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February 21, 2017 09:23

• Abkhazia completes accepting documents for participating in parliamentary elections

  The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has completed the reception of documents from the initiative groups and political parties, willing to nominate candidates for the elections to the National Assembly – the Parliament.

February 21, 2017 02:56

• Art Association "Portal" in Vladikavkaz states threat of closure

  The Creative Association "Portal", established in place of the frozen construction site of the National Museum of North Ossetia, is under threat of closure, said the organizers of the project. The head of the republic Vyacheslav Bitarov offered to leave the "Portal" at the already popular site of the museum, or to give it another premise.

February 21, 2017 01:14

• ECtHR accepts Kobaliya’s complaints to consideration

  The complaints of Temur Kobaliya, the former head of the "Youth Consulting and Training Centre", about his administrative harassment in connection with the law on "Foreign Agents", was taken on February 20 to consideration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

February 20, 2017 20:09

• Donors raise nearly 1.5 million roubles for Ingush family’s house

  The authors of the project "House with windows into happiness" managed to raise nearly 1.5 million roubles to build a house for a large Djandigov family. Most of the funds – 950,000 roubles – were raised by means of crowdfunding, which was praised by the "Solidarity" Charity Fund as highly efficient.

February 20, 2017 19:59

• Stepanakert: oppositionists complain about attempts to hamper their campaigning

  Activists of the oppositional "National Revival" Party claim that the leaflets of the opponents of the new Constitution draft of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) were torn away en masse; and during the election campaign, the authorities made use of their administrative resources.

February 20, 2017 17:57

• Derbent residents threaten to block highway in protest against resettlement

  For the second day in a row, residents of central Derbent are holding protests with a demand not to resettle them into new buildings. Townspeople have threatened to block the federal highway and the railway. The Chairman of the City Assembly has urged them to wait for the outcomes of the Mayor’s meeting with the republic’s Premier.

February 20, 2017 17:52

• "Azadlyg" newspaper reports its staff questioned by GPO

  Eight journalists of the paper have been summoned to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan for interrogation within the case initiated against Faig Amirov, the Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the "Azadlyg" reports.

February 20, 2017 14:27

• Abu Bakr al-Shishani, native of Chechnya, declared killed in Iraq

  According to the power agency of the Iraqi Kurds, as a result of the military operation in Mosul, over 30 militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, were killed including Abu Bakr al-Shishani, a native of Chechnya.

February 20, 2017 10:25

• Prisoner of Ingush SIZO voices threats against POC members, Magomed Mutsolgov reports

  A senior Ingush policeman, arrested on suspicion of abusing a detainee, has threatened members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr", has appealed to the investigating authorities with a request to investigate the incident.

February 20, 2017 04:43

• On February 13-19, no victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded

  During the week from February 13 to February 19, 2017, no victims were reported of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

February 20, 2017 03:36

• In Sochi, court marshals try to move large family out of municipal apartment

  On February 19, Sochi court marshal Andrei Zorinovsky, warned Tatiana Dyakova and Fyodor Dyakov, parents of three minor children, of eviction of their family members from the apartment until February 28. Meanwhile, the court marshal has ignored the claim of the Dyakov spouses that the family includes an infant and a child with disabilities.

February 19, 2017 15:14

• Georgian theologians doubt investigators' information about attempt on Ilia II

  Georgy Mamaladze, suspected of an assassination attempt on Ilia II, had no ambitions to claim for the patriarchal throne. This opinion was voiced by Georgian theologians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They treat the investigators' version as doubtful.

February 19, 2017 11:59

• Journalist Arshad Ibragimov appeals to Azerbaijani President for pardon

  In his motion on pardon to President Ilham Aliev, journalist Arshad Ibragimov has noted that he has already served half of his sentence at a penal colony and that he was an internally displaced person (IDP) from Nagorno-Karabakh.

February 19, 2017 05:02

• Ruslan Tagibekov detained in Moscow Region subjected to torture, his defence asserts

  Law enforcers tortured Ruslan Tagibekov, a native of Dagestan, suspected of illicit trafficking in weapons. This was claimed by his defence. On February 18, Ruslan Tagibekov was formally charged.

February 18, 2017 22:53

• Two Azeri journalists complain to ECtHR about ban to leave the country

  The freelance journalists Aiten Ferkhadova and Ainura Geidarova have lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the ban on leaving Azerbaijan imposed on them. The ban is caused by the inquiry into the criminal case against the edition “Meydan.TV”, their advocate has explained.

February 18, 2017 21:51

• Congress of Karachay People demands to ban screening of "Fifty Shades Darker" in KChR

  The public organization "Congress of Karachay People" has criticized the movie "Fifty Shades Darker" and demanded from the authorities of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR) to ban the film in the republic.

February 18, 2017 20:00

• Marchers in support of Arthur Sargsyan urged him to stop hunger strike

  In Yerevan, over a hundred persons have demanded the release Arthur Sargsyan, accused of helping members of the "Sasna Tsrer" detachment, whose state of health has sharply deteriorated on the tenth day of his hunger strike.

February 18, 2017 17:17

• Rights defenders present 27 Azerbaijani political prisoners to pardoning

  The list, presented by a group of rights defenders to the Commission on Pardoning under the Azerbaijani President, includes, first of all, prisoners with serious health problems, persons, on whom there are decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR, and the "prisoners of conscience", recognized as such by the Amnesty International (AI).

February 18, 2017 16:41

• Soldier dies in Karabakh conflict zone

  Lernik Osyan, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), received a fatal gunshot wound today in the conflict zone under unclear circumstances, the NKR’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

February 18, 2017 14:42

• Son and nephew of "Unity" leader detained in Armenia

  A son and a nephew of Vardan Oskanyan, the former Foreign Minister of Armenia, have kidnapped a man and threatened to kill him, investigators assert.