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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

December 31, 2017 08:00

  • Ksenia Sobchak. Photo: Reuters/Anton Vaganov Why volunteers of Southern Russia prefer Sobchak, not Putin or Navalny

    After Ksenia Sobchak, a public person and a journalist, had been nominated to run for Russian presidency, her offices and volunteer groups launched activities in the regions. In Rostov-on-Don, Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, and Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" interviewed supporters and volunteers of Ksenia Sobchak to find out what to expect from the "candidate against all" and why she is more preferable than Putin and Navalny. Rivals and opponents of Ksenia Sobchak also had something to tell about her.

December 28, 2017 17:35

  • Resident of Chechnya writes about underground oil refinery in his letter to the Caucasian Knot. Photo by the Caucasian Knot. Chechnya, Dagestan and Krasnodar: how oil refineries generate protests

    For more than 10 years, in an outskirt of Grozny, a secret oil refinery has been operating. It is situated at the exit from the Zavodskoy District of the city in the direction of the dwelling settlement of Andreevskaya Dolina. This was reported in a letter sent to the "Caucasian Knot" by one of Grozny townspeople. Residents of other places of Russian South – of the city of Tuapse and Dagestani countryside – told about their personal experience and consequences of living close to oil refineries.

December 15, 2017 18:10

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June 05, 2017 07:45

  • A silhouette. Photo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-man-shadow-alone-27967/ Tale of a Dagestani gay: amidst honour killing and recruitment to Syria

    The persecution issue of gays in Northern Caucasus became debatable thanks to investigations by Elena Milashina in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper. However, gays are persecuted not only in Chechnya, but throughout Northern Caucasus, where the theme of such repressions had been tabooed for a decade. In some regions, extortions from and blackmailing of gays by law enforcers were a sort of a conveyor process.

May 18, 2017 19:58

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January 18, 2017 10:55

  • Law enforcer. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru North Ossetia had no victims of armed conflict in Q4 2016

    In October, November and December of 2016, in the territory of North Ossetia-Alania, there were no victims of the armed conflict between power agents and militants. These are the findings of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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