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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

April 17, 2017 23:31

  • Andrei Bocharov, the Governor of the Volgograd Region, during the Easter Mass. Photo http://vlg-media.ru/society/andrei-bocharov-vstretil-pashu-v-hrame-ust-medvedickogo-spaso-preobrazhenskogo-zhenskogo-monastyrja-41328.html Bocharov meets protesting entrepreneurs, but gives no promise

    The today's meeting of Andrei Bocharov, the Governor of the Volgograd Region, with small and medium businessmen ended immediately as the Governor completed his more than two-hour-long speech. The protesting entrepreneurs tried to attract his attention, but they were not allowed to ask questions.

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  • The Moscow "Kyrgyzstan" cinema. Photo: http://archsovet.msk.ru/news/byvshie-gorodskie-kinoteatry-stanut-rayonnymi-centrami-prityazheniya Convicts for plotting terror declared political prisoners by HRC "Memorial"

    The case of plotting of a terror act in the Moscow "Kyrgyzstan" cinema was fabricated. This was stated by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". 15 persons sentenced in the case, including natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD), were recognized by the HRC as political prisoners.

April 17, 2017 11:25

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  • The participants of subbotniks. Photo https://chechnyatoday.com/content/view/300285 About 400,000 people take part in subbotniks in Chechnya

    In Chechnya, employees of public institutions have called their participation in the voluntary Saturday works (subbotniks) organized by the authorities as "voluntary-compulsory." During six weeks, about 400,000 people took part in the large-scale cleaning of the city. This was reported by the administration of the Chechen leader and the government of Chechnya.

April 17, 2017 09:00

  • Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 10-16

    Celebration of Easter by Orthodox residents of Northern and Southern Caucasus; final results of the presidential election in South Ossetia; decision pronounced by the ECtHR on the complaint filed by victims of the terror act in Beslan; election of the Speaker of the Abkhazian Parliament; two criminal cases instituted against top-ranking Dagestani officials; release of the updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 10-16, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 17, 2017 03:40

April 16, 2017 20:32

  • Galina Rylova has been living in the apartment No. 148 in the house number 1 "A" in Soviet Guard Street for six years. Astrakhan, April 2017. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for "Caucasian Knot" In Astrakhan, tenants of dilapidated house demand resettlement

    In Astrakhan, tenants of a dilapidated house in the Trusovsky District demand to resettle them to a safe house. The resettlement will take place with the availability of financing and free premises in the manoeuvrable fund, officials from the City Mayor's Office report.

April 16, 2017 15:04

  • Ramzan Kadyrov and Igor Sechin. Photo: Openrussia.s3.amazonaws.com Economists explain position of "Rosneft" on assets in Chechnya by shareholders' interests

    The "Rosneft" cannot transfer its assets to Chechnya for free, since, apart from the state, other shareholders also hold shares of the corporation. This was explained by economists. Auditors, who estimated assets of the amount of 12.5 billion roubles, did not come to Chechnya and did not evaluate the conditions for oil production there, report officials from the regional subsurface management department.

April 16, 2017 02:00

April 15, 2017 21:21

  • Krasnodar animal defenders urge not to attend the circus shows where animals are involved, April 15, 2017. Photo by Alexei Mandrigeli for the 'Caucasian Knot'. Krasnodar picketers oppose cruel treatment of animals

    On the International Circus Day, Krasnodar animal defenders urged townspeople not to attend the circus shows, where animals are involved; and demanded from the authorities to stop shooting stray dogs, but use sterilization instead.

April 15, 2017 15:52

  • Faig Amirov. Photo: RFE/RL Defence states impossibility of activist Amirov’s treatment in Baku SIZO

    Doctors have diagnosed new diseases in Faig Amirov, the financial director of the “Azadlyg” newspaper, a figurant in the case of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen. In the conditions of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), he cannot receive the necessary dietary food, said his advocate Fakhraddin Mekhtiev.

April 15, 2017 13:54

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  • Two ecologists detained in Krasnodar

    Oleg Desyatov, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), and a female volunteer of the "Greenpeace" were detained during a search carried out on April 14 in an apartment of Pavel Suganeev, a resident of Krasnodar and a member of the "EcoWatch". This was reported by Alexei Avanesyan, an advocate of Pavel Suganeyev.

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  • Khasan Katsiev, who complains about torture, rejected re-classification of his beating case

    The case of infliction of moderate harm to health of Khasan Katsiev, a former employee of the Ingush Department for Combating Economic Crimes (known as UBEP), who complained about torture, was brought from the police to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Magomed Katsiev, the father of the victim, on April 14.

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