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19:16, 13 July 2015
The Supreme Court of Chechnya has rejected the complaint lodged by the defence of Muslim Akhmaev, who was detained in the same group with a student Varvara Karaulova on the border with Syria, about the decision to arrest him.
18:10, 13 July 2015
Foreign non-profit organizations (NPOs) that implement educational and religious projects in Northern Caucasus will be added to the "patriotic stop-list" in order to later stop their work in Russia. This was stated by Ilyas Umakhanov, the Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
05:17, 13 July 2015
"Kommersant": suspects in Nemtsov's murder case to undergo psychological and psychiatric examination
The psychological and psychiatric examination of the defendants in this case will help to establish the motive of Boris Nemtsov's murder. It should reveal whether the perpetrators acted for hire or because religion-motivated hatred, the "Kommersant" reports.
00:52, 13 July 2015
During the week from July 6 to July 12, 2015, at least two persons perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
21:34, 11 July 2015
The work of the employees of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Northern Caucasus will continue, said rights defenders.
18:39, 11 July 2015
Rasul M., born in 1970, a resident of the village of Novoe Solkusheno, Naur District of Chechnya, who was considered kidnapped, has returned home.
16:22, 11 July 2015
Chechnya is holding large-scale religious events to mark the birthday of Kunta-haji Kishiev, one of the most revered saints in the republic.
09:52, 11 July 2015
Chechen law enforcers have arrested a resident of the Chechen city of Urus-Martan, who deported from Turkey after being detained on the border with Syria. According to the spokesman of the Investigating Department for Chechnya, the arrested man was in the same group with the earlier detained Muslim Akhmaev.
10:25, 10 July 2015
France will violate the rights of a resident of Chechnya, whom Russia requests to extradite, if it agrees to deport him to his homeland. This was stated by the decision pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
09:51, 10 July 2015
The Moscow OMON (riot police) has conducted a raid to the restaurant "Vesely Babai". As a result, visitors of the restaurant, mostly natives of Chechnya, were detained. No charges were filed against anyone of them. Staff members of the restaurant complained about rude actions of the law enforcers. The OMON chiefs reject the accusations.
00:55, 9 July 2015
Recent appointments made by Ramzan Kadyrov indicate his desire to strengthen the position of his family members and to demonstrate to the federal centre the solidarity of his team. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
01:15, 8 July 2015
A letter by Polina Zherebtsova, the author of the child's diary about life in Grozny at war, to Mikhail Khodorkovsky in connection with his statements on Chechnya, was put by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia on the list of extremist materials.
13:01, 7 July 2015
The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) held a confrontation of Zaur Dadaev, accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, with a witnesses who had identified Dadaev as a man, whom he saw in Moscow, in November 2014, when Dadaev was preparing murder attempt, the "Rosbalt" reports. The results of the confrontation cast doubt on the basic version of the investigation that Boris Nemtsov was assassinated for his support of the cartoonists from the "Charlie Hebdo" magazine slain in Paris on January 7.
09:45, 7 July 2015
Delegates of the congress of the "RPR-Parnassus" Party have adopted a statement on the need for an international investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the co-Chairman of the Party. The adoption of the statement was initiated by Vadim Prokhorov, advocate of the Nemtsov family, and Ilya Yashin, member of the political council of the Party.
09:00, 6 July 2015
New ultimatum put forward by protesters against increase of electricity tariff to Armenian authorities; ECtHR's decision on acceptability of complaint of Beslan terror act victims; sentencing of Stavropol rights defender Bogatenkova, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 29-July 5, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".