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July 18, 2022 22:31

• Irganai migrants urge Melikov to take control of problem with payments

  In their video message to Dagestani leader Sergey Melikov, residents of Irganai and other villages of the Untsukul District asked the republic’s leader to take control of the unresolved issue of compensation for flooded lands and gardens.

July 18, 2022 19:36

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 11-17, 2022

  Persecution of pacifists in Southern Russia; termination of a high-profile case in South Ossetia against Inal Djabiev; negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan amid the parties’ mutual accusations of shelling attacks, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 11-17, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

July 18, 2022 19:03

• Audience of performance about Eid al-Adha in Makhachkala compares it with Marvel sequels

  More than 2000 people, including children from orphanages and boarding schools, attended a charity performance in Makhachkala dedicated to Eid al-Adha. The audience compared its scenario, in which positive heroes teamed up against villains of Russian and Dagestan fairy tales, with famous Marvel sequels.

July 18, 2022 18:41

• Kadyrov proposes to place air defence base in mountains of Chechnya

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that air defence systems are in demand due to the need to introduce new strategic military solutions in Russia in the mountains of Chechnya, on the southern borders of Russia.

July 18, 2022 18:26

• Saakashvili’s relatives succeed in involving forensic experts from United States to his case

  Forensic medical specialists from the United States will examine the general health state of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, carry out a psychiatric examination and make their legal opinion, advocate Shalva Khachapuridze reports.

July 18, 2022 14:31

• Kadyrov reports staffing "North-Akhmat" regiment

  The "North-Akhmat" regiment under the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is staffed with the "fighters experienced in military operations in Syria and Ukraine," the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

July 18, 2022 14:09

• LGBT opponent dies after suicide attempt at action in Tbilisi

  A participant in a rally of homophobic groups against the LGBT Week held in Tbilisi on July 2 has died in a Tbilisi hospital.

July 18, 2022 13:45

• Relatives of Azeri veteran reproach authorities for neglecting his problems

  Khayal Abbasov, a veteran of the Second Karabakh War, received three wounds in battles, but failed to document his disability category. His relatives assert that he lives in difficult conditions, and none of the authorities are interested in his problems.

July 18, 2022 11:07

• Instagram* users called for check of land deals in KBR

  The searches conducted in the Elbrus District have to do with the sale of resort lands, social network users have suggested and called for checking the land deals concluded in other districts of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

July 18, 2022 10:48

• Recruitment to Chechen battalions goes amid Kadyrov's threats of hell for those who refuse to go to Ukraine

  In Chechnya, recruitment is underway into battalions of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD); future fighters are promised salaries of 50,000 roubles or more, the republic's military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) has reported. The recruitment of contractors was announced amid Ramzan Kadyrov's threats with hell to those who would only admit the idea of refusing to go to Ukraine.

July 18, 2022 10:12

• Employee of Georgian Ombudsperson' office claims Soso Gogashvili's physical injuries

  After meeting Soso Gogashvili, a detained former deputy head of the Georgia's State Security Service (SSS), Ketevan Khvedeliani, a staff member of the Georgian Ombudsperson, has confirmed that he had external bodily injuries.

July 18, 2022 09:57

• Evgeny Bukhantsev applies for US asylum

  Evgeny Bukhantsev, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, who left Russia for the USA due to fear of criminal prosecution for his pacifist actions, has asked for asylum there.

July 17, 2022 11:58

• Baku authorities refused to sanction action demanding opening of land borders

  The Mayoralty of the Azerbaijani capital has found it inappropriate to hold a picket under the pandemic and recommended the organizer, Tofig Yagublu, a member of the coordination centre of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the "Musavat" Party, to send his demands to the government.

July 17, 2022 11:56

• Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia outline their positions at meeting in Tbilisi

  Ararat Mirzoyan, the head of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has pointed out that the OSCE Minsk Group should take part in settling the Karabakh conflict.

July 17, 2022 11:28

• Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other of shelling

  Acting from the border area, Armenian militaries subjected to intensive fire the positions of Azerbaijani soldiers stationed in the Kelbadjar District, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

July 17, 2022 10:44

• Aliev accused Russia's MoD of non-fulfilment of its promise on Karabakh

  The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed with its promise to ensure the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh in accordance with the agreements of November 10, 2020, Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, has stated.

July 16, 2022 20:16

• Yerevan: protesters blame authorities for death of producer Armen Grigoryan

  Authorities' actions resulted in the fact that the health of film producer Armen Grigoryan had deteriorated, and he died in the courtroom from cardiac arrest, protesters in Yerevan have claimed.

July 16, 2022 20:13

• Activists criticize Azeri authorities' attitude towards veterans

  Elvin Djafarov, a participant in the Karabakh war, could not find a job with a good salary; several times he unsuccessfully turned to officials; and unresolved problems led to his death, his brother has stated. Azerbaijani authorities fail to cope with war veterans' and invalids' problems, local NGOs believe.

July 16, 2022 17:00

• Blogger Alibekov fined for discrediting army

  The court found Askhabali Alibekov, a well-known Novorossiysk blogger, guilty of discrediting the Russian Army because of a YouTube video from a picket in the city square that he had posted.

July 16, 2022 04:47

• Rights defenders condemn Abid Gafarov's arrest

  Two Azerbaijani human rights organizations have condemned the verdict to Abid Gafarov, the host of the KIM TV YouTube channel, pointing to the political motive for his prosecution – his posts on the facts of torture against the figurants in the so-called "Terter case".