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August 20, 2021 14:43

• Two Georgian citizens leave Kabul

  Two more Georgian citizens have left Afghanistan and flew to Germany to return to their homeland. According to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), overall 14 Georgian citizens are still in Kabul, which was captured by the Taliban.

August 20, 2021 14:28

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of border shelling

  The positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled by Armenia in the Lachin, Kelbadjar and Tovuz Districts, as well as near Shusha, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 20, 2021 14:11

• Verdict to Djumaev sparks criticism in social networks

  The court has passed a too harsh verdict to Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, by sentencing him to five years in prison for attacking law enforcers at a protest action, social media users believe.

August 20, 2021 12:21

• Political analysts assess chances to revive Armenian-Azerbaijani talks within OSCE Minsk Group

  Baku does not exclude the resumption of negotiations with the participation of the officials of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), if ways of achieving peace based on mutual recognition of the two countries' territorial integrity are offered, Azerbaijani political analysts assert. The trilateral ceasefire agreement, which contradicts the principles of conflict settlement of the OSCE Minsk Group, prevents Armenia from activating the negotiation process, Armenian political analysts believe in their turn.

August 20, 2021 11:59

• Nina Tseretilova accuses her ex-husband of beating

  Nina Tseretilova, a resident of Dagestan, has stated that her ex-husband and his parents had beaten her up, when she came to them in Buynaksk to see the children. The woman turned to the police. In his turn, Magomed Tseretilov, her ex-husband, claimed that Nina had attacked his parents.

August 20, 2021 08:51

• Gadjiev and Rizvanov criticize prosecution's proofs

  At the Southern District Military Court, prosecutors have read out 118 pages of analysis of the general financial ties of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, accused of financing terrorism. However, their names are mentioned once or twice in the huge document, Mr Rizvanov has pointed out.

August 20, 2021 08:36

• Rights defenders treat support of Tepsurkaev as way to intensify inquiry

  The public support for Salman Tepsurkaev, a resident of Chechnya, is capable of forcing investigators to take real steps to clarify his fate, human rights defenders said after the appeal of the Amnesty International (AI) to people to send appeals to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

August 19, 2021 23:34

• Said-Mukhammad Djumaev sentenced to five years of imprisonment

  A court found Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of attacking law enforcers and sentenced him to five years of imprisonment.

August 19, 2021 23:18

• Isaev and Magamadov complain about torture

  An advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev managed to get a permission to visit them in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Chechnya. The young men claimed that they were repeatedly beaten and forced to keep silence about that fact. The defence filed a complaint to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

August 19, 2021 19:22

• Azerbaijani Muslims mark Ashura Day amid COVID-19 restrictions

  Today, Ashura, a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, has been marked in Azerbaijan amid restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 19, 2021 19:02

• Dagestani resident detained for manufacturing firearms

  In a back room in a house of a 67-year-old resident of the village of Novy Chirkei in the Kizilyurt District, employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan discovered a workshop for converting civilian firearms into combat ones.

August 19, 2021 15:15

• Rights defenders point to rights violations of persons with disabilities in Makhachkala

  Entrances to state institutions in Makhachkala are not equipped with ramps; this violates the rights of persons with disabilities; and human rights defenders have to seek the installation of ramps in courts, but judges reject about a third part of complaints, activists of the human rights NGO "ZhKKh (Housing and Communal Services) Monitor " assert.

August 19, 2021 15:01

• Three soldiers found dead at combat post in Armenia

  The bodies of three soldiers with gunshot wounds have been found in a combat position located in Southeast of Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

August 19, 2021 14:50

• Rights defenders demand to voice out data on Tepsurkaev's fate

  A year has passed since the kidnapping of Salman Tepsurkaev, a critic of Chechen authorities, but investigators are still unaware of his whereabouts, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated, calling on to release the details of the inquiry into his kidnapping.

August 19, 2021 10:55

• Ingush Ministry of Nature confirms wastewater discharge from aluminium factory

  The aluminium factory located near the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia is discharging its wastewater through a sewer without any purification, inspectors from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (known as "Minprirody") of Ingushetia have confirmed after checking.

August 19, 2021 10:41

• SIZO employees tell advocate about Magamadov's and Isaev's illness

  Again, the advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev was not allowed to visit them at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), as the stuff thereof said that the brothers were sick with coronavirus, the advocate said. The "Russian LGBT Network"* will ask again the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to take urgent measures to protect Magamadov's and Isaev's rights, said the press secretary, Tim Bestsvet.

August 19, 2021 08:39

• Kadyrov's advisor explains his words about "handsome" Taliban fighters by wisdom

  Hanafi Maturidis, to which the Taliban refers, are "handsome guys," said Adam Shakhidov, an adviser on religious affairs to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. He has noted that this is a wise statement that not everyone can understand.

August 19, 2021 08:26

• Armenia calls on Azerbaijan to negotiate within OSCE Minsk Group format

  Yerevan is ready to resume negotiations with the participation of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) officials, and treats these talks as a guarantee of restoring security in Nagorno-Karabakh, Nikol Pashinyan stated on August 18 and confirmed the Armenia's desire to start demarcating the border with Azerbaijan.

August 18, 2021 21:25

• Dagestani residents file a lawsuit to ECtHR about Irganai HPP

  In their complaint filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), residents of Dagestan claim that Russian federal officials acted ineffectively and failed to resolve the issue on compensation for the lands flooded because of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant (HPP).

August 18, 2021 21:04

• Human rights defenders prevent eviction of people from barracks in Nazran

  A court has agreed with the arguments of the lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* that the city administration has no right to file such claims and refused to evict 25 families of forced migrants from barracks in Nazran.