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00:37, 23 February 2018

On February 22, most of the delegates to the lower house of the Dutch Parliament voted for two resolutions concerning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

A car of the OSCE mission in the Karabakh conflict zone. Photo by the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence https://mod.gov.az/ru/news/monitoring-zavershilsya-bez-incidentov-21727.html

23:55, 22 February 2018

OSCE monitoring reveals no violations in Karabakh conflict zone

After the today's monitoring, the OSCE mission has concluded the absence of ceasefire violations by the parties to the Karabakh conflict. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

23:23, 22 February 2018

Ingush law enforcers report their losses in 2017

The head of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has confirmed the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", according to which in 2017 three law enforcers and eight militants were killed in Ingushetia.

Laying flowers at the memorial "Wall of Sorrow". Moscow, February 22, 2018. Photo by Gor Alexanyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

22:48, 22 February 2018

Anniversary of Ingushes' deportation reminds about country's course towards Stalinization

The secret status of archival materials on deportation allows now, 74 years later, to distort the number of victims and strengthen the myths about mass treason and desertion of Ingushes, historians and publicists have lamented on the eve of February 23, the day of mourning for the victims of deportation in Ingushetia.

A prison in Iraq. Photo: REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

20:13, 22 February 2018

Chechen senator laments over Azerbaijan's indifference to its children in Iraq

Ziyad Sabsabi, the Chechen Senator at the Russia's Federation Council, who is in charge of returning Russian citizens from the Middle East, reports that the Iraqi central women's prison keeps 36 women and more than 65 children from Russia, as well as about 15 children from Azerbaijan, whose fate is of no concern of this country's authorities.

The police detains the participant of the protest action against corruption. Moscow, December 2014. Photo REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS CRIME LAW POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

15:26, 22 February 2018

Russia outstrips Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan by corruption level

In late 2017, in the "Corruption Perception Index", compiled by the Transparency International (TI), Georgia took the 46th place, while Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are behind the first hundred.

Special operation. Photo http://nac.gov.ru

15:06, 22 February 2018

MIA reports detention of 36 militants in KBR

In 2017, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), 36 accomplices of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were detained; 200 KBR residents are in Syria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

At the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo © Sputnik/ Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/karabah/20180222/10649544/v-nagornom-karabahe-pogib-soldat.html"

15:03, 22 February 2018

Serviceman perishes in NKR

Today, a soldier of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has been killed by a shot from Azerbaijan, the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The report of the Amnesty International. Photo: REUTERS/Bobby Yip

13:31, 22 February 2018

AI states peculiarities of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus

Persecutions of religious minorities and dispersals of oppositional rallies throughout Russia, illegal detentions and torture in Northern Caucasus, and in Chechnya – also harassment of gays, have been mentioned in the report of the Amnesty International (AI) on the observance of human rights in the world.

10:54, 22 February 2018

Chechnya's PO refutes threats to journalists

The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has denied the fact of public calls to reprise the journalists of the "Novaya Gazeta", who wrote about persecutions of gays in Chechnya, rights defenders have stated.

A view of the rural settlement of Plievo from the mausoleum of Borg-Kash. Photo by Targimov

10:01, 22 February 2018

In Ingushetia, head of rural administration injured in a conflict with his subordinate

In Nazran District, the head of the rural settlement of Plievo was hospitalized with a knife wound after a conflict with his subordinate, the Ingush law enforcement bodies report.

A chapel model. Photo Sputnik https://sputnik-abkhazia.ru/Abkhazia/20180221/1023217186/otkryt-sbor-sredstv-na-stroitelstvo-chasovni-v-gudaute.html

09:24, 22 February 2018

Abkhazia: activists raise money for a chapel to be built in memory of Lata tragedy

A chapel for commemoration of the people who fell victim to the Lata tragedy is to be built in the central park of Gudauta. This is reported by an initiator of the project.

Believers from the church. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru

05:54, 22 February 2018

Orthodox believers reject idea of leaving Dagestan after Kizlyar shooting

Orthodox believers suggest the recent mass murder of believers from the temple is a provocation which will not force Orthodox Christians to leave Dagestan.

A praying man. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:27, 21 February 2018

Dagestani state servants complain about ban on praying at work

Employees of the Ministry for Land and Property Relations of Dagestan have drafted an appeal to Vladimir Vasiliev, the head of the republic, with a complaint against Ekaterina Tolstikova, the head of the Ministry. According to her subordinates, Ms Tolstikova forbids them to pray at work and offers to write retirement applications.

Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/SaakashviliMikheil/photos_stream

23:05, 21 February 2018

Saakashvili banned to enter Ukraine

The Ukrainian State Frontier Service (SFS) has prohibited the former president of Georgia from entering the country for three years, until February 13, 2021.

Banners and photos on Yerevan Opera Theater, February 20, 2018. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

21:39, 21 February 2018

Anniversary of Karabakh movement reminds Yerevan residents about national idea

Thirty years ago, the Karabakh liberation movement united Armenians in their struggle for independence and aroused the sense of national identity, the participants the action held in Yerevan have stated. They regretted that the movement failed to achieve the proclaimed goals, while the Armenian authorities have suppressed the "rebellious spirit of the nation" and betrayed people's hopes.

Baghdad. Iraq. Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

20:52, 21 February 2018

Dagestani resident's grandson brought from Iraq to Russia

Ziyad Sabsabi, a Chechen member at the Russia's Federation Council, has brought a Dagestan boy, whose parents had perished in Iraq, from a Baghdad orphanage home. Akhmed Abdulaev, the boy's grandfather had urged the authorities to help to return his two grandsons, but the younger one was not found.

Barricades in the center of Kiev. March 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

16:00, 21 February 2018

Investigators deny involvement of Georgian snipers in events on Maidan

The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has not found any confirmation to the version stating that Georgian snipers were involved in shooting of protesters in Kiev in 2014. This was reported by the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office itself.

Military training. Photo © Sputnik / Said Tsarnaev https://sputnik-ossetia.ru/South_Ossetia/20160916/3035690.html

13:38, 21 February 2018

More than 400 soldiers and officers involved in trainings at Chechen training grounds

Military exercises with the use of 50 units of military equipment, including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), took place at military training grounds in the Shatoi and Shali Districts of Chechnya.

Hadrut. Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: © Sputnik/ Asatur Yesayants https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/karabah/20170301/6564963/razvedchik-diaspora-sdelala-granitsu-karabakha-silnee-i-sovremennee.html

12:11, 21 February 2018

French MFA criticizes Ilham Aliev's statement about historical lands of Azerbaijan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for France has urged the parties to the Karabakh conflict to avoid statements that could increase tension in the region.

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