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16:01, 27 August 2018
The Chechen TV has announced the full Kremlin support for the Ramzan Kadyrov's statements against rights defenders. The authorities actively try to justify the scandalous statements voiced by the Chechen leader, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local activists.
15:08, 27 August 2018
Attack of teenagers on policemen in Chechnya; celebration of Eid al-Adha in the Caucasus; visit of the Chancellor of Germany to Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 20-26, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
11:39, 27 August 2018
Over 3.5 tons of sacrificial meats were donated by volunteers from the "Solidarity" Foundation to the people in need in Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and also in Tatarstan, Bashkiria, in the camps of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. About 10,000 people got donations in the days of Eid al-Adha, reported Khava Tataeva, a coordinator of the special programmes of the "Solidarity" Foundation.
23:59, 25 August 2018
In the Grozny District of Chechnya, employees of rural administrations and public institutions are regularly obliged to take participate in subbotniks (Saturday voluntary works), reported participants of the events themselves.
10:50, 25 August 2018
A resident of Kalmykia, accused of beating up Tabarik Dudaeva, a Chechen woman, was detained on suspicion of hooliganism based on ethnic hatred. What happened in Bolshoi Tsaryn is an isolated incident, members of the Chechen community in Kalmykia assert.
21:57, 24 August 2018
Ramzan Kadyrov's words about the ban on rights defenders from visiting Chechnya do not apply to all of them, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, has explained.
18:08, 24 August 2018
Today, Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, has celebrated his 61 years old. He will celebrate his birthday not with his relatives and friends, but behind bars, being taken into custody on the charge of marijuana possession.
13:43, 24 August 2018
The young people detained by law enforcers in the Shali District of Chechnya on August 22 are relatives or friends of the young men killed in the attack on law enforcers. This was stated by local residents.
11:35, 24 August 2018
Ramzan Kadyrov's order to enhance control over residents of the republic and the statements concerning the alleged guilt of the killed teenagers' parents were made against the backdrop of a discussion in social networks, where many residents of Chechnya called the killing of the minors an excessive use of force.
11:31, 24 August 2018
Subordinates of Ramzan Kadyrov have perceived his statements about rights defenders as a signal to actions, and that means journalists and rights defenders, disliked by Ramzan Kadyrov, are under threat even outside the republic. That was stated by rights defenders Igor Kalyapin and Svetlana Gannushkina.
08:23, 24 August 2018
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced "sanctions" against human rights defenders, threatening to apply harsh measures to those of them who decide to visit the republic.
21:59, 23 August 2018
The German Prosecutor's Office has reported an arrest of a Russian citizen suspected of storing explosives and plotting a terror act. The suspect detained in Berlin is a native of Chechnya, the German media report. However, the Chechen Minister of Press and Information has questioned the Chechen origin of the arrested person.
21:25, 23 August 2018
In June 2018, at least 5 people were killed in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
13:38, 23 August 2018
The head of Chechnya has treated the rights defenders, who criticized law enforcers' work during and after the recent series of attacks committed in the republic, as enemies.
08:22, 23 August 2018
The "Islamic State" (IS) a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, is training teenagers in special camps and has long been using children in terror acts, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated, explaining that minors cause less suspicion in law enforcers.