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October 01, 2021 13:33

• FSB reports on prevention of terror act in Cherkessk

  The Russia's FSB (Federal Security Bureau) agents have prevented a terror act in Cherkessk. A resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), born in 2001, has been detained on suspicion of preparing thereof.

October 01, 2021 13:12

• Georgian police declares information about Saakashvili's return to be fake

  Today, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, has written in his Facebook page that he had already returned to Georgia.

October 01, 2021 12:10

• Sochi blogger apologizes for photo session near Moscow temple

  In Moscow, policemen have detained Ruslan Bobiev, a blogger from Sochi, whose photo session against the background of the Saint Basil's Cathedral caused discontent among believers. After the detention, the blogger apologized for his actions.

October 01, 2021 11:51

• Witnesses in Adjamatov's case fail to meet investigators' expectations

  Parviz Akhmedov, another prosecution witness, has stated at trial that the testimonies in the case materials against Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding terrorists, had been falsified.

October 01, 2021 08:45

• Court arrests David Tonoyan

  David Tonoyan, a former head of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) was arrested for two months under an embezzlement case. Tonoyan refuses to plead guilty; his defence intends to appeal against the arrest at the Court of Appeal.

October 01, 2021 08:28

• Sautieva complains about protraction with her treatment at SIZO

  Zarifa Sautieva, an Ingush activist, arrested under the case of creating an extremist community, has demanded to speed up the appointment of her treatment after being examined by doctors at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

September 30, 2021 23:48

• Azerbaijani border guard blown up by a mine

  Junior Sergeant Elgyun Nazarkhanly was injured as a result of a mine explosion at a border checkpoint in the Zangelan District, the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reported.

September 30, 2021 23:26

• More than 100,000 people registered to meet Saakashvili in Georgia

  104,000 people have registered on a website, created to help Mikhail Saakashvili return to Georgia peacefully. This has been reported today by Tako Charkviani, an initiator of the project. The former president of Georgia will be detained at the airport upon arrival, like everyone who tries to prevent that, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili warns.

September 30, 2021 19:11

• In Yerevan, protesters demand to make tests for coronavirus for free

  Today, several dozen activists of the “Dashnaktsutyun” Party have come to a protest action in Yerevan. They demand from the authorities to make free testing for coronavirus.

September 30, 2021 18:56

• Salim Khalitov holds a solo picket to express no confidence in parliament of Dagestan

  During the first session of the People’s Assembly of Dagestan, activist Salim Khalitov went to a picket in Makhachkala to express his doubts about the legitimacy of the republic’s parliament of the new convocation.

September 30, 2021 18:36

• Georgian authorities demand to reveal customer of “bloody banners”

  The State Audit Office of Georgia got involved in checking the placement of banners against the opposition and demanded from an owner of the billboards to disclose the information about the customer.

September 30, 2021 14:08

• Four persons wounded in shooting in Ingushetia

  In the Nazran District, a villager opened fire from a rifle during a conflict with other local residents, after which four people were hospitalized, the press service of the regional Ministry Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

September 30, 2021 13:18

• Remains of four servicemen found in Karabakh conflict zone

  Rescuers have found remains of four soldiers, thus bringing the total number of bodies and remains of Armenian military servicemen found in the conflict zone up to 1677, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

September 30, 2021 13:03

• Hundreds of Azerbaijanis await border opening in Dagestan

  The lists for crossing the Russian-Azerbaijani border in Dagestan include about 1000 Azerbaijani citizens; most of them live temporally in rented housing, Afig Allakhverdiev, a public figure and the head of the BIZ (WE) Fund for Support and Development of Socially Significant Programmes and Projects, has informed.

September 30, 2021 11:11

• Armenian analysts criticize PACE's resolution

  The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is biased, since the authors of the document have missed a number of important points, the participants in the Yerevan discussion have stated.

September 30, 2021 10:56

• Saakashvili's promise to return exacerbates risk of political crisis in Georgia

  The announcement by Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian president, to return to the country has sparked controversy among experts over whether or not he should be expected to arrive.

September 30, 2021 08:42

• Rights defenders treat outcomes of "Edinaya Rossiya" at one precinct in Chechnya as fair elections case

  The voting outcomes for "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party at a polling station in the Urus-Martan District, where the party received less than 50 percent of the votes, may illustrate the real voters' opinion in Chechnya, human rights defenders believe, adding that releasing such data was a bold act.

September 30, 2021 08:26

• Ali Bakaev posts video on attack on "Rosgvardiya" servicemen in Chechnya

  Ali Bakaev, a native of Chechnya, whom law enforcers treat as the organizer of the attack on "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) servicemen committed in the village of Naurskaya, has started a YouTube channel and in his first posted video announced a series of video materials, in which he would present his version of events in order to prevent his extradition from Ukraine to Russia.

September 29, 2021 23:39

• Rauf Arashukov goes on hunger strike in SIZO

  Rauf Arashukov, a former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, went on a hunger strike in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) with the demand to let him call his relatives and be visited by them, his advocate reported.

September 29, 2021 23:17

• A woman from Novoshakhtinsk sentenced to four years of imprisonment for torturing her daughter

  A court sentenced to imprisonment in a high-security penal colony a mother of a seven-year-old girl from Novoshakhtinsk, who was regularly tied up and beaten. A child’s stepfather was sent for compulsory medical treatment.