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23:32, 12 January 2015
Today, in the Gali District of Abkhazia, which borders on Georgia, a shootout broke out in the course of a special operation, in which killed five persons were killed. As reported by Raul Lolua, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia, the death toll includes an employee of the Special Missions Centre of the State Security Service of Abkhazia and a Russian border guard.
23:27, 12 January 2015
Unidentified persons threw a stun grenade into the yard of the house belonging to Ibragim Khalukhaev, the Rector of the Ingush Institute of Economics and Law. No one was hurt in the incident.
20:22, 12 January 2015
In Derbent, acts of vandalism were committed to divert public attention from the mayoral election and trigger riots on ethnic grounds. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
19:44, 12 January 2015
Today, Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of Kislovodsk, was found guilty of illegal drug dealing and sentenced to 3.5 years of deprivation of freedom.
19:30, 12 January 2015
The desecration of the Memorial Mosque on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow was provoked by the attack on the edition office of the "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris and the events surrounding the terror act. This opinion has been expressed by experts Orkhan Djemal, Andrei Zubov, and Lev Levinson interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
13:30, 12 January 2015
In the city of Gyumri, the administrative centre of the Shirak Region of Armenia, a family of six persons, including one child, was killed. Another child survived and was hospitalized, the Armenian police told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
12:05, 12 January 2015
During the week from January 5 to January 11, 2015, at least five persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, three persons were killed and two others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
10:45, 12 January 2015
In Grozny, the school No. 20 affected during the militants' attack on the city on December 4, 2014, has resumed classes in the restored building.
09:00, 12 January 2015
Accidents caused by bad winter weather in Southern Russia and countries of Southern Caucasus; Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas; rallies in Armenia and Georgia in memory of victims of terror attacks in Paris; resumption of broadcasting of Radio Liberty in Azerbaijan; terror act in Istanbul, committed by a suspected native of Northern Caucasus; start of trial in the United States of terror act in Boston against a native of Chechnya Johar Tsarnaev, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 5-11, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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06:41, 11 January 2015
Murad Nurmagomedov, an author of the video criticizing Muslims celebrating the New Year holiday, who was detained in Makhachkala, was charged with illegal possession of weapons. This was reported by his advocate.
18:39, 10 January 2015
Advocates of Evgeny Vitishko have appealed against the decision to place the ecologist in late July 2014 for three days into the punishment cell (dungeon). The defence has also prepared a complaint against the verdict to the ecologist.
13:54, 10 January 2015
Elvin Abdullaev, a member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was detained in Baku on suspicion of drug dealing. Elvin Abdullaev is persecuted for political reasons, PFPA believes.
09:09, 10 January 2015
The murder of the football player Gasan Magomedov has deeply concerned residents of Dagestan, as the fans of the "Anji" FC say in their open letter to the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). They are asking the head of the ICRF to take the investigation into the case under his personal control.
08:14, 10 January 2015
Over 2014, the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture (CaT) received 112 complaints about acts of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment; four of these complaints were related to deaths of detainees, as Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the CaT, said at a press conference, where the CaT's annual report was presented.
04:05, 10 January 2015
As reported by local residents, at night on January 9, in the city of Derbent, a monument to the prominent Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami was desecrated.