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12:26, 14 March 2016
The authorities of Chechnya try to use the law enforcement bodies as a lever of pressure on opponents. This was stated by Ilya Yashin, when he was commenting on the initiative to institute criminal proceedings against him for defamation because of his report devoted to Ramzan Kadyrov.
11:55, 14 March 2016
The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has sent to Chechnya the complaint filed by Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr, the leaders of the "PARNAS" Party, with a request to launch an investigation into the post on the Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram page, which the oppositionists treated as a death threat.
11:14, 14 March 2016
Alvi Karimov, the spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, has appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to consider the issue of institution of criminal proceedings against Ilya Yashin in connection with the publication of his report on the situation in Chechnya and his statements made in the course of presentations.
09:58, 14 March 2016
The journalists, injured in an attack on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, took part in investigative actions and went home. One of the journalists, Øystein Windstad, said he was going to visit Russia again to continue investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of two Chechen residents.
09:00, 14 March 2016
Attacks on journalists and rights defenders on Ingush-Chechen border; explosion at a mosque in Nazran injuring four persons; death of two suspected militants in the CTO in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 7-13, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
17:37, 13 March 2016
Mikhail Kasyanov, Chairman of the "PARNAS" Party, has received from the FSB a response to his request to launch an investigation concerning the post on Ramzan Kadyrov's page on Instagram. The opposition politician treated the above post as a death threat. According to the response received from the FSB, the post does not contain evidence of any illegal actions.
11:55, 13 March 2016
When journalists and rights defenders were attacked in Ingushetia, the criminals robbed them and seized from them 1000 euros and 250 US dollars. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.
04:57, 13 March 2016
The Chechen authorities try to establish feudal control over the society by adopting a principle of collective responsibility under the guise of "spiritual and moral certification". This opinion was expressed by rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
17:19, 12 March 2016
Investigators in Ingushetia have added to the case of beating up journalists and rights defenders in the Sunzha District the article about a group armed attack in order to steal property.
00:37, 12 March 2016
At the court session on the case of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh in Chechnya, which the journalists attacked in Ingushetia were going to cover, Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was questioned.
22:40, 11 March 2016
An attack on journalists and human rights defenders on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya has hurt the reputations of the leaders of both republics and the Russian special services, involved in the region. This opinion was expressed by political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
18:44, 11 March 2016
According to human rights defenders and public figures, an attempt on Khamzat Chumakov has been committed amid the statements of criticism voiced against him by Ramzan Kadyrov; the attempt was prepared in advance and was not connected with his condemnation of attacks on journalists in Ingushetia.
15:52, 11 March 2016
Today, journalists from Sweden and Norway, hospitalized after the attack in Ingushetia, have been discharged from the hospital for outpatient treatment.
12:51, 11 March 2016
According to the Kremlin press service, Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed his subordinates to find out all the circumstances of the incident on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, as a result of which human rights defenders and journalists had been injured.
06:29, 11 March 2016
The journalists, who suffered in the attack on the minivan of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG), were on their way to Grozny to collect facts about kidnappings and torture in the republic. In particular, they were interested in the circumstances of the deaths of the two natives of Chechnya, deported from Norway, said the sources of the "Caucasian Knot".