Russia

September 15, 2019 11:19

• Death version of paratrooper in Chechnya raises doubts

  The name of the paratrooper, Mikhail Bezelt, who, according to the official data, blew himself up on a mine in Chechnya, has appeared in the list of Donbass casualties. On the whole, the version of the contractor's death during exercises looks plausible, but it's strange that the exercise area had not been inspected by sappers, the law enforcers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

September 13, 2019 18:39

• Imam Velitov freed from penal colony in Astrakhan

  Today, after leaving a penal colony in Astrakhan, Makhmud Velitov, the imam of a Moscow mosque, who had served his sentence on the charge of justifying terrorism, has said that he had gained "useful experience."

September 13, 2019 11:27

• Volgograd activists demand to stop persecuting Navalny's supporters

  The picketers have demanded to stop the wave of searches in homes of supporters of Alexei Navalny in Volgograd.

September 12, 2019 22:06

• Popular video blogger launches second round of debates on "Beslan Mothers" Committee

  Such committees like the "Beslan Mothers" and "Voice of Beslan" speculate on the tragedy for the sake of "political pies", the designer Artemy Lebedev has stated in his video blog. This statement caused outrage among YouTube users and controversy over whether the state should help victims of terror acts.

September 12, 2019 18:22

• In Southern Russia, Navalny's activists report searches and arrests of banking accounts

  Today, in Volgograd, investigators have summoned at least two Navalny's supporters for interrogation. Activists from Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar reported that their personal banking accounts were frozen.

September 12, 2019 14:14

• In Southern Russia, police start searching offices and homes of Navalny's supporters

  Today, law enforcers have started conducting searches at offices and homes of employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) and Alexei Navalny's offices in 39 cities of Russia, including Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and the Stavropol Territory.

September 12, 2019 13:54

• Political analysts approve Georgia's entry into NATO without resolving territorial disputes

  Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen invited Georgia to join NATO under such a mechanism that NATO's Article 5 on collective defence of member states would not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian political analysts reacted positively to the initiative.

September 12, 2019 01:01

• Four children taken from Syria to Chechnya and Dagestan

  In total, on September 7, four children were taken out of Syria. One of them, a girl, is being handed over to her relatives in Dagestan, other three children have been taken to Chechnya.

September 11, 2019 21:15

• Elvin Isaev's advocate points to threat of his kidnapping

  The blogger, Elvin Isaev, has been released from the Centre for Temporary Detention of Foreign Citizens in the Leningrad Region, but his relatives fear that Isaev may be kidnapped for further extradition to Azerbaijan, said Olga Tseitlina, a lawyer at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

September 11, 2019 21:04

• Soldier of the Russian military base in Gyumri dies

  Signs of violent death have been found on the body of the perished soldier of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, the Armenian Investigating Committee (AIC) has reported.

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