stopped their protest action after meeting Natiya Turnava, the Minister of Economy.

September 27, 2019 08:23

• Vladikavkaz: picketers demand to punish law enforcer for beating

  Rostislav Melnichenko, a resident of North Ossetia, who had complained about beating by law enforcers, has already received five refusals to initiate a criminal case against the attackers. On September 26, Melnichenko and his sister came out to the Government House with a poster about the equality of all nationals before the law.

September 26, 2019 23:02

• Opening of monument "To Defenders of Russia" met with criticism in Chechnya

  To erect a monument to participants of the Chechen wars in Khankala is incorrect in relation to residents of the Chechen Republic who lost their relatives and friends, believe people from Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 26, 2019 22:46

• ECtHR obliges Azerbaijan to pay compensation to 11 activists

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay 128,500 euros to activists sentenced for participating in a rally on April 2, 2011. Advocates called the amount of compensation unreasonable.

September 26, 2019 22:36

• Regina Gagieva's death highlights problem of domestic violence

  In Vladikavkaz, 22-year-old Regina Gagieva died in a hospital from stab wounds, which, according to investigators, her former husband inflicted to her out of jealousy. While they were married, the man beat Regina Gagieva, a sister of the deceased woman said. The Regina Gagieva's death occurred amid the decriminalization of domestic violence, note North Ossetian journalists.

September 26, 2019 22:16

• Advocate complains to ECtHR about being tortured by law enforcers in Makhachkala

  Magomed Magomedov, an advocate from Dagestan, said that he was beaten by law enforcers after he refused to leave his client alone with field investigators. Magomed Magomedov filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and called the law enforcers' actions the torture.

September 26, 2019 18:13

• "Alternative": two men escape from slavery in Dagestan

  Activists of the anti-slavery movement "Alternative" helped two men, who managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan, to leave for Moscow.

September 26, 2019 17:59

• Second Chechen resident within a day publicly apologizes for his behaviour at wedding party

  A resident of Chechnya publicly apologized for a joking communication with his bride at a wedding party. Ramzan Kadyrov demanded to expel from the republic the men who violated the wedding traditions of the Vainakh people.