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August 17, 2022 18:04

• Residents of Malgobek complain about smoke from a burning garbage landfill

  Since July, local residents have been complaining about smoke coming from burning waste at a Malgobek landfill. However, the requests for elimination of fires addressed to the regional operator “Ecosystem”, which is an owner of the Malgobek landfill, remain unanswered.

August 17, 2022 13:24

• Rights defenders call to help a native of Chechnya in Romania

  Amina Gerikhanova, a native of Chechnya, who was detained at the Romanian border, will not be able to leave the country after being released from custody, since the issue of her extradition to Russia has not been resolved, the "Vayfond" human rights association has stated. Human rights defenders call on volunteers to help find housing for Gerikhanova in Romania.

August 17, 2022 13:03

• Early exclusion of "Memorial"* from register of legal entities challenged

  Legal representatives of the liquidated Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* have filed a complaint against the early exclusion thereof from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, which prevented the HRC from paying off its debts, human rights defenders have informed.

August 17, 2022 12:47

• Two persons are still missing after explosion in "Surmalu"

  Fifteen out of sixteen casualties of the explosion in the "Surmalu" shopping centre in Yerevan have been identified. Two persons are still listed as missing, the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed.

August 17, 2022 12:29

• Patients of oncology hospital in KBR demand to dismiss chief physician

  At the Nalchik oncology dispensary, patients are not receiving the proper treatment; they are prescribed low-quality drugs, which is why they have to go to other cities for treatment. This was stated in patients' appeal to President Vladimir Putin. They demanded to dismiss the chief physician and provide cancer patients with due medical care.

August 17, 2022 12:12

• Court refuses to transfer Zarema Musaeva's case to another region

  The judge has dismissed the advocate's petition to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case of Zarema Musaeva, who is accused of a fraud and assault on a law enforcer.

August 17, 2022 11:55

• Authorities hurry residents of Akhavno and Berdzor to move out

  Residents of the town of Berdzor and the village of Akhavno in Nagorno-Karabakh must leave their houses by August 20, from that day on communications will be cut off the settlements, local authorities have announced.

August 17, 2022 08:43

• Armenia announces two-day mourning

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, has declared August 17 and 18 to be the days of mourning over those who perished in the "Surmalu" shopping centre. Three people remain on the list of missing persons; the fire in the shopping centre is completely extinguished, the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed.

August 17, 2022 08:31

• Rights defenders criticize prosecution in Kudaev's case

  A court in Rostov-on-Don began considering the case of Andzor Kudaev, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), whom investigators have accused of aiding terrorists and possessing weapons. In their turn, human rights defenders assert that the indictment is based on Kudaev's confessions obtained under torture.

August 16, 2022 23:37

• Humiliation of a young man leads to public apologies of Chechen residents in garbage cans

  Two men, standing in garbage cans against the background of a wall with barbed wire, apologized for stuffing their acquaintance into a similar garbage can.

August 16, 2022 23:25

• Former Kuban official blames investigators for his death

  Today, the body of Leonid Gutrits, the former head of the Gulkevichi District, was found near the building of the local prosecutor’s office, and the media reported that the official left a suicide note. Lawsuits have been going on against the official for several years in a case on fraud and a case on the death of a child in a water park, local advocate Sergey Zemtsov reports.

August 16, 2022 19:15

• Azerbaijan reports discovery of minefield at Sarybaba height

  A minefield was discovered at the Sarybaba height, which was returned under the control of Baku during the “Retribution” operation on August 3.

August 16, 2022 18:46

• Social media users ask about punishment for inappropriate behaviour of Chechens on vacation

  Information about the raids of Chechen law enforcers on the resorts of Northern Caucasus frightened residents of Chechnya, and part of the vacationers decided to return home. This was reported by an author of a comment on the “Caucasian Knot”. Several social media users suggested that young people who did not follow the rules of conduct prescribed in Chechnya on vacation could be expected to be sent to Ukraine.

August 16, 2022 15:21

• Family from Elista fined for picketing in defence of freedom of speech

  The Elista City Court has fined a local resident and her daughter by 10,000 roubles each, and her son – by 20,000 roubles for their pickets in defence of the freedom of speech that were not sanctioned by the authorities. All the family members were charged with violating the rules for holding a rally.

August 16, 2022 15:08

• South-Ossetian MoD's staff reacts negatively to dismissal of their boss

  After the dismissal of Vladimir Pukhaev, the head of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia, his several subordinates wrote resignations reports in solidarity with their boss, an MoD's source has informed.

August 16, 2022 14:21

• Body of 16th casualty found under rubbles of Yerevan mall

  16 people perished and 17 others are still missing as a result of an explosion and subsequent fire that occurred at the "Surmalu" shopping centre (mall) in Yerevan, the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed.

August 16, 2022 10:54

• Azerbaijani activist arrested after returning from Germany

  Anar Aliev, an activist who came from Germany to visit his sick father, was arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of large-scale drug dealing; and his wife was banned from leaving the country. She said that Anar had confessed under pressure.

August 16, 2022 08:28

• Azerbaijan: opposition party activist arrested for 30 days

  Elnur Shakhverdiev, a member of the Astara district branch of the oppositional Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, has been arrested on charges of drug use. The activist's relatives and a party representative have doubted the credibility of charges, suggesting that Shakhverdiev was persecuted for criticizing authorities.

August 16, 2022 08:18

• Week of August 8-14 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from August 8 to August 14, 2022, there were no reports about any casualties or wounded persons during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the monitoring run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own sources and information from open sources.

August 16, 2022 08:06

• Rescuers find bodies of two more fire casualties in "Surmalu"

  The death toll from the explosion and fire at the "Surmalu" shopping centre in Yerevan has risen to 10.