Krasnodar Territory

January 07, 2020 12:26

• Caucasian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas

  Christmas services are held in the temples located in the regions of Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus. In some regions, celebrations are held under enhanced security measures.

December 26, 2019 23:56

• Galkin's phrase about apology practice in Chechnya voiced at concerts criticizing Putin

  Maxim Galkin did not want to give a concert in Chechnya, where people were forced to apologize for their statements about the power, and that fact emphasized his critical attitude to the political atmosphere in Russia. In the course of his concerts in Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Maxim Galkin ridiculed the methods of the Vladimir Putin's ruling and the corruption of officials, in particular, Rauf Arashukov.

December 26, 2019 11:12

• NCO activists consider the domestic violence prevention bill to be a "raw" document

  A roundtable held in Makhachkala has discussed how the state and businesses can help the women that occurred in difficult situations. The activists of non-commercial organizations (NCOs) interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe that the bill on the prevention of domestic violence has many shortcomings.

December 25, 2019 23:45

• Catholics of Southern Russia and countries of Southern Caucasus celebrate Christmas

  Today, Russian Catholics are celebrating Christmas by festive masses that are held in all Catholic churches of Russia, including Southern Russia and the countries of Southern Caucasus.

December 19, 2019 21:27

• Change of investigator in case on torture of Kuban resident encourages rights defenders

  The Prosecutor's Office cancelled the decision to close a case on torture by law enforcers of Yevgeny Bunin, a resident of the Tuapse District, and entrusted the case to another investigator, reported the Committee Against Torture (CaT). The human rights defenders express the hope that the new investigation will be effective.

December 14, 2019 11:26

• Colleagues of Akhmednabiyev, murdered "Caucasian Knot" journalist, urge to defend freedom of speech in spite of society's indifference

  The problems, covered by the killed journalist of the "Caucasian Knot", Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, remain relevant for Northern Caucasus and Russia as a whole. Young people do not aspire to journalism, since reporters' murders remains unpunished, the participants in the ceremony of granting the award named after Akhmednabiyev have stated.

December 03, 2019 14:51

• HRC "Memorial" recognizes as political prisoner a Ukrainian arrested in Kuban

  Alexander Marchenko, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of purchasing devices for an antiaircraft guided missile system and kept under arrest at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar, is being persecuted for political reasons, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" announces today.

December 02, 2019 16:52

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 25-December 1, 2019

  Start of the trial in a case on the killings of Dagestanis in Chechnya; protests in Tbilisi; ECtHR's decision on the communication of a complaint filed by Maxim Lapunov about torture in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 25-December 1, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 02, 2019 13:19

• KBR and Dagestan head the anti-rating of regions with lowest salaries

  Among the regions of Southern Russia, the largest number of workers with wages and salaries above 100,000 roubles per month live and work in the Astrakhan and Rostov Regions, and in the Krasnodar Territory. Dagestan and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) are the outsiders – here, less than one percent of workers receive such salaries.

November 30, 2019 17:13

• Author of travel book compares Northern Caucasus with Western Europe

  Stories about travels in Northern Caucasus have become an important part of the book "People on the Map. Russia: From Edge to Extremity" by a Moscow journalist, Vladimir Sevrinovsky. The Caucasus seems monolithic only from outside, but the difference among the Caucasian republics is no smaller than among the countries of Western Europe, the author has noted.

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