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15:16, 25 September 2016
In Georgia, schools located in the Pankisi Gorge provide pupils of the fifth and sixth forms with the opportunity to study the Chechen language. The classes of the Chechen language have been introduced in the schools at the request of Chechen Kistinians.
13:36, 25 September 2016
Today, more than 200 relatives of the people who fell victim to the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya have come from 59 regions of Russia and gathered at the Bogorodskoe cemetery in the Moscow Region to honour the memory of the victims. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the identification of 134 people killed in 1994-1996 in Chechnya and buried unidentified.
23:48, 24 September 2016
At least 21 persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in August 2016, of which 14 people were killed and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.
18:44, 23 September 2016
Anzor Saraliev, who came from Germany to visit his family in Chechnya, was kidnapped by power agents on September 12 during Kurban Bayram, said his mother.
18:50, 22 September 2016
Currently, there are 4940 signatures to the petition demanding an impartial trial of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:05, 22 September 2016
Judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has received the materials in the criminal case against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, sentenced for involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of militants.
14:32, 22 September 2016
The court hearing in the case against Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova) should be held behind closed doors, since the case materials contain confidential information. This was stated by the public prosecutor. The advocate has asked the court to dismiss the prosecutor's motion, since only one of the case materials contains the confidential information.
10:57, 22 September 2016
All pilgrims from Chechnya, who go on Hajj this year, will return from Saudi Arabia till the weekend. This was reported by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) for the Chechen Republic.
18:48, 21 September 2016
More than three weeks it is impossible to establish the whereabouts of Zareta Zubairaeva, 25, a resident of Grozny, and her four children, her husband Azamat has reported. According to his story, his wife has secretly gone abroad. Turkish law enforcers take part in the search, as they believe that Zubairaeva had been recruited by militants.
21:02, 20 September 2016
In Chechnya, the high voter turnout and the outcomes, desired by the authorities, are ensured thanks to state servants and budget-funded employees, who have to vote as they are ordered under threat of dismissal, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".
15:58, 19 September 2016
The local authorities had coordinated the outcomes of elections in Chechnya well in advance; and one should not believe the official announced figures, according to which the "Yabloko" Party won only 0.03% of votes, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights activist and a candidate for the Russian State Duma from the "Yabloko", told said the "Caucasian Knot".
13:29, 19 September 2016
The preliminary data on voter turnout in comparison with the 2011 similar election campaign indicate a downward trend in the interest of residents of Chechnya, Stavropol Territory, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and Ingushetia to the election of Russian State Duma MPs. However, this time, the voter turnout has increased slightly in Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) and North Ossetia.
08:31, 19 September 2016
Single voting day at elections in southern regions of Russia; election of leaders of North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia; celebrations of Eid al-Adha; detention of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of bribe-giving; appointment of a new prime minister in Armenia; jurors' verdict in Sergey Zirinov's case; death in Chechnya of Yuri Torshin, a former commander of the special group "Alpha", – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 12-18, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
11:06, 17 September 2016
The Chechen Central Election Commission (CEC) has staged a flashmob on the Instagram aimed to attract voters to the polls; on the voting day, a series of entertainment events is scheduled in the republic. The voter turnout is treated by the authorities as an indicator of the support of the ruling course, observers say.
06:14, 17 September 2016
The sentence to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Zhalaudi Geriev indicates that in Chechnya it is in fact impossible to work for journalists of the mass media not subordinated to the authorities, said the journalists Nikita Sologub, Irina Gordienko and Ilya Azar.