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July 28, 2021 22:58

• Armenian MoD discloses details of battles at Azerbaijani border

  Azerbaijani military units occupied an Armenian military post, but were then driven out of there, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. Military operations will not go beyond the positional warfare, expert Robert Nazaryan and political analyst Armen Vardanyan suggest.

July 28, 2021 21:42

• Two Chechen residents sentenced for transferring money for travelling to Syria

  A court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Anvar Bolotkhanov to 5.5 years of imprisonment for transferring money to his friend for travelling to Syria. Kamil Eldarov, who provided his bank card for making the money transfer, was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. Both residents of Chechnya pleaded guilty.

July 28, 2021 11:58

• Dagestani court sentences fugitives from colony

  Six prisoners who escaped from the colony in Shamkhal have been sentenced to two years in prison each, which has been added to their basic terms. Three of their accomplices received conditional prison terms.

July 28, 2021 11:28

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of wounding two soldiers

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Kelbadjar District were shelled from the Armenian side. As a result, the militaries, Aliev Sadig Nizami oglu and Imranly Imran Dilgam oglu, suffered; their lives are out of danger, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

July 28, 2021 09:16

• Azerbaijan blames Armenia for shelling its positions

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the border Kelbadjar District were shelled by the Armenian Armed Forces; there are no losses, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

July 28, 2021 09:11

• Analysts treat convicted Cheldiev's supporters as victims of crowd effect

  The participants in the Vladikavkaz protest action against self-isolation held in April 2020, sentenced to real prison terms, were not known to the public, observers said. In their opinion, the convicts were only like-minded people with Vadim Cheldiev, whom investigators regard as the organizer of the rally.

July 28, 2021 00:00

• Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov tops Russian Forbes star rating

  The Dagestan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, has overtaken other Russian celebrities in terms of references in media and the number of subscribers in social networks, the Forbes has calculated.

July 27, 2021 23:41

• Film by Nalchik director included in programme of Venice Film Festival

  The film by Nalchik director Vladimir Bitokov “Mama, I’m home” was included in the new programme “Horizons Extra” of the Venice Film Festival. The film producer considered the interest of the international film festival organizers to the film a great success.

July 27, 2021 23:27

• Azerbaijani Prosecutor’s Office reports 30 deaths from mine explosions after autumn war

  During a search work in Azerbaijan, a demining specialist was blown up by a mine and was injured. In total, after the autumn war of 2020, 30 people were killed and 125 others were wounded in mine explosions in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reported.

July 27, 2021 23:00

• Five protesters against quarantine in Vladikavkaz sentenced to imprisonment

  In Rostov-on-Don, a court sentenced five participants of a protest action against self-isolation, which took place in Vladikavkaz in April 2020. Aslan Gasiev and Zaza Tsaritov were sentenced to five years, David Okruashvili and Arthur Bugulov – to five years and three months, and Magomed Kadyrov – to five and a half years of imprisonment.

July 27, 2021 18:33

• UNESCO includes four protected areas of Georgia in World Heritage List

  The tropical forests and swamps of Kolkheti are included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List, together with the Kolkheti National Park and the Mtirala National Park, the protected areas of Kobuleti and Kintrishi.

July 27, 2021 18:25

• Caucasian scholars sceptical about using Chechen patrols to guard town near Moscow

  The decision of the authorities of the town of Troitsk located near Moscow to hire a private security company consisting of natives of Chechnya to protect law and order is unwise and could aggravate the interethnic relations, experts believe.

July 27, 2021 18:12

• Serviceman perishes in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On July 26, Sarkis Grigoryan, a military serviceman, was wounded under unclear circumstances, and later dies, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed on the Facebook.

July 27, 2021 13:24

• Kadyrov sets out to vaccinate everyone in Chechnya against COVID

  Absolutely all the adults in Chechnya must be vaccinated against coronavirus, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated amid the human rights defenders' report about the massive coercion of republic's residents to get vaccinated.

July 27, 2021 13:22

• Resident of Dagestan complains about prophylactic registration

  A resident of Kaspiysk has contacted the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* after learning that he had been put on the so-called "prophylactic registration". He fears that this may negatively affect his work and believes that his rights and freedoms are being violated.

July 27, 2021 11:49

• Dagestan: activist Diana Dibirova achieves victory in her detention case

  The judgement about the unlawfulness of the detention of the student, Diana Dibirova, gives grounds to demand a disciplinary punishment of the law enforcer, Marat Ismailov, an advocate, has noted. Diana is ready to express her civil stand despite calls to the police and threats of expulsion from the arts school.

July 27, 2021 11:45

• Residents of Chechnya complain to rights defenders about coercion to get vaccinated

  In Chechnya, the budget-funded state servants have to get vaccinated under a threat of dismissal, while law enforcer take away cars from unvaccinated drivers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.

July 27, 2021 11:40

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev's colleagues support him with pickets in Makhachkala

  Makhachkala picketers demand to stop persecuting Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, and the practice of arrests without proofs, as well as release political prisoners.

July 26, 2021 23:24

• Fellow villagers support Dagestani native Bashirov after his detention

  In Makhachkala, residents of the Khasavyurt District held an action of solidarity with Makhach Bashirov, detained in a case on the extremist community, and recorded a video, calling him a respectable person.

July 26, 2021 23:22

• Azerbaijani soldiers return lost Karabakh villager

  In search of lost livestock, a resident of the border village of Machkalashen in Nagorno-Karabakh entered the territory controlled by Azerbaijan. The man returned home due to the mediation of Russian peacekeepers. Residents of border villages do not always understand where the demarcation line lies, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh says.