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October 24, 2018 10:42

• Oppositionist Djeikhun Nabi detained in Azerbaijan

  Law enforcers have detained the activist Djeikhun Nabi in Shamkir and brought him to Baku. The detention may have to do with Nabi's posts on the Facebook, in which he criticized Azerbaijani authorities, Sardar Nabiev, Djeikhun's father, and Ogtai Gyulyalyev, a rights defender, have stated.

October 24, 2018 10:29

• Georgian MPs offer criminal liability for country's maps without Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  A draft law on criminal liability for making and spreading "maps of Georgia, which violate the territorial integrity" was registered at the Georgian Parliament.

October 24, 2018 08:41

• Residents of Yandare and Kantyshevo support opponents of border agreement

  Ingush officials are organizing meetings, where they try to convince residents of the republic of the legitimacy of the agreement on fixing a new border. The meetings also involve members of the organizing committee of the Magas rally; the participants of the meetings in the villages of Yandare and Kantyshevo have already supported them, activists have stated.

October 24, 2018 08:31

• Soldier wounded in NKR

  On October 23, as a result of a shot from Azerbaijani positions, a soldier of the Defence Army was wounded, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

October 24, 2018 08:23

• ECtHR awards 1.5 million euros to relatives of kidnapped residents of Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russia to pay compensation to relatives of 21 residents of Chechnya who disappeared during special operations of federal troops.

October 23, 2018 23:20

• Defence of Mikhail Benyash claims inaction of investigators

  Over a month, investigators still did not question the only witness to the detention of Krasnodar advocate Mikhail Benyash and did not carry out any investigative actions, reported Alexei Avanesyan, a defender of Mikhail Benyash.

October 23, 2018 23:11

• New Chechen-Ingush borders sharpen problem of disputed Dagestani villages

  The scandalous agreement on the borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia and the creation by Ramzan Kadyrov of a state commission to determine and confirm the administrative border of the republic have actualized the problem of disputed territories in Dagestan and the Stavropol Territory. Observers have expressed their concern about possible conflicts over the lands around Chechnya.

October 23, 2018 17:58

• LGBT activists tell about beatings and escape from Chechnya

  Lesbian girls in Chechnya have to completely obey the will of their parents; they are forced to endure beatings from relatives and to marry forcibly. Three Chechen girls of non-traditional sexual orientation who fled from Russia, despite the attempts of families to bring them home by force, told in their interview to Radio Liberty.

October 23, 2018 17:50

• 16 years since the capture of hostages at Dubrovka

  People in Moscow are coming today to the building of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, where 16 years ago Chechen militants captured 916 people as hostages. On October 26, 2002, at least 130 hostages died during the storming of the building.

October 23, 2018 17:40

• Court agrees to release lawyer Benyash on bail

  Mikhail Benyash will be able to leave the SIZO (pre-trial prison), when a deposit of 600,000 roubles is received to the account of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation, the court in Krasnodar has ruled today.

October 23, 2018 13:27

• Azerbaijan counts 29 attacks in the conflict zone

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today that the positions of its army deployed in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns.

October 23, 2018 13:16

• TV series episode with Circassian woman triggers protests among Caucasian Diasporas in Turkey

  The natives of Northern Caucasus living in Turkey found the phrase about the Circassian woman in the "One Hope" TV series as offensive and demanded, at a rally, to stop further show of the serial.

October 23, 2018 13:01

• Social network users treat the idea to transfer two districts of Chechnya to Stavropol Territory as provocation

  The board of the inter-regional public organization named "Caucasian Cossack Line" has appealed to the leadership of the Stavropol Territory with a call to restore the historical justice and return the Naur and Shelkovskoy Districts of Chechnya to the Stavropol Territory.

October 23, 2018 10:59

• Khazbiev rejects advocates' services

  The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has refused from the services of advocates Kheda Ibrieva and Andrei Sabinin. The judge has satisfied his motion and offered a state defender, if Khazbiev fails to find n advocate.

October 23, 2018 10:47

• Azerbaijani MFA condemns visit of Saint-Étienne delegation to NKR

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced the trip of a delegation from the French city of Saint-Étienne to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and the declaration signed during this visit to be illegal. The Mayor of Saint-Étienne will be put on the list of undesirable persons of the Azerbaijani MFA, who are banned from entering Azerbaijan.

October 23, 2018 08:29

• Analysts debate about Kadyrov's aim of visiting Ingushetia

  The arrival of Ramzan Kadyrov in the village of Surkhakhi should not be treated as Evkurov's tripping; the head of Chechnya has rightly placed responsibility on Evkurov, Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush activist, has stated. In her turn, Svetlana Gannushkina, a rights defender, is sure that Kadyrov sought to harm his Ingush counterpart.

October 22, 2018 23:03

• In Vladikavkaz, protestors demand to close "Electrozinc" plant

  In Vladikavkaz, residents of North Ossetia gathered for a spontaneous action against the operation of the "Electrozinc" plant.

October 22, 2018 22:49

• Re-arrest of political prisoner marks new trend of repression in Azerbaijan

  Religious activist Telman Shiraliev was arrested on the charge of possessing prohibited items in a penal colony while preparing for release from prison. Filing new charges against political prisoners at the end of their imprisonment sentences is a new trend in prosecution of activists in Azerbaijan, report rights defenders.

October 22, 2018 22:32

• Residents of Chechnya complain about forced eviction from dormitories

  The demand of the Chechen leader to identify fraudsters wanting to get free housing has turned into large-scale inspections of dormitories with eviction of people. Residents of dormitories are evicted to their relatives without presenting documents, local residents report.

October 22, 2018 20:04

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 15-21, 2018

  Fire at the "Electrozinc" plant in Vladikavkaz; resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan; temporary pause in the Magas protest, - see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 15-21, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".