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Sreenshot from the video of the theatrical performance that took place in front of the "Republic Square" metro station in Yerevan, "epress.am" YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0wL4NLPLU

14:26, 5 November 2019

Armenia: theatrical performance triggers political scandal

After the experimental performance staged in Yerevan with the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the youth wing of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party has demanded to dismiss the Minister, Araik Arutyunyan.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Screenshot from video posted by BBC News – Russian Service at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp65fNM4Mj8

11:30, 5 November 2019

Kadyrov tries to stop critics by using Islamic morality

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has called on his ill-wishers and critics to weigh up their words before writing anything. A video with his statement and a comment thereon were posted on his Instagram page by Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Press Minister.

Islam Kadyrov. Screenshot from video posted at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s57bt97hYiM

11:15, 5 November 2019

Islam Kadyrov's apologies outrage residents of Chechnya

In his interview, Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov and his comrades, but not to the people who suffered from his actions, the residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated. Internet users have expressed indignation that Ramzan Kadyrov's official has not been punished.

Nika Gvaramiya. Photo: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B7_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Nika_Gvaramia,_Director_General_of_Rustavi_2_(44851964644).jpg

11:04, 5 November 2019

New charges against Gvaramiya indicate oppression of oppositional press in Georgia

Nika Gvaramiya, a former director general of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, is accused of having bought a Porsche car for 76,700 euros by reducing the cost of advertising on the TV channel. Gvaramiya himself, as well as experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have linked the new charge with the pressure on free media in Georgia.

08:49, 5 November 2019

Azerbaijani law enforcers kill a man on Iranian border

A resident of Azerbaijan was killed while trying to illegally return to the country from Iran with drugs and weapons; two more people were detained, the Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) has informed.

Screenshot of Telegram post by Tumso Abdurakhmanov with comments to the interview with Islam Kadyrov, https://t.me/abusaddamshishani/2471

08:40, 5 November 2019

Tumso claims approval of Islam Kadyrov's brutality by Chechen minister

Isa Ibragimov, Chechen Minister for Youth Affairs, in his comments on the apologies of Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has in fact justified the use by the latter of an electric shocker (stun gun) against detainees, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has stated.

Parents of Kurmanali Atayev, one of characters of the "Deceived" documentary. Screenshot from "Deceived" documentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVT3AqXJSnU

08:28, 5 November 2019

Film about departure of Nogai youth to Syria impresses social network users

The author of "The Deceived" has raised an important problem; she should also tell about the fate of other residents of Dagestan who had joined militants in Syria, the YouTube and Facebook users who have watched the film believe.

The village of Kenkhi, Chechnya. Photo: Brainwashing - CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenkhi01.jpg

22:21, 4 November 2019

Residents of Kenkhi also threatened by Islam Kadyrov, Ramazan Djalaldinov reports

After a complaint to President Putin about the bureaucratic arbitrariness in the village of Kenkhi, Islam Kadyrov came to the Sharoi District of Chechnya and threatened local public sector employees. This has been reported today by Ramazan Djalaldinov, an author of the complaint.

The National Unity Day in Vladikavkaz. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the Caucasian Knot

22:08, 4 November 2019

National Unity Day splits residents of Southern Russia

Amid the events organized by the authorities on the National Unity Day, many residents of the southern regions of Russia said they did not understand the meaning of the holiday. Some of them recalled with nostalgia the celebration of November 7, and residents of Ingushetia considered it more appropriate to pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict.

Dagger, Chechnya, Grozny. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

18:09, 4 November 2019

Chechen woman apologizes in public for honour killing report

A resonance video reporting about a murder by an uncle of a teenage girl caught while behaving inappropriately is a lie, says a mother of the child. The woman confessed that she herself had disseminated the information. The incident will negatively affect the fate of the disgraced teenage girl, residents of Chechnya believe.

