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July 07, 2022 14:33

• Rustavi strikers reject proposal of phased wage indexing

  The striking workers of the metallurgical mills located in Rustavi have denied the company bosses' proposal to make a step-by-step wage indexing by 15%; they intend to go on striking until wages were increased by a third at once.

July 07, 2022 14:22

• Activists win lawsuit on inaccessibility of street in Makhachkala for disabled people

  The court has supported the activists who demanded to make a street section in Makhachkala convenient for wheelchair users.

July 07, 2022 14:07

• Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh demand official status from Armenia

  On July 6, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh began a sitting picket in front of the Armenian government building demanding an official status. They believe that Armenian authorities ignore their demand for political reasons.

July 07, 2022 11:06

• Law enforcers threaten to persecute relatives of "Fortanga" editor-in-chief in Ingushetia

  While interrogating relatives of Isabella Evloeva, the editor-in-chief of the "Fortanga" oppositional Ingush outlet, law enforcers tried to find out the whereabouts of Isabella, who is accused within the case of spreading fakes about the Russian Army. Law enforcers intend to constantly question her relatives, while she was engaged in journalism, Ms Evloeva herself has stated.

July 07, 2022 10:49

• Azeri activist treats case of insulting veterans as political order

  Veterans of the Karabakh war have filed a lawsuit for libel and insult against Abid Gafarov, an Azerbaijani activist, who posted videos about them on the Internet. Gafarov treats the accusations as unjustified and links the case with his social activities.

July 07, 2022 08:38

• Conflict in Kovdor raises problem of interethnic relations in Russia

  The analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have drawn attention to the growth of ethnic aggression in Russia, and criticized authorities for hushing up problems in interethnic relations.

July 07, 2022 08:25

• Threats to members of sexual minorities alarm Baku townspeople

  Authorities fail to make due efforts to investigate crimes against sexual minorities and are unable to prevent attacks on them in public places, Baku residents and activists have stated.

July 06, 2022 23:24

• Volgograd activist challenges fine for discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  Today, Tamara Grodnikova has filed a complaint to the court of cassation against the first instance court’s decision to fine her 30,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. In her complaint, the activist pointed out that the posters she was holding in her hand during a picket mentioned only the blocking of the media and did not express any opinion about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.

July 06, 2022 23:06

• Azerbaijan sends 50 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine

  An aircraft with 50 tons of humanitarian cargo for Ukraine left Baku for Warsaw. Humanitarian aid provided by the executive authorities of the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait is intended for residents of the Ukrainian city of Cherkassy.

July 06, 2022 19:05

• Chechen TV Channel shows a military camp of new MoD’s battalions

  A five-storey building, in which finishing work is being carried out, will become the location of new Chechen battalions, and the buildings on the territory of the military camp require major repairs, the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) reports. Meanwhile, the “Grozny Inform” news agency has reported about the start of recruitment into the “Sever-Akhmat” and “Yug-Akhmat” battalions, arguing that all conditions had already been created for the militaries.

July 06, 2022 18:46

• Relatives of perished militaries demand to interrogate Pashinyan

  Today, several dozen parents of militaries who perished in the autumn war of 2020 have gathered in front of the building of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia. The protestors have requested the National Security Service of Armenia to interrogate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a criminal case, the charge in which, according to the protestors, should be changed to high treason.

July 06, 2022 15:24

• Chechnya: judges use self-withdrawal to keep away from Musaeva's case

  The self-withdrawal of the third judge in the case of Zarema Musaeva indicates the unwillingness of the judiciary in Chechnya to be involved in considering the case of Musaeva, whose husband, Saidi Yangulbaev, is their former colleague, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 06, 2022 15:01

• Tbilisi: activists mark anniversary of July riots with protest action

  Those responsible for organizing riots in Tbilisi on July 5, 2021, have not yet been punished, despite numerous victims from the aggression of LGBT opponents, activists have stated at a protest held in the capital of Georgia.

July 06, 2022 14:49

• Law enforcers interrogate father-in-law of editor-in-chief of "Fortanga" in Ingushetia

  The father-in-law of Isabella Evloeva, the editor-in-chief of the "Fortanga" outlet, was detained by law enforcers in Ingushetia at a funeral and interrogated. This was reported by Evloeva herself, against whom a case of fakes about the Russian Army was opened earlier.

July 06, 2022 11:13

• Baku resident detained after threats against LGBT people

  Roman Mamedov, 39, a resident of Baku, has recorded a video with threats against LGBT activists, after which he was detained by the police; and a criminal case was opened against him for hooliganism, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (NIA) has reported. Mamedov's actions can be qualified much harder than hooliganism, Elchin Sadygov, a lawyer, believes.

July 06, 2022 10:58

• Armenian rights defenders treat offer to control Internet as threat to freedom of speech

  The Armenia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has come up with an initiative to create a control body for information flows like the Russian "Roskomnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media). In this way, authorities seek to obtain tools for persecuting the dissent and restricting the freedom of speech, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 06, 2022 10:45

• Dagestani journalists dispute about resonance of sentence to Magomed Suleimanov

  The judgement on Magomed Suleimanov's case is a resonant event, since officials' acquittals are rare, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, believes. Officials' arrests trigger some resonance, but the public doesn't care about their further fate, Gadjimurad Sagitov, the editor-in-chief of the "Novoye Delo" (New Case) outlet, is sure.

July 06, 2022 08:44

• Bakhtiyar Gadjiev accused of disrespecting the court

  Judges of the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) have accused Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, the head of the "Institute of Public Policy", of contempt of the court during the consideration of his complaint.

July 06, 2022 08:31

• Zarema Musaeva left in custody

  On July 5, a court in Grozny extended the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, accused of assaulting a law enforcer, until September 12. An ambulance was called for Musaeva during the trial, but doctors concluded that she could take part in the court session, her son, Abubakar Yangulbaev, has informed.

July 05, 2022 23:23

• Armenian MoD reports about a shelling attack on a border village

  The Azerbaijani troops shelled the border village of Khachik, and a car of the head of the rural community was damaged, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today. The Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan called the information not corresponding to the reality.