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18:43, 2 January 2014

MIA: "Vikhr-Anti-Terror" operation in Volgograd results in over 700 detainees

More than 700 people were detained for various offenses during the operation "Vikhr Anti-Terror", conducted in Volgograd after the terror acts, said the MIA of the Volgograd Region.

16:22, 2 January 2014

Special operation in Khasavyurt: two people killed

Two persons blocked in a flat of apartment block in Khasavyurt were killed, said the law enforcement spokesman of Dagestan.

Police detains youth activists at the protest action in Baku on December 29, 2013. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"

15:45, 2 January 2014

Five arrested young men stop hunger strike in Baku

The five young activists arrested for taking part in the December 29 unsanctioned protest in Baku have stopped their hunger strike at the insistence of their parents, said Tural Abbasly, a board member of the "Musavat" Party. According to his story, the health condition of the arrested Orkhan Eyubzade became worse.

14:08, 2 January 2014

Chechen MIA: New Year celebrations pass without incidents

The celebrations of the New Year in Chechnya pass without any major incidents, said the local MIA. However, in the context of recent explosions in the Southern Federal District (SFD), policemen and rescuers are in the high alert regime.

On the streets of Sochi on the eve of New Year. January 31, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko by "Caucasian Knot"

13:33, 2 January 2014

Sochi residents welcomed New Year at home for fear of terror acts

Sochi streets were practically empty on December 31, 2013, and January 1, 2014, seeing only police patrol units cruising through the city, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. Sochi residents explain their reluctance to leave home by fear of terror acts.

10:25, 2 January 2014

After explosions in Pyatigorsk and Volgograd, North Ossetia strengthen security measures

As reported by Alla Akhpolova, the press secretary of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), after the explosions Volgograd and Pyatigorsk, law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia were put into the strengthened regime of service.

Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia. Photo: http://osradio.ru/

04:36, 2 January 2014

Public local lore movement "For Our Vladikavkaz" founded in North Ossetia

About 30 people have attended the foundation conference of the public movement "For Our Vladikavkaz", held in the capital of North Ossetia. The initiators report that they intend to implement projects related to the development of the urban ambient, environment protection and improvement of the tourist potential.

Senior sergeant Saak Melkonyan at the front line. Martuninsky District of Nagorno-Karabakh, December 30, 2013. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

03:19, 2 January 2014

Movses Akopyan: in 2013, count of shots at the forefront in Nagorno-Karabakh went down

During their New Year visits to military units, officials of Nagorno-Karabakh recorded violations of the ceasefire. Compared with 2012, 2013 saw a decreased number of shots at the frontline, but an increased number of attacks from heavy sniper weapons, said Lieutenant General Movses Akopyan, the head of the Ministry of Defence of Nagorno-Karabakh.

23:58, 1 January 2014

800 families from landslide zone receive new apartments in Ingushetia

The city of Malgobek has commissioned opening 32 houses with the total floor area of 90,400 square meters, built for residents of the landslide area, which contain the new apartments for 800 families. Besides, in the city of Magas, they have commissioned a new residential complex of 17 houses.

19:15, 1 January 2014

Mutsolgov: in 2013 no crime in Ingushetia was qualified as terror act

In 2013, not a single crime in Ingushetia was qualified as an act of terror, said Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr", adding, by summing up the year, that the republic saw no kidnappings and no disappearances.

18:32, 1 January 2014

"Eco Watch" activists released from detention centre in Tuapse

On Wednesday, activists of the "Ecological Watch for North Caucasus" Alexei Mandrigelya, Anna Mikhailova and sisters Tatiana and Valentina Borisova, sentenced to three days of administrative arrest, left the detention centre in Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory.

16:32, 1 January 2014

Baku: five youth activists go on hunger strike

Today, five youth activists kept in Baku under administrative arrest have announced a hunger strike in protest against torture and inhuman treatment. The start of the action was reported by their parents.

Volgograd, December 31, 2013. Portraits of Alexei Valenta and Alexander Dolgikh, who died in the terror act at the railway station in Volgograd on December 29. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"

11:44, 1 January 2014

Volgograd buries two children killed by explosion at railway station

On December 31, the funeral of Alexei Valenta, 12, and Alexander Dolgikh, 11, who died in the terror act in Volgograd, took place in the farm of Vertyachy, Gorodische District of Volgograd Region.

Liquidation of a spontaneous dump in Parallelnaya Street in Sochi. December 29, 2013. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

08:40, 1 January 2014

Spontaneous dump liquidated in Sochi

A spontaneous dump that appeared in Parallelnaya Street in Sochi and caused protests of local residents is liquidated. However, district officials and special truck fleet, as well as local residents, believe that the problem is solved only temporarily.

Announcement of a rally demanding to put the systems of housing utilities and urban management into proper order, scheduled for January 5, on a frontpage of the local newspaper "Mestnaya". Sochi, December 25, 2013

06:50, 1 January 2014

Sochi: rally demanding to put housing and communal services into order scheduled for January 5

On January 5, 2014, Sochi will host a rally demanding to put the systems of housing utilities and urban management into proper order. The action was sanctioned, said the Mayoralty.

19:05, 31 December 2013

Alexander Cherkasov finds new book of HRC "Memorial" interesting in context of Sochi Olympic Games

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has published the book "Three Years of 'Stability'", which combines quarterly newsletters with analysis of the situation in the conflict zone in Northern Caucasus from the human rights defenders' point of view. The book is interesting in the context of the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi. Thus was emphasized by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial".

Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com

19:05, 31 December 2013

Northern Caucasus-2013: independent experts sum up the year (video)

The change of power in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria; refusal from direct elections of heads of most of the regions; termination of the militants' adaptation commission and suspension of dialogue among different currents of Islam in Dagestan – these events, as the most significant for Northern Caucasus in 2013, as of December 24, were assessed by the experts dealing with the region.

18:55, 31 December 2013

Ibragim Nurov, murdered in Stavropol Territory, was earlier kidnapped from mosque, his relatives assert

Ibragim Nurov, 25, a resident of the aul of Abram-Tybe, Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who was killed on December 30 near the village of Kayasula, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons on December 27 from the mosque in Neftekumsk, his relatives assert.

Makhachkala, December 31, 2013. Participants of the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd. Photo by the press service of the President of the Dagestan Republic, http://president.e-dag.ru/

17:57, 31 December 2013

Makhachkala: 2000 come to commemorate victims of Volgograd terror acts

Today, about two thousand people took part in the memorial rally about the victims of the terror acts committed in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the head of Dagestan.

Buynaksk, Dagestan. Photo http://www.odnoselchane.ru/

14:20, 31 December 2013

Car explosion kills assistant to Buynaksk Public Prosecutor

Rasul Gasanov, an assistant to the Public Prosecutor of the city of Buynaksk, was in his car, when an explosion occurred underneath. Gasanov died on the spot, said Rasul Temerbekov, the spokesman of the local Investigating Committee.

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