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May 05, 2022 16:16

• Amid sanctions, Russian govt corrects NCFD development plans

  With account of the anti-Russian sanctions, the North-Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) will mainly develop its agriculture, the transport infrastructure and tourism, including in Dagestan, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and Chechnya, the Russian government has indicated in the development strategy for Northern Caucasus.

May 05, 2022 15:56

• Pashinyan's opponents block streets in Yerevan

  The activists demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, have blocked several streets in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. Law enforcers have detained at least three persons.

May 05, 2022 15:36

• Rights defenders state doctors' non-admittance to Saakashvili

  The prison administration has refused a council of doctors to visit Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, an ex-president of Georgia, the NGO "Empathy Centre for Psychological Rehabilitation of Torture Victims" has informed. In Tbilisi, protesters demanded to let Saakashvili to go abroad for medical treatment.

May 05, 2022 14:36

• Military experts dispute about Kadyrov's data on sending volunteers to Ukraine

  In Chechnya, it is realistic to train within a week about two hundred volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, if they already have experience in military service, a military expert has pointed out in his comment on Ramzan Kadyrov's words about training of volunteers.

May 05, 2022 14:33

• Analysts assess potentials of protest movement in Armenia

  The Armenian protest movement has the potentials capable to paralyze the state ruling, but the organizers are using them incorrectly, experts believe.

May 05, 2022 14:27

• Azerbaijani activists demand to stop pressing media

  In Azerbaijan, the independent journalists and bloggers who expose corruption are under pressure and persecution, the participants of the conference on the state of media in the country have stated.

May 04, 2022 23:59

• National Security Service of Armenia warns opposition against storming parliament

  The opposition is preparing to storm the parliament building, the National Security Service of Armenia has announced, warning protesters of criminal liability. The parliament building is under heavy police protection.

May 04, 2022 23:57

• Coming-out of a transgender woman from Dagestan highlights problems of queer people in Northern Caucasus

  In Northern Caucasus, transgender people face rejection from their relatives and friends and persecution, and they are exposed to mortal danger, therefore they prefer to hide their sexual orientation and leave their native lands, but they also face difficulties with employment and documents outside their homeland.

May 04, 2022 23:53

• Armenian Ombudsperson criticizes police actions

  The police act aggressively while detaining people at protest actions in Armenia, and a number of activists have been injured, Ombudsperson Kristine Grigoryan reports.

May 04, 2022 23:50

• Administration of Temryuk District reports about death of a military man in Ukraine

  Artilleryman Vadim Shekurov perished in Ukraine, the Temryuk district administration reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 19 perished natives of the Krasnodar Territory has been officially confirmed.

May 04, 2022 16:33

• Activists block bridge in central Yerevan

  Law enforcers have begun detaining opposition supporters who blocked the Kyiv Bridge located in central Yerevan.

May 04, 2022 16:30

• Krasnodar resident fails in challenging the imposed fine for discrediting Russian Army

  After his participation in an action against a special operation in Ukraine, a Krasnodar court has upheld the fine imposed on Denis Dolgushin, a resident of Krasnodar, for his alleged discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

May 04, 2022 16:14

• Rights defender Elchin Mamed goes on hunger strike in Azerbaijani prison

  Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani human rights defender and a journalist has refused to eat while demanding his release from jail. Mr Mamed, who is suffering from serious illnesses, has decided to go on a hunger strike because he has despaired of gaining freedom, human rights defenders have noted.

May 04, 2022 16:07

• Georgian doctors ask USA to help releasing Saakashvili

  In Tbilisi, protesters demand a meeting with the US ambassador aiming to tell him about the state of health of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, and ask for help in setting Saakashvili free. His health condition has worsened, an oppositional MP has informed.

May 04, 2022 16:00

• Khramort villagers treat it premature to return home from evacuation

  In recent days, the situation on the contact line near the village of Khramort has been calm; several families have returned to the village, but agrarian works can't be performed, the administration of the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.

May 04, 2022 15:58

• Analysts assess Azerbaijan's place in RWB's press freedom index

  Despite its progress from the 167th to 154th place in the World Press Freedom Index, Azerbaijan remains among the countries with a non-free press.

May 04, 2022 15:34

• Yerevan: oppositional rally invites Armenian citizens to join protests

  An oppositional rally held in France Square in Yerevan gathered up to 7000 people, the police have informed. After Nikol Pashinyan's resignation, an interim government will be formed, Ishkhan Sagatelyan, an oppositional MP, has stated.

May 03, 2022 23:03

• “Vazhnye Istorii”* reports about elite real estate of Kadyrov’s associates in Dubai

  According to a journalistic investigation conducted by the “Vazhnye Istorii” (Important Stories)*, associates of Ramzan Kadyrov own apartments and villas in Dubai worth from hundreds of thousands to several million US dollars.

May 03, 2022 22:54

• Number of oppositionists detained in Armenia increases to 237

  In Yerevan, 209 activists were detained for failure to obey the police, and 28 more people were taken to police stations in the regions of Armenia, the Armenia police reported.

May 03, 2022 22:50

• Azerbaijani activist claims to have been beaten by police

  Djalil Zabidov, an activist of the “Democracy-1918” movement, was detained, and the police used physical methods of influence, demanding from him to stop criticism of the authorities, the activist himself said. The police announced that Djalil Zabidov tried to disrupt an exam.