Russia

November 13, 2018 08:29

• Oyub Titiev's colleagues tell about rights defenders' persecutions in Chechnya

  The human rights defenders, who worked in Chechnya, received threats from high-ranking law enforcers and personally by Ramzan Kadyrov, but Oyub Titiev continued working in the republic, realizing the danger. This was stated at the trial by Dmitry Utukin and Sergey Babinets, members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMS).

November 12, 2018 23:45

• Sulieta Kusova, President of Dagestani "Kunaki" Film Festival, dies

  Today, journalist Sulieta Kusova has died. She was 67 years old. Sulieta Kusova was preparing to undergo a surgery, but she rescheduled it to take part in the "Kunaki" Film Festival last week, reported Ali Kamalov, the chairman of the Dagestani Union of Journalists.

November 10, 2018 17:02

• Krasnodar exhibition highlights problems faced by veterans of Chechen wars

  The exhibition "Realism" of video works by Polish film director Artur Żmijewski has been opened in Krasnodar. Heroes of the videos are soldiers who became disabled during the wars in Chechnya.

November 10, 2018 16:35

• Armenian political analysts report on struggle for post of CSTO Secretary General

  The state leaders have not agreed on a new candidate for the post of the CSTO Secretary General at the CSTO summit in Astana. On December 6, discussion of the issue will be continued. Kazakhstan and Belarus are struggling behind the scenes in attempts to use the situation with the appointment of the CSTO Secretary General and to get benefits for themselves, analysts say.

November 10, 2018 16:29

• Georgian authorities use in presidential campaign videos with Saakashvili made during Five-Day War

  A video from the period of the ruling of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third President of Georgia, with his confession to unleashing the Five-Day War, has been made public on the eve of the second round of the presidential election in the country. The video will not have a serious impact on the will of voters with their attraction to the side of Salome Zuraishvili, believe Georgian political analysts.

November 08, 2018 17:38

• HRC "Memorial" sends to ECtHR answers in case on kidnapped resident of Makhachkala

  The consideration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of a complaint about the ineffective investigation into the disappearance of Makhachkala resident Omar Valibagandov has reached its final stage, report rights defenders.

November 08, 2018 08:25

• Relatives criticize refusal to transfer Cherkesov to another colony

  The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (known as FSIN) has refused to transfer Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, from a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory closer to his home, referring to security concerns, his relatives have stated.

November 07, 2018 01:05

• Court releases Delimkhanov's guards from punishment

  A Moscow court has re-qualified the charge to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the guards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, from extortion into arbitrariness and freed them from punishment.

November 06, 2018 14:18

• SC approves verdict to participants of attack on soldiers in Chechnya

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has dismissed complaints about the verdict to Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev, natives of Karachay-Cherkessia, earlier found by the court in Chechnya guilty of shelling 15 Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1999.

November 06, 2018 10:58

• Anniversary of Karachay deportation recalls problem of rehabilitation of repressed peoples

  Rehabilitation of Karachays deported 75 years ago to Central Asia and Kazakhstan did not provoke territorial conflicts, but it remained morally unfinished. Russia has not yet given a legal assessment of the Stalin's repressions against peoples, historians believe.

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