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September 12, 2018 15:04

• Azerbaijan announces about 90 machine-gun attacks per day

  During the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 90 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

September 12, 2018 14:51

• MPs argue about legalization of marijuana growing in Georgia

  The Government of Georgia has drafted a legislative initiative that allows cultivation of marijuana for pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for export. The appearance of the draft is premature, as it lobbies the interests of certain people, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

September 12, 2018 10:45

• After wiretapping scandal, Pashinyan orders to conduct searches at oligarchs and officials

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, has ordered to conduct raids and searches of the houses of oligarchs and former high-ranking officials, and find the organizers of wiretapping of the telephone conversation of Arthur Vanetsyan, the head of the National Security Service (NSS) with Valery Osipyan, the head of the Armenian Police.

September 12, 2018 10:36

• Mother of defendant in case of attempt on Ganja Mayor states pressure on her son and his advocate

  The mother of Yunis Safarov, accused of an assassination attempt on Elmar Veliev, the Mayor of the city of Ganja, has announced that the well-known advocate Elchin Sadygov had been removed from defending her son. According to her story, her son is under pressure to testify against the Sadygov.

September 12, 2018 10:29

• New charge presented to Robert Kocharyan

  Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, is accused of financial frauds and money laundering, Arthur Vanetsyan, the head of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia, has stated.

September 12, 2018 08:32

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia felt bad during conflict with policemen

  Policemen did not allow the participants of the "Don't kill!" action, who demand resignation of the Georgian government, to set up tents in the central Tbilisi avenue. The initiator of the action Zaza Saralidze fainted and was taken away by an ambulance.

September 12, 2018 08:24

• Kadyrov supports "Rosgvardia" boss' challenge to Navalny

  Victor Zolotov, the head of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) is defending the honour of his organization by inviting the oppositionist Alexei Navalny to a duel, said Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya.

September 11, 2018 21:50

• Kalmykia: observer disappears after talking to investigator

  For the last time, Aisa Khulaeva, who shot a video about ballot-stuffing at a polling station, was seen in the investigator's office; she is out of contact for the second day, the Kalmyk branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party has informed.

September 11, 2018 21:41

• Azerbaijani activist placed in dungeon after going on hunger strike

  Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is on the fifth day of his hunger strike in colony, was placed into the dungeon (a punishment cell), his brother, Natig Adilov, has reported. In its turn, the Penitentiary Service asserts that Adilov refused from his hunger strike.

September 11, 2018 21:31

• Timati-Nurmagomedov conflict sparks disputes on radicalism in Dagestan (+video)

  The virtual dispute of the performer and producer Timati with the Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov that broke out after the cancellation of the concert of singer Yegor Krid in Makhachkala caused a heated discussion among social network users about the admissibility of banning the music, which fails to meet religious and traditional values of Dagestan.

September 11, 2018 17:41

• Appeal to Kadyrov raises problem of extortions in Chechen schools

  An appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov with a complaint about money extortions from parents at schools was spread on the WhatsApp by a user who introduced herself as a resident of the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny District.

September 11, 2018 17:35

• Oppositionists report ballot-stuffing at polling stations in Volgograd

  Observers from oppositional parties told the "Caucasian Knot" about ballot-stuffing, falsifications during vote tabulation and threats of physical execution, which they fixed during the recent elections in Volgograd; they filed complaints about violations.

September 11, 2018 14:32

• "Vayfond" head stops hunger strike against Chechen's extradition to Russia

  Mansur Sadulaev, the head of the "Vayfond" Swedish charitable association, has stopped, after a deterioration of his health condition, the hunger strike announced on September 6 in protest against the decision of Bosnian authorities to extradite Akhmed Altamirov, an ethnic Chechen and a native of Ingushetia, to Russia.

September 11, 2018 14:28

• Azerbaijan reports machine-gun fire in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 84 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

September 11, 2018 14:20

• Three teens injured at building collapse in Tbilisi

  The health condition of one of the three children who received traumas, when a wall of the garage located in Gardabani Highway in Tbilisi collapsed, is grave, the Georgian Ministry of Public Health has reported.

September 11, 2018 14:08

• Human rights defenders criticize Albert Khamkhoev's verdict

  In the course of judicial investigation, no proofs of Khamkhoev's guilt, accused of possessing weapons, were presented; and the sentence rendered on him is unfair, Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", believes.

September 11, 2018 09:52

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Ilgar Mamedov demands to punish judges

  Ilgar Mamedov, the Chairman of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party has appealed to the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office demanding to punish the judges involved in his arrest and imprisonment.

September 11, 2018 09:37

• Lawyer Benyash arrested for 14 days

  Lawyer Mikhail Benyash, detained in Krasnodar at an unsanctioned march against the pension reform, was arrested for 14 days and sentenced to 40 hours of compulsory works.

September 11, 2018 09:29

• Four Ingush Vice-Premiers dismissed

  Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was elected to the post of the head of Ingushetia for the third time, reduced the number of Vice-Premiers in the republic's government.

September 11, 2018 08:38

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia goes on hunger strike

  At the protest actions "Don't kill – together on guard of justice" in Tbilisi, Zaza Saralidze announced a hunger strike demanding resignation of the Georgian government.