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December 04, 2018 21:47

• Seven persons arrested in special operation in Tbilisi

  A Tbilisi court has ruled to arrest six citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Georgia, detained during a special operation in Tbilisi and suspected of illegally acquiring and storing weapons.

December 04, 2018 18:03

• IS* releases new video with teenagers attacking Chechen law enforcers

  On December 3, the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, posted an expanded version of a video with threats pronounced by the teenagers who attacked law enforcers in Chechnya on August 20 this year.

December 04, 2018 17:45

• Two pilots perish in military aircraft crash in Armenia

  The wreckage of the Su-25, which took off today from Gyumri, was found in the mountains of the Shirak Region; the pilots died, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

December 04, 2018 14:59

• Rearmament reminds about Armenia's ties with Russia

  Armenian authorities have announced their readiness to consider a US proposal for the supply of weapons. The country's financial capacity does not allow any large-scale purchase of American-made weapons; it is more reasonable for Armenia to still buying armaments from Russia, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 04, 2018 14:46

• Krasnodar rights defenders ask to release the disabled person from SIZO

  The Krasnodar branch of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) has complained to the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory about the custody conditions at the local SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the wheelchair-bound Alexander Kiba, his advocate said on December 3.

December 04, 2018 14:35

• Residents of Armenia criticize purchase of expensive New Year Tree for Yerevan

  The main New Year Tree for the capital of Armenia will cost 71 million drams, the Mayoralty has reported. This money should have been spent on solving social problems, residents of Armenia believe.

December 04, 2018 10:18

• Blood feud version of former law enforcer's murder in Yandare questioned

  The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are convinced that the circumstances of the murder of Ismail Barkhanoev, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, fail to meet the customs of the blood feud killing.

December 04, 2018 10:02

• Georgian authorities refuse to hold early parliamentary elections

  No extraordinary parliamentary elections, which the opposition insists on, will be held, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Executive Secretary of the "Georgian Dream" Party, has stated.

December 04, 2018 08:29

• Activist states pressure on initiators of referendum on border issue

  Officials are collecting personal data on family members of activists who have set up an initiative group to hold a referendum in Ingushetia on the border agreement with Chechnya, said Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, in his appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

December 04, 2018 08:23

• Ombudsperson favours inquiry into Lapunov's complaint of torture in Chechnya

  Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, has stated today that the Prosecutor's Office should be involved in checking the complaint of Maxim Lapunov about the refusal to initiate a case on his arrest and beating up by law enforcers in Chechnya.

December 03, 2018 22:24

• Congress of Ingush Muslims joins political struggle for republic's borders

  Against the background of a sharp conflict with Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the Ingush clergy has supported the political demands of the Ingush opposition to cancel the agreement on the border with Chechnya.

December 03, 2018 22:11

• On November 26-December 2, three persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from November 26 to December 2, 2018, at least three people perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information was received about the wounded people. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

December 03, 2018 22:01

• Cases of female circumcision in Caucasus provoke reproaches upon Ministry of Health

  There is no separate law in Russia against girls' circumcision; and such mutilations should be prohibited by the order of the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 03, 2018 19:46

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 26-December 2, 2018

  The second round of presidential election in Georgia; shootout between law enforcers and suspected militants in Kabardino-Balkaria; start of campaign before the parliamentary elections in Armenia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 26-December 2, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 03, 2018 18:38

• Investigators treat death of Armenian soldier as suicide

  The death of the contract soldier, Gor Sarkisyan, in one of the military units of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being investigated as a case of bringing to suicide, the Investigative Committee of Armenia has stated.

December 03, 2018 18:21

• Native of Adygea sentenced to 11 years in prison for aiding IS*

  Today, the North-Caucasian District Military Court has found Pyotr Gnipel, a 19-year-old native of the Giaginskaya village, guilty of acquiring components for an explosive device, which he was supposed to hand over to supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS, earlier – ISIL), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

December 03, 2018 18:11

• Tbilisi court refuses to consider Saralidze's lawsuit against law enforcers

  The Tbilisi City Court has stopped considering the claim lodged by Zaza Saralidze, who demanded to cancel the police's ban to set up tents in Rustaveli Avenue. Tents were set up, despite the ban; and the consideration of the lawsuit is senseless, the judge has explained.

December 03, 2018 17:57

• Armenia: Prosecutor's Office asks Parliament to sanction MP's arrest

  Today, Arthur Davtyan, the Public Prosecutor General of Armenia, has submitted a petition to the Parliament asking to give consent to the initiation of a criminal case against Aram Arutyunyan, an MP from the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), a source from the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

December 03, 2018 13:42

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of border village

  The armistice regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 30 times during the last 24 hours; the militaries' positions stationed in the village of Agdam of the Tovuz District came under fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

December 03, 2018 13:21

• Seven persons detained at special operation in Tbilisi

  In the capital of Georgia, law enforcers have detained six citizens of Ukraine and a citizen of Georgia; weapons and ammunition were found on them during a search, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported on December 2.