Ibragim Eldjarkiev, Timur Khamkhoev. Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Ingushetia, https://06.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai/; screenshot from the Caucasian Knot video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg3k7yVGBGA,

17:55, 4 November 2019

Replacement of Khamkhoev with Eldjarkiev fails to stop complaints against Ingush CCE

After Timur Khamkhoev, the former chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), was sentenced and replaced by Ibragim Eldjarkiev, who was killed in Moscow on November 2, reports of physical pressure on suspects at the CCE did not stop. In particular, Abdulmalik Albagachiev and Albert Khamkhoev complained about violence.

15:52, 4 November 2019

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 28-November 3, 2019

Recognition by the US of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire; events in memory of victims of political repressions in Southern Russia; assassination of a top-ranking Ingush police officer in Moscow, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 28-November 3, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Warfare in Syria. Screenshot from the film "Deceived", YouTube channel of the newspaper "The Voice of the Steppe – Shiol Tavysy", https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1eZmwSkAqmLdZ7Qrs_2PSg

13:31, 4 November 2019

Dagestani journalist makes a film about departure of Nogai young people to Syria

Elmira Kozhaeva, the editor-in-chief of the Nogai-language newspaper "The Voice of the Steppe – Shiol Tavysy", has shot the film "Deceived" about residents of the village of Kumli who left for Syria to take part in the combat actions against the government forces of Syria.

Road sign in Georgia. Photo: Nicolai Bangsgaard, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3434877

13:18, 4 November 2019

Relatives of woman from Akhalgori request to treat her in Georgia

The authorities of South Ossetia forbade family members of local resident Tamar Gigauri, who was injured when falling into a well, to transport her to Tbilisi for medical treatment because of the closed administrative border.

Screenshot from TV interview of Islam Kadyrov given to Chingiz Akhmadov, https://t.me/abusaddamshishani/2473

11:31, 4 November 2019

Islam Kadyrov apologizes for bullying Grozny residents

Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has admitted that his treatment of detained Grozny residents was "inadequate and inappropriate." However, he explained his actions by consequences of his grave traumas.

Photo exhibition "Contrary To", dedicated to the 76th anniversary of deportation of Karachay nationals, Karachayevsk, November 1, 2019. Screenshot of Instagram page of Karachayevsk Administration, https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ux247gPMO/?igshid=1b0rjq9jazjvt

11:20, 4 November 2019

Photo portraits of deported Karachays trigger interest of various generations

Within the photo exhibition "Contrary To", dedicated to the 76th anniversary of deportation of Karachay nationals, 260 portraits of residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) were presented.

Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko. Photo: website of 'Civil Initiative', http://www.grazhdan-in.ru/

11:04, 4 November 2019

Cases of Ingush activists and Shevchenko from Rostov are examples of political repression

The intensification of political repressions is noted throughout the country as a whole, and in Southern Russia, in particular, human rights defenders stated at a roundtable held in Moscow, citing the cases of Ingush activists and Anastasia Shevchenko from Rostov-on-Don as an example.

Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE). Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Ingushetia, https://06.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai/

10:50, 4 November 2019

Blood feud version voiced out after Eldjarkiev's murder

The murder in Moscow of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), was committed amid his conflict with the followers of Sheikh Batal-Hadji, one of whose leaders was killed in 2018, sources inform.

Screenshot of the post on the Instagram page of the Congress of Karachay Nation with a message of the leader of the organization. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Wl8Eag6AE/

11:45, 3 November 2019

Residents of Karachay-Cherkessia pay tribute to deportation victims

Hundreds of residents of Karachay-Cherkessia have commemorated those who died in exile as a result of the deportation of the Karachay people in 1943.

Screenshot of the post about the picket in Hamburg on November 2, 2019. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4XDAsrHqZL/

11:40, 3 November 2019

Picket demanding to free Ingush activists held in Germany

On Saturday, November 2, the German city of Hamburg hosted a picket, held by members of the local Ingush Diaspora. They spoke about the tragic historical events in Russia related to Ingushes, as well as about the activists arrested in Ingushetia.

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