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13:27, 24 May 2014
The members of the armed underground, killed on Saturday during a special operation in the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek District, had been preparing a series of terror acts on the Day of Ingushetia, said Timur Bokov, the head of the department for relations with mass media of the administration of the head of Ingushetia.
01:52, 24 May 2014
Ziyautdin Uvaisov, a defender of Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" ( Advocacy), sentenced to five years in prison for alleged promoting terrorist activities, has announced his intention to appeal against the verdict.
23:27, 23 May 2014
At the trial of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", accused of storing drugs, three law enforcers were interrogated as witnesses for the prosecution, said the lawyer Pyotr Zaikin.
22:11, 23 May 2014
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has reported that the case of Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, and other participants of the action that took place on November 5, 2013, in Yerevan, accused of hooliganism, was sent to the court. Defendants' relatives are sure that the case is politically motivated.
21:07, 23 May 2014
On May 23, in Baku, Azerbaijani law enforcers held a search of the flat of the elderly parents of journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, who is accused of treason. The search was conducted without the presence of Mirkadirov's advocates, said one of them – Fuad Agaev.
17:54, 23 May 2014
Azerbaijani authorities shall immediately release Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), convicted on charges of organizing riots in the city of Ismailly, from prison, who was, said Anne Brasseur, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who is on her visit to Baku.
13:20, 23 May 2014
A source from the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in the course of a special operation held on Friday, May 23, in the city of Baksan in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), apart from four suspected militants, an FSB officer was killed.
11:55, 23 May 2014
An armed skirmish burst out in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, during which several people suffered. One of them, Magomed Evloev, an employee of a Private Security Agency (PSA), died in hospital, said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.
11:24, 23 May 2014
The decision to establish self-defence units was made at a rally on May 22 by residents of the village of Sogratl, Gunib District of Dagestan. The units will reveal persons involved or helping the activities of illegal armed formations (IAF).
03:41, 23 May 2014
The woman is registered as an adherent of the radical trend of Islam; however, there are no specific claims to Isaeva, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
23:53, 22 May 2014
The Shirvan Court of Appeal (CoA) of Azerbaijan has dismissed the complaint against the arrest of Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "Promoting Democracy", accused of extortion. His defence intends to petition for replacement of arrest for a more lenient restriction measure.
21:25, 22 May 2014
The verdict to Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), convicted to five years in prison on charges of promoting terrorist activities, is unjust and politically motivated, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.
18:46, 22 May 2014
The Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has sentenced four local residents, accused of organizing an illegal armed formation (IAF) and participating thereof, to the terms from two to eight years in prison.
17:17, 22 May 2014
In Azerbaijan, on May 22, at the trial of Abdul Abilov, the creator of the group "Stop toadies!" on the Facebook, accused of drug dealing, the closing floor was given to the state prosecutor. He asked the court to find Abilov guilty under Article 234.4.3 (illegal large-scale possession or sale of drugs) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan and sentenced him to 6.5 years in prison.
16:52, 22 May 2014
The materials about forced disappearances of six persons in Chechnya in 2001 include the name of Igor Strelkov, a Russian officer, who was put on the wanted list by the Ukrainian authorities. This was reported by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".