Russia

December 11, 2018 09:11

• Kadyrov's words about Russian Vice-Premier remind of his federal ambitions

  The criticism of Ramzan Kadyrov addressed to Vitaly Mutko, one of Russian Vice-Premiers, is caused by the fact that the head of Chechnya sees himself as a federal-level politician and is seeking to expand his influence, Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexei Malashenko, political analysts, believe.

December 10, 2018 21:23

• Georgian police demand to move activists' tent on the border with South Ossetia

  The police have asked to move the tent of activist of the "Force in Unity" movement into the territory of Georgia, but the protesters have managed to maintain the status quo, David Katsarava, the head of the movement, has stated.

December 10, 2018 12:14

• AI's Secretary General supports Oyub Titiev

  On the eve of the court session, scheduled for December 10, on the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Kumi Naidoo, the Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), spoke in Oyub's support. He posted in the Twitter his photo in a T-shirt with Titiev's portrait.

December 09, 2018 10:52

• Human rights defender Lyudmila Alekseeva dies

  On December 8, Lyudmila Alekseeva, a Russian human rights defender, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), passed away in her 92nd year of age. She often visited Northern Caucasus and criticized the situation with human rights in the region.

December 08, 2018 08:20

• "Beslan Mothers" point to contradictions in words of Putin and plenipotentiary

  Members of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee want to meet Alexander Matovnikov, the President Putin's plenipotentiary envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), who has for the first time acknowledged the preparation for the assault of the school captured by terrorists in Beslan in 2004, Aneta Gadieva, a deputy chair of the "Beslan Mothers", has stated.

December 07, 2018 11:40

• Kadyrov's attacks on "Vnesheconombank" remind feudal law

  The statement of the head of the region about his intention not to repay the credit to the bank is unprecedented and resembles a feudal state, in which not the obligations, but the status, decided everything, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 07, 2018 08:30

• "Memorial" challenges Russian government's position on Gasanguseinovs' murder

  The Russian government has declared the inadmissibility of the complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of the murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated.

December 06, 2018 21:49

• Authorities recognize preparation of Beslan school assaulting

  The assault of the school seized by terrorists in Beslan, which was opposed by local residents, had been prepared initially, Alexander Matovnikov, the presidential envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District, has acknowledged today.

December 06, 2018 21:22

• Ingush activists treat decision of Russian CC as political

  The decision of the Russian Constitutional Court, which has legitimized today the change of the Ingush-Chechen border, was made "for the sake of bureaucrats," the opponents of the agreement have stated, threatening the authorities with new protests and appeals to international structures.

December 06, 2018 13:16

• Russia's CC approves agreement on Ingush-Chechen border

  The agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border has been found as conforming to the Constitution, and shall enter into force immediately, Valery Zorkin, the Chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court, has announced today.

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