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20:31, 11 October 2017
The commander of one of the regiments of the “Rosgvardia” (National Guard of the Russian Federation) was beaten up and removed from his post in Chechnya after complaints of his subordinates about his systematic extortions from their salaries, a source from Chechen power structures told the "Caucasian Knot".
15:39, 11 October 2017
Today, three Chechen boys, the eldest of whom is six years old, and two girls, whose parents lived in Dagestan, have been returned to Russia from Iraq.
08:12, 11 October 2017
The defence of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, has challenged the refusal to transfer the journalist's case for consideration to the cassation instance of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia.
00:32, 11 October 2017
The "first person of the country" did not like the fact that Boris Nemtsov was murdered near the Kremlin. This was declared by Zaur Dadaev and Shagid Gubashev in their final speeches. The convicts believe that the law enforcement agencies had to report urgently on the solution of the crime, so they decided to bring the innocent persons to justice.
19:52, 10 October 2017
Three brothers of Chechen origin were found in the city of Tall Afar, and a two-year-old boy from Dagestan was found in the city of Mosul, the RT (Russia Today) has reported.
18:18, 10 October 2017
Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has slightly mitigated the verdict in the case of the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder. The SC has cancelled the fines, but upheld the terms of imprisonment.
12:56, 10 October 2017
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decision that the Russian authorities violated the right to life of 21 residents of the Chechen village of Novye Aldy, killed by law enforcers in 2000.
09:30, 10 October 2017
On October 9, Idris Cherkhigov, a 28-year-old nephew of the Chechen leader, was appointed the chief for the Chechen department of the road police (known as GIBDD). This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya.
21:05, 9 October 2017
The advocate, who represented the interests of Khamzat Bakhaev, a convict in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case, has left Russia for personal security reasons before the consideration of the appeal against the verdict.
09:00, 9 October 2017
Appointment of new Dagestani leader; execution of a Rostov Cossack in Syria; special operation in Dagestan announced after attacks on policemen, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 2-8, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
13:26, 8 October 2017
Since April 2017, they managed to raise 300,000 euros to evacuate gays from Chechnya and to render psychological aid to them, the Russian LGBT Network reports.
03:09, 7 October 2017
The mother of Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has addressed her son with a request to return home to save his parents' life. Attempts to find contact with Zelimkhan did not succeed, said his acquaintance.
16:31, 6 October 2017
When assessing the effectiveness of the leaders for the North-Caucasian regions and making a decision on resignations, the Kremlin draws attention to conflicts in the regional elites, rather than to economic indicators. This was told in an interview given to the "Caucasian Knot" by Professor Natalia Zubarevich.
15:33, 6 October 2017
After his release from a penal colony in 2014, Arbi Bantaev, who was killed in the Kursk Region on September 30, "was not left along by Chechen law enforcers," and he had to return to militants. This was claimed by his relatives.