News

Circassian activist Ruslan Gvashev has declared he is willing to pay a fine for praying at the Tulip Tree only if it is required for filing a complaint to the European Court of Human Right (ECtHR). The refusal to pay a fine can lead to the arrest of the activist, believes his advocates.

Members of the Tazurkaev family from the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya have denied the information that law enforcers threatened to kill their female relative. Chechen NGOs doubt that the public apologies were brought voluntarily.

Today, businessman Levon Airapetyan has died in a Mordovian penal colony. His funeral will be held in Moscow, reported his daughter Anzhelika Airapetyan.

The Borispol Court has arrested the Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Guseinli, who lives in the Netherlands, for 18 days. His defence intends to appeal against this decision.

On October 17, 30 young Chechens recruited to the army during the autumn conscription campaign were sent to units of the Southern Military District.

During the past day, the Armenian armed forces 122 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line, reported the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

In the case on creation of a unit of the "Islamic State" (IS, banned in Russia) in Karachay-Cherkessia, advocates of the defendants have demanded to check submachine guns appearing in the case. According to the defence, they had been planted to the defendants.

During a snowfall in the high mountain resort of Abastumani, a tourist from Germany felt bad and asked for the help of rescuers.

In the course of preparation for the municipal elections in Georgia, facts of using administrative resources, promotion by officials of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party in social networks and in budget-funded organizations were registered. This is stated in the report of the non-governmental organization (NGO) “Transparency International-Georgia” (TIG).

An Austrian court has sentenced a 22-year-old native of Chechnya to 2.5 years in prison, having found him guilty of propagating the ideas of the “Islamic State” (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia and in some other countries.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has upheld the verdict to the natives of Kabardino-Balkaria convicted under the case of an attempt to create a Caliphate with a Sharia form of ruling in the republic. This was reported by Lyudmila Ragulina, an advocate of Islam Shogenov, one of the convicts.

The man’s body found in the village of Verkhni Kelasura presumably belongs to the Russian tourist Andrei Likhachov, who disappeared back in July, the Abkhaz Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported.

In 2018, authorities of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) expect to receive about 270 million roubles by collecting the resort fee at a rate of 10 roubles per tourist per day.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found convincing the evidence provided by Russian authorities that Said Amirov, a former Mayor of Makhachkala, receives all the necessary medical care in the colony, where he serves his term.

The 51-year-old resident of Chechnya has stated that she was not aware of what she was doing when beating up her five-year-old relative girl, but doctors assert that she is mentally sane.

The foreign woman detained at the Verkhny Lars border checkpoint had urged people to join militants and helped them to leave for Syria, the North-Ossetian Frontier Authority reports.

During shelling on October 16-17, the Armenian armed forces used large-calibre machine guns, reported the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The statement by Ilham Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan does not reflect any concrete steps to reduce tension and resolve the conflict. This opinion has been expressed by political observer Stepan Safaryan. The progress is being hampered by the position of Russia, believes expert Ruben Megrabyan.

Dagestani natives Khidirnabi Kazuev, Samir Ibragimov, Gabibula Khalduzov, and Albert Khasbolatov are detained on the suspicion of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia. This has been reported by a source.

Zelimkhan Bakaev, a singer, was detained in Chechnya because of suspicions of his homosexuality; after his disappearance, several show business figures were beaten up to knock out confessions about their intimate ties with Bakaev, said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network.