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00:44, 15 April 2017
Four persons have been taken into custody on suspicion of involvement in an attack on policemen in Astrakhan. According to an advocate, the number of the arrested persons includes acquaintances of the killed suspected participants of the attack and a wife of one of them.
15:25, 14 April 2017
The Kremlin has received a letter from Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the “Novaya Gazeta” about threats to newspaper journalists coming from Chechnya, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, told reporters today.
10:11, 14 April 2017
The website "Change.org" has posted a petition to the Russian President, the General Prosecutor and the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a demand to investigate the mass cases of violence and killings in Chechnya of representatives of sex minorities. According to the website "Change.org", the petition was posted "four days ago."
23:16, 13 April 2017
In Chechnya, the adviser to the leader of the republic and theologians in the republic openly call for violence against journalists of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" for publishing materials about the persecution of gays in Chechnya. This was reported by the editorial office of the newspaper. After the publication of the statement, the website of the "Novaya Gazeta" was subjected to a DDOS-attack.
18:58, 13 April 2017
Members of the Maikop organization "Adyge Khase-Circassian Council" have been summoned for questioning to the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) in connection with the complaint filed by the Mufti of Adygea, who demanded to bring ecologist Valery Brinikh to justice. According to the activists, the complaint against Valery Brinikh, who reported the theft of the sacrificial sheep, was a formal reason to put pressure on them.
09:46, 13 April 2017
In Paris, officials express their concern over the reports of violations of the rights of members of the LGBT community in the Chechen Republic. This was reported by Romain Nadal, the spokesman for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
21:47, 12 April 2017
The conflict of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov with Igor Sechin, Director of the “Rosneft” Corporation, has escalated, which resulted in the appearance of a version of the "Chechen trace" in the Saint Petersburg terror act, the Financial Times newspaper has reported. In their joint statement, Kadyrov and Sechin refuted this information, threatening to sue the newspaper.
16:51, 12 April 2017
A Turkish court has ruled to place behind bars Djamalali Gadjiev, a native of Chechnya, detained on April 4 on the Syrian-Turkish border. According to law enforcers, Gadjiev took part in warfare for the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court.
17:16, 10 April 2017
The head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Krasnodar Territory and Adygea has sent an application to law enforcement bodies asking to bring the ecologist Valery Brinikh to responsibility for insulting the believers’ feelings. As Mr Brinikh himself found out during his interrogation at the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), the Muftiate saw an insult in his publications about the theft of the sheep, sacrificed by Ramzan Kadyrov to poor people in
09:10, 10 April 2017
In Chechnya, homosexuals are kept in at least two secret prisons after being detained, the "Radio Liberty" reports with reference to its sources.
09:00, 10 April 2017
Voting at the presidential election in South Ossetia; terror act in Saint Petersburg, associated by experts with the Caucasian underground; two attacks on law enforcers in Astrakhan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 3-9, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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23:28, 8 April 2017
In Grozny, the Mayor's Office has reported about 30,000 people participating in an antiterrorist rally. Local residents report increased security measures and instructions from their superiors about mandatory participation in the rally.
15:13, 8 April 2017
According to human rights defender Igor Kochetkov, an LGBT activist, the situation with the persecution of gays in Chechnya should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, since it is a crime against humanity.
11:38, 8 April 2017
Turpal-Ali Muskiev, a resident of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt of the Kurchaloi District, who was exiled from his village in January 2017, died in Dagestan several ago and was buried in Chechnya. The funeral took place in the native village of Turpal-Ali Muskiev under the control of law enforcers, local residents report.
22:34, 6 April 2017
More than 20 people from Chechnya have appealed for help in connection with persecutions for their non-traditional sexual orientation; five of them have already left the republic, the "Russian LGBT-network" has reported.