Head of regional administration was fired in Chechnya

April 20, 2019 08:23

• Woman from Dagestan, accused of sponsoring terrorists, goes on hunger strike in colony

  Saida Khalikova, convicted for sponsoring militants, was on a hunger strike for six days in her colony in the Volgograd Region. She complains about the ban to pray at night, said a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC), who visited her.

April 20, 2019 08:20

• Speaker of Chechen Parliament makes loud statement on territorial dispute with Ingushetia

  Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has criticized the Ingush opposition and urged the former head of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, to tell about the demarcation of territories. Daudov's statement was the first loud statement by the Chechen authorities since the start of a new wave of protests in Ingushetia.

April 19, 2019 22:48

• Opposition calls on EU to put forward tough conditions to Azerbaijani authorities

  The preconditions for signing a new partnership agreement of Azerbaijan with the European Union (EU) should be the absence of political prisoners in the country and the respect for human rights, the opposition has stated. The agreement with the EU is ready by 90%, the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

April 19, 2019 22:43

• Law enforcers refuse informing defence about Uzhakhov's whereabouts

  Investigators have failed to reveal any information about the detained chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips, Malsag Uzhakhov, Djabrail Kuriev, Uzhakhov's advocate, has informed. Before his detention Malsag was going to voluntarily appear at the police, said his son, Ruslan Uzhakhov.

April 19, 2019 19:41

• Rally in support of Ingush activists in Paris was 30 people strong

  On April 18, members of Ingush Diasporas in France and Belgium took part in a rally demanding the release their fellow countrymen detained in their homeland and to dismiss the head of Ingushetia.