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September 02, 2017 01:40

• Maria Kuchina wins Diamond League final in Brussels

  Maria Kuchina (Lasitskene), an athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has finished her season with a victory in the final stage of the "Diamond League" in Belgium.

September 02, 2017 00:36

• Tatiana Moskalkova contacts relatives of Chechen gays mentioned by "Novaya Gazeta"

  Tatiana Moskalkova, High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia (Ombudsperson), has got appeals from residents of Chechnya, whose surnames appeared in publications of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reporting extrajudicial executions in the republic and persecution of LGBT people.

September 01, 2017 22:53

• Three Chechen children brought back from Iraq

  Four women and eight children have been brought to Russia from Iraq, including a resident of Chechnya with her three sons.

September 01, 2017 21:06

• Tbilisi hunger-strikers stop their action

  The employees of the Georgian Railways, who have been on their hunger strike for 18 days, can no longer put their health at risk, said Vitaly Giorgadze, the president of the new Trade Union of Georgian Railway Workers.

September 01, 2017 18:13

• A soldier blown up on a mine in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh has reported that 19-year-old Hayk Khachatryan got a fatal wound in a mine explosion.

September 01, 2017 15:22

• 7700 people blocked by mudflow in Elbrus Region

  A mudflow which has occurred this night has cordoned off five villages, dozens of hotels and tourist centres of the Elbrus Region and cut them off the outside world. The number of cordoned off tourists reaches 1500. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the Elbrus Region close to the situation.

September 01, 2017 15:02

• Sochi Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha in Hyde Park without sacrifices

  In Sochi, 1500 Muslims celebrated the holiday of Eid al-Adha in the local "Hyde Park". The mass prayer in the park was sanctioned by the Mayor's Office.

September 01, 2017 14:09

• Salim Akhobekov asks to stop prosecuting him for dancing in Gelendzhik

  Salim Akhobekov from Kabardino-Balkaria, who had served five days of arrest for dancing lezginka in Gelendzhik, addressed rights defenders with a complaint about the actions of the Cossacks and policemen. The lezginka dancer has asked the rights defenders to prevent institution of criminal proceedings against him.

September 01, 2017 13:11

• Azerbaijani believers start celebrating Eid al-Adha

  Today, Azerbaijan, like the whole Muslim world, has started the celebration of Eid al-Adha. Muslims of the country make sacrifices of small and large cattle. Mosques hold festive prayers. On the occasion of the holiday, four days in a row September 1-4 have been declared the days off in the country.

September 01, 2017 13:10

• Rights defenders organize action in defence of singer Zelimkhan Bakaev

  Rights defenders and activists from Russia, the US, and the European countries have organized an action under hashtag #BringBakaevBack with the demand to find out the whereabouts of Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev. On their pages in Facebook, participants of the action declare they have no doubt that the singer was kidnapped.

September 01, 2017 12:54

• North Ossetia starts Memory Watch to honour victims of terror act in Beslan

  North Ossetia has started a three-day Memory Watch to honour the victims of the terror act in Beslan in 2004. Residents of the republic come to school No. 1, bring flowers and leave candles in the gym.

September 01, 2017 09:31

• Residents of Chechnya complain about rise in prices on eve of Eid al-Adha

  Today, Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha, one of the main Islamic holidays. Chechen authorities informed that the republic rendered material assistance to 770 families in need. Meanwhile, the residents of Chechnya report on the increased prices for sacrificial animals.

September 01, 2017 09:09

• Taganrog residents suspected of selling a person for use of his human organs

  Two residents of Taganrog were detained while they tried to sell for 1.5 million roubles a 26-year-old man for the use of his human organs. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office for the Rostov Region.

September 01, 2017 05:16

• Advocates demand to suspend trial of 18 "Sasna Tsrer" members

  On August 31, the Yerevan court continued the hearings on the second case against members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun). This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent who attended the trial.

September 01, 2017 04:00

• In Volgograd, solo picketers demand resignation of City Mayor

  On August 31, in Volgograd, activists held three solo pickets within the All-Russia action "Strategy-31". The picketers came out in defence of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution and demanded the resignation of Mayor Vitaly Likhachov after the city administration refused to sanction pickets to be held in the city centre on August 31.

August 31, 2017 21:38

• Defence asks Kadyrov to study the case of Taramov and Tazbiev

  Khava Akhmadova, an advocate for Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev, residents of the village of Krasnaya Turbina, told the "Caucasian Knot" today that there are procedural violations in the case. At the court session on August 29, the advocate urged the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to take the case under his personal control.

August 31, 2017 20:39

• "Beslan Mothers" ask ECtHR not to review recovery of compensations from Russia

  Today, members of "Beslan Mothers" have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with objections to the complaint lodged by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) concerning the recovery from Russia of more than three million euros in favour of relatives of those who perished and suffered from the terror attack on the Beslan School.

August 31, 2017 19:05

• 21 years ago Khasavyurt agreements ended First Chechen War

  Today it is exactly 21 years after signing the Khasavyurt agreements, which were treated by Alexander Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov as wise and long-lasting. These statements were overturned by both parties in conflict very quickly.

August 31, 2017 18:49

• Mothers of missing Dagestanis ask Putin for help

  Disappearances of men in Dagestan are not investigated for years; and the republic’s authorities give no relevance to the problem, the members of the "Mother's Heart" movement have stated on August 30 at the roundtable timed to the International Day of Missing Persons.

August 31, 2017 16:17

• Power agents disclose results of Djabrailov’s drug test

  On August 29, Umar Djabrailov, a former Senator (member of the Federation Council) from Chechnya, opened a pistol fire in a hotel room in the state of drug intoxication – these are the results of a medical examination. Law enforcement sources have conveyed this information to journalists.