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June 30, 2018 13:18

• Azerbaijan states machine-gun fire from Armenian side

  During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire regime for 86 times on the troops contact line by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

June 30, 2018 13:02

• Relatives of Armenian ex-president Serzh Sargsyan suspected of illegal enrichment

  Levon Sargsyan, a brother of the former president of Armenia, while being Armenia's ambassador at large, failed to declare his large-scale bank deposits, the State Revenue Committee of Armenia has stated.

June 30, 2018 10:11

• Scientists of Caucasus explain Senator Kanokov's criticism of law on mother tongues

  The statement of Arsen Kanokov, the Senator (member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), against the law on mother tongues (native or national languages) became a sort of a challenge to other members of North-Caucasian elites, experts said.

June 30, 2018 10:09

• Law enforcers break into rights defender's house in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers have broken into the house of Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot".

June 30, 2018 08:20

• First hearing of Titiev's case scheduled for July 3

  A preliminary hearing of the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will be held behind closed doors. Titiev complained about informational isolation at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) – he fails to receive all the letters addressed to him; and they do not allow him to have a wireless or a TV set in his cell.

June 30, 2018 08:18

• Teen driving Mercedes knocks down three pedestrians in Khasavyurt

  In the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, a fifteen-year-old teenager, driving an off-road Mercedes car, knocked down two pedestrians to death, another person was hospitalized.

June 29, 2018 23:37

• PACE MPs condemn repressions against oppositionists in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan neglects its obligations to the Council of Europe (CoE), political persecutions and imprisonments are widespread in the country. This is said in the statement signed by 21 PACE MPs.

June 29, 2018 23:36

• Worker dies in sand quarry in Georgia

  A tractor driver got buried under sand and stones in a quarry in Chiatura District of Georgia; he died on the spot, the police have reported.

June 29, 2018 17:10

• Dagestan residents fight back their detained fellow villager from law enforcers

  A video about how residents of the Khasavyurt village of Andiyskoye forced law enforcers to release their detained fellow villager caused a resonance in the network. Commentators supported the actions of the people who protested against the detention without presenting documents.

June 29, 2018 17:06

• Two detained border Georgian guards returned by Russia

  Two officers of the Georgian Border Police, detained at the Dagestan section of the Russian border, have been released, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

June 29, 2018 15:18

• Film by director from Nalchik presented at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

  The film "Deep Rivers" by Vladimir Bitokov, a film director from Nalchik, will be screened in the programme "To the East of the West" at the festival that opens in Karlovy Vary today.

June 29, 2018 15:15

• Five people injured by explosion at fuelling station in Chechnya

  One of the five people injured in the explosion at a car fuelling station in the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya was hospitalized, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported.

June 29, 2018 10:59

• Kuban residents criticize Kadyrov's project of Transcaucasian HSR

  Residents of Kuban need no high-speed railway (HSR) from Chechnya to Krasnodar; and it is unacceptable to cover the expenses for its construction from the budget against the background of plans on the retirement age growth. This opinion was voiced by residents of the Krasnodar Territory interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 29, 2018 10:59

• French authorities change Kerimov's status to a witness

  In France, the criminal case against Suleiman Kerimov, a Senator from Dagestan, accused of violating the procedures to purchase real estate objects, is not closed, but he is granted the status of a witness, the Prosecutor's Office reports.

June 29, 2018 08:25

• Georgia: Saakashvili sentenced to six years in jail

  The Tbilisi City Court has found Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, guilty of beating up the MP Valery Gelashvili in 2005, and sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison.

June 29, 2018 08:13

• Rostov activists undress in protest against pension reform

  Women-activists of the Democratic Coalition have held a flash mob against raising the retirement age; they appeared in the street without clothes with posters "They've robbed us to panties!"

June 29, 2018 08:10

• Russian militaries in Abkhazia and Armenia change uniform because of heat

  Servicemen of Russian military bases in Abkhazia and Armenia were provided with new field military uniforms to protect them from thermal shocks; soldiers call new clothes "tropikanka".

June 28, 2018 23:34

• Three Azerbaijani MPs fall under CoE's sanctions

  Based on the outcomes of the inquiry into corruption at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), access into the building of the Council of Europe (CoE) is banned for life for two active and one former Azerbaijani MPs. One of them, Gyultekin Gadjibeili, has stated that Azerbaijani authorities prevented her from proving her innocence.

June 28, 2018 23:33

• French authorities remove all charges from Dagestan billionaire Kerimov

  All the charged on violations during real estate purchases in France have been removed from Senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov.

June 28, 2018 23:24

• Kadyrov's project raises payback issue of HSRs in Caucasus

  The Transcaucasian high-speed railway (HSR) proposed by Ramzan Kadyrov will be in demand; however, there are no full calculations of its efficiency, experts assert. Users of social networks doubt the need for high-speed trains in Northern Caucasus.