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March 24, 2017 18:28

• IS claims responsibility for attack in Chechnya

  The organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, has claimed responsible for attacking the military camp of the National Guard, as a result of which 12 people were killed and three others wounded. Four days before the attack, a video appeared on the Internet of a meeting of militants-returnees from Syria, members of another terrorist organization, which opposes the IS.

March 24, 2017 18:23

• Authorities find rally of Navalny’s supporters in Volgograd anti-constitutional

  The rally of supporters of Alexei Navalny planned to propagate the ideas, which may be treated as aimed at undermining the constitutional order, an official of the Volgograd Mayoralty has stated at court. The aim of the rally was to get answers from the authorities to the questions voiced in the Navalny’s film, said Alexei Volkov, the electoral office coordinator.

March 24, 2017 17:54

• National Guard servicemen killed in Chechnya named

  Among the six fighters of the National Guard, killed in the attack on the checkpoint in the Naur District of Chechnya, there are natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia.

March 24, 2017 16:48

• Check in connection with Nadezhda Degtereva’s death resumed in Sochi

  Investigators have cancelled the refusal to open a criminal case in connection with the death of Nadezhda Degtereva, a 36-year-old Sochi resident. Her mother Praskovya Degtereva insists that her daughter was driven to suicide by "black realtors".

March 24, 2017 14:49

• Alexander Dolzhenko's defence accuses court of desire to produce "second Magnitsky"

  In Elista, in his final speech, defendant Alexander Dolzhenko has announced to the court his innocence in the case of deliberate bankruptcy of the "Dalnyaya Step" Company. The funds were withdrawn from the company under the control of top-ranking officials. This opinion was voiced by advocates, who suspect the court of "the desire to make the second Magnitsky out of Alexander Dolzhenko."

March 24, 2017 11:54

• In Kuban, Alexei Volchenko, leader of "Polite Farmers", detained

  Today, court marshals of the Caucasian District have detained Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the movement "Polite Farmers", in a bus in the Cossack village of Kazanskaya and accused him of failure to pay child maintenance.

March 24, 2017 11:16

• In Chechnya, attack on National Guard becomes third armed incident since beginning of year

  In Chechnya, the shootout at a checkpoint in the Naur District, in which six fighters of the National Guard and six militants were killed, became at least the third armed clash between law enforcers and suspected members of the armed underground in the republic since early 2017.

March 24, 2017 10:22

• In Southern Russia, activities of head office of Jehovah's Witnesses suspended because of accusations of extremism

  On March 23, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced the suspension of the activities of the management centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. This decision will affect the religious communities throughout the country, stated Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the centre of Jehovah's Witnesses.

March 24, 2017 04:59

• Armenian rights defenders demand to punish persons responsible for Arthur Sargsyan's death

  Arthur Sargsyan, a supporter of the opposition, fell victim to ill-treatment. This opinion was voiced by Armenian rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They believe that the responsibility for his death should be borne by the investigator, the supervisory prosecutor and the judge who ordered to arrest the activist.

March 24, 2017 04:25

• In Sochi, court obliges bank to return to war veteran Gennady Kuk money debited from his account by mistake

  On March 23, Katerina Kalustova, the magistrate judge of the judicial district No. 92, summoned Gennady Kuk, a 90-year veteran of World War II, and announced that the money in the amount of 43,891 roubles earlier debited from his account at Sberbank in favour of Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Sochivodokanal" will be returned to his account within a week.

March 24, 2017 03:02

• Arthur Panov accused of plotting terror act in Rostov-on-Don resumes his hunger strike

  At the trial in the case on plotting a terror act in Rostov-on-Don considered by the North-Caucasian District Military Court, Arthur Panov has announced that he is resuming his hunger strike interrupted on February 18. Meanwhile, the defendant has demanded to extradite him to Ukraine.

March 24, 2017 00:56

• At trial, prosecutor recognizes involvement of Gasanguseinov brothers in armed underground as unproved

  During the consideration of the complaint filed by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the killed shepherds, the prosecutor has announced that the verification confirmed the complainant's version about the lack of evidence proving the connections of the killed men with militants.

March 24, 2017 00:03

• Azerbaijani rights defenders disappointed with small number of pardoned political prisoners

  The decree on pardoning signed by the Presidential of Azerbaijan has not solved the problem of political prisoners. This opinion was voiced by members of human rights organizations and opposition parties interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 23, 2017 23:04

• Court grants complaint filed by father of Gasanguseinov brothers against investigators

  Today, the court has ruled that the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) should eliminate the violations committed during the consideration of the complaint filed by the father of the Gasanguseinov brothers, shepherds killed by law enforcers.

March 23, 2017 22:15

• Members of Derbent communities dissatisfied with format of Nowruz-Bayram celebration

  In Derbent, during the celebration of Nowruz-Bayram, the authorities refused the principle of polyethnicity and did not focus on differences in the name of the holiday among the peoples celebrating it. This was reported by members of the autonomies.

March 23, 2017 20:51

• In Volgograd, conference in protection of entrepreneurs' rights disrupted

  In Volgograd, owners of trading stalls and pavilions gathered for a conference on the protection of their rights. However, the building rented in advance was closed and controlled by the police. Entrepreneurs protest against the fact that when a new scheme of non-stationary trade objects was adopted, their trading stalls and pavilions were excluded from it.

March 23, 2017 18:35

• Searches in Dagestani MoD coincide with intensification of struggle among Ramazan Abdulatipov's subordinates

  The investigative actions at the Dagestani Ministry of Education (MoE) are connected only with the case of a large-scale bribe in the administration of additional education, and they did not affect the work of the department, reports the MoE.

March 23, 2017 18:33

• Date for return of Ingush battalion from Syria announced

  On May 10, fighters of the battalion of the military police sent from Ingushetia to Syria will return home. This has been reported today to Yunus-Bek Evkurov by Vladimir Ivanovsky, the head of the Chief Department of the Russian Military Police.

March 23, 2017 17:04

• Magomed Aushev identifies three policemen suspected of torturing him

  During the confrontations arranged on March 21 and 22, Magomed Aushev has identified two other policemen. According to the resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, they tortured him. Earlier, Magomed Aushev identified one of the policemen and claimed that he used violence against him.

March 23, 2017 14:55

• "Novaya Gazeta": Chechen money discovered in "laundromat scheme"

  Officials of the Chechen Ministry of Construction paid their foreign contractors through the "laundromat scheme", a network of one-day "money laundering" companies. 22 billion US dollars were withdrawn from Russia through such companies. This was reported by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" with reference to the story of the construction of a brick factory in Grozny, investigated together with the Slovenian edition "Delo".