Politics

April 19, 2025 23:40

• Participation in meeting with Emir of Qatar emphasizes Kadyrov's role in Kremlin's Middle East policy

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, acts as an informal mediator in relations with Islamic states, but has little freedom of manoeuvre in building personal relations with Middle-Eastern leaders.

April 18, 2025 21:14

• Georgian Parliament adopts amendments to Law “On Grants”

  The Georgian Parliament adopted amendments to the Law “On Grants” in the final third reading, according to which grants can only be received with the permission of the country’s government. Not a single MP has voted against the amendments.

April 17, 2025 22:14

• Georgian activist tells of beating

  Lekso Samkharadze, an activist, and Levan Kanchaveli, his comrade, have been attacked in Tbilisi. Both were hospitalized with serious traumas.

April 14, 2025 21:39

• NIYSO activist tells about his relatives’ mass eviction from Chechnya

  After the teen’s attack on the road-and-patrol (DPS) police post in Achkhoi-Martan, Chechen authorities accused the administrators of the NIYSO Telegram channel of involvement in radicalization and launched repressions against their families. The mass eviction of relatives from Chechnya with the confiscation of their property was organized with the aim to stop the work of the NIYSO Movement.

April 10, 2025 23:56

• Georgian journalists treat set up of dictatorship as result of amendments to Law on Grants

  The adopted amendments to the Law on Grants for the first time in Georgia's modern history have enshrined authoritarianism legitimately. These changes will lead to the destruction of critical media and the establishment of a dictatorship, media professionals have stated.

April 10, 2025 22:48

• Activist injured during protest in Zugdidi

  In Zugdidi, the police clashed with activists who gathered near a memorial dedicated to the memory of those killed in Tbilisi on April 9, 1989. One of the protesters was taken to hospital.

April 09, 2025 22:17

• Detained Tbilisi protesters complain about law enforcers’ actions

  Two of the three young people have stated the use of excessive force and insults during their detention at the action held near the Georgian Parliament; one of them has marks from a blow in his face. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has explained the detention by the fact that the activists refused to clear the road in response to the police demand.

April 07, 2025 22:48

• Analysts argue about motives for removing Kadyrov’s spouse and daughters from register of legal entities

  The information in the register of legal entities is public by law, and the removal of the names of Ramzan Kadyrov’s relatives from the register may be explained by the desire to protect companies from sanctions and complicate the investigation into their activities.

April 04, 2025 21:39

• Analysts assess Adam Kadyrov’s appointment as curator of the Chechen MIA

  Adam Kadyrov's new position is a test of his fitness to take over the republic’s leadership after his father, while the post of curator of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) presupposes titles and competencies that Ramzan Kadyrov's 17-year-old son does not possess.

April 03, 2025 22:57

• Relatives of political prisoners announce 24-hour protest in Tbilisi

  Families of oppositionists arrested in connection with participation in pro-European protest actions have united in a public movement to demand the release of prisoners of conscience. The activists plan to start a 24-hour protest action in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi.

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