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19:32, 19 November 2018

Attacker on "Caucasian Knot" correspondent sentenced to conditional imprisonment

Today, Madina Omarova, Judge at the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala, has recognized Karim Kasumov guilty of assaulting a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and sentenced him to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment on probation for two years.

Rainbow flags. Photo: https://pixabay.com/

13:33, 19 November 2018

Austrian OSCE expert tasked with inquiry into human rights violations in Chechnya

An Austrian lawyer, chosen from among OSCE experts has taken up the checking reports about human rights violations in Chechnya, said Igor Kochetkov, the executive programme director of the Russian LGBT Network.

Military drills of theAzerbaijani Army, November 2018. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan. https://mod.gov.az/ru/news/v-ramkah-kshvi-vojska-nahchyvanskogo-garnizona-uspeshno-proveli-etap-s-boevoj-strelboj-video-24912.html

13:24, 19 November 2018

Azerbaijan claims 25 shelling attacks in conflict zone

The shelling of military positions was carried out from the territories that Azerbaijan regards as occupied, states the report of the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD), not specifying, however, any shelling on the border with Armenia.

11:14, 19 November 2018

Georgian motorists hold rally against border moving in Atotsi

Members of Georgian motor clubs have organized a motor rally from Mtskheta to the village of Atotsi, Kareli District, in order to show their negative attitude to Russia's actions in Georgia. Up to 150 cars arrived to the border line from Tbilisi.

11:04, 19 November 2018

Rosgvardia agent killed in Dagestan

An employee of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), who interfered into a conflict that broke out among visitors of a cafe in Makhachkala, was killed during a shootout. Two more men were wounded.

Police detain activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, November 17, 2018. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the Caucasian Knot

10:53, 19 November 2018

Eleven Baku detainees accused of violating rally rules

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and ten activists detained along with him have been accused of violating the rules of mass actions; they face up to two months of administrative arrest, the MIA has reported, while oppositionists assert that the detention of activists and the charges against them are unjustified.

The police photos made near the checkpoint where self-bombing was committed, Grozny, November 17, 2018. Screenshot from video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToyeRYr9UAQ

10:45, 19 November 2018

Media report details of Grozny suicide bomber's life

Karina Spiridonova, the alleged suicide bomber, who blew herself up 75 meters from a checkpoint in Grozny, attended a school in a village in the Chelyabinsk Region, was raised in an incomplete family and was fond of pedagogy, some media have stated.

The police photos made near the checkpoint in Shosseynaya street in Grozny. Screenshot of the "Operative Line"

08:42, 18 November 2018

Passports and note appear on Internet after suicide bombing of Chechen woman

After the woman's self-explosion at a checkpoint in Grozny, the Russian and two foreign passports of Karina Spiridonova, a citizen of Adygea were posted on the Internet, as well as a note addressing Allah.

Ruslan Yandiev. Photo from his personal page on Facebook

08:41, 18 November 2018

Activists detained in Nazran arrested for 5 days

Ruslan Yandiev, a blogger, and Magomed Mutsolgov, a namesake of the head of the "Mashr" organization, were awarded with 5 days of administrative arrest, Ruslan Mutsolgov, the leader of the Ingush branch of the "Yabloko" Party, has stated.м

08:40, 18 November 2018

Chechnya: explosion of suicide bomber was third terror act in the region since start of year

On Saturday, near the checkpoint in the outskirt of Grozny, an explosion occurred. In 2018, it was preceded by two other terror acts committed in Chechnya. The responsibility for the both earlier incidents was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

Detention of the activists of the National Council of Democratic Forces during the march on 17.01.2018. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"

08:39, 18 November 2018

Activists demand to release detainees at Baku march

About 100 people gathered at the police station and demanded to release the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the head of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and other people detainees during the march in Baku.

15:21, 17 November 2018

Chechnya: authors of game about vampires apologize for the game plot

The references to Chechnya will be removed from the table game, which has caused criticism because of the disrespectful reference to the prosecution of gays in the republic, the game designers have assured.

Barakh Chemurziev. Photo: screenshot of the video by the TV Rain channel https://tvrain.ru/teleshow/kruglyj_stol/ingushetija-473104/

15:16, 17 November 2018

Two protest leaders detained in Ingushetia

Law enforcers have detained activists Barakh Chemurziev and Akhmed Pogorov, who, together with other residents of Ingushetia, gathered today in the Sunzha District in order to go to the border with Chechnya to hold a subbotnik (a voluntary clean-up day) there.

10:45, 17 November 2018

Azerbaijani SC upholds verdict on "Nardaran case"

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed the complaint of the theologian Zulfugar Mikailov and 11 other convicted believers. The defence intends to appeal against the verdict at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The ruins of the Erzi tower complex. Photo Alex Svirkin, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57090246

10:43, 17 November 2018

Analysts see challenge to Kadyrov in subbotnik in lands transferred to Chechnya

The initiative of Ingush activists to organize a subbotnik in the territory that became a subject of dispute because of the border agreement with Chechnya is a challenge to the leadership of Chechnya, analysts have suggested, while lawyers point out that the political subtext of the subbotnik equates it to a rally.

08:24, 17 November 2018

Prosecutor asks two years in prison for attacking "Caucasian Knot" correspondent

The prosecutor has asked for two years in prison for Karim Kasumov, accused of attacking a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a rally of Alexei Navalny's supporters in Makhachkala; the victim's representative has demanded the maximum punishment for Kasumov.

Participants of a picket in Vladikavkaz demanded to close the "Electrozink" Metallurgical Factory. November 16, 2018. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the "Caucasian Knot"

08:22, 17 November 2018

Vladikavkaz picketers demand to close "Electrozink"

About 50 residents of Vladikavkaz came to a picket demanding to close the "Electrozink" Metallurgical Factory. They called the factory hazardous for locals' health.

Participants of the rally in Magas. October 2018. Photo courtesy of Yakub Gogiev for the "Caucasian Knot"

21:51, 16 November 2018

Russia's CC summons Kadyrov and Evkurov to sitting

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the republics' MPs, officials from the Chechen and Ingush General Prosecutor's Offices (GPOs) and Ministries of Justice (MoJs) have been summoned by the Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia to the session on the Chechen-Ingush border.

Grozny. Chechnya. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

21:50, 16 November 2018

Chechen authorities threaten table game authors

Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Minister for National Policy and External Relations, has called the table game "Vampire: The Masquerade", in which the republic is ruled by a clan of vampires, a part of the information war.

A law enforcer. Photo © Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru

18:49, 16 November 2018

Researchers of Caucasus criticize official version of shootout in Chechnya

The statement of law enforcers that those killed in the shootout in Chechnya had links with militants is not convincing enough, but people need to wait for the investigators' conclusions, experts believe. The casualties were buried in a nameless grave, said a relative of one of them.

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