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18:22, 21 January 2014
18:11, 21 January 2014
20:32, 20 January 2014
The grouping "Ansar al-Sunna", which claimed responsibility for the terror acts in Volgograd, was not earlier known for its actions in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by Alexei Malashenko. Akhmed Yarlykapov believes that the statement suggests serious transformations in the environment of the armed underground.
13:14, 20 January 2014
Today, at the trial in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", the court has dismissed the motion filed by Vladimir Stepanov, new advocate of defendant Rustam Makhmudov, to return of the indictment in the case to the prosecutor.
09:05, 20 January 2014
Bomb explosion at entertainment complex in Makhachkala and a special operation where seven suspected militants were killed; information appearing on the web about the death of Doku Umarov, the leader of North-Caucasian militants; election of jurors for Anna Politkovskaya's murder case and searches at lawyer Musaev's before the court session, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 13-19, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
19:36, 19 January 2014
Hundreds of people took part in the procession in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, which was organized in Moscow by the "Committee of January 19". The action was held under the anti-fascist slogans, and it was attended by members of the "Yabloko" Party, the "Red and Black Block", the LGBT community, trade unions and other organizations.
06:39, 19 January 2014
On January 17, the Chechen Prosecutor's Office appealed to the Zavodskoi District Court of Grozny to recognize the website "Chechenews" as extremist.
00:21, 18 January 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that on the issue of non-giving out bodies of suspected militants to their relatives for burial, applicants have no effective remedies in Russia, said Furkat Tishaev, the legal director of the Autonomous Non-commercial Organization (ANO) "Astreya".
18:18, 17 January 2014
The respective power bodies of Chechnya possess records of telephone conversations, where militants talk about Dokku (Doku) Umarov's death, said a source from law enforcement bodies of the republic. However, according to Sergey Goncharov, the President of the Association of Veterans of "Alpha" Anti-Terror Unit, such a talk is not a proof of the fact of the death.
13:34, 17 January 2014
At least 267 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in the fourth quarter of 2013; of them, 152 people were killed and at least 115 people were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.
10:45, 17 January 2014
The march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, scheduled for January 19, has been sanctioned by the Moscow Mayoralty, said Lev Ponomaryov, one of the organizers of the march and the leader of the movement "For Human Rights". According to his story, the city authorities agreed on the route proposed in the application, provided the transition from one boulevard to another will take place without using the symbols.
13:37, 16 January 2014
In Chechnya, local residents report that within recent days, law enforcers regularly detain in the streets and interrogate young people as suspected followers of radical Islam. According to the local residents, the law enforcers persecuted men wearing beards and women in hijabs. Officials from the law enforcement bodies explain the situation by taking preventive measures.
13:02, 16 January 2014
In December 2013, at least 107 people suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, 62 people died and 45 were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.
12:50, 16 January 2014
A negative information environment is deliberately created around the lawyer Murad Musaev in order to put pressure on him and discredit him in the eyes of the jurors at the trials, in which he is involved, in particular, in the trial on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the lawyer Tatiana Okushko believes. Other experts treat the latter trial as a politicized one.
18:58, 15 January 2014
For safety reasons, Olympic torch relay in Dagestan will be held in the "Anji Arena", and the number of torchbearers will be cut from 270 to 67. This was reported by an official from the Ministry for Sports of Dagestan.