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April 12, 2022 14:14

• EU accelerates consideration of Georgia's application for EU membership

  Georgia has received a questionnaire to be answered in order to become candidate country for the European Union (EU), although the Georgian authorities had expected that the EU would issue this questionnaire only in a few years, Salome Zurabishvili has stated.

April 12, 2022 13:53

• Russian journalist demands from law enforcers to leave her 93-year-old mother alone

  Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, who has left Dagestan because of threats, reports about law enforcers' visit to the house where her elderly mother lives. They asked her about Svetlana's posts about events in Ukraine.

April 12, 2022 11:24

• Military experts assess appearance of a peacemaking post on Mount Karaglukh

  The establishment of a peacemakers' post on Mount Karaglukh is not a guarantee against an Azerbaijan's strike, but it provides Russian militaries with a positional advantage that has a deterrent role, Armenian military analysts believe. In their turn, Azerbaijani military experts have treated the post as the result of a Russian-Azerbaijani compromise.

April 12, 2022 11:08

• Mukhortov's wife demands to check his custody conditions in Adyg colony

  Alexander Mukhortov, a resident of Sochi, who complained about received threats after he told media about torturing inmates in a Saratov colony, and achieved his transfer to Adygea, is in an isolation ward in inhuman conditions, his wife has stated.

April 12, 2022 08:43

• Authorities admit deaths of at least 200 militaries from NCFD and SFD in Ukraine

  Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, it became known about the deaths of at least 142 natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and 58 residents of the Southern Federal District (SFD); these data were obtained as a result of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on the officially confirmed information.

April 12, 2022 08:31

• Journalists link Gagloev's election success with Bibilov's administrative resources

  Anatoly Bibilov made use of his administrative resources to exclude real rivals from the presidential race; however, the votes of their supporters helped Alan Gagloev to win the first round of election in South Ossetia, the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

April 11, 2022 22:57

• MFA of Abkhazia confirms absence of plans to join Russia

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia condemned the speeches of Russian political analysts on the issue of Abkhazia joining Russia and threatened to recognize authors of those speeches as undesirable persons on the territory of the republic. The state sovereignty of Abkhazia is indisputable, the republic’s MFA declares.

April 11, 2022 22:41

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

  Georgy Eprikyan from the village of Novo-Georgievskoye perished during the special military operation in Ukraine, the administration of the Mozdok District reported. The authorities confirmed the information about at least 34 soldiers from North Ossetia who perished in Ukraine.

April 11, 2022 18:09

• Analysts predict outcome of second round of presidential election in South Ossetia

  Analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggest that Alan Gagloev will become the winner in the second round of the presidential election in South Ossetia.

April 11, 2022 17:48

• More than 12,500 residents of Donbass arrive in Rostov Region over a day

  More than 12,500 refugees arrived in the Rostov Region from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR, respectively) over a day, border guards reported.

April 11, 2022 15:30

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 4-10, 2022

  Echoes of the situation in Ukraine in Southern Russia: the arrival of refugees, the death of militaries, the persecution of pacifists; consideration of the appeal filed by the HRC “Memorial”* in the case on its liquidation; talks between Ilham Aliev and Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 4-10, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

April 11, 2022 13:41

• Azerbaijan rejects South-Ossetian presidential election

  The presidential election in South Ossetia is illegitimate, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated today, speaking in support of Georgia's territorial integrity.

April 11, 2022 13:27

• After commemorating Bucha casualties, Krasnodar woman accused of discrediting army

  In Krasnodar, Olga Aksyonova, an activist, was charged with discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after she lay down on the ground with her hands roped behind her back near a billboard with the inscription "Za Nashikh" (For Ours) in memory of those killed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

April 11, 2022 11:36

• Protesters in Tskhinvali call for an honest vote tabulation

  Participants of the spontaneous action in Tskhinvali told the "Caucasian Knot" that they would not allow any falsification of voting outcomes.

April 11, 2022 11:22

• Rights defender Oleg Orlov accused of violating rules of picketing

  Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, who went out on April 11 with a poster onto Red Square in Moscow, was accused by law enforcers of violating the rules of picketing.

April 11, 2022 11:04

• Volgograd activist Grodnikova calls on to investigate events in Bucha

  Tamara Grodnikova, a pensioner, has held a solo picket in Volgograd calling on the authorities to create a civilian commission to travel to Bucha and make public the findings about the massacres of civilians committed there.

April 11, 2022 10:50

• Georgia condemns presidential election in South Ossetia

  Elections in South Ossetia are illegal and will have no legal force, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated. A similar statement was made by the MFAs of Lithuania and Latvia.

April 10, 2022 12:48

• Georgian President pardons 15 prisoners

  The pardoning act concerning 15 prisoners, including six citizens of Ukraine, was signed by the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili.

April 10, 2022 12:44

• Ten Tbilisi streets named after casualties of rally dispersal in 1989

  On Saturday (April 9), Tbilisi commemorated the 21 persons, who perished during the dispersal by Soviet troops of the rally on April 9, 1989. The City Council named 10 streets after those who perished in those events.

April 10, 2022 12:41

• Since start of special operation, over 6000 Ukrainian citizens arrived in Azerbaijan

  Since February 24, 2022, a total of 6163 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Migration Service has informed.