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December 07, 2019 12:42

• Journalists discover that Khangoshvili's murderer worked for FSB

  As stated by the authors of an international journalistic investigation, the alleged killer of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, shot dead in Berlin, had served in the "Vympel" (Pennant) FSB Special Forces unit and was involved in at least two murders in Russia.

December 07, 2019 12:31

• HPP construction aggravated confrontation among Pankisi residents

  The Georgian Govt's plans to build the "Khadori-3" hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have split residents of the Pankisi Gorge into two camps; the conflict was exacerbated by the political confrontation.

December 07, 2019 12:13

• Public humiliation remains officials' tool for fighting dissent in Chechnya

  Chechen authorities are making use of public humiliations by relying both on the Soviet experience and on the long-standing traditions of the nation. However, over time, people's systematic demonstrative humiliations start generating the opposite effect, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

December 07, 2019 08:58

• German journalists learn about transfer of suspect of killing Khangoshvili under guard

  A Russian suspected of assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili has been transferred from the Moabit Prison into the high security prison in Tegel. The decision was made by employees of the State Criminal Investigation Department: they received information that the killer is in danger of liquidation, the "Berliner Morgenpost" newspaper has written.

December 07, 2019 08:47

• Five Jehovah Witnesses* left in custody in Volgograd

  On December 6, a Volgograd court extended by two months the detention of five Jehovah Witnesses*. Their relatives complain that investigators ban to visit the detainees.