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12:39, 26 September 2014
The settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is still cordoned off by power agents and militaries, said a local woman. According to her story, the school and the kindergarten remain closed, while all the male villagers were taken out for identification.
09:47, 26 September 2014
Rajab Mustafaev, who was killed on September 2 in the Makhachkala settlement of Semender, was a militant, says a statement posted on one of the websites that support the armed underground of Northern Caucasus.
20:28, 25 September 2014
The Krasnodar Territorial Court (KTC) has dismissed the complaint lodged by Oksana Toropova, a resident of Sochi, against her sentence on charges of beating up a court marshal. The woman herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, adding that she would appeal against the KTC's decision by means of cassation.
20:00, 25 September 2014
On Thursday, a militant was shot dead by policemen in Makhachkala, said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC). One policeman was wounded.
19:35, 25 September 2014
A native of Georgia Tarkhan Batirashvili, the commander of the northern sector of the "Islamic State", also known as Umar al-Shishani, has announced a reward of 5 million US dollars for the assassination of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the website "Pressa Today" reports.
12:53, 25 September 2014
The trial of the head of the NGO "Promoting Democracy" Emil Mamedov has heard the final speeches of the prosecutor and the defence. The former asked the court to punish Mamedov and Tofig Gasymov, another member of the NGO, without putting them behind bars.
07:42, 25 September 2014
Nothing is still known about the fate of four residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, detained on September 18. A local said on September 24 that at the moment the situation in the settlement is calm.
19:53, 24 September 2014
At the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of the city of Maikop, the advocate Lyudmila Alexandrova is not allowed to meet her client – Zarema Khadjirokova, accused of committing a large-scale fraud. Lyudmila herself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.
19:07, 24 September 2014
Leyla Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), who is kept at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1, was beaten up by an employee of the SIZO, her advocates report in their statement. They demanded an inquiry and punishment of those guilty.
17:31, 24 September 2014
The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has ruled to extend the custody of 52 defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik by three more months.
17:17, 24 September 2014
In the morning on Wednesday, September 24, power agents detained Asiyat Patakhova, a resident of Makhachkala, and took her to some unknown place, said Aisha Selimkhanova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).
16:30, 24 September 2014
The Sheki Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the complaint lodged by Ilgar Mamedov and Tofig Yagublu, oppositional politicians, convicted on charges of rioting in the city of Ismayilly. At the same time, the sentence to three other figurants in the case was commuted.
15:10, 24 September 2014
The decision of the Moscow City Court (MCC) to award Nikita Tikhonov, convicted to life imprisonment for killing the lawyer Markelov, with additional 18 years in prison on charges of creating the extremist community known as BORN will be appealed against, said his advocate.
13:49, 24 September 2014
Nikita Tikhonov, convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, was found guilty of organizing an extremist community, six murders and two attempted murders and sentenced to 18 years in prison additionally.
11:30, 24 September 2014
The Krasnodar Regional Court has rejected the presentation of the Prosecutor's Office asking to change the punishment of Evgeny Vitishko, a member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), and upheld the verdict of the Tuapse District Court, said Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the EcoWatch.