Uighurs quarreled Turkey and China
After the failed coup in 2016, more than 77,000 people were arrested in Turkey. In most cases, without evidence of guilt. In addition, 150,000 civil and military servants groundlessly lost their jobs.
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Human Rights
Public Opinion Poll in the North Caucasus 2017
Public Opinion Poll in the North Caucasus 2017 During May-June 2017 Prague information agency Medium Orient carried out its
Read moreMoscow-backed leader advocates Chechen national traditions, modest clothes
Chechnya, 21 April: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has said that measures he introduced to restore customs of the Chechen nation
Read morePolice disperse protesting villagers in Russia’s Dagestan
DAGESTAN, 27 June, Caucasus Times – An unauthorized protest by Chechen villagers in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan on
Read moreChechen law-enforcement agencies probing torture reports
CHECHNYA, 9 March, Caucasus Times: Chechen law-enforcement agencies have started investigating reports of torture in operational search bureau No2 (ORB-2)
Read moreEuropean Court condemns Russia for disappearances and murder in two landmark rulings
PRAGUE, 9 November, Caucasus Times – Father and son disappeared and presumed dead; Woman disappeared and found in largest Chechen
Read moreCourt to issue ruling in first Chechen disappearance and murder of a woman
PRAGUE, 9 November, Caucasus Times – The European Court of Human Rights will rule on the first case regarding the
Read moreFormer prosecutor of Russia’s Dagestan sues papers for defamation
DAGESTAN, 17 October, Caucasus Times: The former prosecutor of the Russian republic of Dagestan, Imam Yaraliyev, has taken four media
Read more“Memorial” supports the dismissal of the Head of Interior Ministry of Kabardino-Balkaria
MOSCOW, 21 March, Caucasus Times. Human rights center “Memorial” is considering the dismissal of the Interior Minister of Kabardino-Balkaria Lieutenant
Read more“Amnesty International” notices that human rights situation in Russia is deteriorating and calls EU to have an influence on the situation
PRAGUE, 17 March, Caucasus Times. “Amnesty International” believes that European Union has to pay more attention to human rights situation
Read moreIngush President told the problem of the forced migrants from the North Ossetia would be solved this year
INGUSHETIA, 16 March, Caucasus Times. Ingush President Murat Zyazikov confirmed the intention of the Ingush authorities to solve the problem
Read moreKarachaevo-Cherkessian President has forbidden republican civil servants to communicate with media without permission of the presidential press service
KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA, 10 March, Caucasus Times. Sources in the Karachaevo-Cherkessian presidential administration told CaucasusTimes correspondent that Karachaevo-Cherkessian President Mustafa Batdyev issued
Read moreKabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry admitted that lists of extremists are being put together in the republican educational institutions
KABARDINO-BALKARIA, 10 March, Caucasus Times. Major Arsen Tishkov, Head of the Office on Fight Against Religious Extremism of the republican
Read moreCommemoration meeting devoted to the victims of the deportation of Balkarian people took place in Kabardino-Balkaria
KABARDINO-BALKARIA, 8 March, Caucasus Times. Commemoration meeting devoted to the deportation of Balkarian people in March 1944 took place in
Read more25 civilians were killed and 28 kidnapped since the beginning of this year in Chechnya
PRAGUE, 8 March, Caucasus Times. Quoting Human Rights Center “Memorial”, Russian Service of Prague-based Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty told that
Read moreKabardino-Balkaria commemorates victims of the deportation of Balkarian people
KABARDINO-BALKARIA, 7 March, Caucasus Times. On 8 March 1944 Balkarian people were forcibly deported to Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Kabardino-Balkarian
Read moreKarachaevo-Cherkessian parliamentarians call for the tightening of the media law
KARACHAEVO-CHERKESSIA, 6 March, Caucasus Times. Sources in the Information and Analytical Office of the Karachevo-Cherkessian People’s Assembly told CaucasusTimes correspondent
Read moreOleg Orlov: “Authorities themselves help the terrorists to recruit new members”.
PRAGUE, 3 March, Caucasus Times. Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Council, Member of “Memorial” Board of Directors Oleg
Read moreAccording to Chechen President, kidnapping should be stopped in Chechnya
CHECHNYA, 28 February, Caucasus Times. Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told that putting an end to kidnapping in Chechnya is a
Read moreMufti of Russia’s Kabarda-Balkaria says censorship of Islamic books
KABARDA-BALKARIA, 23 February, Caucasus Times. “Ban on religious literature is necessary – mufti Anas Pshikhachev” Censorship of books about Islam
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