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July 02, 2018 22:48

• Сoordinator of Navalny's office fined by 150,000 roubles

  Today, the court has pronounced the decision to fine Ivan Tansky, a coordinator of the Alexei Navalny's office in Stavropol, 150,000 roubles for organizing an unsanctioned action.

July 02, 2018 22:37

• In Tbilisi, father of murdered teenager goes on hunger strike

  Today, Zaza Saralidze has started a hunger strike in a yard of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The man demands from investigators to detain one of the main witnesses, whom he considers involved in the murder of his son.

July 02, 2018 22:28

• Georgian authorities allocate about 4.5 million US dollars for school security systems

  The funds are aimed to ensure that external perimeters of school buildings are equipped with CCTV cameras, an official from the Georgian Ministry of Education has announced today.

July 02, 2018 17:44

• Suleiman Kerimov returns to Moscow from France

  Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, got back his passport in France, where he was accused of violating the procedures while purchasing real estate objects. At present, he can freely move around Europe, the Russian diplomatic mission in France reports today.

July 02, 2018 17:32

• 20 people suffer from record heat in Baku

  From the early summer, 49 people addressed the Baku City Emergency Medical Service with complaints of sunstrokes. Doctors recommend people to drink more water when the weather is hot, and weather forecasters predict a new increase in air temperature.

July 02, 2018 16:12

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events from June 25 to July 1, 2018

  Protests in Southern Russia against increase of retirement age; explosion at a fuelling station and a new government head in Chechnya; new Saakashvili's conviction, – read about these and other events in the Caucasus that happened during the week from June 25 to July 1, 2018, in the review prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 02, 2018 15:26

• CDSI reports 38 losses from parties to Karabakh conflict since beginning of year

  In the first half of the year, Azerbaijan lost 15 soldiers and officers. The opposing military units in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh lost 23 killed soldiers and officers, the Caspian Defence Studies Institute (CDSI) estimates.

July 02, 2018 15:15

• On June 25-July 1, 2018, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of June 25-July 1, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

July 02, 2018 15:01

• About 100 real estate objects arrested in Dagestani officials' case

  Among the arrested property there are apartments and shares in private houses owned by relatives of Rayudin Yusufov, the "Kommersant" reports today.

July 02, 2018 14:48

• Baku registers 120-year air temperature record

  On July 1, in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula, the air temperature reached 43-44°C, and that was a record for 120 years of observations, the National Department from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology reports.

July 02, 2018 11:49

• At Krasnodar rally, organizers report 800 opponents to pension reform

  On July 1, in Krasnodar, despite the intense heat, nearly 800 people took part in a rally against the increase in retirement age in Russia, organized by the Navalny's office. Many participants do not belong to any political party or opposition movement, the organizers of the rally noted. Meanwhile, Krasnodar policemen reported about 150 participants of the rally.

July 02, 2018 11:42

• In Sochi, over 10,000 people visit fan zone during Russia-Spain football match

  On July 1, in Sochi, by the beginning of the football match between the national teams of Russia and Spain, a fan zone gathered at a time more than 10,000 football fans. In total, during the day, according to the organizers' estimates, about 20,000 people visited the fan zone.

July 02, 2018 11:30

• About 100 people come to presentation of film about Kalmyk soldiers killed in Chechnya

  On June 29, Elista hosted a presentation of the documentary film "When I Return-3", dedicated to soldiers and officers from Kalmykia, killed during the second Chechen war and counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Northern Caucasus.

July 02, 2018 11:18

• Rostov resident come out to Red Square to protest naked

  In protest against the increase in retirement age, Vyacheslav Shumsky, a Rostov activist stripped in the centre of Moscow and covered his body with the poster reading: "Robbed to underpants".

July 01, 2018 11:08

• Suicide statistics in Abkhazia causes scandal in social networks

  Since the start of 2018, 17 suicides have been registered in Abkhazia; nine of them in the last two months, Raul Lolua, an MP, wrote in his Facebook. Users of social networks believe that suicides are caused by financial problems; however, in most cases people could have been saved by specialists and the attention of relatives.

July 01, 2018 11:04

• Defence disagrees with verdict to teens in Tbilisi

  The advocates of the teenagers convicted in the case of killing schoolboys in Tbilisi have appealed against the judgement.

June 30, 2018 21:44

• Nagorno-Karabakh counts 150 shelling episodes from Azerbaijan during a week

  On June 24-30, militaries of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired about 1500 rounds, thus, violating the truce in the conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

June 30, 2018 21:36

• Desecration of Buddha statue in Elista turns into verdict to two Dagestanis

  A resident of Dagestan has been convicted for inciting hatred towards Kalmyks in the context of the case of Said Osmanov, who was found guilty in Elista of desecrating the statue of Buddha.

June 30, 2018 18:50

• Chechen teachers treat optional study of mother tongue as unacceptable

  The adoption of the bill now being considered by the State Duma poses a threat of extinction to languages of Russia's small nations, including Chechens, the teachers and scientists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma MP, has recalled his signature from the list of authors of the bill.

June 30, 2018 18:47

• Mutsolgov told how his search was held

  Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush rights defender and a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot", said that the law enforcers in masks, who searched his house and the office of his human rights organization "Mashr", behaved correctly.