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August 09, 2017 03:12

• Russian Ministry of Culture agrees to ban film "Matilda" in Chechnya

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded to ban the screening in the republic of the film "Matilda" directed by Alexei Uchitel. The Russian Ministry of Culture has stated that "Chechnya has a right for that."

August 09, 2017 02:36

• Prisoner suffering from "crystal man" disease to be returned to Kalmyk penal colony

  The medical officers' commission has come to the conclusion that a rare genetic disease of Yevgeny Shevkoplyas sentenced for fraud does not prevent his serving of punishment at a penal colony in Kalmykia. According to his advocate, the medical officers' conclusion will be challenged at court.

August 09, 2017 02:14

• Residents of Georgia and South Ossetia remember events of "five-day war"

  About 200 Georgian citizens held an action at the border with South Ossetia and paid tribute to the memory of the people who fell victim to the "five-day war." According to Georgian residents, who left South Ossetia, the war of 2008 divided families for many years.

August 08, 2017 22:57

• Putin promises 6 billion roubles to Abkhazia for Sochi security

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to support Raul Khajimba in the context of the latest events in Abkhazia and to prevent the appearance of a "black hole" near Sochi, political analysts told the "Caucasian Knot". Until 2019, Mr Putin promised to invest 6 billion roubles in Abkhazia.

August 08, 2017 19:32

• Fundraising for pardoned Sochi women announced

  Annik Kesyan and Marina Djandjgava, pardoned by Russian President, have no money to buy tickets and go home from Moscow, said their advocate Ivan Pavlov. He asked people to raise money to help the women, who had been sentenced for treason.

August 08, 2017 18:45

• Brother of killed Gimry villager arrested for three days

  Gazimagomed Kamilbegov, whose detention was treated by his relatives as unreasonable, is serving his arrest at a temporary detention facility (IVS) in the Untsukul District. According to the relatives of the man, his sister is still kept at the police station.

August 08, 2017 17:04

• Mikhail Saakashvili refuses Lithuanian citizenship

  Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has refused to accept the citizenship of Lithuania and intends to return Ukrainian citizenship.

August 08, 2017 16:24

• Journalists and rights defenders treat new Dagestani FSIN boss with cautious optimism

  Nikolai Sangadjigoryaev, the new chief for the Dagestani Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), transferred from Transbaikalia, has work experience in Dagestan, and that fact creates prerequisites for preserving and improving the interaction between the FSIN Department for Dagestan and rights defenders.

August 08, 2017 13:42

• HRC "Memorial": deadlines for investigating extrajudicial execution in Chechnya not met

  For more than a month, despite the Criminal Procedure Code, no criminal cases have been filed on the disappearance of Chechen residents who allegedly fell victim to extrajudicial execution. This was reported by rights defenders.

August 08, 2017 12:04

• Sochi women sentenced for high treasury released

  Sochi residents Annik Kesyan and Marina Djandjgava, sentenced for sending SMS-messages to Georgia and pardoned by the Russian President, have decided to achieve the cancellation of the verdicts. This was stated by Annik Kesyan.

August 08, 2017 11:31

• Teenager wounded in Karabakh conflict zone

  A 13-year-old resident of an Azerbaijani village, who was wounded on August 7 during a shelling on the contact line, underwent surgery.

August 08, 2017 07:39

• Court allows people come to Dagestani police with mobile phones

  The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has recognized as illegal the prohibition to carry mobile phones and other video shooting devices into buildings of police stations.

August 08, 2017 03:34

• In Yerevan, man injured in mine explosion stays in grave condition

  In Yerevan, a man injured in a mine explosion has a positive dynamics, but still stays in severe condition. This was reported by Suren Makaryan, the chief of the resuscitation ward of the Armenian Medical Centre.

August 08, 2017 03:06

• A man injured in aircraft collision with car in Chechnya

  In the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya, while attempting to take off, a light-motor aircraft crashed into a parked car. The pilot was hospitalized in a state of moderate gravity.

August 08, 2017 02:56

• Georgia and South Ossetia pay tribute to victims of "five-day war"

  In Tbilisi, the leaders of the opposition "United National Movement" (UNM) and "European Georgia" Parties have laid wreaths to the graves of Georgian soldiers and officers killed in combat actions of August 2008. In the city of Tskhinvali, flowers were laid to the monument "Symbol of Sorrow".

August 08, 2017 02:09

• Residents of two Dagestani villages claim their rights to use water spring

  A spring, which provoked a conflict between villagers of Chuni and Tsukhta in the Levashi District of Dagestan, is located in the territory of the Chuni village, and therefore, it should be used for the needs of its residents. This opinion was voiced by Talkhat Khaibulaev, the head of the Chuni village. Abdulkhalik Abdulkhalikov, the head of the Tsukhta village.

August 08, 2017 01:17

• Court dismisses "Mashr" complaint about its registration as foreign agent

  The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has dismissed the claim field by the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr" against the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The rights defenders have failed to challenge the MoJ's decision made in 2015 to include the NGO to the register of foreign agents.

August 08, 2017 00:06

• Family members of man killed in Gimry complain about his relatives' detention

  Family members of Ramazan Kamilbegov, a resident of the village of Gimry killed in 2015, have complained about an unreasonable detention of his brother and sister. The family members are afraid of fabrication of criminal cases against the detainees.

August 07, 2017 21:30

• Derbent residents resettled from dilapidated houses report stop of building new ones

  Within the resettlement programme from dilapidated and emergency houses, Derbent is building 15 new houses instead of the ones demolished earlier. The construction works have been stopped at all sites, the residents of the city who wait for moving into new houses built at their old addresses have reported today.

August 07, 2017 19:46

• POC member announces end of Darya Polyudova’s hunger strike

  Marina Kaluzhskaya, a member of the Public Observation Commission (POC) of the Krasnodar Territory, has told the "Caucasian Knot" that Darya Polyudova, a Krasnodar activist, has stopped her hunger strike.