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Information stand with the inscriptions in Russian and English languages in Rostov Region near the Ukranian border. Photo by Oleg Pchelov for the "Caucasian Knot"

15:48, 11 February 2015

Inspectors from Ukraine look for evidence of Russia's military aid to Ukrainian rebels in Rostov Region

Ukrainian militaries will inspect, jointly with their Russian colleagues, one seventh part of the Rostov Region, planning to find evidence of Russia's military help to the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The wash hung out to dry in the yard of the house of the Avetisyan family. Gyumri, January 14, 2015. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the

15:38, 11 February 2015

Advocate asks investigators to consider all versions of massacre of Avetisyan family in Gyumri

Yerem Sarkisyan, the advocate for the successors of the Avetisyan family, the members of which were assassinated in Gyumri, has filed a petition on holding additional investigative steps in order to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and establish the true motive thereof.

The Moscow City Court. Photo by Magomed Tuaev for the "Caucasian Knot"

15:20, 11 February 2015

MCC rejects complaint of Airapetyan's defence against arrest extension

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left Levon Airapetyan, an entrepreneur and a notable member of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia, accused within the "Bashneft" case, under home arrest.

Members of an emergency session of the city Board of Elders of Derbent. February 11, 2015. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

14:15, 11 February 2015

Derbent Board of Elders states support of Imam Yaraliev

In Derbent, the Lezgin Theatre is hosting an emergency session of the city Board of Elders. Its members have expressed support for the head of the city Imam Yaraliev and urged residents not to yield to provocations.

Spiritual area in a combat position of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

11:48, 11 February 2015

Soldier lost in NKR is 22nd casualty of Karabakh conflict since start of 2015

Against the background of the OSCE monitoring, whose mission has fixed no violations of the ceasefire in the conflict zone, and the demand of Azerbaijani political scientists to change the format of the mission, a soldier of the NKR's Defence Army was killed.

Symbolics of OSCE. Photo: http://1news.az/politics/20140610031335718.html

08:17, 11 February 2015

OSCE mission reveals no ceasefire violations in Karabakh conflict zone

The monitoring, held on February 10 by the OSCE mission on the contact line of the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan, passed without incidents.

Signboards at the entrance to Gldani Prison. Photo: drugoi, http://fototelegraf.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gldanskaya-turma-tbilisi-7.jpg

05:58, 11 February 2015

46 inmates of Gldani Prison are on hunger strike in Georgia

46 prisoners, sentenced to life imprisonment, are on hunger strike at Gldani Prison No. 8, demanding revision of their cases and amending the law on amnesty. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Ministry of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

The house No. 12/18 in Yan Fabricius Street where the Usenko family with children is to be resettled, after two persons had perished in the house from gas explosion. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

04:09, 11 February 2015

House offered for resettlement in Sochi is dangerous for residence, tenants state at court

he members of the Usenko family have demanded proofs from the Sochi administration (Mayoralty) that the house offered for their resettlement had been commissioned. Tamara Usenko said at the court session that two persons had perished in the house from gas explosion.

A participant of the rally Magomed Akaev. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:57, 10 February 2015

Residents of Dagestani village of Uchkent rally to demand return of state farm land

A spontaneous rally demanding the return of state farm land was held by villagers of Uchkent, the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. The land plots in question had been illegally privatized by one of the former heads of state farm named after Akaev, said the protesters.

Resident of Dagestan at the rally. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

23:24, 10 February 2015

Residents of Novolak District of Dagestan restart hunger strike

Residents of the village of Shushiya in the Novolak District of Dagestan have resumed their hunger strike demanding the return of their land plots and solution of other resettlers' problems.

Avaz Gasanov. Photo by Elshan Rustamov, http://1newsaz.com

19:23, 10 February 2015

Azerbaijani politicians demand to add co-chairs from Germany and Turkey to OSCE Minsk Group

This initiative was put forward by Azerbaijani political scientists, who believe that the current format of the OSCE Minsk Group is unable to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

16:48, 10 February 2015

FSB Department reports death of nine KBR natives in Syria

Since the start of warfare in Syria, nine natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who fought for the militants, have been killed there, said a source from the Department for the KBR of the Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

Artak Khachatryan. Photo http://rus.azatutyun.am/content/article/26838612.html

16:44, 10 February 2015

Armenia's IC finds beaten activist Khachatryan to be a victim

Investigators have questioned the activist Artak Khachatryan, who suffered in an attack on him, as a victim, said the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.

Khavazh Temirsultanov. Photo by Taisa Temirsultanova

14:50, 10 February 2015

Sochi court extends custody of Chechen native suspected of robbery by a month

The Adler District Court has granted the investigator's petition to extend the custody of the native of Chechnya Khavazh Temirsultanov, accused of robbing the pensioner Arthur Zadelnikov.

13:49, 10 February 2015

Russia's Prosecutor's Office ready to act as prosecution party in Gyumri massacre

As stated by Sergey Fredinskiy, the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, officials of the Russian Prosecutor's Office may act as prosecutors in the trial on the murder of the Avetisyan family in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

06:52, 10 February 2015

Resident of Dagestan suspected of taking part in Syrian war

The investigating authorities of Dagestan have launched a criminal investigation against a resident of the republic, suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).

A truck of the Russian armed forces. Photo: http://mil.ru/images/military/military/2015/DSC_1170-900.jpg

04:15, 10 February 2015

Russia's MoD and Ukrainian militaries hold inspection in Rostov Region

The Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding, jointly with Ukrainian militaries, an inspection in one of the districts of the Rostov Region. The aim of the inspection is to identify the extent of military activities in a certain area defined by the Ukrainian party, the Russia's MoD reports.

02:59, 10 February 2015

Erdogan Boz asks rights defenders to help to restore his right to visit Russia

Erdogan Boz, a Turkish citizen of Circassian origin, has asked the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of Kabardino-Balkaria to help him to restore his right to visit his historic homeland.

Magomed Mutsolgov. Photo: http://www.mashr.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE-%E2%84%96-2.jpg

23:20, 9 February 2015

Head of Ingush POC demands to check facts of torture of Khadishat Albakova

Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr" and the head of the Republic's Public Oversight Commission (POC) has demanded from the public prosecutor of Ingushetia to check the information about the torture of the resident of Ingushetia Khadishat Albakova and other violations of her rights.

21:17, 9 February 2015

Relatives of Kelbisov and Gabibov from Derbent find them

The arrested residents of Derbent Gamlet Kelbisov and Rustam Gabibov are kept in the temporary detention facility (IVS) of Vladikavkaz; for more than a month their advocates are not allowed to meet them, their relatives told rights defenders.

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