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09:20, 30 March 2015
Adoption by UN Council of Armenia's resolution against justification of genocides; direction of main case of ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov to court; decision of Russian Supreme Court in case of resident of Chechnya, whose rights violation was recognized by ECtHR, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 23-29, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:53, 28 March 2015
In the higher educational institutions of Northern Caucasus, recruiters of the "Islamic State" (IS) focus on successful students from wealthy families. This was stated by a Russian Orientalist and economist Evgeny Satanovsky, the President of the independent scientific centre "Institute of the Middle East".
21:54, 28 March 2015
The Lenin District Court of Grozny has granted a claim to protect the honour and dignity filed by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the Committee against Torture and Murad Amriev, a resident of Chechnya, who complained about being tortured by policemen.
08:59, 27 March 2015
Zaur Dadaev does not fit the description of the Boris Nemtsov's killer, given by one of the witnesses to the crime. According to the witness, the killer used a Russian car to leave the place of the crime. This was stated by the article written by Sergey Mashkin published by the newspaper "Kommersant".
02:31, 27 March 2015
Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the battalion "Sever" (North) of the Interior Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has been questioned by investigators as a witness in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. This was reported by material prepared by Svetlana Reuter and Mariya Bondarenko and published by the "RBC".
22:06, 26 March 2015
The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the appeals filed by Timur Tangiev, a resident of Grozny, and his defence against the verdict announced by the Supreme Court of Chechnya.
18:09, 26 March 2015
About 1500 mercenaries from Northern Caucasus are fighting in Syria and Iraq on the side of militants. This was reported in Pyatigorsk by Sergey Melikov, the Russian President's Envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
15:04, 26 March 2015
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled to pay compensation for moral damages in the amount of 79,500 euros to family members of Zhebrailov brothers, who were detained by law enforcers in Chechnya in 2005 and the fate of one of whom is still unknown.
13:30, 26 March 2015
In Chechnya, during the consideration of the case against Timur Tangiev by the Supreme Court (SC), jurors and witnesses were subjected to pressure. This was claimed by the defendant's defence. According to the advocates, the direction of the case for a re-consideration followed by the announcement of an objective verdict would be a kind of "road map" for judicial reconciliation in Northern Caucasus.
20:31, 25 March 2015
The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left the 41-year-old Khasan Zakaev, a defendant in the case of the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre, under arrest until June 21.
17:29, 25 March 2015
In Chechnya, law enforcers have identified other nine Chechen residents fighting in Syria. Besides, two former participants of the armed conflict in Syria have been detained in Grozny.
13:57, 25 March 2015
Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has not rejected confession, since he had not been re-interrogated yet. This was reported by Ivan Gerasimov, an advocate of the defendant. At present, the defence checks possible alibi of Zaur Dadaev.
16:47, 24 March 2015
On April 1, the Moscow City Court (MCC) will consider appeals filed about the decision to arrest five defendants in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.
13:53, 24 March 2015
The fate of five persons detained in connection with the investigation into the case of explosion at the dam in Chechnya remains unknown, two persons died. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
12:05, 24 March 2015
Investigators in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder believe that the defendants committed the crime not by their belief, but they were hired by an unknown person, who promised to pay them 5 million roubles, the "Kommersant" reports. The newspaper also reports on the linguistic expertise to determine whether the letters received by the victim contained death threats.