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Mikhail Kasyanov. Photo: http://www.kasyanov.ru/index.html?layer_id=108&nav_id=14&id=191&photo_big_id=549

10:30, 10 February 2016

Kasyanov associates attack on him with video posted by Kadyrov in Instagram

The Moscow police have launched an inquiry into the attack on Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the PARNAS Party, within the administrative legislation. He himself treats the attack on him with the threats received from the head of Chechnya.

Law enforcers. Photo http://www.nac.gov.ru/

09:50, 10 February 2016

KBR resident suspected of helping militants

Investigators believe that the 34-year-old resident of the village of Islamey, Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), helped members of the underground by providing housing and foodstuffs.

Abdulmalik Akhmedilov. Photo: http://kavpolit.com/tags/abdulmalik_ahmedilov/

05:50, 10 February 2016

Court considering Akhmedilov's murder case rules to summon two witnesses

The court that considers the murder case of the Dagestani journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov has read out testimonies of three prosecution witnesses, extended the arrest of the defendants by two months, and ruled to force two witnesses to the next session scheduled on February 17, said one of the advocates.

The building of Yerevan Mayoralty. Photo: http://arm-world.ru/news/novostnik/2500-taron-markaryan-erevan-i-sankt-peterburg-rasshiryayut-gorizonty-sotrudnichestva.html

01:28, 10 February 2016

Yerevan Mayoralty sanctions rallies on March 1

Two opposition parties – the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC) and the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia" – received permits to hold rallies in Freedom Square, dedicated to the events on March 1, 2008.

Ilya Yashin. Photo: screenshot of a video "Towards the elections", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd9QEOH-dh4

00:35, 10 February 2016

Yashin: report on Kadyrov contains exclusive information

When preparing the report "Threat to National Security" about Ramzan Kadyrov, information from open sources, including materials of the "Caucasian Knot", was analyzed; but the report will also present new data, said the author of the report Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician.

A poster in the street of Derbent. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:35, 9 February 2016

Residents of Derbent report on detention of Imam of Salafi mosque

In Derbent, Imam of a Salafi mosque was detained by law enforcers in the territory of the "Airport" residential district. Local residents are gathering in front of the police station and demanding to release the Imam.

War in Syria. Photo by the user Freedom House https://www.flickr.com

20:25, 9 February 2016

Authorities declare Chechen fighters in Syria to be volunteers

In the rear of the "Islamic State" (IS), not the Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) are operating, but just "self-organized groups of young people," who "risk their lives and suffer losses," representatives of the republic's leadership have admitted.

19:52, 9 February 2016

Dagestani resident goes to court seeking to cancel his registration at police

Daniyal Alkhasov, a doctor of the Dagestani village of Erpeli, has addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a complaint about the systematic pressure of law enforcers and his unlawful operational-preventive registration at the police as a follower of the Salafi concept of Islam.

At the polling station during voting at the referendum. December 6, 2015. Photo: © PAN Photo / Varo Rafayelyan, Hrant Khachatryan, Karo Sahakyan

16:38, 9 February 2016

Member of "Heritage" Party complains about use of violence at Armenian referendum

In Armenia, the law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into the case of obstruction to actions of an authorized delegate at the constitutional referendum held on December 6, 2015.

Asabali Mustafaev, an advocate. Photo: RFE/RL

15:29, 9 February 2016

Baku court refuses to summon doctors who treated Rasim Aliev

The court that considers the murder case of Rasim Aliev has refused to summon the Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan; however, it partially granted the petition to summon forensic experts, said Asabali Mustafaev, an advocate.

The house destroyed by the explosion in Volgograd. January 14, 2016. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"

13:05, 9 February 2016

Tenants of Volgograd destroyed apartment house demand meeting with Governor

Former tenants of the destroyed house in Volgograd seek to meet the Governor or his representative to learn about compensation for their lost housing before the public hearings on surveying the territory, said Larisa Borodaeva, the leader of tenants' activists.

Hideout with ammunition. Photo: http://www.vestikavkaza.ru/news/V-Botlikhskom-rayone-obnaruzhen-taynik-s-oruzhiem-i-boepripasami.html

11:38, 9 February 2016

Hideout with ammunition found in Botlikh District of Dagestan

In the outskirts of the village of Ashali, law enforcers found a large hideout with weapons and medicines; the "owners" of the weapons have not been defined yet, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

Ilya Yashin. Screenshot of a video https://tvrain.ru/teleshow/vechernee_shou/yashin-402108/

10:48, 9 February 2016

Ilya Yashin finds allies in Chechnya for preparing report on Ramzan Kadyrov

In Chechnya, people are afraid of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was stated by Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the "People's Freedom Party" (PARNAS), who visited Grozny while working on the report about the leader of Chechnya. According to Ilya Yashin, the study is addressed to the Russian public, and there are people in Chechnya, who will disseminate the report in the territory of the republic.

Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director, during the court session in Rostov-on-Don. Photo: Anton Naumlyuk, http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/27174113.html

05:34, 9 February 2016

Oleg Sentsov transferred from Rostov SIZO to Yakutia instead of Irkutsk

Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director, sentenced in Rostov-on-Don to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony on the charge of terrorism, has been transported to Yakutia. This was reported by advocate Mark Feighin.

A police officer in Grozny during the rally. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

04:50, 9 February 2016

Chechen MIA reports no complaints about disappearances

According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the reports of the kidnapping of a young man in the Leninsky District of Grozny on February 5 have not been confirmed, as well as the posts in social networks about the disappearance of seven persons.

Ramzan Kadyrov in the sub-unit of the Chechen spetsnaz (special troops). Screenshot of a story shown on TV Channel "Russia-1"

00:46, 9 February 2016

Experts treat Kadyrov's statements about Chechen spetsnaz in Syria as PR actions

Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that Chechen spetsnaz (special troops) is at war in Syria should be treated with scepticism, said Reserve Colonel Victor Murakhovskiy and Andrei Koshkin, a military political analyst. If Kadyrov is telling the truth, then he has actually "exposed" his spetsnaz to the fighters of the "Islamic State" (IS), said Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

Nadezhda Savchenko at the Donetsk City Court, February 4, 2016. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:09, 8 February 2016

Savchenko express distrust testimonies of witness Manshin

Dmitry Manshin, a witness in the case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, has stated at interrogation the truthfulness of the version of the prosecution. Savchenko and her defence have disagreed with Manshin's testimonies, and received a remark for that.

Law enforcers. Photo http://www.riadagestan.ru/

20:29, 8 February 2016

Power agents refute information about the CTO regime in Makhachkala

Shamil Avenue was closed with the aim of conducting targeted checks; information about blocking a house with militants is not true, said a law enforcement source of Dagestan.

Igor Stenin. Photo http://u-f.ru/News/u20/2015/01/22/701203

16:56, 8 February 2016

Astrakhan Court announces Stenin's trial closed

At the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the Sovietskiy District Court of Astrakhan, which is considering the case of Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has announced the trial closed and removed the audience and the media from the courtroom.

15:15, 8 February 2016

Alleged recruiter of "Imarat Kavkaz" arrested in Saratov

The Frunze District Court of Saratov has placed into custody a suspect of recruiting people to the "Imarat Kavkaz Vilayat Dagestan", which is recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

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