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October 31, 2018 18:15

• OSCE monitoring reveals no violations in Karabakh conflict zone

  While monitoring the contact line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, OSCE observers did not reveal any violations of the ceasefire regime.

October 31, 2018 18:11

• Organizers call on people to finish rally in Magas

  In Magas, an action against the change in the border with Chechnya was finished earlier than planned, and protesters expressed their intention to act in a legal way, stated protest organizers. The co-chairs of the NGO "Mekhk Khel" did not agree with the decision.

October 31, 2018 14:58

• Lawyers argue about significance of decision pronounced by Ingush Constitutional Court

  Ibragim Doskiev, the deputy chairman of the Ingush Constitutional Court, has stated that the Court's decision declaring the law on the border with Chechnya unconstitutional is final and takes effect from the moment it is pronounced.

October 31, 2018 14:53

• Sochi residents pay tribute to victims of political repression

  Sochi residents laid flowers to the monument to victims of repression and paid tribute to their memory by lighting candles. The people voiced the stories of their repressed relatives and called on their compatriots to remember the past to prevent it from happening again.

October 31, 2018 12:09

• Ingush SC recognizes a search at activist Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as illegal

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has cancelled the decision of the Magas District Court, which recognized a search at the Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as lawful, advocate Magomed Gagiev reported.

October 31, 2018 12:09

• Azerbaijani journalist complains about torture after detention

  In Baku, law enforcers kept journalist Ismail Islamoglu for three days and did not recognize the fact of detention, an advocate reported. Ismail Islamoglu himself complained that he had been tortured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the journalist was not brought to a police station until his bride filed a complaint about his disappearance.

October 31, 2018 08:59

• Boulder placed into foundation of monument to repressed people in KChR

  The monument, into foundation of which the first boulder was placed today, will be erected in the village of Bavuko of the Khabez District. The construction was initiated by a local resident who himself fell victim to political repressions.

October 31, 2018 08:58

• Armenia: experts associate economic decline with political situation

  In the opinion of Bagrat Asatryan, an economist, one of the reasons for a significant decline in economic activity in the country is the Armenia's political uncertainty. Artak Manukyan, an advisor to the Acting Premier Nikol Pashinyan on economic issues, has acknowledged that the structure of the economy should be radically revised.

October 30, 2018 23:59

• Zaza Saralidze, father of schoolboy killed in Georgia, discharged from hospital

  Zaza Saralidze spent four days in hospital, and, after being discharged, joined the protest action held outside the building of the Georgian Parliament. He expressed his mistrust in the Prosecutor's Office, which runs the case of his beating up a policeman.

October 30, 2018 23:58

• Evkurov doubts decision of Ingush CC on border with Chechnya

  The decision of the Ingush Constitutional Court (CC) does not cancel the border agreement with Chechnya, as it has entered into force, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has stated. In his opinion the CC of Russia should settle the issue.

October 30, 2018 22:56

• Resident of Dagestan complains about torture to ECtHR

  After the detention of Abutalip Shakhruev, a resident of Makhachkala, law enforcers forced him by torture to defame himself. Shakhruev has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

October 30, 2018 22:55

• Rights defenders achieve new check of Murad Amriev's case

  After the complaint lodged by lawyers of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), investigators began the 18th check of the application of the Chechen athlete, Murad Amriev, about torture by law enforcers in Grozny.

October 30, 2018 18:41

• Ingush CC declares law on Chechen border unconstitutional

  The law on fixing a new border with Chechnya fails to comply with the Constitution of Ingushetia, this border issue should be resolved by a referendum, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ingushetia has decided.

October 30, 2018 18:33

• Victims of political repressions tell about threat of closing their organization in Volgograd

  The "Association of Victims of Illegal Political Repressions" in Volgograd may stop its work due to a lack of money to rent its office, the head of the organization told the rally in memory of the victims of repressions.

October 30, 2018 14:42

• Azerbaijan: a border village in conflict zone shelled

  The positions of the Azerbaijani army in the village of Bala Jafarli were shelled 25 times a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports.

October 30, 2018 14:35

• Residents of North Ossetia argue about fate of "Electrozinc" plant

  The closure of the "Electrozinc" plant will leave 2000 people without means of support, workers of the plant pointed out. Vyacheslav Bitarov, the leader of North Ossetia, proposed to restructure the plant to employ some of its employees.

October 30, 2018 12:47

• Residents of Urtsadzor accuse Armenian authorities of agreement violation

  Supporters of Rafik Andreasyan, the former head of the Urtsadzor community, said that the authorities ignored their demands. According to them, Gevorg Avetisyan, the acting head of the community, continued to come to job, despite the agreement that he would be temporarily suspended from office. Gevorg Avetisyan's supporters plan to continue the protests.

October 30, 2018 12:43

• In Sochi, a call to commemorate victims of repression turns into a threat of prosecution

  On October 30, the leader of the "Yabloko" Party branch called on Sochi residents to pay tribute to the memory of the people who fell victim to political repression. In response, a policeman handed over to her a warning about the inadmissibility of holding unsanctioned mass actions.

October 30, 2018 12:43

• Rights defenders point to problem of return of territories to repressed peoples

  The Law "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples" has generated a lot of tension, since the return of lands to repressed peoples has become an impossible task. This opinion was voiced by Yan Rachinski, the chair of the board for the international society "Memorial".

October 30, 2018 08:59

• Two Ingush MPs recall their requests to check border law

  Two members of the Ingush parliament and two residents of the republic have decided not to seek a check of the law approving the new Chechen-Ingush border by the Constitutional Court (CC) and recalled their requests.