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16:44, 26 January 2018
The appeal of Ksenia Sobchak to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", makes no sense, since this is beyond the competence of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.
20:46, 25 January 2018
Washouts from the Oyub Titiev's hands were taken without an advocate and sealed in the absence of the rights defender himself, and law enforcers inclined him to self-incrimination during many hours, stated advocate Pyotr Zaikin in court.
18:52, 25 January 2018
The court in Chechnya has rejected an appeal complaint against the decision to arrest Oyub Titiev; and the rights defender has been left in custody.
19:33, 24 January 2018
The organizers of the forum on the return of direct elections in Northern Caucasus have been notified that they will not be able to hold the event in Pyatigorsk on January 27. The forum will be held later in Moscow in a different format, the organizers – the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations (RCCN) and the Interregional Public Organization "New World" – have decided.
03:42, 24 January 2018
After threats against the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged the Russian authorities to end the harassment of rights defenders in Northern Caucasus.
23:51, 23 January 2018
In Grozny, public employees and students reported about an unusually early start of the subbotnik (voluntary Saturday work) season. Officials explained the organization of mass participation of people in public works by preparing the capital of Chechnya for the opening of the "Veduchi" mountain resort.
20:37, 23 January 2018
The attack on the Ingush office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" failed to disrupt the work of rights defenders in Ingushetia, said Timur Akiev, the head of the Ingush representative office of the HRC "Memorial". He has noted that the authorities did not offer to move to another premise, but rights defenders' friends helped to resume the work.
15:14, 23 January 2018
Today, members of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have got an SMS-message and a phone call with a demand to stop their activities. An unidentified man informed the rights defenders that the arson of the car was a warning.
11:14, 23 January 2018
In Makhachkala, unidentified people set fire to a car of the Dagestani office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The car was used by a HRC's advocate for travelling to Chechnya. This was reported by Oleg Orlov, a member of the board for the HRC "Memorial".
06:31, 23 January 2018
Muslim Khuchiev, Mayor of the Grozny city, a subordinate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has visited Georgia. Georgian and Chechen officials keep the purpose of his visit in secret.
12:34, 22 January 2018
On January 21, on the TV air, Aminat Avturkhanova, who was looking for her husband, included in the list of the people executed in Chechnya a year ago, denied the information that she had been detained by law enforcers. The woman was forced to voice such a statement, local residents suggest.
09:05, 22 January 2018
Arrest of Makhachkala Mayor; fire in the Nazran office of the HRC "Memorial"; large-scale opposition rally in Yerevan against rising prices; pickets of Gukovo miners demanding to give them coal; hunger strike of deceived real estate investors in Krasnodar, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 15-21, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
02:55, 22 January 2018
During the week of January 15-21, 2018, two persons were killed in the 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.
02:12, 20 January 2018
The traditional annual march in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, held in Moscow, attracted more participants than the organizers had expected. The posters that people carried included those demanding to stop repressing rights defenders, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
22:30, 19 January 2018
According to Moscow law enforcers, the today's march in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", was over 500 people strong.