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10:45, 16 January 2018
In the evening on January 15, a resident of Ingushetia was killed in the village of Plievo. The murder could be motivated by revenge of relatives of a policeman killed as a result of a domestic conflict in Magas in 2016, a source in the security forces said.
01:48, 16 January 2018
Astrakhan activists Alexei Tyurin, Mikhail Anisenko, and Igor Stenin have held solo pickets in support of Maxim Panfilov, who was sentenced in the case of involvement in mass riots in Bolotnaya Square.
00:47, 16 January 2018
Police have killed the man who opened fire on them in Kaspiysk, a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has reported.
00:45, 16 January 2018
The video spread in social networks on behalf of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by a court decision, calling to kill Russian rights defenders, will help the authorities to reload responsibility for such killings on extremists and marginalized people, the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.
21:47, 15 January 2018
Samson Kutateladze, a former high-ranking military and a Georgian MP, was found dead today in his office on the "Istanbul" marketplace in the city Rustavi.
20:52, 15 January 2018
Investigators refused to let a doctor to the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev, who cannot eat any hard food without his dentures, his advocate Pyotr Zaikin and Oleg Orlov, a Board Member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", have stated.
16:23, 15 January 2018
The Azerbaijani Centre for Protection of Political Prisoners (CPPP) has updated the list of political prisoners by adding three new convicts and eliminating one released.
16:07, 15 January 2018
Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) made photos within the fenced area in the forest near Gelendzhik. After that, they were exposed to beating. The photos taken by them and published today by the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper prove the construction of capital buildings that is underway inside the fenced territory.
09:08, 15 January 2018
During the week of January 8-14, 2018, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
09:05, 15 January 2018
Detention in Chechnya of the leader of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"; guilty verdict to journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Azerbaijan; death in Tbilisi of a man wounded in a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 8-14, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
06:46, 15 January 2018
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has demanded to investigate the kidnapping and prosecution of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.
16:30, 14 January 2018
The family of Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, accused of drug dealing, has left Chechnya for security reasons, Pyotr Zaikin, Titiev's advocate has stated today.
08:43, 14 January 2018
On 11 January, the human rights organizations the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the International Federation of Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture issued a joint statement demanding from Russian authorities to release the rights defender Oyub Titiev.
05:56, 14 January 2018
A video clip on behalf of the militants of the "Vilayat Kavkaz", a branch of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by a court decision, with the call to kill prominent Russian rights defenders has been spread in the WhatsApp instant messenger, in a number of Telegram channels and among users of the Facebook.