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The "Erzi" Natural Reserve. Photo: Natalya zvereva https://ru.wikipedia.org

21:51, 31 October 2018

Media: agreement on Chechen-Ingush border threatens "Erzi" Reserve

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation is studying the issue of changing the territory of the "Erzi" Natural Reserve in connection with the border agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border, the "Kommersant" reports. Environmentalists fear that the reserve will lose the land that was passed over to Chechnya.

Map of a new border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. Photo by the press service of the government of the Republic of Ingushetia

18:18, 31 October 2018

Kremlin distances itself from problem of border between Ingushetia and Chechnya

Lawyers are engaged in studying the agreement on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, said Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov when answering a question about the Moscow's intervention in the situation.

A remand centre. Photo: © Sputnik / Alexei Filippov https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/society/20180906/14287406/reformy-v-tyurmah-armenia-za-kachestvom-pitania-zaklyuchennyh-budut-strogo-sledit.html

18:16, 31 October 2018

Armenian parliament approves amnesty law amid protests

Armenian MPs adopted the law on amnesty in the first reading. The pardon will affect more than 6500 people, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported. The hearing was held against the background of a protest held by relatives of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment who demanded that the amnesty should be extended to them.

The OSCE mission in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

18:15, 31 October 2018

OSCE monitoring reveals no violations in Karabakh conflict zone

While monitoring the contact line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, OSCE observers did not reveal any violations of the ceasefire regime.

Rally in Magas. October 2018. Photo by Yakub Gogiev for the "Caucasian Knot"

18:11, 31 October 2018

Organizers call on people to finish rally in Magas

In Magas, an action against the change in the border with Chechnya was finished earlier than planned, and protesters expressed their intention to act in a legal way, stated protest organizers. The co-chairs of the NGO "Mekhk Khel" did not agree with the decision.

The Ingush Constitutional Court pronounces the decision on the law on the border with Chechnya. Photo http://ks-ri.ru/?p=3350

14:58, 31 October 2018

Lawyers argue about significance of decision pronounced by Ingush Constitutional Court

Ibragim Doskiev, the deputy chairman of the Ingush Constitutional Court, has stated that the Court's decision declaring the law on the border with Chechnya unconstitutional is final and takes effect from the moment it is pronounced.

Sochi residents laid flowers to the monument to victims of repression. October 30, 2018. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:53, 31 October 2018

Sochi residents pay tribute to victims of political repression

Sochi residents laid flowers to the monument to victims of repression and paid tribute to their memory by lighting candles. The people voiced the stories of their repressed relatives and called on their compatriots to remember the past to prevent it from happening again.

Ruslan Mutsolgov. Photo: screenshot of the video by YABLOKO TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3AxNdzLTY

12:09, 31 October 2018

Ingush SC recognizes a search at activist Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as illegal

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has cancelled the decision of the Magas District Court, which recognized a search at the Ruslan Mutsolgov's house as lawful, advocate Magomed Gagiev reported.

12:09, 31 October 2018

Azerbaijani journalist complains about torture after detention

In Baku, law enforcers kept journalist Ismail Islamoglu for three days and did not recognize the fact of detention, an advocate reported. Ismail Islamoglu himself complained that he had been tortured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the journalist was not brought to a police station until his bride filed a complaint about his disappearance.

The first boulder was placed into foundation of the monument to repressed people in Karachay-Cherkessia. Photo from the official website of the republic's head and government http://kchr.ru/news/detailed/48154/

08:59, 31 October 2018

Boulder placed into foundation of monument to repressed people in KChR

The monument, into foundation of which the first boulder was placed today, will be erected in the village of Bavuko of the Khabez District. The construction was initiated by a local resident who himself fell victim to political repressions.

Yerevan. Photo: DavitEG https://ru.wikipedia.org

08:58, 31 October 2018

Armenia: experts associate economic decline with political situation

In the opinion of Bagrat Asatryan, an economist, one of the reasons for a significant decline in economic activity in the country is the Armenia's political uncertainty. Artak Manukyan, an advisor to the Acting Premier Nikol Pashinyan on economic issues, has acknowledged that the structure of the economy should be radically revised.

Zaza Saralidze. Photo by Inna Kukudjanova for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:59, 30 October 2018

Zaza Saralidze, father of schoolboy killed in Georgia, discharged from hospital

Zaza Saralidze spent four days in hospital, and, after being discharged, joined the protest action held outside the building of the Georgian Parliament. He expressed his mistrust in the Prosecutor's Office, which runs the case of his beating up a policeman.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Photo © Yelena Sineok. YUGA.ru

23:58, 30 October 2018

Evkurov doubts decision of Ingush CC on border with Chechnya

The decision of the Ingush Constitutional Court (CC) does not cancel the border agreement with Chechnya, as it has entered into force, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has stated. In his opinion the CC of Russia should settle the issue.

The European Court of Human Rights. Photo REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

22:56, 30 October 2018

Resident of Dagestan complains about torture to ECtHR

After the detention of Abutalip Shakhruev, a resident of Makhachkala, law enforcers forced him by torture to defame himself. Shakhruev has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Murad Amriev. Screenshot of the video by the user ProtivPytok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQMW-JaEBY

22:55, 30 October 2018

Rights defenders achieve new check of Murad Amriev's case

After the complaint lodged by lawyers of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), investigators began the 18th check of the application of the Chechen athlete, Murad Amriev, about torture by law enforcers in Grozny.

The Constitutional Court of Ingushetia pronounces a decision on the border issue. October 30, 2018. http://ks-ri.ru/?p=3350

18:41, 30 October 2018

Ingush CC declares law on Chechen border unconstitutional

The law on fixing a new border with Chechnya fails to comply with the Constitution of Ingushetia, this border issue should be resolved by a referendum, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ingushetia has decided.

Lyudmila Ilyinkova with a photograph of her father Arkady Tugolukov. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

18:33, 30 October 2018

Victims of political repressions tell about threat of closing their organization in Volgograd

The "Association of Victims of Illegal Political Repressions" in Volgograd may stop its work due to a lack of money to rent its office, the head of the organization told the rally in memory of the victims of repressions.

Soldiers of the Azerbaijani army. Photo https://mod.gov.az/ru/foto-arhiv-045/

14:42, 30 October 2018

Azerbaijan: a border village in conflict zone shelled

The positions of the Azerbaijani army in the village of Bala Jafarli were shelled 25 times a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports.

The "Electrozinc" plant after a fire. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:35, 30 October 2018

Residents of North Ossetia argue about fate of "Electrozinc" plant

The closure of the "Electrozinc" plant will leave 2000 people without means of support, workers of the plant pointed out. Vyacheslav Bitarov, the leader of North Ossetia, proposed to restructure the plant to employ some of its employees.

Residents of the Urtsadzor community at a protest action in front of the government building in Yerevan. October 25, 2018. Photo: © Sputnik / Laura Sarkisian, https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/society/20181025/15314395/zhiteli-sela-urcadzor-sobralis-na-akciyu-protesta-v-erevane-i-zhdut-pashinyana.html

12:47, 30 October 2018

Residents of Urtsadzor accuse Armenian authorities of agreement violation

Supporters of Rafik Andreasyan, the former head of the Urtsadzor community, said that the authorities ignored their demands. According to them, Gevorg Avetisyan, the acting head of the community, continued to come to job, despite the agreement that he would be temporarily suspended from office. Gevorg Avetisyan's supporters plan to continue the protests.

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