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After Russian air strikes in Gori, August 9, 2008. Photo: REUTERS / Gleb Garanich

21:33, 15 August 2018

Residents of Georgia tell about horror from bombings during Five-Day War

One of the heaviest memories of the Five-Day War, which ended 10 years ago, for residents of Georgia are linked with Russian air strikes and tanks in the outskirts of Tbilisi.

Policemen at the Armenian government building. Photo: Sputnik / Asatur Yesayantshttps://ru.armeniasputnik.am/incidents/20180815/13874813/policiya-ustanovila-lichnost-ugrozhavshego-vzorvat-pravitelstvennoe-zdanie-v-yerevan.html

21:22, 15 August 2018

Terror act threat interrupts work in Armenian government building

Today, in Yerevan, employees of the government building were evacuated because of an explosion threat in the Ministry of Public Health. The man who threatened to blow up the Ministry has been established, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

18:25, 15 August 2018

Over 20 persons recognized cruelty victims in Astrakhan kindergarten

Today, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported that the owners of the kindergarten in Astrakhan, who were arrested after a video was posted with roped children, have been charged. Investigators have a new video depicting cruel treatment of children in the kindergarten, a source has stated.

Verkhniy Lars checkpoint. Photo: Sputnik / Vladimir Ivanov, https://sputnik-ossetia.ru/North_Ossetia/20180207/5779800.html

18:07, 15 August 2018

MfE reports reduction of queues at Russian-Georgian border

The waiting time for passage through the checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road has dropped to six hours, the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed today. Tourists complained of long waiting time in the neutral strip.

Reconnaissanceman of the Armenian Army. Photo: http://mil.am/ru/news/5449

13:41, 15 August 2018

Azerbaijan claims 91 acts of shelling from Armenia

During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 91 times, by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Takho-Godi Street in Makhachkala, Photo: Abdula, http://mahachkala.dibi.ru/mahachkala/content/34593034

13:28, 15 August 2018

Law enforcers report demining of two munitions in Makhachkala

The explosive devices, found in Takho-Godi Street and near the dwelling settlement of Tarki in Makhachkala, have been rendered harmless and transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), a source from the Dagestani Branch of "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has stated.

13:18, 15 August 2018

Kuban programmer creates software to trace extremists-newcomers

Ivan Shukshin, a programmer from the city of Gelendjik, has created a computer programme that tracks the updates to the list of extremists and terrorists, posted on the website of the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service).

Gelendzhik. Photo: Alexander Scherblyuk, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Геленджик

11:12, 15 August 2018

Authorities ban environmental rally in Gelendzhik planned by activists

The activists' request to hold a rally in Gelendzhik, dedicated to the environmental problems of the city, was denied. Instead, officials offered them to hold a protest action in the village of Kabardinka. The organizers disagreed and insist on holding a rally within the city. They see the real reason for the refusal in the fact that bureaucrats are unwilling to publicize the problems with the pollution of beaches on the Black Sea.

Maxim Martynov in the court. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the Caucasian Knot

10:59, 15 August 2018

Prosecution states Martynov's plans to blow up a synagogue

Maxim Martynov, the defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the Novocherkassk shopping centre, had initially planned, together with his accomplice, to blow up a synagogue, but later decided to change the object of the terror act, the prosecutor asserts.

Rally in front of the residence of Armenian Prime Minister, August 14, 2018. Photo: "Free Robert Kocharyan" Factbook group, https://www.facebook.com/freepresidentkocharyan/

08:36, 15 August 2018

Kocharyan's supporters demand to protect court from pressure

Supporters of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, accused within the case of dispersal of protest in 2008, gathered in front of the residence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and asked him to protect judges from pressure.

Hideout with ammunition. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/v-dagestane-obnaruzhen-banditskiy-taynik.html

08:27, 15 August 2018

Six militants' hideouts found in Chechnya since the start of the year

The detection of a hideout with weapons and ammunition, reported by Chechen law enforcers on August 11, became the sixth one in 2018 in this region.

22:42, 14 August 2018

Person accused of preparing terror act in Novocherkassk pleads guilty

Today, at a trial at the North-Caucasian District Military Court, Maxim Martynov, a defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the shopping centre of Novocherkassk, has completely admitted his guilt.

Cotton growers, Azerbaijan, June 2018. Photo: Meydan TV.

22:11, 14 August 2018

Meydan TV points to link of cotton growers' poisoning with Baku ambitions

The drop of oil prices has forced Azerbaijan to look for alternative sources of filling in the budget; and the authorities have "staked on cotton," despite the threat to people's health, the Meydan TV has reported today after examining the situation with mass workers' poisonings in cotton fields.

Azerbaijani Army. Photo: https://mod.gov.az/ru/foto-arhiv-045/?gid=23840

21:41, 14 August 2018

Azerbaijan counts 88 bombardments in the conflict zone

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were fired from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Robert Kocharyan. Photo: Robert Kocharyan's Administration

18:35, 14 August 2018

Activists disrupt Kocharyan's press conference

Today, in Yerevan, protesters have achieved cancellation of the press conference of Robert Kocharyan, after which they marched to the buildings of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia. They demanded to dismiss the judge, who had freed the former president of Armenia.

Aftermath of the special operation in the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny, 2014. Photo: https://memohrc.org/ru/news/dagestan-itogi-specoperacii-v-poselke-vremennyy-foto

18:24, 14 August 2018

Residents of Vremenny are without compensations for almost four years

Since September 2014, residents of the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny are seeking compensations from the authorities for their housing destroyed during a special operation. Lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have appealed against the judgement of the court, which in July this year refused to recognize the authorities' inaction.

18:17, 14 August 2018

Resident of Ingushetia convicted despite his complaint about torture

Today, the court has sentenced Abdulmalik Albagachiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to nine years in colony, having found him to be a participant in the conflict in Syria. His relatives intend to appeal against the verdict.

In the press centre of the "Erebuni Plaza" Hotel. Photo: Sputnik / Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/incidents/20180814/13848590/uchastniki-akcii-protesta-vorvalis-v-zdanie-gde-prohodit-press-konferenciya-kocharyana.html

14:39, 14 August 2018

Activists demand to return Kocharyan to custody

In Yerevan, protesters have come to the building, where the former president of Armenia's press conference is scheduled, and demanded to cancel the decision to release Robert Kocharyan from custody.

Presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan at V Caspian summit. Photo: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/trips/58300/photos

14:31, 14 August 2018

Convention on Legal Status of Caspian Sea fails to remove marine contradictions for Baku

The signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea in general meets Azerbaijani interests. However, the document has failed to remove all the sea contradictions, the Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

14:21, 14 August 2018

Advocate specifies reason for Dudurkaeva's arrest

The arrest in Istanbul of Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of the former head of the Chechen Branch of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), was caused by a suspicion of using a false passport, and not by links with Syrian militants, her advocate has explained.

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