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19:53, 4 March 2019
From February 25 to March 3, 2019, three persons fell victims to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus
During the week from February 25 to March 3, 2019, three persons perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there was no information about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
14:50, 4 March 2019
Threats and apologies after a performance shown in Makhachkala; CTO in Nalchik; fire in a mountainous village of Dagestan; actions to commemorate victims of the Sumgait pogroms and Khodjaly massacre; release of Azerbaijani blogger Mekhman Guseinov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of February 25-March 3, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
11:24, 4 March 2019
The anniversary of Sumgait pogroms has reminded about the refugees' problems. More than 2000 of them have failed to receive Armenian citizenship, said Anahit Airapetyan, the press secretary of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office in Yerevan. Refugees told that for 30 years they could not solve the housing problems in their homeland.
10:24, 3 March 2019
On March 2, immediately after his release from jail, Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger, took part in commemoration of the assassinated journalist, Elmar Guseinov. He recalled that he was arrested two years ago after the same rally.
19:14, 2 March 2019
Rafael Guseinov was again placed under administrative arrest in the Apsheron District just four days after his release, his father has reported, adding that the police failed to explain the reason for his son's new arrest.
19:03, 2 March 2019
The administrative case against a resident of Grozny, who appeared in the city centre with a flag with swastika put on him, has been sent to the court. This is an atypical offense, the Chechen Prosecutor's Office (PO) has noted.
12:03, 2 March 2019
Givi Targamadze has expressed dissatisfaction that, while investigating the attempt on him, the Georgia's Prosecutor's Office and the Tbilisi City Court failed to establish the customer of the crime.
11:40, 2 March 2019
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint against the verdict to Karen Kazaryan, sentenced in Azerbaijan to 20 years in prison, and decided to consider the case in an accelerated manner, the defence of Kazaryan, a citizen of Armenia, has stated.
08:41, 2 March 2019
Five thousand people took part in the march on the 11th anniversary of the clashes of oppositionists with law enforcers. The authorities will never solve internal problems by force, the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has promised.
21:24, 1 March 2019
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided that after the mitigation of the article on extremism, there was no crime element in the case of Arkadi Akopyan, a believer of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religious organization, recognized as extremist and banned by the court decision.
21:15, 1 March 2019
The testimony about the joint use of drugs with Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Assembly of Mineralnye Vody", was given under pressure, said the witness, Sergey Didenko, at the court session on February 28 and named the law enforcer who threatened him.
18:20, 1 March 2019
Russia has given Fakhraddin Abbasov, a Talysh activist, out to Azerbaijan; he is accused in his homeland of appeals against territorial integrity and of hostility incitement.
18:10, 1 March 2019
The film "Extreme South", the presentation of which is scheduled for March 2, tells about the fate of four residents of Anapa, who were tortured and became figurants of a criminal case on robbery. For the fourth year, they are under house arrest, whereas there is not a single suspect in the torture case, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.
08:17, 1 March 2019
A female resident of Makhachkala had joined militants and took part in a robbery and kidnapping of two persons, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has stated.
21:17, 28 February 2019
During ten years, the murder of Natalia Estemirova has never been effectively investigated, the "Amnesty International" (AI) declares on the birthday of the murdered rights defender who would celebrate her 61st birthday today.