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12:55, 17 January 2015

Advocates of Chechnya residents detained in Moscow send complaint to ECtHR

A complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been submitted by the advocates of the residents of Chechnya Said-Magomed Tsetiev, Khamzat Tsetiev and Khamid Razhapov, suspected of assaulting employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in Moscow.

Banner promoting call Chechen young men to serve in army. Photo by Natalya Isaeva http://www.svoboda.org/

12:18, 17 January 2015

One hundred conscripts from Chechnya start their service in Russia's Interior Troops

One hundred of Chechen recruits have sworn in and began their serve in the units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) deployed in their republic.

Soldiers in the front line. Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

11:37, 17 January 2015

Parties of Karabakh conflict report series of shelling during the day

The military agencies of Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have reported ceasefire violations on the troops contact line.

Defendant Armen Ovannisyan in the court room. Yerevan, December 27, 2014. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

10:59, 17 January 2015

Advocates demand to cancel verdict to participants of "Million Mask March"

The sentence to the protesters, who took part in the "Million Mask March", should be abolished, because their guilt was not proved, the convicts' advocates declared to the Court of Appeal (CoA). The convicts have also demanded acquittal and stressed the political character of their case.

Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Nastoyaschee Vremya". Photo: the Federal Lezgin National-Cultural Autonomy http://flnka.ru/flnka/1969-za-kem-proryv-lezginskih-smi.html

08:22, 17 January 2015

Dagestani "Nastoyaschee Vremya" suspends its printed version; some employees will be laid off

In Dagestan, on January 1, the printing of one of the republic's – the "Nastoyaschee Vremya" (Present Time) – was suspended. Not earlier than March, the weekly will start its electronic version. The reorganization will lead to dismissal of four out of six full-time employees, said the editor-in-chief Milrad Fatullaev.

Protest action at the Russian Embassy in Armenia. Yerevan, January 15, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

07:05, 17 January 2015

Armenian rights defenders doubt that Permyakov will be given out to Armenian law enforcers

The Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of killing the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, must face the Armenian justice, rights defenders of Armenia believe. However, they doubt that the Russian party will give him out to Armenia.

Protest action of the relatives of Sultan Karasov. The village of Erkin-Hulk, Nogai District of the KChR. January 17, 2015. Photo: A.Karasov

03:51, 17 January 2015

Relatives of KChR's native report his kidnapping in Stavropol

Sultan Karasov was kidnapped in Stavropol, his relatives assert. They cannot find him for 8 days and do not rule out that he could be detained by power agents.

02:20, 17 January 2015

Widow of suspected militants, who disappeared in Dagestan, returns home after questioning

Aybike Saygidalieva, a resident of the Dagestan village of Shamkhal, the widow of Magomedarip Magomedov, who was killed in August 2014, whose disappearance was reported by local rights defenders, has returned home after interrogation at the Kizilyurt Inter-District Investigating Division of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The head of the CaT Igor Kalyapin. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:59, 16 January 2015

Russia's MoJ adds CaT to registry of "foreign agents"

The Committee against Torture (CaT), which includes the rights defenders working in Chechnya in the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), has been put on the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs, treated as "foreign agents", said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia.

Flags of South Ossetia and Russia. Photo: http://osinform.ru/

20:17, 16 January 2015

Seven South-Ossetian parties demand to publish draft integration treaty with Russia

Members of seven parties of South Ossetia have appealed to the political council under the Republic's President demanding to publish the draft treaty on South-Ossetian-Russian alliance and integration. The ruling party has treated the demand as a PR-move, stating that the political council had decided that the final version of the treaty will be published.

Shed in the yard of Avetisyan family's house sealed up by the investigative bodies. Gyumri, January 14, 2015. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

19:03, 16 January 2015

Armenian investigating bodies entitled to run murder case of Avetisyan family, lawyers believe

The murder of six family members in Gyumri, committed by a suspected Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, occurred in the territory of Armenia and should be investigated by law-enforcement bodies of this country.

18:18, 16 January 2015

53 convicts appeal against verdict in Nalchik attack case

Appeal complaints against the verdict in the case about the attack on Nalchik were submitted by 53 out of 57 convicts, including all five of them, sentenced to life imprisonment.

Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by Natalya Kraynova for the "Caucasian Knot"

16:53, 16 January 2015

Diana Ramazanova was IS member, said a source from Turkish intelligence

Diana Ramazanova, who committed, according to law enforcement bodies of Turkey, a terror act in Istanbul, was the wife of a native of Chechnya Abu Edelbiev, who was killed in Syria, and was a member, together with him, of the extremist organization "Islamic State" (IS), said a source from the Turkish intelligence service.

Law enforcers at the action of protest. Yerevan, January 15, 2015. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

16:34, 16 January 2015

28 people turn to hospital after protest in Gyumri

After the action of protest in Gyumri, Armenia, and the brawl that broke out there, on January 15 and 16, in total, 28 persons turned for help to hospital, said Armen Isaakyan, the director of the medical centre in Gyumri.

On the front line. Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

15:43, 16 January 2015

Parties to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict declare ceasefire violations

Within the last 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire regime at the troops contact line in the Karabakh conflict zone for 51 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. In its turn, the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported about 200 cases of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani party.

15:13, 16 January 2015

Armenia political analysts do not predict any transformation of protests related to tragedy in Gyumri into political actions

So far, the public unrest after the massacre in Gyumri is not political, Armenian political analysts believe. However, in their opinion, the incident may affect the Russian-Armenian relations.

Mosque "Heart of Chechnya" in Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

13:14, 16 January 2015

Residents of Chechnya prepare rally against caricatures on Prophet Muhammad

Chechen authorities expect participation of half a million people on January 19 in a rally against publication of caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. Local residents are ready to attend the action.

Autocade of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Photo: http://www.newsazerbaijan.ru/images/29609/21/296092104.jpg

06:25, 16 January 2015

ICRC officials could not meet Armenian POW in Baku

Employees of the Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have not yet met Arsen Bagdasaryan, an Armenian soldier, detained by the Azerbaijani party on the contact line.

23:47, 15 January 2015

Attack on HRC "Memorial" office in Chechnya evidences tactics of suppressing the dissent, rights defenders assert

The incident in the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Chechen city of Gudermes, where masked men threw eggs at the women-employees of the office, was the continuation of Ramzan Kadyrov's policy, aimed at destruction of any manifestations of criticism addressed to the republic's leadership.

Actions in memory of the victims of the terror act in Paris hold posters with an inscription "Je suis Charlie". Tbilisi, January 8, 2015. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the "Caucasian Knot"

21:24, 15 January 2015

Caricatures of Charlie Hebdo cannot be regarded in the context of true freedom of speech, experts on Northern Caucasus believe

Dozens of editions from the Russian segment of Internet have posted photos of the latest Charlie Hebdo issue with caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The experts on Northern Caucasus questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted the difference in understanding the freedom of speech by members of the Muslim community and by proponents of the Western culture.

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