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June 28, 2019 18:42

• Azerbaijan and Armenia exchange war prisoners

  With the mediation of the Red Cross, Zaven Karapetyan, treated by Azerbaijan as a spy, and Elvin Ibragimov, detained by Armenian soldiers at the border, returned to their homeland.

June 28, 2019 18:29

• Opposition leader Ali Kerimli detained in Baku

  Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was taken to a police station after participating in the "Marathon of Solidarity", reports Gezyal Bairamly, the deputy chair of the PFPA.

June 28, 2019 13:35

• Amid protests, Abkhazia restricts crossing the border with Georgia

  In the context of mass protests in Georgia, citizens of Abkhazia are temporarily prohibited to enter Georgia, the Abkhaz State Security Service (SSS) announced on June 27.

June 28, 2019 13:22

• Opposition formulates main tasks for new head of Ingushetia

  The acting head of Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, needs to eliminate tension in the society and restore trust in the authorities; his main task is to cancel the border agreement with Chechnya, the Ingush protest activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

June 28, 2019 12:20

• Opposition shows "yellow card" to Ivanishvili

  A protest action has ended at the residence of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader and founder of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party. The protesters again demanded resignation of Giorgi Gakhariya, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA); they showed a "yellow card" to Ivanishvili as a sign of warning, and promised to continue their action on June 28.

June 28, 2019 12:09

• PACE demanded to reconsider inquiry outcomes into Nemtsov's murder

  The Russian investigators' inquiry into the murder of the opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov, was conducted with violations, says the resolution adopted on June 27 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The Russia's delegation did not participate in the voting and criticized the report presented to the PACE as politicized.

June 28, 2019 11:50

• Fuad Abbasov voices out political reasons for his deportation

  The Azerbaijani journalist, Fuad Abbasov, associates his persecution and deportation from Russia with political forces interested in the deterioration of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Turkish relations.

June 28, 2019 01:02

• Law enforcers and Tumso tell about detentions of Barzaev's acquaintances

  Several people were detained in Chechnya because they communicated with Akhmed Barzaev, who was killed during the attack on law enforcers in Grozny. Tumso Abdurakhmanov named the detainees with reference to his own sources.

June 28, 2019 00:48

• New protesters join hunger strike in Tbilisi

  Two out of five hunger strikers at the building of Georgian Parliament were hospitalized; instead, the lawyer, Beka Basilaya, and the doctor, Vakhtang Sikharulidze, have joined the protest action with a demand of resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

June 27, 2019 23:29

• ECtHR awards Dagestani resident compensation for his complaint against law enforcers

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) approved the settlement agreement between the Russian authorities and Taigib Zalbegov, a resident of Dagestan, who filed a complaint against law enforcers. The Strasbourg Court obliged the Russian authorities to pay to the complainant 10,000 euros of compensation provided for by the above settlement agreement.

June 27, 2019 23:18

• In Tbilisi, hunger-strikers call on authorities to meet their last demand

  In Georgia, participants of the protest action in front of the parliament building have already achieved the resignation of the speaker of the Parliament, the ruling party's initiative to reform the electoral system, and they will not leave the place of the protest until their demand for the resignation of the Georgian Interior Minister is met, the participants of the hunger strike report on the fourth day of their protest action.

June 27, 2019 23:10

• Abu Umar Sasitlinsky denies investigators' version in Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case

  Dagestani preacher Israil Akhmednabiev, also known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, told blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov that despite the investigators' version, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the editor of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), never transferred him money.

June 27, 2019 17:02

• Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov to refrain from personnel changes in Ingush government

  At the today's meeting of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia, Alexander Matovnikov, Presidential Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), introduced to Ingush MPs Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, the acting leader of Ingushetia. Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the resigning leader of Ingushetia, took part in the introduction ceremony, the "Ekho Moskvy" reports on its website.

June 27, 2019 16:53

• Defence to challenge Timur Tumgoev's sentence

  The court's verdict in the case against Timur Tumgoev, a native of Vladikavkaz, sentenced on the charge of participation in Syrian militant groupings, is unfair, while his guilt has not been proven, an advocate believes.

June 27, 2019 14:31

• Defence complain about non-admission to Ingush activists

  The staff of the Vladikavkaz SIZO (pre-trial prison) refused to let new advocates to Malsag Uzhakhov and Akhmed Barakhoev, Vadim Klyuvgant, an advocate, said on June 26. In his opinion, this violates the activists' constitutional rights.

June 27, 2019 14:22

• Social network users are optimistic about Kalimatov's appointment

  When being Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov was in conflict with the then Ingush president Murat Zyazikov, despite their family relations. Kalimatov's family members are respected in the republic, social network users note.

June 27, 2019 11:04

• Rights defenders criticize Savostin's conviction

  The court was to acquit Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Veche (Council) of Mineralnye Vody", since no proofs of his guilt were presented; the conviction was politically motivated, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

June 27, 2019 10:51

• Parliament allows court to arrest oppositional MP Nika Meliya

  Georgian MPs have satisfied the motion of the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to suspend the parliamentary immunity of Nika Meliya, an MP from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, accused under the case of organizing group violence at a protest action in Tbilisi.

June 27, 2019 08:06

• Picketers recall torture of four Anapa residents

  Relatives of the Anapa residents, tortured after being detained by law enforcers, and lawyers of the Committee against Torture (CaT) have held a series of solo pickets in the city centre.

June 27, 2019 07:45

• Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov appointed acting head of Ingushetia

  On June 26, President Putin accepted resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and appointed Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov as acting head of Ingushetia.