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March 25, 2022 15:07

• Residents of Georgia collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine

  Georgia continues gathering help for residents of Ukraine; ordinary citizens, companies and parties are taking part in the campaign. Four containers of humanitarian aid collected by the "Lelo" Party have been sent to Ukraine.

March 25, 2022 15:06

• Rights defender Oleg Orlov fined for pacifist picket

  A Moscow court has fined Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, who in February held a picket against the special operation in Ukraine, by 20,000 roubles.

March 25, 2022 14:53

• Experts assess risks of activating underground in Chechnya

  Sending law enforcers outside the republic will not weaken the position of Ramzan Kadyrov, and amid the special operation, and in case of any incidents in Chechnya, there will be ruthless actions against any opponents, Amir Kolov, a police colonel, and Alexei Malashenko, a Caucasian expert, have pointed out.

March 25, 2022 13:51

• Yerevan townspeople urge UN to pay attention to humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The participants of the action held at the United Nations (UN) office in Yerevan have declared their support for Nagorno-Karabakh in connection with the gas supply outage.

March 25, 2022 13:44

• Baku denies border violation in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Azerbaijani militaries have occupied the village of Parukh in the Askeran District, the village head has informed. In its turn, Baku asserts that reports about the advance of Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh are false.

March 25, 2022 13:42

• ECtHR finds Russia responsible for torturing Chechen law enforcers

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on complaints of the former Chechen law enforcers, Alikhan Akhmedov and Aslanbek Daurbekov, confirms that they had been tortured; but this is unlikely to affect the investigation of this case in Russia, lawyers have noted.

March 25, 2022 02:02

• Kadyrov reports about sending a new detachment of volunteers to Ukraine

  Chechen volunteers, including members of the Kadyrov family, left for Ukraine, reports Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

March 25, 2022 01:55

• Women and children evacuated from two Karabakh villages

  The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the line of contact in the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh, women and children were evacuated from the communities of Parukh and Khramort, the information headquarters under the government of Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

March 24, 2022 23:59

• ECtHR recognizes violation of Azerbaijani journalist Ganimat Zakhid’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Azerbaijan’s authorities to pay compensation of 8500 euros to Ganimat Zaidov, an editor of the Azerbaijani opposition newspaper “Azadlig”, well-known under the pseudonym of Ganimat Zakhid.

March 24, 2022 23:58

• Buynaksk Mayoralty reports about death of a military man in Ukraine

  Sungur Osmanov from Buynaksk perished in battles in Ukraine, the city administration reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation, it has been reported about at least 46 perished natives of Dagestan.

March 24, 2022 23:56

• Court awards compensation for arrest to Dagestani activist Salim Khalitov

  In Makhachkala, a court partially granted a lawsuit filed by activist Salim Khalitov against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and awarded him 30,000 roubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for his arrest. The defence intends to seek greater compensation.

March 24, 2022 15:36

• ECtHR awards compensations to two natives of Dagestan in torture case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay Murad Ragimov and his father Firuddin Ragimov, natives of Dagestan, compensations of 26,000 euros each for violating the ban on torture and the right to immunity.

March 24, 2022 15:33

• ECtHR resumes consideration of complaints from Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will continue considering complaints received from Russia about violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) until September 16, the ECtHR has informed.

March 24, 2022 15:28

• Residents of Georgia say farewell to volunteers who perished in Ukraine

  The bodies of the Georgian militaries, Giya Beriashvili and David Ratiani, who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, were delivered to Tbilisi Airport. The farewell ceremony was attended by hundreds Georgian residents, including President, Salome Zurabishvili.

March 24, 2022 15:16

• After talk with authorities, opponents of community enlargement in Armenia refuse to unblock road

  The residents of the Armenian villages of Tsovagyukh and Semyonovka, who protest against the merge of their villages to the community of Sevan, have refused to unblock the highway, despite the request of the governor of the Gegarkunik Region.

March 24, 2022 15:02

• Court again arrests accounts of mother of activist Antonova

  The bank accounts of the mother of the Krasnodar activist, Yana Antonova, have been arrested by a court ruling. According to Antonova, a total of 1.3 million roubles are blocked.

March 24, 2022 13:31

• Armenian MFA reports contacts with Russia on gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh

  Armenia is in contact with Russian colleagues, since the problematic section of the gas pipeline, due to which Nagorno-Karabakh was left without gas supply, is in the responsibility zone of peacemakers.

March 24, 2022 13:31

• About half of Khramort families return home from evacuation

  Residents of the Khramort village in the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh, who had left their homes due to shelling, begin returning to the village, which is guarded by Russian peacemakers, the head of the community has informed.

March 23, 2022 23:59

• Lawyer explains consequences of exclusion of Russia from Convention on Human Rights

  When commenting on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to exclude Russia from the parties to the European Convention on Human Rights on September 16, Galina Arapova*, the director of the Centre for the Protection of Media Rights**, has explained that Russia will be held liable for all violations of the committed by the Russian authorities before September 16.

March 23, 2022 23:57

• Authorities of Makhachkala and Buynaksk report about two militaries perished in Ukraine

  Ruslan Belchuk from the Makhachkala village of Shamkhal and Khizri Abdusalamov from Buynaksk perished in battles in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian troops, it was reported about at least 45 perished natives of Dagestan.