Workplaces of suspected Nemtsov's killers established March 07, 2015 20:29 Zaur Dadaev takes his service in the battalion "Sever" (North) in Chechnya; and Anzor Gubashev worked in one of hypermarkets of Moscow suburbs, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed.
Solo picket against war in Ukraine held in Volgograd March 07, 2015 18:06 Today, a solo picket against the war in Ukraine was held in Volgograd by Yury Trotsenko, a member of the International Union of Anarchists.
North-Caucasian rights defenders found expert-analytical centre March 07, 2015 14:09 The North-Caucasian Expert-Analytical Centre (NCEAC) has begun its work in the regions of Northern Caucasus. Its first sitting was held on March 5-6 in Pyatigorsk.
Adviser to PFPA head detained by police March 07, 2015 13:46 Mamed Ibragim, an advisor to the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has reported his detention by the police and accusation of disobedience. According to his story, he was released from the police, but warned about inadmissibility of calling people to take part in oppositional protests.
Two Caucasian residents detained within Nemtsov's murder case March 07, 2015 12:56 Two residents of the Caucasus, Anzor Kubashev and Zaur Dadaev, have been detained under the murder case of the politician Boris Nemtsov, said Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB).
Sochi woman suffers in collapse of ceiling of dilapidated house March 07, 2015 07:13 Anna Tkachova, a resident of Sochi, said that she received traumas, when the ceiling of her flat collapsed. The flat is in the house in Vorovsky Street, which has been recognized as unfit for residence. The court had obliged the city Mayoralty to provide Tkachova and her minor daughter with a comfortable housing, but the Mayoralty has filed an appeal.
Rights defenders state arrest of Volgograd resident in ATO zone March 07, 2015 02:41 Oleg Khlyupin, a Volgograd resident, was arrested by the authorities of Ukraine in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO), Mikhail Yasin-Panin, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "ROD", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Red Zone Festival, dedicated to Armenian Genocide, takes place in Norway March 06, 2015 22:54 The topic of the Red Zone Festival, held in Oslo on March 3-8, is the genocide against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
HRC "Memorial": Chechen police detain at least 100 after dam explosion March 06, 2015 22:08 The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at night on February 24, an explosion occurred on the dam in the settlement of Chernorechie in Grozny, which killed three people. None of them was known as a militant. After the incident, it became known that two residents of the nearby village of Gvardeiskoe were detained.
10 policemen to be sacked after incident at motor rally in NKR March 06, 2015 21:15 During the motor rally organized by the "Pre-Parliament" in the NKR, a number of policemen grossly violated the discipline; ten of them will be dismissed.
NKR's MoD reports killing of seven Azerbaijani soldiers on the border March 06, 2015 18:18 At night on March 6, the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) killed seven Azerbaijani soldiers, who were trying to cross the border, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.
"Memorial" achieves conviction of policeman for beating teens in KBR March 06, 2015 17:16 The court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced Asker Abidov, an employee of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Chegem ROVD (District Interior Division) to four years of imprisonment for beating adolescents.
Azerbaijan: arrest of Khadija Ismayilova extended until May 24 March 06, 2015 15:17 Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has extended for other two months – until May 24 – the detention of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her defence treats this decision illegal and intends to appeal against it.
Chechen residents join campaign in defence of Kalyapin March 06, 2015 14:24 Forty persons, who claimed at different times of being harassed by power agents, have signed an open letter in support of the Committee against Torture (CaT); there are nine residents of Chechnya among them.
Azerbaijani court refuses to appoint medical examination to Siraj Kerimli March 06, 2015 14:11 Today, in Azerbaijan, at the trial of Siraj Kerimli, recognized by the international human rights organization Amnesty International as "prisoner of conscience", the court listened to testimonies of two defence witnesses.
Ingush MPH finds no confirmation of ban on hijabs in medical college March 06, 2015 08:15 The Security Council of Ingushetia is checking, jointly with the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), the information that teachers of the medical college in Nazran prohibit female students to wear hijabs. According to preliminary data of the head of the MPH, none of the questioned students confirmed the presence of any conflicts.
About 10,000 citizens apply to migration service for official status in Volgograd Region March 06, 2015 07:54 The total number of citizens of Ukraine staying now in the Volgograd Region is not more than 20,000; of them about a half has have applied for legal status in the territory Russia. Despite the escalation of conflict in Donbas in late 2014, in early 2015, there was no mass inflow of citizens from Ukraine, said the local department of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS).
11 prosecution witnesses questioned at Tsarnaev's trial March 06, 2015 01:09 On March 5, at the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, 11 witnesses for prosecution were questioned. Two of them said that they had never seen him before; and one recollected his brother Tamerlan.
Residents of Dagestani village of Shushiya suspended their hunger strike March 05, 2015 23:20 Six women-villagers of Shushiya, Novolak District of Dagestan, have suspended their hunger strike, which was launched with a demand to allocate land plots to them. They agreed to define their further actions after a new decision of the Kumtorkalin Court on the lawsuit of the village administration, asking to cancel the registration of the lease contract on the disputed land plots.
KChR: 85 people donate blood in memory of deportation victims March 05, 2015 22:35 The blood donor action "Blood remembers everything!" in memory of victims of deportation of Balkar nationals was held today in the cities of Karachaevsk and Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). 85 people gave their blood.