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03:01, 3 July 2015

About 100 protesters spent the night in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan

According to coordinators of the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff, last night about 100 protesters stayed in Yerevan, in Bagramyan Avenue.

Nina Dubovaya in her land plot full of debris from the illegal construction works. Sochi, July 2015. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

02:09, 3 July 2015

Court decision to return land plot to pensioner Dubovaya in Sochi upheld

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal complaints against the decision of the District court of Sochi, which had granted the petition lodged by pensioner Nina Dubovaya about return of her land plot.

21:20, 2 July 2015

Yerevan hunger-strikers hospitalized

Arutyun Arutyunyan and Ayk Parikyan stopped their hunger strike against the increase of the electricity tariff in Armenia; both activists were taken to hospital.

Vyacheslav Starodubets has held a solo picket in Makhachkala trying to attract authorities' attention to the investigation of his case. July 1, 2015. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

20:43, 2 July 2015

Dagestani authorities promise to control inquiry into attack on Starodubets

The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has stopped his series of solo pickets in Makhachkala. According to his story, officials from the administration of the head of Dagestan promised to help in the investigation of his criminal case.

Alexei Grazhdankin, Deputy Director of the "Levada Centre". Photo: http://www.levada.ru/sotrudniki

17:45, 2 July 2015

Sociologists fix increased optimism towards economic problems of Northern Caucasus

The squeezing of North-Caucasian problems out of focus of public by the anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has led to increased positive attitude towards the situation in Northern Caucasus. This was the comment of "Levada Centre" experts on the outcome of their social poll, conducted on June 19-22.

The spectators with the Azerbaijani flag at the I European Games. Baku, June 2015. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"

16:14, 2 July 2015

European Games step up criticism of Azerbaijan for human rights violations

Azerbaijani experts and local residents have different opinions on the value for the country of the recent First European Games held in Baku. Some believe that the Games boosted the country's international reputation and promotion of its tourism potential; while others point out huge expenses and increased criticism for human rights violations.

Bottles with water and flowers in the school No. 1 gym. Beslan, September 3, 2015. Photo by Emma Marzoeva for the "Caucasian Knot"

13:45, 2 July 2015

ECtHR finds violations of the right to life of Beslan terror act victims

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted to consideration the complaints of most of the applicants, who suffered from the terror act with hostage taking in Beslan in 2004. According to the lawyer Sergey Knyazkin, who is representing the applicants' interests of the, the consideration should help to identify the mistakes that led to massive children's deaths.

The fire in the flat where the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) is located. Grozny, December 15, 2014. Photo by Akhmed Aldebirov for the "Caucasian Knot"

12:46, 2 July 2015

Fire experts state that fire in JMG office in Chechnya was caused by arson

In December 2014, the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders in Chechnya, was set on fire in three places – this is evidenced by fire-technical expertises, carried out under the criminal investigation.

Barricade of the garbage cans. Baku, June 1, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

11:19, 2 July 2015

Policemen drive their special equipment away from Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan

Special equipment, including water cannons, has been removed from Bagramyan Avenue in central Yerevan, where activists protest against the increase of the electricity tariff. However, the police said that the equipment may be brought back to the place of protest.

The GOVD (City Interior Division) of Derbent. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

07:46, 2 July 2015

Detention of advisor Yaraliev has to do with struggle of influential groups for major posts in Derbent

So far, law enforcement bodies have not presented charges to Elkhan Kazimov, an adviser to the Mayor of Derbent, detained on June 30, said a source from the GOVD (City Interior Division). The detention of Kazimov may have to do with the struggle of different groups for key positions in the leadership of the city, said Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the RIA "Derbent".

Chereshnya villagers gathered at the meeting to find out why the garbage dump was arranged in the village. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent

07:07, 2 July 2015

Chereshnya villagers state threat of epidemics because of dump arranged by authorities in village centre

The protests of residents of the village of Chereshnya against the garbage dump arranged in the village centre gave no results. The villagers who tried to block the passage of KamAZ trucks were pushed off by the police. The authorities say that the garbage dump is temporary.

Special equipment in the streets of the city. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/nakmessage/2015/07/02/v-khode-kto-v-nalchike-neitralizovany-dvoe-banditov.html

03:52, 2 July 2015

Relative of Nasyr-Kort casualties states their non-involvement in IAFs

Ali Aliev, a resident of Nasyr-Kort, and his wife Leyla Alieva, who were killed during a special operation in Nazran, were not involved in illegal armed formations (IAFs), said Aliev's brother Magomed Aliev. He called rights defenders to help to bring the participants of the special operation to justice.

23:55, 1 July 2015

Baksan resident states oppression of his son in colony

Musabi Berkhamov, a resident of the city of Baksan, has sent his complaints about violations of the rights of his son, Anzor Berkhamov, in a colony located in the Kurgan Region, to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the republic's Ombudsperson.

23:28, 1 July 2015

Opinions of rights defenders on Bogatenkova's actions differ

Valentina Melnikova, the secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, has stated that there were violations in the work of human rights activist Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who has been sentenced today. On the other hand, Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights, asserts that not a single fact confirming Bogatenkova's guilt was proved at the trial.

20:55, 1 July 2015

Yerevan protesters exclude putting forward political demands

Apart from the sit-in strike in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan, Armenia has stopped other protest actions against the increase of electricity tariff.

20:24, 1 July 2015

Starodubets states refusal to investigate his beating in Dagestan (+video)

The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has held a solo picket in Makhachkala trying to attract authorities' attention to the investigation of his case.

19:08, 1 July 2015

Prosecutor demands life sentence for Taziev

Today, at the trial of Ali Taziev, accused of taking part in the attack on Nazran in June 2004, the pleadings began. Prosecutors ask the court to sentence the defendant to life imprisonment.

The participants of the protest action in Yerevan, June 24, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

17:27, 1 July 2015

Armenian GPO starts inquiry into disperse of protesters

The legality of policemen's actions on June 23 in Yerevan will be checked by the Special Investigating Service, said Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia.

Lyudmila Bogatenkova near the building of the city court of Budyonnovsk on May 19, 2015. Photo: Anna Mikhaylova

17:20, 1 July 2015

Court in Budyonnovsk amnesties Lyudmila Bogatenkova

The court acquitted Lyudmila Bogatenkova on one of the episodes of her fraud case; and re-qualified the charge on the other episode; and applied the amnesty act.

Sunrise in Makhachkala. Photo: Eldar Rasulov, Sergey Martyanov //24.08.2012, http://odnoselchane.ru/?page=photos_of_category&sect=3618&com=photogallery

16:46, 1 July 2015

Abdulatipov's statement of distrust to Suleimanov was made amid preparations for elections in Makhachkala

The conflict of Magomed Suleimanov, the acting head of the administration of Makhachkala, with Khizri Shikhsaidov, the speaker of the Dagestani parliament, around lists of candidates for deputies of district assemblies of Makhachkala was preceded by Abdulatipov's statement of distrust to Suleimanov.

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