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June 06, 2018 13:25

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, Police Chief and State Minister resign

  Kamo Agadjanyan, the chief of the Nagorno-Karabakh Police, explained his request for resignation by the demand voiced by the public. The reasons for the resignation of State Minister Araik Arutyunyan are still unknown.

June 06, 2018 11:55

• In Azerbaijan, two persons fell victim to earthquake

  In Azerbaijan, after an earthquake, one person died from the stress he had suffered, and another one was hospitalized. The authorities and local residents reported cracks in the houses.

June 06, 2018 09:48

• Tbilisi metro drivers stop their strike

  The decision to stop the protest action was made today after the night talks with officials of the Tbilisi Mayoralty.

June 06, 2018 06:04

• Refusal to study national languages threatens youth's radicalization

  Many residents of Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria are against the transfer of studying their native languages to the voluntary basis, the Adyg scientists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have stated. In their opinion, people's discontent can lead to the creation of a new social movement.

June 06, 2018 00:04

• Georgia breaks its diplomatic relations with Syria

  The decision of the Syrian authorities to establish diplomatic relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia was made under Russian pressure; it violates the fundamental norms and principles of the international law, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

June 05, 2018 19:40

• "Sasna Tsrer" abandons uprising idea

  With the change of power in Armenia, the need for an armed uprising has vanished; the "Sasna Tsrer" regiment is ready to cooperate with the new authorities, its members have stated today.

June 05, 2018 18:43

• Activists demand resignation of Georgia's MoJ head

  Teya Tsulukiani, the Minister of Justice of Georgia, cannot elect a new chief prosecutor, as she failed to cope with reforming the justice system, activists of ten non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stated. The Georgian Prime Minister has rejected the demand to dismiss the head of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

June 05, 2018 16:34

• Evkurov's conflict with Muftiate reminds of Kadyrov's interests in Ingushetia

  The periods of relation aggravation between Yunus-Bek Evkurov and the Muftiate are related to disagreements between the leaders of Ingushetia and Chechnya, believes Akhmet Yarlykapov, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Caucasus Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (known as MGIMO).

June 05, 2018 15:54

• "Kinotavr" participants wear T-shirts with photos of arrested film directors

  At the "Kinotavr" film festival opened in Sochi on June 2, friends and colleagues of film directors Kirill Serebrennikov and Oleg Sentsov held an action to draw attention to the criminal cases against the Russian and Ukrainian film directors.

June 05, 2018 14:47

• CTO legal regime lifted in Dagestan

  Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been lifted in the Tsumada District in Dagestan after the completion of special actions, reports the spokesman for the operative headquarters of the republic.

June 05, 2018 09:17

• Negotiations on resumption of metro work in Tbilisi fail

  This night, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has had two rounds of talks with metro drivers on strike. However, the negotiations have failed. The machinists stay unhappy with the proposal to raise their salaries in 2019 and announced the continuation of their strike.

June 05, 2018 08:36

• BCA dismisses appeals filed by ReAl activists

  The court has dismissed appeals filed by two activists of the "Republican Alternative" Party (ReAl) about their administrative arrests.

June 05, 2018 08:20

• Chechnya to have four free days to celebrate Eid al-Fitr

  The authorities of Chechnya declared the days off for June 15-June 18 in connection with the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Meanwhile, local theologians have not yet decided on the date for completion of Ramadan, the month of fasting.

June 05, 2018 06:53

• Rights defenders treat Islam Gugov's case as unprecedented

  A case of Islam Gugov, involved in the third trial after his voluntary return from Syria, is a precedent when the law enforcement bodies ignore the guarantees given by the authorities, believes Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council for the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". Depreciation of the authorities' promises inflicts great damage to the prevention of extremism and terrorism, believes Valery Khatazhukov, head of the movement "For Human Rights" in Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 05, 2018 01:20

• Lawyer Emin Aslan kidnapped in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijani lawyer Emin Aslan, who prepared for Azerbaijani citizens a number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), was detained in Baku and taken away to some unknown destination, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by Anar Mamedli, the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDS).

June 05, 2018 00:49

• Father of schoolboy killed in Tbilisi demands to detain all guilty persons before end of week

  A father of one of the teenagers killed in Tbilisi demanded to detain until June 10 the people who killed his son and law enforcers who covered them up. The man threatened to continue protest actions demanding a change of power in the country.

June 04, 2018 20:27

• HRC "Memorial" announces first night of the play about Oyub Titiev

  The premiere of the play "Oyub" will take place on June 13 in the Moscow office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

June 04, 2018 18:42

• Paris: local Chechens urge Frenchmen not to treat them as terrorists (+video)

  On June 3, about 500 participants of the action in France condemned the actions of the Chechen-born Khamzat Azimov, who attacked passers-by in Paris, and called on the French media to stop their anti-Chechen campaign.

June 04, 2018 15:41

• Observers prove the overstated voter turnout at election in NCFD regions

  The official voter turnout at the election of the Russian president in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) were overstated, volunteers report, who compared the data of video records from some polling stations with the official data of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.

June 04, 2018 14:33

• Azerbaijani SC refuses to unblock opposition websites

  The cassation complaints against the blocking of websites azadliq.info (the website of the Azadlig newspaper) and azadliq.org (the website of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty) were denied today by the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan.