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12:00, 29 December 2015
Vadim Prokhorov, the advocate of Boris Nemtsov's family, has rejected the investigators' conclusion that Ruslan Mukhudinov, an officer of the Chechen battalion "Sever" (North), was the customer of Boris' murder. According to Prokhorov, investigators are trying to divert the blow away from Kadyrov's closest retinue.
10:15, 29 December 2015
A criminal case against a local resident Magomed Makaev has been sent to the Urus-Martan District Court. According to investigators, he had supplied foodstuffs and clothes to a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF).
09:12, 29 December 2015
In Azerbaijan, civil society activists and experts are disappointed by the presidential decree of pardon, which does not affect the political prisoners. The activists believe that this fact can result in a deterioration of relations between Azerbaijan and the Western countries.
20:34, 28 December 2015
Investigating authorities have suspected a 27-year-old resident of Ingushetia of taking part in the warfare in Syria for the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization. He has been put on the federal wanted list.
19:26, 28 December 2015
A field commander of the "Islamic State" (IS) (the IS has been recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and some countries of the world, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), a native of Georgia Tarkhan Batirashvili, also known as Abu Omar al-Shishani, has authority among the militants from the Caucasus, but he is not a key figure for the IS, believe the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
09:00, 28 December 2015
Resignation of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili; release of Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko from colony; election of new City Manager of Vladikavkaz; removal of debris after apartment block explosion in Volgograd; special operations in three republics of Northern Caucasus; update of list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 21-27, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
- Azerbaijan
- Dagestan
- Georgia
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Krasnodar Territory
- North Ossetia-Alania
- North-Caucasian Federal District
- Russia
- South Caucasus
- South Federal District
- Volgograd Region
- Conflicts
- Crime
- Economics
- Human rights
- Incidents
- Politics
- Society
- Сaucasus held at gunpoint by caliphate
06:40, 28 December 2015
The investigation into the death of Timur Kuashev, a journalist from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), is being conducted formally, said Magomed Mutsolgov, the leader of the organization named "Mashr". The version of his death from coronary heart disease is inconclusive, said Valery Khatazhukov, the chairman of the KBR's Human Rights Centre.
03:45, 28 December 2015
During the week from December 21 to December 27, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed nine human lives. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
04:30, 27 December 2015
A video has appeared in social networks, in which masked gunmen are addressing their threats to Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, for his anti-IS propaganda. However, Internet users doubt that the authors of the video belong to the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia.
20:18, 26 December 2015
Inmates of the Chelyabinsk penal colony went on a hunger strike after Sultan Israilov, a native of Chechnya, had died there. The colony personnel assert that he committed suicide, but rights defenders assert that he was killed.
13:55, 26 December 2015
Goga Kvaratskheliya has died today at a hospital in Tbilisi after he was shelled from a submachine gun in the eyes of witnesses.
00:49, 26 December 2015
On December 25, in Baku, Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the Youth Committee of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest on the charge of disobeying the police.
16:59, 25 December 2015
The murder of Boris Nemtsov had nothing to do with his political activities, the investigator said at the consideration of the complaint on the refusal to reclassify the case into the article dealing with an attempt on the life of a statesman or public figure. The injured party insists that political motives of the murder are unreasonably denied, but the court upheld the investigation's position.
16:42, 25 December 2015
According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the detainees had been preparing terror acts. Power agents have also reported liquidation of a laboratory for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
13:01, 25 December 2015
The Rostov Regional Court (RRC) has upheld the extension of the arrest of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.