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August 14, 2017 16:53

• Dagestani and Ingush authorities ignore Moscow's position on film "Matilda"

  The leaders of Dagestan and Ingushetia, who requested to exclude their republics from a rental certificate for screening of the film "Matilda", followed the example of Ramzan Kadyrov, without being aware of the federal authorities' position on the fate of the film. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by Russian political analysts.

August 14, 2017 16:40

• CTO legal regime lifted in Khunzakh District of Dagestan

  Law enforcers have lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime in the village of Orota, where Khadjimurad Gadjiev, the suspected leader of the Khunzakh militant grouping, was killed.

August 14, 2017 15:52

• Soldier killed in Karabakh conflict zone

  Thus morning, Arman Movsisyan, a serviceman, was mortally wounded in a combat position, the Nagorno-Karabakh’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

August 14, 2017 13:08

• Law enforcers find weapon arsenal in Orota village

  Law enforcers have discovered explosives, weapons, and ammunition in a house where Khadjimurad Gadjiev, the leader of the Khunzakh militant grouping, was killed. This is reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

August 14, 2017 12:07

• Russian soldier dies in Armenia

  On August 13, a contract soldier, who served at the Russian military base in Gyumri, drowned in Lake Sevan.

August 14, 2017 10:39

• 25th anniversary of war outbreak in Abkhazia

  On August 14, 1992, the State Council of Georgia abolished the resolution on the independence of Abkhazia and pronounced the decision to introduce troops into the republic. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili called the war in Abkhazia a "big mistake."

August 14, 2017 08:05

• NAC confirms death of leader for Khunzakh militant grouping in Dagestan

  In Dagestan, the leader of the Khunzakh grouping of militants was killed as a result of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) for Dagestan.

August 14, 2017 00:56

• Chechen women report unsuccessful attempts to return children from Syria and Iraq

  In Grozny, women participating in a march, have reported that officials of the Chechen authorities promised to provide assistance to return Chechen children from Syria and Iraq.

August 13, 2017 13:35

• Residents of Chechnya treat child’s return from Syria as precedent

  The return to Chechnya of a boy, who had been taken out by his father to Syria, prompted residents of the republic to seek authorities’ assistance in the return of other children.

August 13, 2017 11:23

• Policeman killed in shelling in Ingushetia

  An armed attack on Akroman Tambiev, a policeman from Malgobek, was committed on a motor road in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. He died from the received wounds.

August 13, 2017 09:47

• Nalchik musician claims being forced to leave his house

  Kabardian musician Zuber Euaz, the art director of the BZABZA Adyg-Abkhazian music and dance theatre, treats as unfounded the demand from the Nalchik Mayor's Office to leave a house in the city centre and to move to a one-room apartment on the city outskirts. Circassian activists supported the musician.

August 13, 2017 07:51

• Zviad Gamsakhurdiya's family members demand to be recognized as his successors

  Family members of Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, the first Georgian President, have appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to declare members of his family his legal successors. This was reported by advocate Amiran Giguashvili.

August 13, 2017 07:33

• PFPA treats arrest of party activist in Sumgait as unjustified

  The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) considers the arrest of Ruslan Gara, a party activist from the city of Sumgait, to be politically motivated and intends to file a complaint. Ismail Islamoglu, the Chairman of the Democratic Youth Organization of Azerbaijan, has also reported hi summoning to the police.

August 13, 2017 02:29

• Multinational NATO’s exercises "Noble Partner-2017" over in Georgia

  The military exercises of NATO’s member-countries and partners “Noble Partner” with the participation of over 2800 militaries from eight countries – Georgia, United States, Great Britain, Germany, Turkey, Slovenia, Armenia and Ukraine – are over in Georgia.

August 12, 2017 17:16

• Dagestani children's Ombudsperson receives 213 appeals about children removal to Syria and Iraq

  These appeals concern about 240 children who were taken from Dagestan to Iraq and Syria; however, there may be about a thousand children in these countries, Marina Yezhova, the Dagestani children’s Ombudsperson, has stated.

August 12, 2017 14:59

• Ten houses to be demolished after explosions in Abkhazia

  Builders are repairing the houses damaged by the explosions; the restoration of destroyed houses will begin in the near future, said Anzor Sakaniya, the head of the village of Primorskoe. According to the Ministry of Public Health of Abkhazia, all the victims of the explosions have been discharged from the republic's hospitals.

August 12, 2017 13:26

• Krasnodar journalist complains about receiving threats

  Today, Andrei Koshik, a Krasnodar freelance journalist, has got phone calls and SMS-messages with threats of violence and insults. He associates the threats with his publications about a conflict between Kuban farmers and a Rostov concern.

August 12, 2017 10:20

• Chief of Ramzan Kadyrov's secretariat replaced

  Alambek Yasaev, an assistant to the Chechen leader, has been appointed the chief of the Ramzan Kadyrov's secretariat. He has also headed the operational headquarters for combating drug addiction set up on August 11.

August 12, 2017 08:47

• Georgian citizen released after detention on Abkhazian border

  Tengiz Mikava, detained at the border with Abkhazia on August 10, returned to the village of Tkaia. This was reported by the Georgian State Security Service (SSS).

August 12, 2017 06:33

• Jurors find seven Ingush residents guilty of attacking law enforcers

  In Rostov-on-Don, at the trial, the jury has pronounced a verdict of guilty in the case on involvement of seven Ingush residents in an illegal armed formation (IAF). This is the second trial in the case. Earlier, the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has recognized five members of the grouping as innocent, and two others guilty in part.