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19:46, 30 November 2016
In Chechnya, all the 14 owners of shops selling alcoholic beverages have shopped their activities under the demand of the republic's leadership and against the failed authorities’ struggle with "drunken" road accident.
16:19, 30 November 2016
In 2015, the lawyer Alaudi Musaev defended the rights of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam from the city of Kislovodsk, openly stating the lawlessness of power agents. He filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) aiming to defend Baichorov’s rights. He managed to achieve the Imam’s release under the recognisance not to leave.
15:46, 30 November 2016
Prior to his murder, the politician Boris Nemtsov regularly received threats; and he turned on the occasion to law enforcement bodies, Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman of the PARNAS Party, said at the today’s court session. He also pointed out that Boris Nemtsov mentioned his possible shadowing.
15:19, 30 November 2016
In 2015, Ruslan Martagov, a political analyst from Chechnya, made a number of statements on arbitrariness of the authorities of the Chechen Republic and persecutions of the dissent.
00:23, 30 November 2016
In Saudi Arabia, members of the ruling family mark the name of Ramzan Kadyrov among the heads of other subordinate entities of the Russian Federation; however, they do not treat him as the leader of Muslims of Russia. This opinion was voiced by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
14:57, 29 November 2016
Anzor Mamaev, a native of Chechnya, was beaten up in Colony No. 7 (known as IK-7), located in the town of Segezh, after his meeting with the Russia’s Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova, Kameta Saidullaeva, Mamaev’s wife reported on November 28. Her statement came after the information of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) that facts of torture in the colony were not confirmed.
13:15, 29 November 2016
All the men of the family of Alam Khadjaev, whom investigators believe to be a person guilty of a large-scale road traffic accident in Chechnya, have left their village. This was reported by local residents, who pointed out to the fact that the road traffic accident could provoke a case of blood feud.
10:38, 29 November 2016
The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has started to consider the case against Magomet Kushtov, a native of Ingushetia, accused of kidnapping Laura Likhtman, a citizen of Israel, in 1999.
20:57, 28 November 2016
In the course of his voyage to Saudi Arabia, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has admitted that Salafis are not sectarians; and this is evidenced by the statement of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Chechnya. The Kadyrov's statement, which is contrary to the Grozny fatwa, was preceded by a serious pressure exerted on him by theologians and members of the ruling family of Saudi Arabia.
17:59, 28 November 2016
Today, at the court session on the case of Varvara Karaulova, accused of attempting to participate in a terrorist organization in Syria, Atach Fyrat, a Turkish citizen and a native of the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, was questioned as an additional witness, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.
17:15, 28 November 2016
The Award "For Right Livelihood", known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, has been given to the rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina in Stockholm "for many years of commitment to defence of human rights and fair treatment of refugees and internally displaced persons”. The awarding of the laureates of the award took place in Stockholm on November 25, said the release of the “Right Livelihood Award” Foundation.
09:00, 28 November 2016
Bad weather in the Stavropol territory and Karachay-Cherkessia, which caused emergencies; start of the trial in the case against Khasan Zakaev, a native of Chechnya, charged of involvement in the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre; special operation in Ingushetia and Dagestan; replacement of the Government of Georgia; gas outburst at the Volgograd "Caustic" plant, which caused four victims; decision of ECtHR concerning complaint filed by a group of residents of Chechnya about disappearance of their relatives, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 21-27, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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- Dagestan
- Georgia
- Ingushetia
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- North-Caucasian Federal District
- Russia
- South Caucasus
- South Federal District
- Stavropol Region
- Volgograd Region
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- Terror acts in Moscow and Caucasus
- Сaucasus held at gunpoint by caliphate
03:25, 28 November 2016
At least 43 persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in October 2016; of them, 38 persons were killed, and five were wounded. These are the results of the calculations, run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
04:38, 27 November 2016
According to the Iraqi forces, an air strike in the southern suburbs of Mosul killed Abu Anas al-Shishani, a native of Chechnya, one of the leaders of the organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by court.