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09:00, 8 June 2015
Resignation of the head of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov; pogrom of rights defenders' office in Grozny; exacerbation of conflict among believers in Ingush Nasyr-Kort; start of consideration by Moscow City Court of the case of Ilya Goryachev, alleged BORN leader; crash of training fighter jet in Astrakhan Region; local elections in Armenia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 1-7, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
08:15, 8 June 2015
During the week of June 1-7, 2015, at least five persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, three persons were killed, and two others 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.
08:10, 8 June 2015
Anzor Gubashev, who is involved in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, has made a confession immediately after his detention, the "Kommersant" reports.
00:03, 6 June 2015
Azamat Tazhayakov, a citizen of Kazakhstan, who was familiar with Dhzokhar Tsarnaev, sentenced in the case of the terror act in Boston in 2013, has been found guilty by the court of obstruction of the investigation into the terror act and conspiracy for the purpose of plotting a terror act.
20:33, 5 June 2015
The story of the documentary “The Family” about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, which has been blocked and then unblocked on YouTube, has shown that any user can initiate a ban on dissemination of information. Meanwhile, complaints about copyright infringement are often false and filed with the only purpose to block the dissemination of meaningful content; furthermore, dispute settlement mechanisms created in social networks have been actively used to impose political censorship. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
10:31, 5 June 2015
Zaur Dadaev, the main defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, has filed an appeal against the investigators' refusal to institute a criminal case on unlawful acts used against him. This was reported by advocate Shamsudin Tsakaev.
06:08, 5 June 2015
In the case of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, investigators have got a secret witness, who knows the defendants and who has the information about the crime. This was reported by the "Rosbalt".
03:53, 5 June 2015
Participants of the rally in Grozny, which grew into a pogrom of the office of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the apartment, where members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders lived, show the use of administrative resources for centralized transportation of protesters to the capital of Chechnya.
17:28, 4 June 2015
Today, members of the Russian Federal Human Rights Council (HRC) have discussed the pogrom in Grozny at their special sitting with participation of Timur Aliev, the head of the Chechen HRC, and Vadim Gaidov, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
15:24, 4 June 2015
The Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia has instructed Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee against Torture (CaT), to prepare a report about the attack on the office and apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny. The report will be handed over to Vladimir Putin.
14:34, 4 June 2015
During the attack on the office and apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny there were no mass detentions, because no policemen were present at the attack, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by eyewitnesses. In their turn, law enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that relatives of the murdered Jambulat Dadaev were the organizers of the pogrom.
12:00, 4 June 2015
Employees of the human rights organization Committee against Torture (CaT) have turned to law enforcement bodies of Chechnya on the attack on the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny.
11:17, 4 June 2015
Five participants of an illegal armed formation (IAF), who shot dead OMON (riot police) fighters from Bashkiria in 2012 in Chechnya, have been sentenced from 3 to 25 years in a high-security colony. Their defence intends to appeal against the verdict.
23:59, 3 June 2015
The pogromists who attacked the office of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny had pre-planned their actions, said Dmitry Utukin, a CaT activist, and refuted the statement of the head of Chechnya that rights defenders had themselves provoked the incident.
20:11, 3 June 2015
In the village of Zakan-Yurt, law enforcers detain young people, who on May 30 blocked the local police station. This was reported by local residents.