Results of your search

Children from families of refugees from Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic, affected by ethnic conflicts, will spend three months with American families. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Alikhan Akhilgov, the leader of the non-governmental organization "Foundation for assistance to earlier deported peoples".

In Chechnya, a 19-year-old local resident was detained on suspicion of posting on the Internet the calls for "jihad against infidels." The issue of instituting a criminal case against him for incitement to extremism is under consideration.

The consideration of the murder case of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya began on July 24 at the Moscow City Court. All five defendants pled not guilty.

According to calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources, at least 296 people suffered, in the second quarter of 2013, in the armed conflict ongoing in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 118 people were killed and at least 178 more were wounded.

The children of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered journalist, refused to participate in the trial on the case of her murder, since they treated the trial as illegitimate. This was stated in the formal statement made by Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya.

On July 19, the Muftiyat of Chechnya established the religious committee "Fetva", which would address issues related to Islamic law. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the republic.

German authorities have announced a sharp increase in the current year of the number of applications for political asylum filed by natives of Chechnya. Rights defenders see the reason for the increase in some unreliable rumours about facilitating the receipt of the refugee status in this country and the atmosphere of fear in the republic.

The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Timur Aliev as the Chairman of the Human Rights Council, the press service of the Chechen president and government has reported.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has demanded to restrict access to the video message, posted by the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz" Doku Umarov, and lodged a respective suit to the Leninsky District Court of Grozny.