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June 17, 2022 03:05

• 12 people continue their hunger strike in support of Talekh Bagirzade’s demands

  Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the “Muslim Unity” movement, has been on a hunger strike for 13 days demanding punishment of law enforcers for blasphemy.

June 17, 2022 02:56

• Blogger Insa Lander tries to leave Russia

  Georgian border guards do not let Insa Lander, a blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria, into the country, and she has been staying in the neutral zone without food and water for five days, reports Yegor Kuroptev, the director of the Free Russia Foundation* in Georgia. Lithuania is ready to accept Isa Lander if the issue on the Georgian border is resolved, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Georgia states.

June 16, 2022 23:59

• Georgian Ombudsperson urges to listen to demands of protesting students

  Due to financial problems, many students cannot come to Tbilisi, rent an apartment and attend exams; they ask to preserve the distance (remote or online) training due to the difficult socio-economic situation, Nino Lomdjariya, the Georgian Ombudsperson, has stated.

June 16, 2022 23:57

• Armenian political analysts dispute about opposition's plans

  The oppositionists, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, have attracted patriotic citizens to their side and changed tactics of achieving their other goals, Armen Badalyan, a political strategist, has noted in his comment on the roll up of the tent camp in Yerevan.

June 16, 2022 23:55

• Dagestani MIA's reasoning on public apologies sparks disputes in network

  Public apologies are appropriate when a person has not only broken the law, but also neglected the public opinion, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has stated. Some network users opposed the practice of public apologies, while their opponents have supported the MIA's opinion.

June 16, 2022 23:52

• Relatives of convicts call on to expedite investigation into “Terter case”

  An investigation into torture in the “Terter case” has been delayed, and their victims remain in prison, protesters in Baku state. They have called on for the release of prisoners and punishment of those responsible.

June 16, 2022 12:21

• Organizer of assassination attempt on Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov tried in Germany

  The Higher Land Court of Munich has begun considering the case of organizing an ordered killing of Mokhmad, a brother of the Chechen oppositional blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

June 16, 2022 12:10

• Krasnodar law enforcers receive conditional sentences for beating up disabled Manchenko

  A court in Krasnodar has sentenced Vyacheslav Zyabkin and Vladimir Tatarkov, policemen, to four and three years of conditional imprisonment respectively within the case of beating Evgeny Manchenko, a disabled person. His defence intends to seek compensation for Manchenko.

June 16, 2022 12:06

• Oppositionists hold symbolic sit-in strike in Yerevan

  Students of 1988, who stood at the origins of the Karabakh movement, have held a symbolic sit-in strike organized by the "Resistance" Oppositional Movement, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

June 16, 2022 12:02

• Court commutes verdict to Ingush activist Myakiev

  The court has found Ingush activist, Bagaudin Myakiev, guilty of using violence against "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) fighters at a rally in Magas and sentenced him to 1.5 years in prison. Myakiev has already served four months more within his case and can claim compensation, his advocate asserts.

June 16, 2022 11:52

• Pashinyan’s opponents hold a march in Yerevan

  Opposition supporters, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, held a march in the centre of Yerevan and blocked traffic along a city street. Protest actions will be continued, opposition MPs assure.

June 16, 2022 11:49

• Activists call a case against blogger Sidamon an infringement of freedom of speech

  A case against Ossetian blogger Batraz Misikov is related to his civil position. If the court finds him guilty, that could be the beginning of mass persecution for expressing own own opinion, activists and bloggers point out.

June 16, 2022 11:44

• Workers of “Borjomi” factories in Georgia complain to court about violation of their rights

  Striking “Borjomi” workers have requested a court to oblige the “Borjomi” Company management to improve working conditions at the factories and reinstate dismissed workers, trade union leader Giorgi Diasamidze reports.

June 16, 2022 11:30

• Ingush authorities distance themselves from creating national park on border with Chechnya

  After the statement by the Russian Minister of Natural Resources about receiving documents from the Ingush side concerning creation of the Daimokkh Park, Magomed Evloev, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, has explained the republic’s authorities still do not support the idea of creating a park on the border with Chechnya and has only signed a roadmap for its creation.

June 15, 2022 23:49

• Reaction to graffiti with Z becomes message of Azerbaijani authorities

  With the information about the detention of a resident of Baku, suspected of applying graffiti with the letter Z on a wall of a cultural monument, the authorities of Azerbaijan pointedly distanced themselves from supporting the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, analysts say.

June 15, 2022 15:14

• After complaint to Kadyrov, analysts predict loyal attitude to volunteers

  The volunteers, who complained to Kadyrov about problems with payments and medical care after returning from Ukraine, took this risk out of desperation, Ruslan Kutaev, a Caucasian expert, and Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, believe.

June 15, 2022 15:11

• Students' protests fail to convince TSU bosses to allow online exams

  Despite prolonged protests held by students of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) and the promise of its Academic Council to allow exams to be taken remotely, the TSU top managers have announced that final exams would be held in person.

June 15, 2022 15:08

• Opposition closes its tent camp in central Yerevan

  The participants of the protest action, held in central Yerevan since May 1, have rolled up their tents and will now join the activists seeking the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan in their street protests, Ishkhan Sagatelyan, a Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, has explained.

June 15, 2022 14:59

• Head of Magaramkent District announces officer's death in Ukraine

  Tadjib Israfilov, a paratrooper officer, perished in Ukraine, Farid Akhmedov, the head of the Magaramkent District, has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 145 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.

June 15, 2022 14:56

• Ossetian blogger treats case on hate kindling as fabricated

  The interrogation of the linguist, who had conducted the examination of the post by the Ossetian blogger, Batraz Misikov (Sidamon), has revealed violations in the procedure; and the defence demanded that his conclusion be declared invalid.