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22:40, 21 December 2016
Gela Nikolaishvili was nominated for the “Hero of the Caucasus-2015” contest of the “Caucasian Knot” for achieving particular results in helping people.
22:38, 21 December 2016
In 2015, Tamta Mikeladze, a lawyer from Ajara and an employee of the NGO “Centre for Training and Human Rights Monitoring”; defended the interests of the owner of the children’s Muslim boarding school in Kobuleti, the closure of which was demanded by local residents; also, she acted as advocate of the LGBT activists, detained in Tbilisi on May 17, 2014, on charge of resisting the police.
16:07, 21 December 2016
The advocates, who represent the interests of the successors of the Avetisyan family, massacred in Gyumri, are dissatisfied with the refusal to pay compensation for moral harm.
15:55, 21 December 2016
The "Musavat" Party has called on to investigate the information about the bribing Azeri politicians of PACE Deputies, promulgated by the "European Stability Initiative" (ESI). The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) has treated the scandalous information as a provocation.
14:42, 21 December 2016
Today, Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), a student, accused of an attempt to join a terrorist organization in Syria, has asked the court for leniency.
14:09, 21 December 2016
Today, at the hearings held at the Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and devoted to issues of combating terrorism and extremism, Arthur Makhov, Deputy Prosecutor of the KBR, has reported that at least 170 residents of Kabardino-Balkaria are involved in activities of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned by court in Russia and recognized as a terrorist organization. Of them, 59 suspects are put on the international wanted list.
03:24, 21 December 2016
Advocate Vadim Prokhorov has expressed his doubts concerning the explanations voiced by defendant Shagid Gubashev. According to the defendant, in 2014, he repeatedly travelled to the area of the village in the Moscow Region, where the house of Boris Nemtsov was located, on business issues and not to watch the politician.
01:43, 21 December 2016
In the Karabudakhkent District, law enforcers shot and killed two policemen, who, according to the law enforcement authorities, opened fire when they attempted to stop their car to check the driver's documents.
18:22, 20 December 2016
The Azerbaijani authorities had failed to properly organize the inquiry into the complaint lodged by Ramil Pirgurban about his torture by the police, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has stated and appointed a compensation of 19,000 euros to the applicant.
12:34, 20 December 2016
The homes of the young people, killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Grozny on December 17-18, after a series of attacks on policemen, fail to hold the commemoration ceremonies (tezet), mandatory in such cases, said the neighbours. According to their story, there is no one to hold the tezet, as almost all the males, detained at night on December 17 are still in custody at the police.
11:29, 20 December 2016
On December 19, Chechnya held the funeral of four law enforcers killed in a special operation and as a result of attacks on policemen in Grozny. According to the updated information, three people were killed as a result of the attacks, and one more man died from a gunshot wound got during the special operation. This was reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
09:50, 20 December 2016
Militants who on December 17 and 18 attacked policemen in various districts of Grozny acted within two groupings, and they communicated with each other. This was reported by a source from the Chechen law enforcement authorities.
04:49, 20 December 2016
Advocate Luiza Buraeva, who represents the interests of Rustam Aptaev, a resident of Chechnya, detained by Ali-Yurt villagers on suspicion of an attempted assassination of preacher Isa Tsechoev, has filed a complaint against the decision on the administrative arrest of her client.
01:33, 20 December 2016
On December 17 and 18, the attacks on policemen and shootouts in Chechnya were organized by militants of the "Islamic State" (IS). This was declared by the statement released by the "Islamic State", banned in Russia by court and recognized as a terrorist organization.
00:02, 20 December 2016
The father of Akhmad Akrashev, one of the killed men involved in shootouts with law enforcers in Grozny on December 17 and 18, perished in Grozny during a special operation carried out against militants in 2005. Istamul Mamaev and Ibragim Mazhaev, two other men involved in the shootout, were put on police prevention registration lists. The killed Islam Altemirov was a student of a Saratov institution of higher education, and he arrived in the Chechen capital on December 14. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the local police.