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August 15, 2022 10:55

• Raids of Chechen law enforcers in Dagestan frighten tourists

  Chechen law enforcers are conducting raids in Dagestan and take away boys and girls who are treated as violators of Vainakh rules of decency, residents of Chechnya, who came to Dagestan on vacation, have complained.

August 15, 2022 10:35

• Eyewitnesses tell details of explosion in Yerevan shopping centre

  According to the updated information, six people perished in the explosion, the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported today. Other 16 people are missing; the number of victims has exceeded 60.

August 14, 2022 10:51

• Twenty-two cases opened against Volgograd resident for discrediting the army

  On August 10, 22 administrative cases arrived in the Voroshilov District Court under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces in relation to Vitaly Gotra; in another case the article on which the protocol was drawn up was not indicated, as follows from the information on the court's website. The date of the session has not yet been set.

August 14, 2022 10:35

• After victory at Dagestani SC, Eduard Ataev left in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has declared illegal the extension of the arrest of Eduard Ataev, the former coordinator of Navalny's office* in Makhachkala, but he was left in custody. The court has received a criminal case against the activist; and the article on drug dealing was added to the charge of possessing explosives.

August 14, 2022 01:39

• Speaker of Chechen Parliament included into presidium of presidential council for self-government

  Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, who is actively involved in training volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, has become the only representative of the regions of Southern Russia in the presidium of the presidential council for the development of local self-government.

August 13, 2022 17:17

• Administration of Dagestanskie Ogni announces lieutenant's death in Ukraine

  Lieutenant Aslan Agaragimov has perished in Ukraine; the Order of Courage was handed over to his family, the administration of the city of Dagestanskie Ogni has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 195 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.

August 13, 2022 17:01

• Appeal of Dagestani village Imam to tourists sparks discussion in social network

  Tourists have come to rest and have the right to dress as they please, some social network users have noted in their comments to the appeal of the Imam of the village of Gunib to the guests of Dagestan urging them to wear closed clothes and observe the moral and ethical standards adopted in Dagestan. In their turn, other users have objected asserting that local Muslims and authorities should be more active in demanding from tourists to comply with the dress code.

August 13, 2022 16:42

• Defence claims absence of proofs in Djafar Mirzoev's case

  The charges against Djafar Mirzoev, an activist, detained in Azerbaijan within a drug case after his return from Germany on readmission, is based only on the words of the policemen who had detained him, Nemat Kerimli, an advocate, asserts.

August 13, 2022 16:24

• Four residents of Ingushetia charged with terrorism

  The case of residents of Ingushetia, two of whom are accused of plotting terror acts in Sunzha, and two of aiding terrorists, has been brought to court.

August 13, 2022 12:43

• UNM urges to restrict Russians' stay in Georgia

  The stay of Russian tourists in Georgia should be cut down to one month and oblige them to confirm while crossing the border that they recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia, Levan Khabeishvili, one of the leaders of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has stated.

August 13, 2022 12:18

• Wheelchair invalid fined in Kuban for protest against dump

  The court has imposed a fine of a thousand roubles on Yuri Trubachov, a Category I disabled person, who for several hours blocked the road to the landfill in the Poltavskaya rural settlement with a demand to close the dump.

August 13, 2022 08:42

• Atimagomedov's advocate reports threats against him

  Magomed Atimagomedov has stated that he had planned to escape, as the employees of the Kalmyk colony threatened him with charges under a terrorist article, but he was not involved in the murder of the warden, and signed his testimonies under pressure. This was reported by Azu Alieva, his advocate.

August 13, 2022 08:29

• Advocate reports Daud Kuramagomedov's grave condition in Kalmyk SIZO

  Daud Kuramagomedov was severely beaten up and is in a depressed psychological state; however, medical care was rendered to him only 10 minutes before the visit of his advocate, Snezhana Muntyan has informed.

August 13, 2022 00:02

• South-Ossetian Minister of Defence dismissed after special forces fighters beat a Tskhinvali resident

  The President of South Ossetia dismissed Vladimir Pukhaev, the country’s Minister of Defence, in connection with the beating of Azamat Djigkaev, a resident of Tskhinvali, by special forces fighters, states a decree posted on the website of the leader of the republic.

August 12, 2022 23:51

• Spouse of Azerbaijani oppositionist Gumbatov announces her husband’s hunger strike in prison

  Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, declared a hunger strike. Today, his spouse has held a protest action in front of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Baku with the demand to reconsider the case of her husband and release him.

August 12, 2022 23:36

• “Vyorstka” reports about pressure on military refuseniks from Dagestan

  Natives of Dagestan, who refused to participate in the special military operation and returned to their homeland, are being sent to a guardhouse and threatened with a tribunal, the “Vyorstka” (Layout) publication reports today in the article “We understood that we were treated as cannon fodder and that we have nothing to do on a foreign land”.

August 12, 2022 19:04

• Georgian Ombudsman demands to investigate threats received by Gogashvili

  The Special Investigation Service should verify information about threats received by Soso Gogashvili, the former deputy chief of the State Security Service, from a top-ranking law enforcer, Georgian Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya states.

August 12, 2022 18:34

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Pyunkhan Kerimli challenges his verdict

  After his deportation from Germany, oppositionist Pyunkhan Kerimli, sentenced in Azerbaijan to six years of imprisonment, filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on drug possession, a father of the activist has reported.

August 12, 2022 14:15

• Kadyrov criticizes "Rosleskhoz" boss for assessing efficiency of Chechen forestry

  The methodology according to which the "Rosleskhoz" (Russian Federal Forestry Agency) placed Chechnya among the regions with the least efficient forestry management, was compiled "incompetently," Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, suggesting that the head of the agency heads the Ministry of Natural Resources of Chechnya and improves the indicators.

August 12, 2022 14:03

• In Armenia, Red Cross counts 303 persons missing after Karabakh war

  A total of 303 residents of Armenia are listed as missing after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the republican delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has informed.