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A school lesson in Chechnya. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Culture of Chechnya http://mk-chr.ru/component/content/article?id=1672:o-chechenskoj-professionalnoj-muzyke-rasskazali-sotrudniki-natsionalnogo-muzeya-chr

18:50, 30 June 2018

Chechen teachers treat optional study of mother tongue as unacceptable

The adoption of the bill now being considered by the State Duma poses a threat of extinction to languages of Russia's small nations, including Chechens, the teachers and scientists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma MP, has recalled his signature from the list of authors of the bill.

Law enforcers in masks. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsKHG3JRbso

18:47, 30 June 2018

Mutsolgov told how his search was held

Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush rights defender and a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot", said that the law enforcers in masks, who searched his house and the office of his human rights organization "Mashr", behaved correctly.

Exercises of the Engineering Corps of Azerbaijan. June 22, 2018. Photo by the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence https://mod.gov.az/ru/news/provedeny-taktiko-specialnye-ucheniya-s-inzhenerno-sapernymi-podrazdeleniyami-23124.html

13:18, 30 June 2018

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.

Serzh Sargsyan, a President of Armenia, gives an award to his brother Levon Sargsyan. Photo by the press service of the President of Armenia http://www.president.am

13:02, 30 June 2018

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.

Arsen Kanokov in traditional dress. Photo courtesy of Kanokov's press service vk.com/arsen_kanokov

10:11, 30 June 2018

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.

10:09, 30 June 2018

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".

08:20, 30 June 2018

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.

Screenshot of the video in Khasavyurt. https://t.me/breakingmash/6355

08:18, 30 June 2018

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.

The PACE's session. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

23:37, 29 June 2018

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.

A sand quarry. Photo: Redboston https://ru.wikipedia.org/

23:36, 29 June 2018

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.

Khasavyurt. Dagestan. Photo: Magomed Aliev http://odnoselchane.ru

17:10, 29 June 2018

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.

17:06, 29 June 2018

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.

Screenshot of the film "Deep Rivers" by Vladimir Bitokov, a film director from Nalchik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdorVniAwXA

15:18, 29 June 2018

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.

Screenshot of the video of the explosion at a car fuelling station in Chechnya. June 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wucu0jmtwpk

15:15, 29 June 2018

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.

A railway crossing. Photo by the press service of the North Caucasus Railway

10:59, 29 June 2018

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.

Suleiman Kerimov. Photo: screenshot of ntv, http://www.ntv.ru/video/top/596008/

10:59, 29 June 2018

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.

Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

08:25, 29 June 2018

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.

Maria Krivenko, a participant of the flash mob in Rostov-on-Don. Photo courtesy of Anastasia Shevchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

08:13, 29 June 2018

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!"

08:10, 29 June 2018

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".

23:34, 28 June 2018

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.

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