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August 29, 2022 19:15

• Azerbaijani analysts explain new tasks of peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh

  According to experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”, Russian peacekeepers will stay in the Lachin Corridor until the launch of an alternative road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, and then they will change their location and take control of the new route.

August 29, 2022 19:02

• Georgian Ministry For Public Health allows foreign doctors visiting Saakashvili

  Today, one of the foreign doctors admitted by the Georgian Ministry for Public Health to examine former President Mikhail Saakashvili has arrived at a Tbilisi clinic. He and his colleagues should examine whether the former Georgian President is seriously ill and whether his illness prevents him from serving his sentence, a politician’s advocate reports.

August 29, 2022 18:49

• Gadjiev’s colleagues hold pickets in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, two solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to release political prisoners.

August 29, 2022 13:26

• Relatives of perished Armenian soldiers call on to arrest Pashinyan

  Parents of the Armenian soldiers who perished in the 2020 Karabakh war have announced a protest action demanding to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, inviting political forces and activists to join them.

August 29, 2022 13:12

• NCFD republics are among top five in number of terrorist crimes

  In January-July, 2022, Dagestan registered the largest number of terrorist crimes among Russian regions – it follows from the data of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The top five of the rating also includes Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 29, 2022 12:38

• Two years after Djabiev's death, court fails to find perpetrators

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has failed yet with the demand voiced out by the court on August 1 to eliminate violations in the case of the death of Inal Djabiev, Sergey Bitiev, the Acting Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has informed. Those guilty of Djabiev's death remain unpunished for two years, Telegram users have pointed out.

August 29, 2022 12:21

• Video with public condemnation of tourists in Dagestan angers Internet users

  The author of the video with remarks to tourists visiting Dagestan about their appearance behaved aggressively and was sparking the conflict despite the tourists' apologies, Telegram users have noted in the comments to the video.

August 29, 2022 12:07

• Azerbaijani military police posts set up in Lachin Corridor

  At the dwelling settlements located in the Lachin Corridor that came under the control of Baku, military police posts began operating, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

August 29, 2022 11:54

• Officials oblige Chechen athletes to coordinate their behaviour with authorities

  Chechen athletes should agree their behaviour when outside the republic with authorities, local officials have announced, explaining this by the concern for the image of the Chechen people.

August 28, 2022 12:02

• Social network users dispute on the right to shame tourists in Chechnya

  The remarks of passers-by to tourists about their appearance in Chechnya are quite appropriate, users of the Chechen public wrote after a video of men walking down the street in shorts. Hotels and the Ministry of Tourism should control tourists' behaviour, others have objected.

August 28, 2022 11:59

• Threats to deprive social care used as recruiting method in Chechnya

  Officials will take Ramzan Kadyrov's words about depriving the families of those who refused to go to serve in law enforcement bodies as a guide to action; such methods of pressure indicate a shortage of people who want to get enrolled in new structures, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, have pointed out.

August 28, 2022 11:57

• Ingush sign interpreter Dugiev convicted conditionally within Magas rally case

  Ramazan Dugiev, an Ingush sign language interpreter, has been sentenced to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for alleged using violence against law enforcers during 2019 protests in Magas.

August 27, 2022 23:58

• Yerevan political analysts treat Reeker's appointment as sign of US activation in the region

  The appointment of Philip T. Reeker as senior adviser on negotiations in the Caucasus has shown that the USA treats the OSCE Minsk Group as a relevant format for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Armenian political analysts believe.

August 27, 2022 23:54

• NGO claims practice of politically motivated arrests in Azerbaijan

  Politically motivated arrests are widespread in Azerbaijan; they are applied voluntarily in violation of national laws and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the NGO "Institute for Democratic Initiatives" (IDI) has stated.

August 27, 2022 16:30

• Rustavi inmates put forward condition for ending hunger strike

  The hunger strike will not stop until the leadership of the Rustavi Prison is replaced, the prisoners, who continue the action because of absence of medical care and ban on relatives' visits.

August 27, 2022 16:26

• Policeman suspected of attacking human rights defender Kalyapin

  A police major is suspected of attacking Igor Kalyapin, the founder of the "Committee against Torture"*; the policeman has been fired, the Human Rights Council (HRC) has informed.

August 27, 2022 15:33

• Rights activists recognize Zarema Musaeva as political prisoner

  The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners" has announced Zarema Musaeva to be a political prisoner; the woman is being tried in Chechnya under the articles of an assault on a law enforcer and a fraud.

August 27, 2022 15:27

• Three Saakashvili supporters released on bail

  A court in Tbilisi has released on bail three oppositionists detained during a rally in support of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. One of them said he was not going to pay the bail.

August 27, 2022 15:18

• Kadyrov links protraction of special operation with Putin

  Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the President of Russia to let Chechen fighters to complete the special military operation in Ukraine. According to him version, the Chechen units are ready to "go to Europe."

August 26, 2022 23:52

• Spouse of an Azerbaijani activist calls her ban on leaving country an act of blackmail

  The defence challenged the ban on leaving the country imposed on Anara Alieva, a spouse of an arrested activist. According to the woman, by banning her departure, investigators want to get evidence against her husband.