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03:00, 19 February 2015
The criminal case against the lawyer Murad Musaev, suspected of bribing witnesses in the murder case of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, may become a dangerous precedent for the persecution of the lawyers across the country, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko. The investigation of his case has been going on for two years.
14:43, 18 February 2015
The criminal case against the lawyer Murad Musaev, who was accused of bribing witnesses in the murder case of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, was stopped due to the lapse of time, said the press secretary of the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow.
09:24, 18 February 2015
The Leninsky District Court of Grozny has satisfied the lawsuit lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya demanding to restrict access to 85 pages of the social network "VKontakte", because they posted extremist materials and caricatures on Prophet Muhammad.
23:58, 17 February 2015
Over the past five years – from 2010 to early 2015 – the number of victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus has declined considerably: from 1705 persons in 2010 down to 525 – in 2014. The sustainable downward trend in the count of killed and wounded in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is illustrated in the infographics drafted by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own data and information from other open sources.
00:14, 17 February 2015
There are no signs that militants of Northern Caucasus decide to tighten their tactics after the act of suicide bombing in Chechnya and the attacks of militants on Grozny. The militants will hardly follow the tactics of the Islamic State (IS) recognized as a terrorist organization. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
13:36, 16 February 2015
During the week from February 9 to February 15, 2015, at least one person was lost in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
09:05, 16 February 2015
A criminal case into the arson of the office of the Joint Mobile Group (SMG) of rights defenders in Grozny, and the detention by policemen of Sergey Babinets and Dmitry Dimitrov, the employees of the JMG, was opened by investigating authorities.
15:16, 15 February 2015
The practice of detaining young men wearing beards is systematic in Chechnya, local residents report. Observers note that the number of such detentions increases sharply after statements made by the head of Chechnya.
09:41, 15 February 2015
Chechen law enforcers have identified four local residents, who take part in warfare in Syria. According to the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the database of the Chechen warriors in Syria is "constantly updated."
07:41, 14 February 2015
The appearance of jihadist symbols in Chechnya is a form of protest, said the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot", who believe that local youth was involved in drawing the graffiti.
05:23, 14 February 2015
Communal officials and court marshals of Chechnya are conducting large-scale raids with the aim to collect debts for utility services. Locals say about frequent visits of communal officials to their homes.
19:59, 13 February 2015
Six natives of Chechnya, detained in Paris on charges of involvement in recruiting militants for the warfare in Syria, have been arrested in France, the Le Figaro has reported.
12:47, 13 February 2015
Three young men were detained in the Chechen village of Tsentaroy on suspicion of painting the flag used by militants of the "Islamic State" of the wall of one of the buildings, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
09:47, 13 February 2015
On February 12, in Grozny, employees of law enforcement bodies detained and took to some unknown place three young men with beards and shaved-off moustaches. Eyewitnesses reported that the young men were taken away from a regular bus.
06:44, 13 February 2015
Residents of the Southern Federal and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) complain about the continuing rise in food prices. According to the territorial statistical bodies and the Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), in February, the prices for certain food groups went up by 6-20%.