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January 17, 2022 18:36

• On January 10-16, 2022, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of January 10-16, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 17, 2022 16:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 10-17, 2022

  Kadyrov’s ultimatum to the Ingush people; short-term aggravation of the situation near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan; decisions of the European Court on the complaints filed by victims of the terror act in Beslan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 10-17, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 17, 2022 14:44

• Native of Dagestan apologizes for insulting bus passengers in Moscow

  The native of Dagestan, who was detained for insulting passengers in a Moscow bus, has expressed regret about his words, as it follows from the video released today.

January 17, 2022 14:29

• Law enforcers prevent picket of Aslanov's wife in Baku

  The wife of the convicted journalist, Polad Aslanov, went out to a picket near the building of the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), demanding a meeting with the GPO head. Law enforcers pushed the picketer away from the entrance to the building.

January 17, 2022 14:18

• Soldier perishes in Azerbaijan

  Djavidan Mamedli, a conscript soldier, has perished due to careless handling firearms; an investigation has been launched, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported, not specifying the dwelling settlement where the accident occurred.

January 17, 2022 11:56

• Tbilisi: Refugees' protest ends in death of one of them

  In a dwelling settlement in an outskirt of Tbilisi, a man perished during an action held by forced migrants, who demanded to remove them from an emergency building. The police are investigating the case about bringing the man to suicide.

January 17, 2022 11:42

• Melikov demands from Dagestani to apologize for behaviour in Moscow

  The native of Dagestan, who rudely insulted bus passengers in Moscow, must apologize to them and to his fellow countrymen, on behalf of whom he had tried to speak, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, has stated.

January 17, 2022 11:26

• Social network users challenge Kadyrov's words about no conflict with Ingushetia

  The statements of the Chechen party about a new page in the Chechen-Ingush relations remain groundless, until the border agreement is revised; and while Kadyrov is trying to hush up the conflict, and not solve it, Ingush users of Instagram publics have pointed out.

January 17, 2022 11:12

• Kadyrov orders to remove all negative data about Ingushes from social networks

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has instructed to remove any hostile statement against residents of Ingushetia posted in social networks, Akhmed Dudaev the Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, has stated.

January 16, 2022 18:34

• Activists criticize court ruling in case of Azerbaijani oppositionist

  Politicians and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan have condemned the conviction of Ali Aliev, the leader of the "Citizens and Development" Party, on charges of defamation. They treat the case as a "political order" and demanded the release of the oppositionist.

January 16, 2022 18:32

• Court marshals ban journalist Sevindj Vagifgyzy to leave Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan authority in charge of enforcing judgements has asked the court to impose a ban on Sevindj Vagifgyzy, a journalist of the "Meydan" TV, to leave the country. She is charged with non-execution of the judgement on the lawsuit submitted by Elmira Alandarova, a school deputy principal.

January 16, 2022 18:24

• Kadyrov declares no claims against him in Ingush people

  Before the end of the ultimatum, none of residents of Ingushetia has declared blood feud and turned to the elders, which shows that the people of Ingushetia have no claims, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. He accused human rights defenders of aggravating the situation and threatened those who would "write nasty things" with consequences.

January 16, 2022 16:39

• Roundtable participants in Volgograd report pressure on opponents of vaccination and QR codes

  Residents of Volgograd refuse to get vaccinated fearing for their health; for this they are suspended from work, and they are forced to defend their interests in court, Ivan Ivanov, a lawyer, has stated. Marina Arkhipova, an activist, said that after she recorded a video message to the Russian president asking to cancel QR codes, the police demanded an explanation from her.

January 16, 2022 11:50

• Lost Nagorno-Karabakh resident returned to Armenia

  Andranik Alexanyan, a resident of the city of Berdzor in the Kashatag District of Nagorno-Karabakh, was returned to the Armenian party through the mediation of Russian peacemakers.

January 16, 2022 11:37

• Exhibition on Remembrance Day of Holocaust Victims attracts North-Ossetian residents

  An exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust Victims' Remembrance Day has opened in Vladikavkaz. During the fascist occupation in the fall of 1942, about 600 Jews perished in the Mozdok District, Gergart Nadel, the author of the exhibition and director of the Memorial Museum of Memory of Victims and Heroes of the Holocaust named after Pechersky in Vladikavkaz, has explained.

January 15, 2022 21:44

• Armenian public figures demanded from authorities to treat pogroms in Baku as genocide

  The pogroms of Armenians in Baku 32 years ago became the third act of massacres of Armenians in the 20th century, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated. Armenian authorities should recognize the Baku pogroms as genocide and convey to the world community that this tragedy caused the Karabakh conflict, the Armenian public figures, Grigory Aivazyan and Larisa Alaverdyan, have stated.

January 15, 2022 21:27

• Makhachkala townspeople protest against frequent water and power outages

  On January 14, several dozen residents of Makhachkala went out to a street protest action, demanding from bureaucrats to solve the problem of power and water outages. People are freezing up without electricity; and because of frequent outages thereof, household appliances fail, another group of Makhachkala townspeople have noted on the Instagram.

January 15, 2022 19:12

• Azerbaijani journalist accuses authorities of illegal wiretapping

  Fatima Movlanly, an Azerbaijani journalist, has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office about illegal wiretapping of conversations on her smartphone. She has suggested that authorities were using eavesdropping software to track information about protest actions.

January 15, 2022 19:05

• Analysts exclude use of CSTO troops on Armenian-Azerbaijani border

  After the use of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) peacemakers in Kazakhstan, Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, is interested in the use thereof on the Azerbaijani border, but the allies cannot ignore the interests of Baku and will not agree to this, Azerbaijani analysts believe. Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are interested in the presence of Russian peacemakers in the conflict zone, Russian political analysts have pointed out.

January 15, 2022 15:55

• Polad Aslanov's wife reports that pressure on him stopped

  On the ninth day of the hunger strike of Polad Aslanov, a journalist, the Supreme Court (SC) has set the date for the consideration of his complaint; this may be due to the attention of media and human rights defenders to his hunger strike. After Aslanov was visited by employees of the Ombudsperson's Office and the Red Cross, the pressure on him was stopped, his wife said.