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August 05, 2021 14:02

• Alizamin Salaev goes on hunger strike in Azerbaijani colony

  Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has announced a hunger strike in the colony, demanding to provide him with medical care. Salaev's health has worsened, his son has informed.

August 05, 2021 13:40

• Seven countries urge Russia to refuse recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Seven Western countries have signed a joint statement calling on Russia to recall its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and to immediately withdraw its troops from there.

August 05, 2021 13:25

• Parents demand to complete building school in Karabulak

  Residents of the town of Karabulak in Ingushetia went out to a rally near the building of the unfinished school, which officials have promised to open for three and a half years. In protest, parents decided not to send their children to other schools on September 1, Zarema Akhilgova, the head of the parent committee, has stated.

August 05, 2021 11:03

• Bookmakers' ads jeopardize reputation of "Akhmat" FC among Muslims

  Under the terms of the sponsor's agreement, the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) is now advertised by the "PariMatch" betting company, the logo of which is on the players' T-shirts. The cooperation with bookmakers will not improve the club's image among Muslims, since gambling is prohibited by Islam, experts have noted.

August 05, 2021 08:39

• Azerbaijani feminists blame authorities for death of domestic violence victim

  A group of feminists has held a rally in front of a police building in Baku aiming to draw attention to the death of Sevindj Magerramova, a resident of the settlement of Zira, who had complained of beating by her husband. The protesters poured paint on the building and were detained for half an hour.

August 05, 2021 08:20

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of its positions on Armenian border

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Kelbadjar District have been shelled from Armenia, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 04, 2021 23:47

• Alizamin Salaev complains about lack of medical care in penal colony

  Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has complained about the lack of medical assistance in a penal colony where he is serving his sentence. The activist suffers from heart disease and needs hospitalization, his son reports.

August 04, 2021 23:14

• ICRF to investigate non-admission of a child with autism to water park in Volzhsky

  Investigators have launched a check after employees of a water park in the city of Volzhsky refused to let a family with a disabled child in. The administration of the water park explained the ban by taking care of other children on vacation, but is ready to compensate for moral damage to the family.

August 04, 2021 19:10

• Chechen law enforcer detained in Dagestan, sources report

  A commander of a police squadron, a relative of the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, was detained near Khasavyurt with a pistol, sources have reported.

August 04, 2021 18:52

• Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of using an UAV at border

  The Armenian armed forces have suppressed an attempt by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over the territory of the Gegarkunik Region, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

August 04, 2021 18:37

• Crypts of “City of the Dead” in Dargavs to be closed due to wide public outcry about a video

  The “City of the Dead” complex has got enhanced security, and it has been decided to block openings into all the crypts, Batraz Tsogoev, the director of the National Museum of North Ossetia, reports.

August 04, 2021 15:28

• ECtHR communicates complaint of law enforcers fired after rally in Magas

  In their complaint submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the former inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (PPS) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), claimed the political pretext of their firing.

August 04, 2021 15:09

• After brawl in Saratov, Public Chamber members stand up for Chechen youngsters

  The criminal prosecution of five young guys from Chechnya for a brawl with law enforcers in Saratov needs to be checked by the Prosecutor's Office, Mansur Soltaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, has stated. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), four policemen who tried to stop the brawl were beaten up. In its turn, the defence insists that the policemen were drunk and attacked the young guys themselves, the defence claims.

August 04, 2021 14:56

• Court finds law enforcer's actions against Diana Dibirova to be illegal

  On August 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan upheld the decision of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, which found the actions of the policeman, who had declared a warning to the student, Diana Dibirova, for a solo picket she never held.

August 04, 2021 11:26

• Council of Teips members claim in court about provocations at rally in Magas

  At the session of the court that considers the so-called "Ingush case", members of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) have testified that at the rally held in Magas in March 2019, young people were provoked to use violence, while the defendants tried to calm them down.

August 04, 2021 11:07

• Journalists demand to lift restrictions on their work in Armenian Parliament

  More than ten Armenian journalistic and human rights organizations have criticized the restrictions introduced on the journalists accredited at the Parliament. In a joint statement, they demanded to cancel the novelties that hinder their work in the parliament building.

August 04, 2021 08:48

• Azerbaijani MP Salimov arrested for three months

  A Baku court has arrested Eldaniz Salimov, an MP, who was deprived of his parliamentary immunity, under a case of abuse of office.

August 04, 2021 08:32

• Kuban hoteliers suffer losses due to demand of tourist vaccination

  When accommodating into a hotel in the Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory, called like that by the name of the main river, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), tourists must present vaccination certificates or a promise to get the first vaccination within three days. The accommodation demands have reduced, as these demands scare tourists away, tourism professionals report.

August 03, 2021 22:20

• Fellow villagers report about release of disappeared native of Chechnya

  Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the Chechen village of Sernovodskoye, who disappeared in June on his way from the Magas airport after his return from Greece, is at home, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

August 03, 2021 21:13

• Astrakhan family complains about non-admission of an autistic child to water park in Volzhsky

  In the city of Volzhsky, employees of the water park unreasonably refused to let in a family with a disabled child who had come to rest from Astrakhan, the boy’s parents complained. The Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the incident.