News

According to a source, Rizvan Kotiev, suspected of the murder of Ingush journalist Amirkhan Kokurkhoev, crossed the border with Georgia. He is hiding in one of the European countries.

During the week of February 6-12, 2017, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Azerbaijan, blogger Alexander Lapshin, prosecuted for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, is under the threat of torture. This was reported by the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

After her husband, Hannah Edelkopf, the spouse of Sochi Rabbi Aryeh Edelkopf, was also deprived the right for residence in Russia. At trial, an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) called her eviction a "family reunification."

Aslanbek Bakharchiev, the seriously ill father of suspected militant Zelimkhan Bakharchiev, expelled from a Chechen village, died in Kalmykia and was buried in Ingushetia. This was reported by residents of the republic. According to them, the authorities did not allow family members of Aslanbek Bakharchiev to bury him in Chechnya.

Azerbaijani soldier Fuad Gafarov was killed during shelling from the Armenian side. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, has addressed the wife of Giorgi Lukava with a request to stop the protest action. Until present, no information about the Lali Basariya's response to the request voiced by Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has been available.

The recheck of the application of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, about his kidnapping and use of violence last for a month already instead of 10 days prescribed by the law, said the advocate Alaudi Musaev. Two cassation appeals against the verdict have been also filed by two other advocates involved in the trial.

The authorities should help to stop the bankruptcy procedure of Osman Kasaev Breeding Farm, which employs residents of three remote auls (villages) of the Karachay District, and deal with the non-transparent schemes of allocation of the land plots of the farm. This was stated on February 10 by participants of the rally.

According to unconfirmed information of the locals, power agents have blown up a blindage in the outskirt of the Dagestani village of Andi, which is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime for the fifth day already.

Officials from the Makhachkala administration, acting under the Mayor’ order, have dismantled the decorative fence of the Dagestani Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), although the managers of the centre received no notifications. In response, the Mayoralty said that the fence had been installed illegally.

A telephone hotline, which can be used to report that a child was involved in a game, aimed at bringing to suicide, through a social network, has been opened by the Chechnya Prosecutor's Office (PO). The republic’s MIS has urged parents to check the content of their children's phones.

The number of citizens of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), included in the voter lists for the referendum on the new Constitution draft, has exceeded 102,000, but it is not final, said the Central Election Commission (CEC). The opinions of NKR residents, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" on the referendum diverged.

Activists of the All-Russian public organization "Green Patrol" have announced the creation of a regional branch in Volgograd. The organization will launch a "hotline" for receiving complaints from residents of Volgograd, and start fighting illegal dumps in the region, said activists of the "Green Patrol".

The advocates of Fariz Namazly, Yalchin Imanov, Nemat Kerimli and Fakhraddin Mekhtiev, defendants in the so-called "Nardaran case", have lodged an appeal complaint with a request to acquit their clients. The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has also urged to revise the verdict.

The Tagibekov brothers, natives of Dagestan, were detained on suspicion of illicit dealing with ammunition, after a search of their rented apartment in a Moscow suburb. According to the suspects and their relatives, the ammunition was planted in their apartment, the advocate of one of the brothers told the "Caucasian Knot".

A group of followers of the Shiite ritual of driving knives in heads has been revealed in Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov has held a preventive talk with the self-proclaimed Caliph of the community. The Chechen Muftiate has treated the beliefs of the group as contrary to Islam.

Not all those involved in the death of the Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliev were held accountable, because of biased inquiry into the case, the parents of the casualty believe; a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been sent on their behalf.

Abdurakhman Usmanov, accused for involvement in the IS, was not a supporter of radical Islam; and defence witnesses saw him in Turkey when, according to investigators, he was in Syria.

The fiction film "Aftermath", covering the story of Vitaly Kaloev, may be a speculation on his tragedy, said Chermen Dudaev, the Deputy Minister of Culture of North Ossetia. Kaloev himself noted that "young people could take useful lessons from the movie."