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07:01, 28 January 2018

Presentation of Mikhail Saakashvili's book cancelled in Armenia

The announced presentation of the translation into Armenian of the book by former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili "Awakening of Force" was cancelled due to technical reasons, the organizers of the event have reported. According to Arthur Sakunts, a rights defender, the event was cancelled for political reasons.

Svetlana Gannushkina. Photo: http://www.ingushetia.ru/

01:29, 28 January 2018

Gannushkina tells about "re-education" practice of European Chechen women

Rights defenders know about young Chechen women from Europe, who are forcibly kept in Chechnya by their relatives and are exposed to domestic violence and forced to marry, Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Civil Assistance Committee, said in her interview with the "Kommersant" on January 27.

17:36, 27 January 2018

Circassian activists notify Mayoralty about planned rally

The "Adyge-Khase" youth movement has filed a notification to the Mayoralty of the city of Cherkessk about a rally scheduled for February 5 and dedicated to the unsolved murders of activist Aslan Zhukov and an adviser to the head of the republic Fral Shebzukhov.

Soldiers of South-Ossetian army. Photo: Sputnik / Ada Bagian

17:00, 27 January 2018

USA condemn ratification of Russia-South Ossetia military agreement

The United States would not recognize the agreement on the inclusion of South-Ossetian army units into the Russian Armed Forces, which has been ratified by the Russian State Duma. This was stated by Heather Neuert, the spokesperson of the State Department. According to her version, the document "is not a valid international agreement."

Military positions in the zone of the Karabakh conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:42, 27 January 2018

NKR reports 200 bombardments of its positions within a week

On January 21-27, the Azerbaijani militaries made over 2000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

14:08, 27 January 2018

Georgian sumo wrestler wins Emperor's Cup in Japan

Levan Gorgadze has become the third European in the history of professional sumo, who won the Emperor's Cup.

10:51, 27 January 2018

KBR resident tried to kill his baby

A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) stripped the man, convicted for an attempt to kill his eight-month-old son by throwing him out of the window in the fourth level, of his parental rights.

The consequences of a gas explosion in Baku. January 27, 2018. Photo by Murad Orujov. https://ru.sputnik.az/incidents/20180127/413786454/vzriv-baku-pogibshiye.html

10:08, 27 January 2018

Two people injured by gas explosion in a Baku store

A gas explosion and a fire occurred in a stationery store in Baku; the police have reported two victims. Tenants of a thousand apartments stay without gas supply.

05:54, 27 January 2018

Armenia to send three athletes to 2018 Winter Olympics

The Armenian delegation to the Winter Olympic Games-2018 includes two ski racers and an Alpine skier.

Talekh Bagirzade. Photo: screenshot of the video published on the YouTube channel Taleh Bagirzade

00:49, 27 January 2018

Talekh Bagirzade regards new charge against him as authorities' order

Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" movement, who is serving his 20-year prison term under the riot case, has rejected the charge of keeping prohibited items in his prison cell.

The "Veduchi" Ski Resort, Chechnya. Photo: press service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the affairs of the North Caucasus http://ncrc.ru/press-center/novosti/torzhestvennoe-otkrytie-gornolyzhnogo-kurorta-veduchi-sostoitsya-26-yanvarya.html

22:04, 26 January 2018

"Veduchi" Resort in Chechnya opened under enhanced security measures

On the eve of the solemn opening of the "Veduchi" Ski Resort, law enforcers blocked the roads in the Itum-Kali District of Chechnya and carefully inspected all the cars, local residents have stated.

The "Carrefour" network in Tbilisi. Photo © Sputnik / Alexander Imedashvili https://sputnik-georgia.ru/georgia/20180125/239040683/iz-za-otravlenij-zakryt-otdel-po-izgotovleniyu-sendvichej-v-carrefour-v-tbilisi.html

19:13, 26 January 2018

20 people get poisoned with sandwiches in Tbilisi

The patients, hospitalized with poisoning, said that they ate chicken sandwiches bought in the "Carrefour" network in Tbilisi, Levan Baidoshvili, the spokesman for the Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, has stated. The "Carrefour" Company promised to eliminate the violations.

Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

18:18, 26 January 2018

Saakashvili placed under night house arrest in Ukraine

A court in Kiev has obliged Mikhail Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, to stay at home at night and forbade him to leave the Ukrainian capital without the prosecutor's permit.

A desecrated memorial in memory of the victims of militants' attack on Kizlyar. Photo: press service of the Kizlyar city administration

17:10, 26 January 2018

Teenager detained for desecrating memorial in Kizlyar

On January 25, inscriptions on the memorial in memory of the victims of militants' attack on Kizlyar were made by a teenager from a problematic family, law enforcers have reported.

Ksenia Sobchak, Ramzan Kadyrov, and Oyub Titiev. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov, REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin, Mariya Shischenkova, press service of the HRC "Memorial"

16:44, 26 January 2018

Kadyrov answers to Sobchak's demands in Titiev's case

The appeal of Ksenia Sobchak to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", makes no sense, since this is beyond the competence of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

The Criminal Code of Russia. Photo by Vlad Alexandrov, Yuga.ru

15:04, 26 January 2018

Sochi nurses to be fired after incident with patient left in the street

In Sochi, two hospital nurses were fired after they drove a patient into the street and left him there.

MPs at the session of the Dagestani Parliament. Photo http://www.nsrd.ru/

10:22, 26 January 2018

US reporters banned from attending Dagestani Parliament

On January 25, 85 MPs of the Dagestani Parliament voted in support of the resolution to ban reporters of the US media recognized as foreign agents to attend meetings of the Parliament of Dagestan.

Mortar shelling. Photo: Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresensky
https://sputnik.az/karabakh/20171029/412534276/ateskes-yene-pozulub.html

09:35, 26 January 2018

Azerbaijan fixes shelling of five villages

The positions of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were shelled for 116 times over the past 24 hours.

Armed people in Syria. Photo REUTERS OMAR SANADIKI

09:27, 26 January 2018

KBR resident suspected of joining Syrian militants

A 30-year-old resident of the Cherek District illegally moved to Syria, where he joined a terrorist organization, investigators report.

Elena Nosova. Sochi. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

05:46, 26 January 2018

Sochi teacher complains of dismissal after shooting a video about depletion in school

Elena Nosova, a school teacher from Sochi, went to court and demanded to reinstate her in position. The teacher associates her dismissal with the fact that she posted on the Internet her video about poor condition of one of the classrooms in the school.

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