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The Federal Highway 'Kavkaz'. Ingushetia. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:29, 19 June 2015

Car of local resident shelled on highway in Ingushetia

As a result of shelling of his car, the driver – a resident of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia – was killed, while his passenger was hospitalized in grave condition.

Argun, Chechnya. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

13:27, 19 June 2015

Large cache with weapons and ammunition liquidated in Chechnya

Power agents detected a cache in the vicinity of Argun and found there an antitank missile launcher, a Kalashnikov submachine gun, rounds for a grenade launcher, shells and bullets of various calibres.

Volunteers in Kostava street liquidating the flooding consequences. Tbilisi, June 18, 2015. Photo by Edita Badasyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

12:00, 19 June 2015

After evaluation of damage, caused by flooding, Tbilisi residents to receive compensations

The Tbilisi Mayoralty is still keeping records of the damage caused by the recent flooding. So far, city residents do not know when they will receive the help promised by the authorities. The implications of the disaster are still felt even by the people whose houses were not damaged.

A hideout with weapons found in the outskirts of one of the settlements in Buynaksk District. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/nakmessage/2015/03/19/v-buinakskom-raione-dagestana-unichtozhen-tainik-s-oruzhiem-i-boepripasami.html

10:43, 19 June 2015

Cache with weapons and ammunition found in Dagestan

Law enforcers have taken three grenade launchers and ammunition, belonging to killed militants, out of a cache in Dagestan, the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The Dzadzamiya family suffered from the flooding. Photo by Beslan Kmuzov for the "Caucasian Knot"

09:18, 19 June 2015

Georgia's Ministry of Public Health recognizes 457 Tbilisi residents as flooding victims

In total, 457 people, including 119 children, have been registered by the Ministry of Public Health as victims of the flooding in Tbilisi. Three persons are still considered missing.

08:54, 19 June 2015

ICRF names KChR residents who are at war in Syria

16 residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who left for Syria at different times, are suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the territory of this country.

The Ardon River. Photo: LxAndrew, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C0%F0%E4%EE%ED_(%F0%E5%EA%E0)#/media/File:014_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD.JPG

06:36, 19 June 2015

Dwelling settlements along the whole Ardon River need to upgrade their sewage treatment facilities

All the dwelling settlements, located in the Alagir District, along the Ardon River, have problems with wastewater treatment, said the spokesperson for the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consuming Supervision) for North Ossetia.

ECtHR session. Photo: http://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home

02:36, 19 June 2015

ECtHR collects 30,000 euros from Russia in favour of woman from Nalchik

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint of Maria Fanzieva, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who declared a violent death of her daughter at a police station. The applicant was awarded 30,000 euros.

22:00, 18 June 2015

KBR resident reports detention of his son after search

Power agents drove away to some unknown place Akhmed Abazov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei, said his father Edward. Akhmed is a brother of Murat Abazov, who perished in 2013 in an explosion of the village mosque.

Volunteers in the streets of Tbilisi. Photo by Edita Badasyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

19:42, 18 June 2015

Volunteers are actively restoring Tbilisi after flooding

Residents of Georgia, acting on their own initiative, are actively participating in restoration works after the flooding in Tbilisi and help the victims. Volunteers have deployed canteens and first aid centres, and coordinate their work through social networks.

The fragment of the agreement signed on June 18, 1995. Photo: http://echo.msk.ru/blog/orlov_oleg/1568676-echo/

16:01, 18 June 2015

Failure to assault hospital in Budyonnovsk led to signing agreement with Basaev

Today is 20 years since signing an agreement with Chechen fighters, who captured the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, which then led to release of hostages. By the date, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has presented the original of the agreement, kept in the archives of the centre.

An exhausted Syrian girl is asleep next her father after they have been saved by the Italian ship. Photo: @UNHCR/A.D’Amato, http://www.unhcr.ru/

13:24, 18 June 2015

UNHCR treats conflict in Syria as major factor of refugees' growth

In 2014, the number of refugees in the world increased by 2.8 million, and amounted to 19.5 million, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published on the eve of the World Refugee Day.

12:11, 18 June 2015

Tbilisi court arrests four men accused of involvement in IS

The Tbilisi City Court has ruled to put in custody the four persons accused of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), said the press service of the court.

The village of Verkhni Djalgan of the Derbent District of Dagestan. Photo: АА http://www.odnoselchane.ru/

11:20, 18 June 2015

Rural teacher killed in Dagestan during haymaking

In the evening on June 17, in the outskirt of the village of Verkhni Djalgan of the Derbent District of Dagestan, a local school teacher, who worked at haymaking in military uniform, was shot dead. Investigators believe that militants have to do with the crime, a law enforcement source has reported.

The building of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation. Photo: Cannot https://ru.wikipedia.org

10:44, 18 June 2015

ICRF rejects Eskerkhanov's demand to open criminal case on torture

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has dismissed the request, lodged by Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a figurant in the Nemtsov's murder case, to open a criminal case on the torture, allegedly applied to him by law enforcers, the "Kommersant" reports.

10:40, 18 June 2015

OSCE monitoring finds no ceasefire violations in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict area

The routine monitoring by the OSCE mission of the troops contact line in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict passed without incidents, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The special operation. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/

09:13, 18 June 2015

HRW calls on Russian authorities not to violate human rights at war on militants in Dagestan

The fight of Russian authorities against the armed underground in Dagestan is accompanied by serious human rights violations, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) states in its report, which has also documented a number of militants' crimes.

Medical attendants in Alagir with the vaccines for the city residents. June 2015. Photo by Emma Maroeva for the "Caucasian Knot"

08:37, 18 June 2015

Water decontamination station launched on one water main in Alagir

In North Ossetia, the commissioning of over of a water disinfection station constructed on the Gusarin water main – one of the three sources of drinking water in the city of Alagir.

07:00, 18 June 2015

Makhachkala court upholds Khairullin's complaint about investigators' inaction

On June 17, the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala upheld the complaint on investigators' inaction in relation to the application about the beating of local resident Arslan Khairullin by law enforcers, said the advocate Elena Denisenko.

21:52, 17 June 2015

Askandarov's advocate complains to ICRF about Dagestani investigators

An advocate of Kurban Askandarov, an advocate of the Deputy Imam of one of the mosques of Makhachkala, has filed a complaint to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). In his complaint, the advocate claims that investigators have violated his client's rights.

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