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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

July 17, 2019 10:55

July 17, 2019 08:39

  • Meeting of Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Kremlin press service, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/57797/photos/54275 Kadyrov copies Putin's practice of manual ruling

    Authorities of Chechnya are promptly solving residents' problems voiced out on air of the programme with Ramzan Kadyrov broadcast on the local TV. Kadyrov has entirely copied the practice of "Direct Lines" with Putin, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

July 17, 2019 08:30

July 16, 2019 23:09

  • Vremenny village after special operation, December 2014. Photo: press service of HRC ‘Memorial’, http://memohrc.org Court supports Vremenny residents in their claim against authorities

    The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to grant the appeal filed by the authorities of the Untsukul District to challenge the verdict about their inaction on paying compensations to residents of the Vremenny village for their houses that had been destroyed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO).

July 16, 2019 22:35

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July 16, 2019 14:46

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  • Investigating Committee. Photo: Elena Sineok, Yuga.ru Sister of Mozdok resident succeeds in seeking investigation into his beating

    On July 15, Yulia Melnichenko, a resident of Mozdok, held a picket during which she demanded from the authorities to investigate the beating of her brother Rostislav by law enforcers. After Yulia Melnichenko had met the chief of the Investigating Department for North Ossetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the investigation into the case on beating was taken over by the department for particularly important cases, reported advocate Andrei Sabinin.

July 16, 2019 11:30

  • Alexander Cherkasov, Sergei Davidis, Svetlana Gannushkina and Elena Milashina (from left to right) at the press conference in Moscow, July 15, 2019. Photo by Gor Aleksanyan for the Caucasian Knot Rights defenders criticize EU for deporting Chechen refugees to their homeland

    The practice to deport citizens of Russia, who applied for asylum, including natives of Chechnya, is intensified in Europe, but this does not comply with the principles of the international law, notes human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina. There are successful examples when the problem of deportation could be solved with the help of human rights defenders, notes journalist Elena Milashina.

July 16, 2019 11:02

  • Audio record with girl brought to Chechnya provokes new questions

    A Moscow female resident who complained to human rights defenders about being forced to forcibly marry in Chechnya recorded an audio appeal with a refutation of the information. The girl was forced to make such a record, believes Ekaterina Vinokurova, a member of the Human Rights Council.

July 16, 2019 10:48

  • Opposition supporters are gathering for a rally in front of the Parliament. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the Caucasian Knot Opposition brings people to Tbilisi streets again

    The protests in front of the building of the Georgian parliament will not stop until the main demand is fulfilled, that is the resignation of Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhariya, state participants of the rally in Tbilisi.

July 16, 2019 08:09

  • Four Georgian protesters detained for putsch attempt

    Four persons have been detained in Georgia within the case of organizing, heading or participating in group violence and an attempt to overthrow the state power during the action in Tbilisi at night on June 21, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

July 16, 2019 07:51

  • Oyub Titiev after he was released from the colony. Photo: HRC 'Memorial' Oyub Titiev comes to work for HRC "Memorial" in Moscow

    After his release from imprisonment, Oyub Titiev, the former head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will continue working in Moscow; he will deal with human rights issues in Chechnya and Russia.

July 16, 2019 07:39

  • Zarifa Sautieva arrested for two months

    A Nalchik court has sent Zarifa Sautieva, an Ingush activist, detained within the case of clashes at a rally in Magas, to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) until September 11.

July 15, 2019 22:47

July 15, 2019 22:35

  • Participants of solo pickets dedicated to 10th anniversary of the Natalia Estemirova's murder, Moscow, July 15, 2019. Screenshot from video posted by novayagazeta at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjuUTq8GCE Picketers on anniversary of Natalia Estemirova's murder detained

    Law enforcers detained Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Board, Svetlana Gannushkina, the head "Civic Assistance Committee", and Elena Milashina, a correspondent of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". The activists held a picket in the centre of Moscow to remind people of the unsolved murder of Natalia Estemirova.

July 15, 2019 18:06

July 15, 2019 17:33

  • Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 8-14, 2019

    Detention of activists in Ingushetia; return home of Russian children from Iraq; termination of direct flights between Russia and Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 8-14, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

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