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14:47, 24 January 2016

CTO legal regime cancelled in three districts of Dagestan

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been cancelled in the Tabasaran and Suleiman-Stalsky Districts and in some territories of the Khiv District.

The participants of the rally in Sochi demand to solve their housing problems. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

05:07, 24 January 2016

In Sochi, rally participants demand to solve their housing problems

In Sochi, people, who have come to the rally, have declared the inadmissibility of the situation, in which the city still has a queue of 25,000 people in need of housing, while the houses built for Olympic settlers stay empty for years.

The participants of the rally in Grozny. January 22, 2016. Photo by Nikolay Petrov for the "Caucasian Knot"

03:24, 24 January 2016

Seven European cities host actions in protest against Ramzan Kadyrov's policy

On January 23, in cities of Europe, natives of Chechnya held a series of protests against human rights violations in Chechnya. The rallies were held in Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Istanbul, and Kiev.

Istanbul. Turkey. Photo by Magomed Tuaev for the "Caucasian Knot"

01:56, 24 January 2016

Experts see political motives in ban imposed by "Rosselkhoznadzor" on import of Turkish vegetables

Starting from the beginning of 2016, the "Rosselkhoznadzor" (Federal Agency for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control) has banned the import to the Krasnodar Territory of 62.5 tons of vegetables from Turkey, despite the fact that the goods were not included in the sanctions lists.

Participants of the CPRF rally in Sochi, January 12, 2015. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

16:31, 23 January 2016

Sochi protesters demand to strengthen social support of pensioners

The action of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in Sochi ended with adoption of a resolution, in which the protesters state the need to return the preferential public transport fares and reduce tariffs for garbage removal.

Yashar Bagirsoy, Zeinal Bagirzade’s brother. Photo: RFE/RL

14:52, 23 January 2016

Bagirzade's brother states non-admission of relatives to activist

Zeinal Bagirzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR), behaves passively at his trial; and relatives fear that he is under pressure, said his brother Bagirsoy Bagirzade.

Pensioners’ rally in Sochi, January 15, 2016. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

13:58, 23 January 2016

CPRF denies any involvement in spontaneous rally of pensioners in Sochi

In Sochi, the police search for the organizers of the unsanctioned rally of pensioners. However, according to Igor Vasiliev, the leader of local Communists, the suspicions that the rally was organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) are groundless.

12:16, 23 January 2016

Figurants of "Million Mask March" case stop hunger strike in support of Kyuregyan

Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the Armenian "Tsegakron" Party, and the retired Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Vardanyan stopped their protest, following the activist Yke Kyuregyan, whose demands were satisfied on January 22.

Packages of food distrubuted by participants of charity action held by "Tesham" Charity Foundation, January 22, 2016. Photo: Fondtesham.ru

05:03, 23 January 2016

In Ingushetia, 172 low-income families receive food during charity action

On January 22, Ingushetia held the action of charity, including the distribution of food to low-income families. In total, volunteers distributed 172 packages of food. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Magomed Tarchiev, a staff member of the "Tesham" Charity Foundation.

Dolmen "Khadjokh-4" in Adygea. Photo: Yuga.ru

03:11, 23 January 2016

Police are checking destruction of dolmen in Adygea

In Adygea, the police start checking reports about the damage to the dolmen "Khadjokh-4", whose age, according to researches of Russian archaeologists, is approximately 4000 years.

02:15, 23 January 2016

Two suspects of smuggling weapons detained in North Ossetia

North Ossetian law enforcers have detained two citizens, who tried to carry in the trunk of their car a Kalashnikov submachine gun, and 88 7.62-mm calibre rounds. Criminal cases have been opened on illegal acquisition and storage, as well as smuggling the firearms.

Yke Kyuregyan. Photo: Facebook.com/pap.tagavor

01:26, 23 January 2016

Activist Yke Kyuregyan stops his hunger strike

In the evening of January 22, Armenian activist Yke Kyuregyan, sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for the shooting in front of the court building, has stopped his hunger strike after he was placed to a separate cell.

00:45, 23 January 2016

Prosecutor demands not to soften verdicts in case of attack on Nalchik

At the trial, considering the appeals against the sentences in the criminal case on the attack on Nalchik, 14 convicts have delivered their final speeches. All of them have asked the court to commute their sentences or to acquit them. The public prosecutors have opposed the mitigation of the punishment.

00:31, 23 January 2016

Sochi: two persons wounded in explosion of gas cylinder in residential building

In Sochi, two persons have been injured as a result of the explosion of a gas cylinder in a two-storey residential building. The other tenants of the house were evacuated. In total, the house accommodated 129 people.

Participants of the rally "Our Strength is in Unity", Grozny, January 22, 2016. Photo by Nikolai Petrov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

20:33, 22 January 2016

Rally participants find official statistics overstated

The police prevented the pro-government action held in Grozny from dispersing, eyewitnesses assert. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has denied that the authorities applied coercion to the participants of the rally, which brought together, according to official data, 57% of the republic's population.

Pyotr Parpulov. Photo: personal account of Pyotr Parpulov in social network ‘Odnoklassniki’.

15:42, 22 January 2016

Court sentences Parpulov to 12 years in colony

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court found Pyotr Parpulov, a Sochi pensioner, guilty of high treason. His defence announced its intention to appeal against the verdict.

Defendants Yke Arutyunyan, Vardan Vardanyan and Shagen Arutyunyan (from left to right). Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

15:41, 22 January 2016

Vardan Vardanyan, figurant of "Million Mask March", goes on hunger strike

Vardanyan refused to eat and joined the hunger strike of activist Yke Kyuregyan.

14:55, 22 January 2016

Ismayilova's advocate states violation of her rights in colony

On January 21, Fariz Namazly, an advocate of Khadija Ismayilova, visited his client in the women's colony No. 4 in the territory of Azerbaijan. However, the prison officials did not allow him to carry in the documents related to communication on three Ismayilova's complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Participants of the rally "Our Strength is in Unity" in support of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by Nikolai Petrov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

13:45, 22 January 2016

More than 57% of Chechen population attend rally in Grozny, MIA reports

Today, Grozny has held the rally "Our Strength is in Unity" in support of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the rally was attended by more than 800,000 people. In total, according to the latest statistics, Chechnya is home for about 1.4 million people.

Valery Permyakov in the courtroom. Photo: © Sputnik/ Асатур Есаянц, http://www.sputnikarmenia.ru/armenia/20160118/1669962.html

13:29, 22 January 2016

Permyakov pleads guilty of killing Avetisyan family members

Today, Armenia has started the next court hearing in the criminal case against Valery Permyakov, accused of killing seven members of the Avetisyan family.

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