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November 03, 2018 17:28

• Lawyers point to possible revision of decision of Ingush CC

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia may issue a different verdict on the Chechen-Ingush border than the Ingush CC; and it couldn't be reconsidered, lawyers say. They have noted that the decision taken by the Ingush CC is mandatory for execution by the regional authorities.

November 03, 2018 17:23

• Azerbaijan fixed no shelling from Armenian positions

  Within the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 27 times from machine guns from the territories near the "occupied villages," the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

November 03, 2018 17:20

• Residents of Grozny report enforcing to attend rally

  Employees of budgetary institutions and students of Grozny have told that they were obliged to come to the rally on November 4 on the occasion of the National Unity Day. It is planned that the rally will be 20,000 strong, the city Mayoralty has stated.

November 03, 2018 12:45

• Arrested Buynaksk residents complain of torture

  Samat Tatarkhanov and Daniyal Zagirov, residents of Buynaksk, who had been detained on charges of possessing weapons, have stated that they had been tortured with electric current, and their testimonies about links with militants were falsified.

November 03, 2018 12:41

• OSCE decision responds to silencing human rights problems in Chechnya

  The work of the Moscow Mechanism in Chechnya depends on Russia's consent to cooperate with the international mission of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), since authorities are no longer able to hide information about human rights violations in the region and escape uneasy questions.

November 03, 2018 08:49

• Rights defenders treat activists and journalists as addressees of Kadyrov's threats

  Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about "provocateurs" on the Chechen-Ingush border is a threat to the activists, who had filmed the construction equipment in the "Erzi" Nature Reserve, as well as the journalists, who would visit the pre-border area, human rights defenders have stated.

November 03, 2018 08:46

• MoJ decides to close fund of organizer of "Putin's Detachments"

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the Krasnodar Territory has initiated the liquidation of the "Social Justice" Charity Fund, created by Marat Dinaev, the head of the "Putin Detachments" movement.

November 02, 2018 21:59

• Union in support of political prisoners established in Azerbaijan

  Human rights defenders, namely, the editor-in-chief editor of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" and the head of the Union of Azerbaijani Intellectuals have announced the creation of the organization "For the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan".

November 02, 2018 21:57

• Legalized border with Chechnya is Evkurov's Pyrrhic victory

  The transfer of the dispute about the Ingush-Chechen border into the legal plane with the tacit Kremlin's support of Evkurov is a Pyrrhic victory of the head of Ingushetia over the opponents of his agreement with Kadyrov. The opposition will not give up its demands; while relations of the two nations are clouded with the mutual discontent, believe Ali Magomadov, a political analyst, and Akhmed Gisaev, the head of the Human Rights Analysis Centre.

November 02, 2018 18:28

• Georgia's Govt abandons idea of cultivating marijuana

  The Georgian Government has decided to recall the draft law on the cultivation of marijuana from the Parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the Parliament, has stated.

November 02, 2018 18:25

• Chechen authorities report on development of military tourism

  The first group of foreign tourists has arrived in Chechnya within the "MilitaryTour" programme. The Committee on Tourism of the Chechen Government has prepared a two-week programme for them, noting the nice prospects of this type of tourism.

November 02, 2018 14:25

• Political analysts explain Kremlin's position on Ingush-Chechen border

  The authorities of the Russian Federation have not distanced off from the conflict around the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border, but took a wait-and-see attitude due to the lack of compromise solutions, political analysts believe.

November 02, 2018 14:24

• Ingush activists tell about tree felling in "Erzi" Reserve

  The Construction of the road on the Chechen-Ingush border began in August with tree felling in the "Erzi" Nature Reserve, and the result of this construction will be the destruction of monuments, historians and activists assert.

November 02, 2018 14:23

• KChR residents commemorate deportation victims

  On November 2, the city of Karachaevsk will held a march, at which the participants will help posters with names and photos of their relatives, who perished during the deportation of Karachay nationals in 1943. The photos will be placed on the Memory Wall in the Karachay-Cherkessian State University.

November 02, 2018 14:22

• Rights defenders achieve inquiry into torture of Krasnodar resident

  The decision of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to close the criminal case on the kidnapping and torture of Aram Gambaryan, a resident of Krasnodar, was cancelled by the Prosecutor's Office. The case has been returned for additional investigation.

November 02, 2018 10:36

• President dissolves Armenian Parliament

  Armen Sargsyan, the President of Armenia has signed a decree on the dissolution of the National Assembly (Parliament), and scheduled extraordinary parliamentary elections for December 9.

November 02, 2018 10:33

• Two residents of Ingushetia disappear in Chechnya

  Moussa Tsechoev and his relative Ibragim Gutsariev left Ingushetia for Chechnya and did not return.

November 02, 2018 09:34

• Speaker Daudov inspects lands near Ingush border

  On the instruction of Ramzan Kadyrov, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has travelled to the border with Ingushetia and reported on plans for improving these territories. He has inspected the construction of the road, which had caused the border dispute.

November 02, 2018 09:33

• OSCE launches Moscow Mechanism because of human rights violations in Chechnya

  Russia has failed to essentially answer the questions asked by the countries of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) about violations of LGBTs' rights and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. Sixteen countries have called to send an emergency mission to investigate these crimes in connection with Russia's violation of its OSCE commitments.

November 02, 2018 09:33

• ECtHR accepts complaint of Dagestani resident on torture

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted the complaint of a Dagestan Biyarslan Akaev, who was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of aiding militants. Akaev has stated in his complaint that he had slandered himself under torture.