News

October 27, 2018 16:45

• Azerbaijan reports 23 shelling attacks in the conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from Armenia and from territories near the "occupied villages", the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

October 27, 2018 16:36

• Ingush opposition treats Kadyrov's visits as diversion

  The authorities of Ingushetia are ignoring the initiative trips of Kadyrov's people over the republic; while the apologies and reconciliations that accompany the visits will not make the residents of Ingushetia forget about the land issue, Ingush oppositionists have stated.

October 27, 2018 16:28

• Count of victims of Kuban flooding reaches 66

  During the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory, six people perished and 60 others were injured, the fate of two persons remains unknown, the local emergency services have stated today.

October 27, 2018 16:19

• Kyrgyz natives convicted in Rostov-on-Don for belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir*

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced two citizens of Kyrgyzstan to 15 and 13 years of imprisonment, claiming their membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia by the court).

October 27, 2018 11:00

• Chechen authorities evicted about 20 people from hostels in three days

  The campaign, initiated by Ramzan Kadyrov, resulted in the eviction of about 20 people from hostels; several dozen other tenants should leave their rooms in the coming days, the office of the head of Chechnya has stated.

October 27, 2018 10:55

• Djeikhun Nabi tells about interrogation in context of his Facebook posts

  After three days in custody, Djeikhun Nabi was released from the police and said that he was interrogated in connection with his publications on the Facebook, as well as about his relations with political emigrants in Europe.

October 27, 2018 10:49

• Editor-in-chief of "realliq.info" website detained in Azerbaijan

  Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "realliq.info" website has been detained in Baku. According to the advocate Elchin Sadygov, he was detained by agents of the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan.

October 27, 2018 10:40

• Zaza Saralidze hospitalized after being detained in Tbilisi

  Zaza Saralidze, the father of one of the two murdered schoolboys, who had been holding a protest action near the Georgian Parliament since October 10, was hospitalized from a police station, where he was taken for beating a policeman.

October 27, 2018 01:05

• Karabulak rally is against border agreement with Chechnya

  About two hundred participants of a rally held in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, have unanimously demanded the cancellation of the agreement on changing the Ingush-Chechen border and elected delegates to the World Congress of the Ingush People.

October 27, 2018 01:00

• Kadyrov's visits exacerbate situation in Ingushetia

  The visits of Ramzan Kadyrov and his closest officials to Ingush activists, who had criticized the head of Chechnya, are causing tensions in Ingushetia and can lead to bloodshed, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, believes.

October 26, 2018 21:53

• Pogorov states reconciliation with Kadyrov

  The head of Chechnya and a number of his close associates have "warmly communicated" with the Ingush activist Akhmed Pogorov; the Chechen leaders apologized to Ingushes, Pogorov himself have stated.

October 26, 2018 21:46

• At rally in Gukovo, miners demand the promised coal

  Today, at their protest action, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company have stated the absence of the promised payments and coal; and that with the onset of cold weather they have nothing to heat up their homes.

October 26, 2018 21:38

• Blocked roads affect number of namaz participants in Magas

  Opponents of the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border had to walk to the venue of the Friday namaz (prayer) in Magas, since roads were blocked. Elderly believers were forced to refuse to participate in the prayer, activists have stated.

October 26, 2018 18:20

• Daudov tells about night visit to Mufti's house in Ingushetia

  The video record of Magomed Daudov's arrival in Ingushetia, posted on the YouTube, shows the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament [Daudov] standing in darkness in front of the house of Isa Khamkhoev, the Mufti of Ingushetia. Magomed Daudov has himself confirmed the information about his trip to the Mufti of Ingushetia.

October 26, 2018 17:49

• 50 people turn to doctors for help after Kuban flooding

  13 out of 50 injured persons during flooding in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) were hospitalized, the Territorial Ministry of Public Health has stated today.

October 26, 2018 12:54

• Number of flood victims in Kuban reaches seven

  Six people perished and one suffered in the emergency zone in the Tuapse and Apsheron Districts, local authorities and emergency services have stated.

October 26, 2018 12:47

• Azerbaijan counts 30 shelling attacks from Armenia within 24 hours

  Armenian militaries have shelled positions of the Azerbaijani Army in different sections of the frontline for 30 times during the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

October 26, 2018 11:18

• Relatives report disappearance of detained Azerbaijani activist Nabi

  The fate of the activist Djeikhun Nabi, who was detained on October 23 in Azerbaijan, remains unknown. Relatives and human rights defenders cannot establish his whereabouts. Advocates have now joined the search.

October 26, 2018 11:04

• Rights defenders tell about problems of combating domestic violence

  Russia fails to take sufficient measures to solve the problem of domestic violence, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserts.

October 26, 2018 10:52

• Court rejects complaint of "Yerevan Today" about search

  The Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has found the search conducted at the editorial office of the website "Yerevan Today" legitimate. The search and the court judgement are examples of pressure on mass media, the website's advocate has stated.