Russia

July 18, 2018 10:52

• Slovakia extradites to Russia a native of North Ossetia accused of terrorism

  Aslan Yandiev, a native of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, has been handed over to Russia by the Slovak authorities. In Slovakia, he was kept under extradition arrest since 2011.

July 18, 2018 10:41

• Father of Victoria Budaikhanova denies version of her involvement in ISIL*

  A father of Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, who after her return from Syria was accused of involvement in militant groupings, told the court that his daughter left Russia for studies under the influence of her colleagues.

July 18, 2018 08:37

• Tourists tell about 12-hour-long queues at "Verkhni Lars" checkpoint

  Over the past 24 hours, the waiting line of cars at the Russian-Georgian border checkpoint "Verkhni Lars" has grown; the waiting time is 8-12 hours, tourists have stated.

July 18, 2018 08:25

• Kuban MIA accuses policemen of spreading fake after World Cup

  Policemen, sent to Sochi for the time of the FIFA World Cup-2018, returned home by overcrowded train, and had to sleep on the floor, eyewitnesses assert. The Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated the photos that appeared on the Internet to be faked, and promised to establish the employees who spread them.

July 17, 2018 22:40

• ECtHR awards compensation to Anna Politkovskaya's relatives

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found ineffective the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", and ordered Russia to pay 20,000 euros of compensation to her relatives.

July 17, 2018 22:34

• CE Commissioner demands to release Oyub Titiev

  Today, Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic has called on the General Prosecutor of Russia to take measures to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the "Memorial" in Grozny. She has also spoken in favour of transferring the rights defender's case to be considered outside Chechnya.

July 17, 2018 19:04

• Vladimir Putin announces Russia's tough reaction to Georgia's accession to NATO

  The NATO's advance to Russia's borders and, in particular, Georgia joining the alliance, will pose a threat to the country and will provoke a response, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has noted that the number of NATO soldiers has been increased in the areas where "there should not be any of them."

July 17, 2018 10:59

• Blogger Maddison gets 1.5 years of conditional sentence for a joke about Koran

  Video blogger Ilya Davydov (Maddison) has been sentenced to conditional sentence under Article 282 for the video "Joke about the Koran". Earlier, the scandalous video was recognized as an extremist material by the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny.

July 16, 2018 22:10

• Activists call on Presidents Trump and Putin to stop violence in Chechnya

  Before the meeting of the US and Russian Presidents in Helsinki, activists of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Donald Trump to condemn the persecution of gays in Chechnya during his conversation with Vladimir Putin.

July 16, 2018 14:19

• Muslims of Egypt and Iran got no support from Caucasus at FIFA World Cup

  The participation of Muslim teams, namely, of the national teams of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, in the FIFA World Cup aroused no surge of interest in Northern Caucasus, even taking into account the accommodation of the Egyptian team in Chechnya. This opinion was voiced by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

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