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August 23, 2022 22:41

• Social network users complain about electricity problems in Chechnya

  The electricity voltage in central Grozny is very weak, a social media user has complained. Commentators supported him, noting that this problem is observed throughout the republic.

August 23, 2022 22:32

• "Conde Nast" PH drops lawsuit against Aishat Kadyrova's Fashion House

  The Moscow Arbitration Court has stopped proceedings on the claim of the "Conde Nast" Publishing House (PH), which demanded from the "Firdaws" Fashion House to return 814,000 roubles of debt and to pay 893,000 roubles as penalty.

August 23, 2022 18:24

• Ingushetia: villagers suffer from absence of water

  Since May this year, water has been supplied to the village of Inarki, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, with outages; and since July, due to the heat, there has been no water at all, a local resident has stated.

August 23, 2022 17:46

• Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev states receiving law enforcers' threats

  Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an activist, was released after almost four hours of detention. According to his story, law enforcers forced him to remove his critical posts from social networks about the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs and threatened him with arrest for new posts about the minister.

August 23, 2022 14:43

• Rights defenders argue about aim of bringing Azeri fire-fighters into villages near Lachin Corridor

  As stated by Rasul Djafarov, a Baku-based human rights defender, the area of the Lachin Corridor was occupied not by militaries, but civil defence members, who perform protection functions.

August 23, 2022 14:33

• Social network users urge to punish advocate after conflict with natives of Chechnya

  Pavel Gerasimov, an advocate, should be punished for the traumas inflicted on the child, social media users have stated in their comments on his conflict with Chechen natives in Moscow. They have suggested that an advocate's apologies will follow shortly after the incident.

August 23, 2022 14:24

• Armenian activists demand not to transfer villages in Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan

  Today, a group of activists have held a rally in Yerevan demanding not to transfer three settlements in the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan.

August 22, 2022 23:47

• Colleagues of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev hold pickets demanding his release

  Today, in Makhachkala, activists have held pickets demanding the release of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and other political prisoners.

August 22, 2022 17:39

• Two Azerbaijani soldiers blown up by mines in Lachin District

  Military men were injured as a result of a mine explosion in the Lachin District.

August 22, 2022 17:32

• Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev detained in Azerbaijan

  The detention of activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev might be related to his critical posts on social media against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan, the “Line of Defence” NGO suggested.

August 22, 2022 17:24

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 15-21, 2022

  Persecution of pacifists in the southern regions of Russia; clearing of the rubbles after an explosion at a shopping centre in Yerevan; withdrawal of the Armenian population from the Lachin Corridor, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 15-21, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 22, 2022 16:38

• Georgian NGOs demand to admit ISFED to work on electoral reforms

  Four non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their participation in all the working groups created on the initiative of the "Georgian Dream" Party.

August 22, 2022 16:34

• After Armenians set their houses on fire, Azeri fire-fighters arrived in Lachin

  After at least two villagers in the Lachin Corridor have burned down their houses before evacuation, Azerbaijani fire-fighters, escorted by Russian peacemakers, arrived in the town of Lachin (Berdzor).

August 22, 2022 16:12

• Chechen woman detained on suspicion of practicing witchcraft

  Chechen Instagram* publics have posted a video in which a woman in a hijab rings the doorbell of an apartment, and then pours something under it. Commentators have suggested that she is engaged in witchcraft.

August 22, 2022 14:02

• Participant in Chechen war publicly apologizes for Russian anthem with LGBT flag

  Sergey Nechaev, a participant in the military campaign in Chechnya, recorded a video apologizing for performing the Russian anthem with an LGBT flag in a gay club.

August 22, 2022 13:58

• Rustavi protesters demand authorities' reaction to prisoners' hunger strike

  At the Rustavi Prison, inmates are on hunger strike in protest against denial of medical care and ban on relatives' visits. This was stated by their relatives at the protest action, demanding to improve the inmates' custody conditions.

August 22, 2022 13:50

• Relatives report arrest of critic of Azerbaijani authorities

  Magsud Aliev, who had criticized Azerbaijani authorities in social networks, was accused of disobeying a policeman and arrested.

August 21, 2022 22:38

• Over 90% of Berdzor and Akhavno residents evacuated

  All the residents have left the Nerkin Sus community; several families still stay in Berdzor and Akhavno, the head of the Kashatag District has informed. Local residents complain that they were given little time to find new housing and move everything they had acquired over more than 20 years.

August 21, 2022 22:23

• Kadyrov announces creation of new police regiment in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, a police regiment of more than 2000 servicemen is being recruited in order to guard oil and gas facilities; 600 people have already expressed their desire to serve in the new unit, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed.

August 21, 2022 22:10

• Mass nature of domestic violence in Caucasus is hidden by fear of publicity

  Cases of domestic violence, such as the story of Patimat Idrisova, a native of Dagestan, are far from being unique for the Caucasus, but not everyone is ready to talk about it, let alone decide to run away from home.