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May 07, 2022 19:54

• Over 20 Saakashvili supporters detained during protest in Batumi

  Last night, in Batumi, clashes broke out of law enforcers with supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, after policemen demanded to remove the tents set up by activists. As a result, more than 20 protesters were detained.

May 07, 2022 14:00

• Armenian IC announces arrest of four oppositionists

  Four persons have been arrested within the investigation of seven criminal cases initiated in connection with incidents during protests, the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has informed.

May 07, 2022 13:52

• Authorities report death of native of Stavropol Territory in Ukraine

  Vladimir Lysenko from the village of Gofitskoye has perished in Ukraine, the head of the Petrovsky Urban District has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 23 natives of the Stavropol Territory have been confirmed.

May 07, 2022 13:46

• KBR leader gives orders to families of 14 militaries who perished in Ukraine

  The families of the natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) who perished during the special military operation in Ukraine have received the Order of Courage from the head of the republic.

May 06, 2022 23:55

• Training of law enforcers for special military operation in Ukraine becomes Kadyrov’s political trump card

  By sending detachments of Chechen law enforcers and other volunteers to Donbass, Ramzan Kadyrov stood out among the heads of the regions of Northern Caucasus to emphasize his loyalty to Vladimir Putin, experts note.

May 06, 2022 23:50

• Kadyrov’s report on sending volunteers to Donbass causes scepticism among social media users

  Another detachment of 200 fighters has voluntarily left Chechnya for the special military operation zone, Ramzan Kadyrov reports. Volunteers are attracted by the promise of large remuneration or by pressure, some Instagram* users suggest.

May 06, 2022 23:47

• Forty-eight protesters detained in Yerevan

  The police violently dispersed a protest action near Victory Bridge in Yerevan, Ishkhan Sagatelyan, the deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament, reported. The police reported about 48 detainees, and according to the opposition, about 100 people were taken to police stations.

May 06, 2022 15:39

• State of Mississippi recognizes Armenian Genocide

  Mississippi has become the last, the 50th US state to recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

May 06, 2022 15:34

• Azerbaijan defines places for two BCPs with Armenia

  The new border checkpoints (BCPs) will be set up in the dwelling settlements of Eivazly and Gazanchy in the south-western part of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

May 06, 2022 15:29

• Nagorno-Karabakh opposition and activists support Yerevan protesters

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, people support the demands of the protesters in Yerevan, but due to the ban on mass events, they cannot express their solidarity with them, local oppositional activists have stated.

May 06, 2022 15:24

• Opposition threatens to paralyze traffic in Yerevan

  On May 5, the opposition marched in Yerevan, calling on townspeople to join the movement demanding Pashinyan's resignation. The protesters announced large-scale actions and their intention to block traffic in Yerevan from four directions.

May 06, 2022 15:17

• Authorities confirm deaths of two natives of North Ossetia in Ukraine

  Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has presented the relatives of 16 natives of the republic who perished during the military operation in Ukraine with the Order of Courage, including the relatives of Senior Lieutenant Igor Kovalyov and Private Akop Kazaryan, whose deaths were not officially reported earlier.

May 06, 2022 15:14

• Memorial plaques opened in memory of residents of Stavropol Territory who perished in Ukraine

  Alexander Mescheryakov, Evgeny Boiko, Ruslan Mgoev, Oleg Manuilov and Maxim Manzyk have perished in Ukraine; memorial plaques have been installed at the schools where they studied, the head of the Novoaleksandrovsky urban district has informed.

May 06, 2022 14:06

• Activists claim despotism in Azerbaijani higher schools

  The protesters who gathered near the building of the Azeri Ministry of Education have stated discrimination, suppression of free thought at universities and students' social problems.

May 05, 2022 23:56

• In Yerevan, a protester dies of cardiac arrest

  An opposition supporter who participated in a protest action in Square of France died of cardiac arrest. The authorities have accumulated a lot of law enforcers near the square, but there is not a single ambulance car near the place of the protest, one of the activists has expressed her indignation.

May 05, 2022 23:53

• Authorities report about death in Ukraine of two natives of Dagestan

  Nurutdin Mamaev from Buynaksk and Amir Aliskhanov from the village of Yamansu perished in Ukraine.

May 05, 2022 23:49

• Blogger Insa Lander faces difficult situation after her arrest, her friends say

  Insa Lander, a blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria, found herself without money after she was banned from using the Internet under house arrest. The costs of an advocate, a rented apartment, and food are being covered by blogger’s friends, while Insa Lander does not have access to her bank accounts, her friends say.

May 05, 2022 23:47

• Human rights defender Elchin Mamed’s mother asks President Aliev to pardon her son

  Rakhilya Mamedova, a mother of convicted journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, called on the President of Azerbaijan to pardon her son. The woman fears that a hunger strike in prison could result in her son’s death.

May 05, 2022 23:35

• Number of activists detained in Yerevan reaches 69

  In Yerevan, the police detained 69 protesters for failure to obey the police. Levon Kocharyan, one of the organizers of the protest action, called a clash between marchers and policemen the result of a provocation by the police.

May 05, 2022 16:22

• Chechen Djumaev placed into dungeon

  Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years within the case of using violence against law enforcers, has been place into the dungeon (punishment cell).