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17:28, 27 May 2014
Hospitals of the city of Donetsk (Ukraine) are treating 43 persons who suffered in the course of the antiterrorist operation (ATO), including eight Russian citizens permanently residing in the cities of Grozny, Gudermes and Moscow, said the Mayor of Donetsk Alexander Lukyanchenko at a press conference held on May 27.
15:35, 27 May 2014
Today, at the Moscow City Court (MCC), the advocates of the figurants in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, have demanded to quash the guilty verdict handed down by the jurors on May 20, dissolve the jury and send the case for retrial.
14:25, 26 May 2014
The Russia's Ministry of Culture has initiated an additional examination of the film "Ordered to Forget", which tells about the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes in 1944. The outcomes of the examination will decide whether the film authors will be granted a screening certificate.
09:00, 26 May 2014
Events in the regions of Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War; special operation in Ingushetia, during which, according to power agents, leader of the local militants was killed; jury's verdict of guilty in Politkovskaya's murder case, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 19-25, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
13:27, 24 May 2014
The members of the armed underground, killed on Saturday during a special operation in the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek District, had been preparing a series of terror acts on the Day of Ingushetia, said Timur Bokov, the head of the department for relations with mass media of the administration of the head of Ingushetia.
23:27, 23 May 2014
At the trial of Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", accused of storing drugs, three law enforcers were interrogated as witnesses for the prosecution, said the lawyer Pyotr Zaikin.
16:52, 22 May 2014
The materials about forced disappearances of six persons in Chechnya in 2001 include the name of Igor Strelkov, a Russian officer, who was put on the wanted list by the Ukrainian authorities. This was reported by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".
17:34, 21 May 2014
The jury verdict against five defendants that found them guilty of killing the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is just a small step towards the triumph of justice. However, the trial has left a lot of questions, said the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).
15:46, 21 May 2014
On May 21, at the Moscow City Court (MCC), the daughter and son of journalist Anna Politkovskaya moved a civil suit against the defendants in the case of killing her mother, demanding compensation of moral harm in the amount of one million roubles from each of them.
13:30, 21 May 2014
On the eve of the anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), has answered the questions of the "Caucasian Knot", touching on a number of problematic aspects of the perception of the history of Caucasian Wars, politicization and mythologization of them.
11:14, 21 May 2014
On May 20, policemen detained a resident of Grozny, in whose flat they found a TT pistol and ammunition, an officer of the Chief Department of the MIA for Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
21:43, 20 May 2014
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the Moscow City Court (MCC) that the jury has unanimously found all the defendants in the murder case of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya guilty.
09:41, 20 May 2014
On May 19, in the Naursky District of Chechnya, policemen detained two men who tried to sell a batch of firearms, a representative of the Chief Department of the local MIA told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
09:00, 19 May 2014
Replacement of Russian President's Envoy in Northern Caucasus and setting up a ministry to be in charge for development of the region; landslide in Georgia causing human deaths, highway closure and interaction of gas supplies to Armenia; start of parties' pleadings at MCC on Anna Politkovskaya's murder; daring attack of unidentified persons on law enforcers in Gunib District of Dagestan; conviction of journalist Parviz Gashimli in Azerbaijan; decision of the court in Rostov Region on recognizing the "Union of Don Women" as a foreign agent, – read the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 12-18, 2014, prepared by the"Caucasian Knot".
12:36, 15 May 2014
In Chechnya, a former staff member of the Council for Economic and Social Security (CESS) and an elderly man were detained on suspicion of extorting money. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).