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March 02, 2019 11:51

• About 30 houses burned down in Dagestani village

  A fire that broke out in the village of Tissi-Akhitli of the Tsumadin District of Dagestan has destroyed about 30 houses.

March 02, 2019 11:40

• Armenian authorities treat verdict to Kazaryan as violation of international law

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint against the verdict to Karen Kazaryan, sentenced in Azerbaijan to 20 years in prison, and decided to consider the case in an accelerated manner, the defence of Kazaryan, a citizen of Armenia, has stated.

March 02, 2019 08:41

• Armenian residents commemorate victims of March 2008 protest suppression

  Five thousand people took part in the march on the 11th anniversary of the clashes of oppositionists with law enforcers. The authorities will never solve internal problems by force, the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has promised.

March 02, 2019 08:30

• Residents of Chechnya voice out conditions for returning to Galanchozh District

  Commenting on the authorities' promises to build housing for the resettlers and pay installation allowances to them, natives of the Galanchozh District have expressed concern that the necessary infrastructure would not be fully built.

March 02, 2019 08:22

• Flooding in Sochi linked with Olympic construction

  The Sochi authorities claim that there is no danger to townspeople living near the Kepsha River. Activists have linked the flooding in Sochi with large-scale extraction of gravel from the river and the construction of Olympic facilities.

March 01, 2019 21:24

• KBR's SC closes Akopyan's case

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided that after the mitigation of the article on extremism, there was no crime element in the case of Arkadi Akopyan, a believer of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religious organization, recognized as extremist and banned by the court decision.

March 01, 2019 21:15

• Witness in Mikhail Savostin's case tells about threats from law enforcer

  The testimony about the joint use of drugs with Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Assembly of Mineralnye Vody", was given under pressure, said the witness, Sergey Didenko, at the court session on February 28 and named the law enforcer who threatened him.

March 01, 2019 18:20

• Talysh activist extradited from Russia to Azerbaijan

  Russia has given Fakhraddin Abbasov, a Talysh activist, out to Azerbaijan; he is accused in his homeland of appeals against territorial integrity and of hostility incitement.

March 01, 2019 18:10

• Rights defenders make film about torture of four Anapa residents

  The film "Extreme South", the presentation of which is scheduled for March 2, tells about the fate of four residents of Anapa, who were tortured and became figurants of a criminal case on robbery. For the fourth year, they are under house arrest, whereas there is not a single suspect in the torture case, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.

March 01, 2019 17:59

• Data on Chechen-Ingush border entered into state registry

  The updated Chechen-Ingush border has been checked by experts of federal agencies and entered into the "Rosreestr" (Unified State Real Estate Registry – USRER), the agency has announced today.

March 01, 2019 12:55

• Azerbaijan reports 26 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, the truce regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 26 times; two border villages were hit by the shelling, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

March 01, 2019 12:48

• Owner of house destroyed during CTO in Nalchik tells about tenant

  The house, in which during the counterterrorist operation in Nalchik, three persons were killed, was rented by a young man a day before the CTO, the woman-owner of the house has stated. Law enforcement sources have named the casualties.

March 01, 2019 11:24

• HRW: Russia introduces censorship of youth music

  The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a statement in the context of cancellation of concerts and authorities' interference into the concert activities of groups and performers popular among young people in various Russian regions, including Northern Caucasus.

March 01, 2019 11:13

• Zurabishvili announces demarcation of Georgian-Azerbaijani border

  The issue of the common border section will be resolved by the end of the year, the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, has stated during her visit to Azerbaijan, citing the friendly relations of the two countries.

March 01, 2019 08:22

• NKR residents commemorate victims of Sumgait pogroms

  On February 28, district centres of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) held marches, laying of flowers and other events in memory of the victims of the Sumgait pogroms. A documentary film about the pogroms of the Armenian population in Azerbaijan in late 1980s and early 1990s was screened in the central library of the district centre of Gadrut.

March 01, 2019 08:17

• Dagestani woman accused of links with militants

  A female resident of Makhachkala had joined militants and took part in a robbery and kidnapping of two persons, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has stated.

February 28, 2019 21:26

• Blogger Iraziev claims being registered at police after criticizing nightclubs in Dagestan

  In his video appeal, Eldar Iraziev, a comedian actor and a blogger, who is popular in Dagestan, has said that law enforcers put him on the police prevention registration list as an extremist after he had spoken about nightclubs. When commenting on the scandalous performance "Hunting for Men", the blogger called for the introduction of censorship in Dagestan.

February 28, 2019 21:17

• On Natalia Estemirova's birthday, AI calls for investigation into her murder

  During ten years, the murder of Natalia Estemirova has never been effectively investigated, the "Amnesty International" (AI) declares on the birthday of the murdered rights defender who would celebrate her 61st birthday today.

February 28, 2019 18:10

• Advocates criticize Azerbaijani authorities for sentencing PFPA activists

  The verdict in the case on financing the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) is not justified and unfair, and therefore, it will be challenged, advocates of the sentenced activists announce.

February 28, 2019 18:02

• Georgian opposition starts collecting signatures to change election system

  Today, over 20 opposition parties have started to collect signatures under a petition to completely abandon the mixed proportional majority system in favour of the proportional system at the 2020 parliamentary elections. Opposition members explain their petition by the fact that under the current proportional majority system, the ruling party gains most of the mandates in the parliament.