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July 07, 2017 18:36

• Astrakhan residents hold four pickets after search of Navalny's office

  Today, residents of Astrakhan have held a series of solo pickets in various parts of the city in connection with a search at the office of Alexei Navalny.

July 07, 2017 18:32

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports three persons wounded by shelling

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported fire attacks on Armenian positions, explaining the bombardments by the need to prevent diversions and treating them as a response measure to the shelling of the village of Alkhanly, where two civilians were killed. Nagorno-Karabakh has reported three wounded members of its Defence Army.

July 07, 2017 17:13

• Georgian authorities deny Turkish teacher's refugee status

  Today, the Ministry for Refugees, Accommodation and Forced Migrants from the Occupied Territories of Georgia has notified the Turkish citizen Mustafa Çabuk about refusal to grant him a refugee status. Soso Baratashvili, an advocate of the Turkish citizen, told the story to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 07, 2017 16:12

• Five US tourists disappear in Georgian mountains

  Georgian rescuers are looking for a group of tourists from the USA in the high-altitude region of Khevsureti.

July 07, 2017 14:30

• "Alternative" announces release of two Astrakhan residents from labour slavery

  The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has organized a check on the message of the Alternative movement about the illegal deprivation of liberty of two residents of Astrakhan.

July 07, 2017 11:07

• Maria Kuchina updates best world result of season

  Maria Lasitskene (Kuchina) won a stage of the "Diamond League" in Switzerland. The track and field athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria conquered the height of 2.06 meters and thus showed the best result of the season in the world.

July 07, 2017 10:15

• Rights defenders see signs of delay in investigation into grenade explosion in Malgobek

  The police have not yet made a decision to institute a criminal case on the fact of an explosion of a grenade in the yard of the house belonging to parents of Magomed Bekbuzarov.

July 07, 2017 08:36

• Police refuse to investigate journalists' statements about attack in Makhachkala

  The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has refused to institute a criminal proceeding on the complaints made by the journalists of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft) about attacks and obstruction of their professional activities.

July 07, 2017 08:04

• In Gukovo, 60 people take part in miners' hunger strike

  In the Rostov Region, the number of miners on protest hunger strike increases every day, and it has already reached 60 people. This has been reported by members of the initiative group. The regional authorities have once again announced that the compensation demanded by workers of the "Kingcoal" group of companies which got bankrupt will be paid only after the sale of the companies' property.

July 07, 2017 04:12

• Relatives report on kidnapping of Vladimir Region resident in Dagestan

  Sharip Zaipullaev, a resident of the town of Kovrov, born in 1980, disappeared in Dagestan, where he came to visit his relatives. From eyewitnesses, his family members have learned that Sharip Zaipullaev was taken away by people in masks who arrived in cars without state registration numbers.

July 07, 2017 03:39

• In Sochi, spouses request Prosecutor's Office to verify legality of policemen's actions on June 12

  Spouses Darya Cherkasskaya and Arthur Volkov-Minullin have appealed to Arthur Shmoilov, Prosecutor for Adler, with a request to conduct a check with regard to law enforcers who detained them during the action of Navalny's supporters on June 12. The spouses claimed that they had been detained unreasonably.

July 07, 2017 01:59

• Ekazhevo village administration starts paying compensations to flood victims

  The authorities have started paying compensation to families of the Ekazhevo village, affected by the flood resulting from heavy rain. This was reported by Khadjimurad Sapraliev, the head of the Ekazhevo village administration.

July 06, 2017 23:49

• "Novaya Gazeta" insists on detailed verification of information about gays in Chechnya

July 06, 2017 20:47

• Filming of reality show "Return" kicks off in Dagestan

  Today was the first day of filming the first Dagestani reality show. During 20 days, 12 women, participating in the project, will run their households in the way their great-grandmothers did in the 19th century. The project is intended to show young people the uniqueness and originality of Dagestan, say the authors of the "Return" reality show.

July 06, 2017 19:35

• Book on 'Kadyrov's factor' presented in Moscow

  The presentation of the book "Kadyrov's Factor. Confrontation" by Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen minister for national policy, external relations, press and information, was held on July 5 inMoscow in the cinema-concert hall of the "President-Hotel".

July 06, 2017 17:44

• In "Sasna Tsrer" case, defendants refuse to participate in court hearing

  Today, during court hearing on the second case against members of the "Sasna Tsrer" unit, the judge has removed from the courtroom defendants Aram Manukyan, Oganes Arutyunyan, and Tatul Tamrazyan, who refused to participate in the trial in protest against the use of sanctions against other 15 defendants.

July 06, 2017 15:38

• Authorities of Dagestan ignore conflict in Leninaul

  In Dagestan, the Council of Chechens Elders has recorded a video message to express the indignation over the conflict in the village of Leninaul and criticized the actions of the Dagestani government. According to the Council of Chechens Elders, the authorities are responsible for the tension which resulted in a fight in Leninaul.

July 06, 2017 15:24

• Kremlin announces President Putin's willingness to discuss problems of Chechen gays with Donald Trump

  During a meeting with US President Donald Trump, the Russian President is ready to answer a possible question about the persecution in Chechnya of men suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation. This was announced by Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary for the President of Russia.

July 06, 2017 14:43

• Defence of "Sasna Tsrer" demands court's recusal

  The today's court hearing on the second case against members of the "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun) unit is being held in the absence of 15 out of 18 defendants, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 06, 2017 10:46

• Activists call on Kremlin to intervene in conflict in Dagestani Nogai District (+video)

  Deputies of district assembly, rural settlements, and activists of the Nogai District have sent an appeal to Russian presidential envoy to the North-Caucasus Federal District demanding to take measures to resolve the situation in the Nogai District where the conflict arose on the basis of the election of the head for the Nogai district administration.