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19:30, 21 February 2017
The Krasnodar Territorial Court (KTC) has rejected the appeal complaint lodged by the activist Darya Polyudova, who asked to replace her remaining term in the colony-settlement for a more lenient punishment.
18:05, 21 February 2017
Mass arrests aim at reducing social protests in the society against the appointment of Mekhriban Alieva to the post of the First Vice-President of Azerbaijan, oppositionists believe.
16:50, 21 February 2017
In the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Andi, law enforcers found ammunition bunkers, said the head of the Botlikh ROVD (District Interior Division).
16:49, 21 February 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a violation of the rights of relatives of Ibragim Kushtov, who disappeared in Ingushetia in 2006. Relatives hope to find out his fate and bury him, if he is dead.
14:27, 20 February 2017
According to the power agency of the Iraqi Kurds, as a result of the military operation in Mosul, over 30 militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, were killed including Abu Bakr al-Shishani, a native of Chechnya.
10:25, 20 February 2017
A senior Ingush policeman, arrested on suspicion of abusing a detainee, has threatened members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). Magomed Mutsolgov, the head of the human rights organization "Mashr", has appealed to the investigating authorities with a request to investigate the incident.
09:00, 20 February 2017
Sending militaries from Ingushetia to Syria; mass detention of Azerbaijani migrants in Derbent and visit of Russia's CEC head to Makhachkala; a major fire in Krasnodar multi-storey building; removal of erotic movie "Fifty Shades Darker" from screening in Vladikavkaz; nomination of lists of candidates by political forces in Armenia for the upcoming parliamentary elections, – see a review of major events in the Caucasus on February 13-19, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
04:43, 20 February 2017
During the week from February 13 to February 19, 2017, no victims were reported of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
15:14, 19 February 2017
Georgy Mamaladze, suspected of an assassination attempt on Ilia II, had no ambitions to claim for the patriarchal throne. This opinion was voiced by Georgian theologians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They treat the investigators' version as doubtful.
11:59, 19 February 2017
In his motion on pardon to President Ilham Aliev, journalist Arshad Ibragimov has noted that he has already served half of his sentence at a penal colony and that he was an internally displaced person (IDP) from Nagorno-Karabakh.
05:02, 19 February 2017
Law enforcers tortured Ruslan Tagibekov, a native of Dagestan, suspected of illicit trafficking in weapons. This was claimed by his defence. On February 18, Ruslan Tagibekov was formally charged.
17:17, 18 February 2017
The list, presented by a group of rights defenders to the Commission on Pardoning under the Azerbaijani President, includes, first of all, prisoners with serious health problems, persons, on whom there are decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR, and the "prisoners of conscience", recognized as such by the Amnesty International (AI).
14:42, 18 February 2017
A son and a nephew of Vardan Oskanyan, the former Foreign Minister of Armenia, have kidnapped a man and threatened to kill him, investigators assert.
21:38, 17 February 2017
Suspicions of bribe-giving have been lifted from Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the movement "Polite Farmers”. Now, he is a witness in a new criminal case, this time initiated against the alleged intermediary of a bribe transfer, said Volchenko and his advocate.
19:21, 17 February 2017
Policemen have detained four suspected coordinators of "death groups", in which teenagers are induced to commit suicide, authorities of North Ossetia have reported. The detainees have stated that they had just "made a joke."