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September 09, 2021 22:42

• Karabakh refugees dissatisfied with official meeting in Yerevan

  Today, a representative of the Armenian government has not announced any ways of solving the housing problems of forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh, claim participants of a protest action held in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers.

September 09, 2021 18:21

• Khalitov and Mamakaev report release of their relatives in Chechnya

  Blogger Khasan Khalitov, who lives in Turkey, and Ilman Mamakaev, a resident of Belgium, report about the release of their relatives, detained in Chechnya after an incident in Istanbul when a law enforcer had been beaten there.

September 09, 2021 18:06

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, activists announce an action to help disabled children

  The “Circassian Renaissance” charitable organization has announced a fundraising campaign for the purchase of wheelchairs for disabled children in Kabardino-Balkaria.

September 09, 2021 17:52

• France allocates over 500,000 euros to Azerbaijan to search for missing people

  France has allocated more than half a million euros to Azerbaijan in search of nearly 4000 citizens who disappeared during the first Karabakh war, the French Embassy in Baku reports.

September 09, 2021 16:39

• Turkish-Azerbaijani exercises show vulnerability of Lachin Corridor to Armenia

  The Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercises conducted in Karabakh are mastering various scenarios for the situation development in the region, including the closure of the Lachin Corridor, Mger Akopyan, a military expert, and Andrias Gukasyan, a political analyst, believe.

September 09, 2021 16:07

• Krasnodar: journalists against law on foreign agents

  Valeria Dulskaya and Anastasia Scheglova, Krasnodar journalists, have held solo pickets as part of the all-Russian action in support of their colleagues stigmatized as foreign agents.

September 09, 2021 10:21

• Armenian rights defenders claim abuse of POWs in Azerbaijan

  At a press conference held in Yerevan on September 8, human rights defenders presented a report in which they accused Azerbaijan of inhuman treatment of Armenian prisoners of war during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. They have noted that the report is entirely based on evidence, the reliability of which had been confirmed.

September 09, 2021 09:47

• KBR villagers demand their pastures back

  Residents of the village of Priblizhnaya have sent a letter to Kazbek Kokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in which they complained that they could not grow fodder for their livestock after the land was granted into lease to the Petrovs collective farm.

September 09, 2021 08:54

• Four residents of Ingushetia accused of preparing terror acts

  Investigators have charged two of the four locals arrested in Ingushetia with plotting terror acts; the other two were accused of assisting supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

September 09, 2021 08:41

• Two Azerbaijani citizens suspected of links with militants

  The State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has detained Mansur Djumaev and Nasir Djakhangirov on suspicion of participation in hostilities abroad; both have pleaded guilty, the SSS has informed.

September 08, 2021 22:45

• Sheep breeder claims lack of assistance from Ingush authorities after a complaint to Putin

  During two months after an appeal to the President of Russia through the direct line, a resident of Ingushetia has not received from the authorities of the republic a land plot for selective sheep breeding.

September 08, 2021 21:27

• Military experts treat exercises of troops of Azerbaijan and Turkey as ordinary

  Russian military experts, interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”, suggest that like the manoeuvres of Russian peacekeepers, the joint exercises of the Azerbaijani and Turkish troops in the Lachin District do not pose any threat of an aggravation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 08, 2021 19:58

• Portrait contest reinforces trend of Kadyrov family cult

  Authors of the best portraits of the leader of Chechnya and his parents will be awarded 500,000 roubles each from the Kadyrov Foundation, Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, has announced. He has called on Chechen natives living abroad to participate in the portrait contest. The money could have been used to help those in need in Northern Caucasus, and not to strengthen the cult of the Kadyrov family, some Internet users complain.

September 08, 2021 19:39

• In Dagestan, deputy principal dismissed after requirement for schoolgirls to wear headscarves

  Adamkadi Kurbankadiev, a deputy principal of a school in the village of Madjalis, signed a letter of resignation of his own free will. However, he claims he has signed the letter under pressure from the school administration, which put him in charge of checking whether schoolgirls were wearing headscarves.

September 08, 2021 19:08

• Law on amnesty for protesters in Tbilisi passed despite opposition opinion

  Members of the ruling “Georgian Dream” Party secured the adoption of the law on amnesty for participants of the June 2019 protests and the policemen who were dispersing them. The opposition spoke against the amnesty for the law enforcers.

September 08, 2021 15:45

• Defence claims political background of verdict to former MoD head

  The court has sentenced in absentia David Kezerashvili, a former head of the Georgian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to five years in prison in order to put pressure on his "Formula" TV Channel on the eve of elections, his advocates assert.

September 08, 2021 15:31

• Remains of two soldiers found in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On September 7, as a result of searching works conducted near Varanda (the Azerbaijani name is Fizuli, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), the remains of two Armenian soldiers have been found, the Emergency Service (ES) of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

September 08, 2021 15:17

• Charity run draws attention to problem of hiking in Dagestan

  Despite the worsening weather in Dagestani mountains, Ivan Davydov, a untramarathon runner, continues his charity run aiming to draw attention to the problem of providing palliative care to children and to promote the development of walking tourism (hiking) in Northern Caucasus.

September 08, 2021 11:21

• Caucasian scholars explain authorities' angry reaction to complaints from residents of Chechnya

  The harsh reaction to the message of a woman from Alkhazurovo about problems with water supply was caused by the tacit intention of Chechen authorities to speak only positively about the situation in the republic, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

September 08, 2021 11:08

• Witness treats clashes in Magas as authorities' provocation

  At the trial of Ingush activists, Musa Keligov, a public figure, spoke as a witness and called the clashes that occurred at the rally in Magas a result of the provocative actions stage by the republic's authorities, Djabrail Kuriev, one of the advocates, has informed.