Interethnic relations

March 07, 2019 11:09

• Defence of Chechen native appeals against his arrest after brawl in Moscow

  The arrest of Imran Malsakov, a native of Chechnya, within the case of a mass brawl in the "Neolit" Cafe in Moscow is not justified, since the formal claimed no damage, the defence has stated. The court will consider the complaint against Malsakov's arrest on March 11.

March 05, 2019 11:15

• Soviet authorities' policy on Islam left traces in Caucasus

  The extermination of the clergy and the destruction of mosques in the Soviet years resulted in the appearance of radical preachers, Damir Mukhetdinov, the rector of the Moscow Islamic Institute, has stated at the conference "The History of Islam in Russia: Comprehension with Look into the Future".

February 22, 2019 12:24

• Native of Armenia tells about threat to his security after brawl in "Neolit" Cafe

  Garnik Vardanyan, who was declared by Fuad Abbasov, the head of the Centre for Information Initiatives, as a possible instigator of the mass brawl in Moscow, said he has to hide for security reasons. He treats himself as a victim of a provocation.

February 22, 2019 08:24

• Man, who has served his term for attempt on Kadyrov, arrested in Moscow

  Lors Khamiev, a native of Chechnya, has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of killing an Azerbaijani taxi driver. Khamiev has served his eight-year-long prison term for plotting an assassination attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov. Sources have linked the driver's murder with the mass brawl in the "Neolit" Café.

February 21, 2019 23:08

• Azerbaijani Ambassador aggravates dispute about instigators of mass fight in Moscow

  After the Ambassador of Azerbaijan stated that a mass fight of Chechens and Azerbaijanis in Moscow had been provoked by the third party, Facebook users wrote their versions about the ethnicity of the "third forces."

February 17, 2019 11:09

• Political analysts point to dying conflict around monument to Avagyan in Georgia

  After the protests, Georgian officials got convinced not to dismantle the monument to Mikhail Avagyan, a Karabakh War veteran, local politicians of Armenian origin have reported. The Georgian authorities will not let go of a conflict of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Diasporas, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

February 16, 2019 16:09

• Azerbaijani and Chechen authorities withdraw from interethnic conflict in Moscow

  The parties in the mass brawl in the Pechatniki Moscow district were natives of Chechnya and Azerbaijan; mutual insults kindled the conflict, sources have reported. Employees of the Chechnya's permanent mission and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Moscow did not contact the parties, said the sources from both institutions.

February 15, 2019 11:37

• Avagyan monument reminds of difficulties in relations between Baku and Tbilisi

  Installation of the monument to Mikhail Avagyan, a veteran of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Akhalkalaki District is a provocation aimed to create problems in relations between Georgia and Azerbaijan, believe politicians and public figures interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

February 15, 2019 01:43

• Asker Sokht tells about obstacles to naturalization of Syrian Circassians

  The Circassian repatriates from Syria, who have received the right to Russian citizenship, face excessively strict demands to the knowledge of the Russian language and literature, said Asker Sokht, the chairman of the "Adyge Khase" organization in Krasnodar.

February 13, 2019 13:04

• Historians tell about the modern impact of Turkmenchay Treaty

  The Turkmenchay Peace Treaty of 1828 divided the territory of historical residence of Azerbaijanis among Russia and Iran; and the subsequent actions of the tsarist regime and the Soviet authorities created the basis for the Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani historians told the "Caucasian Knot".

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