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July 04, 2017 12:55

• Arthur Panov starts new hunger strike

  At the beginning of the today's hearing at the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Arthur Panov, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of plotting a terror act, has reported that he declared a hunger strike on June 25 with the demand to extradite him to Ukraine.

July 04, 2017 11:55

• Gukovo miners declare hunger strike

  Today, in the town of Gukovo in the Rostov Region, miners of the "Kingcoal" Company have gathered for a new sanctioned picket. They claim that they did not receive their wages. The miners announced that they went on hunger strike in protest.

July 04, 2017 10:38

• Russia informs ECtHR about legality of ban on reading Bible in Sochi cafe

  Alexei Kolyasnikov, a pastor from Sochi, was supposed to notify the authorities on holding a public event. This was stated by a Russian representative to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in response to the ECtHR's question concerning the legality of the position of Russian courts which fined the pastor after the collective reading of the Bible in a cafe.

July 04, 2017 08:34

• "Sberbank" checks information on extortion of money from chief of its branch in Chechnya

  The "Sberbank" has launched a check into the information that Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, demanded 30 million roubles from Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the chief of the Chechen branch of the "Sberbank".

July 04, 2017 03:03

• Four advocates boycott court hearing in "Sasna Tsrer" case

  On July 3, the court hearing in the case against 18 members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun) took place in a tense atmosphere. The court repeatedly interrupted the hearing. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who attended the trial.

July 04, 2017 01:22

• In Alexander Lapshin's case, witnesses condemn his trips to Nagorno-Karabakh

  On July 3, in Baku, at a hearing held in the case against blogger Alexander Lapshin, the court questioned witnesses Eiyub Abdulazimov and Fakhraddin Safarov, internally displaced persons from the Shusha District. The witnesses told about the insult, inflicted on them by the blogger Alexander Lapshin's publications about Nagorno-Karabakh.

July 04, 2017 00:44

• In Abkhazia, father of murdered schoolgirl sentenced to 20 years in prison

  On July 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia sentenced a local resident to 20 years of imprisonment on the charges of raping and killing his nine-year-old daughter. His suspected accomplice was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment.

July 03, 2017 23:00

• Head of Chechen "Sberbank" put on federal wanted list

  Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the head of the Chechen branch of Russian "Sberbank" (Savings Bank), is suspected of illegally cashing more than one billion roubles through his bank and a number of one-day companies. This was reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.

July 03, 2017 19:04

• Minister reports no violations at USE in Ruzanna Tuko's school

  The objectivity of the final attestation at Takhtamukai School No. 1 causes no doubt; and any retake of the Uniformed State Examinations (USE) by the former official's daughter is out of question. This was stated by reported by Anzaur Kerashev, the Minister of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Adygea.

July 03, 2017 15:58

• In Dagestan, protesters disrupt introduction of head of Nogai District

  In the village of Terekli-Mekteb, participants of the rally broke into a building of the administration for the Nogai District of Dagestan during a meeting in which Baimagomed Yarlykapov was introduced as an acting head of the Nogai District.

July 03, 2017 15:33

• Dagestan completely fills its quota of 8500 places for Hajj

  The quota for Dagestani pilgrims has been fully filled, and the reception of documents has been suspended. The persons who want to go to the Hajj this year may sign up for the reserve, reports the "Marva-Tour", a company sending pilgrims to the Hajj.

July 03, 2017 12:27

• Theologian Sardar Babaev sentenced to three years of imprisonment in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, the court has sentenced Shiite theologian Sardar Babaev, accused of violating the requirements for conducting of religious ceremonies. The defence intends to challenge the verdict.

July 03, 2017 12:22

• Two persons stay in hospital after fire at Tbilisi market (+video)

  Four persons were injured in a fire at the "Eliava" market in the Georgian capital. Of them, two victims still stay in the hospital. According to the market's tenants, the fire affected 120 stores.

July 03, 2017 11:10

• Zaur Dadaev declares his innocence and describes his everyday life in prison

  After the guilty verdict pronounced in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, Zaur Dadaev still does not admit his guilt. He called suspicious the long discussion of the verdict by the jury. The man has said that he holds the fasting in prison and reads books on history.

July 03, 2017 11:05

• Inscription "Grozny" found written on a building wall in Palmyra

  An Internet user has published a photo with the name of the Chechen capital made on a wall of an ancient building in the Syrian city of Palmyra. Users of social networks have suggested that the inscription was left by Russian soldiers, who participated in the military operation in Syria.

July 03, 2017 10:37

• Khiramagomed Magomedov sentenced to nine years in prison

  The North-Caucasian District Military Court has found Khiramagomed Magomedov, a Dagestani public activist, guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

July 03, 2017 09:10

• Relatives and friends of defendants in case of Boris Nemtsov's murder claim their innocence

  Many residents of Chechnya have found as predictable the verdict of the jury to find natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia guilty of the Boris Nemtsov's murder. According to the Chechen residents, persons who ordered and organized the murder will not be named. Relatives of the defendants treat them as innocent.

July 03, 2017 09:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 26-July 2

  Announcement of the jury's verdict in Boris Nemtsov's murder case; capture by Ukrainian soldiers of a Russian citizen, whose mother reported about his military service in the Rostov Region; beating at the Yerevan court of defendants in the "Sasna Tsrer" case, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 26-July 2, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 03, 2017 07:43

• During the week from June 26 to July 2, there were no victims to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from June 26 to July 2, 2017, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no casualties and victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

July 03, 2017 04:22

• Twin brother of Ingush Olympic Judo Champion wins first place at competitions in China

  Khusein Khalmurzaev, a judoka from Ingushetia, won the Grand Prix Hohhot 2017 in China in the weight category of up to 90 kg.