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July 24, 2021 11:18

• Law enforcers open 78 criminal cases on election violations in Armenia

  Armenian law enforcers have initiated 78 criminal cases related to violations at the June 20 early parliamentary elections. A total of 83 persons are charged under these criminal cases, the country's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

July 24, 2021 08:37

• Believers in Adygea upset by cancellation of Juma Namazes

  Imams and mosque visitors have reacted with understanding to the cancellation of Friday namazes (prayers) in Adygea; today, all the republic's mosques were closed. Some believers have offered to open mosques for those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus.

July 24, 2021 08:22

• Lawyers assess chances of Dubakov's extradition from Azerbaijan

  Eduard Dubakov, a Russian sentenced by a court in Baku to 10 years in prison, has asked about his chances to lodge an appeal, his advocate said. Russia and Azerbaijan have an extradition agreement, which allows extraditing a convict to his homeland; Dubakov can also ask the President of Azerbaijan for a pardon, lawyers have noted.

July 23, 2021 23:17

• Magomadov refuses protection after a failed attempt on him

  Blogger Said-Khusein Magomadov explains his rejection of the protection offered by the Austrian police by inconveniences at work, but he does not feel safe. Said-Khusein Magomadov called the failed assassination on him a political order of the Chechen authorities.

July 23, 2021 22:58

• Azerbaijani soldier dies in border shootout

  During a shelling attack from the Armenian side on positions in the Kelbadjar district, a warrant officer of the Azerbaijani army was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today. The Armenian Ministry of Defence reported about three wounded soldiers and claimed that the Armenian side was not involved in the death of the Azerbaijani soldier.

July 23, 2021 22:39

• Ingush resident detained unreasonably, his relatives claim

  Relatives of Abbas Khamkhoev, a detained resident of Ingushetia, do not trust the version of the law enforcement bodies, according to which he was allegedly storing an explosive device in a house with his own minor children. After the search at the house and detention of Abbas Khamkhoev, the family members were not aware about his whereabouts for 24 hours and filed a complaint to the police about the kidnapping, an advocate reports.

July 23, 2021 18:03

• ECtHR supports Georgian contraceptive manufacturer

  The “Aiisa” Company won in the Strasbourg Court a case on condoms, the packaging of which angered Orthodox believers. When Georgian courts banned the production of those condoms, they violated the right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.

July 23, 2021 17:50

• Defence challenges Pivovarov’s arrest

  Cooperation with an undesirable organization, in which Andrei Pivovarov is accused, is a crime of moderate gravity, and the evidence of guilt was presented with violations, advocates claim in a complaint about the arrest of a politician who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar.

July 23, 2021 13:39

• Analysts treat gasification problem in KChR as systemic

  For a long time, residents of many dwelling settlements of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have failed to draw authorities' attention to the absence of gas supplies to their houses, while the active reaction of Rashid Temrezov to the complaint of a female resident of Ust-Djeguta to the president has to do with the upcoming election of the head of the region, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 23, 2021 13:16

• Law enforcers' interest in Navalny's supporter in Stavropol worries activists

  Law enforcer have interrogated Tatiana Glinberg, the former coordinator of Navalny's office* in Stavropol, and then released her. Her persecution fits into the trend of systematic expelling of Navalny's supporters from Russia, the local activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 23, 2021 11:49

• Dagestan: vaccination campaign methods give rise to criticism of authorities

  The compulsory vaccination introduced in Dagestan for workers in some spheres will have a bad effect on the vaccination campaign as a whole, says Ziyautdin Uvaisov, the head of the human rights organization "Patient's Monitor". "This initiative is discrediting the very vaccination procedure," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 23, 2021 11:33

• Number of those arrested for attacking journalists in Tbilisi reaches 27

  The Tbilisi City Court has arrested two more suspects of attacking journalists. Media professionals held another protest action at the Georgian Parliament demanding to punish the organizers and participants of the violence.

July 23, 2021 08:32

• Peacemakers help return Karabakh shepherd from Azerbaijan

  A resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, who got lost and ended up in the area controlled by Azerbaijan, has been returned from captivity through the intervention of Russian peacemakers, Gegam Stepanyan, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on July 22.

July 23, 2021 08:20

• Thirteen Armenian citizens convicted in Baku on sabotage case

  A Baku court has found 13 persons captured in the vicinity of Gadrut guilty of crossing the border and illegal arms trafficking; the charge of terrorism was dropped. Each of them was sentenced to six years in prison.

July 22, 2021 22:04

• Advocates of Ingush protest leaders argue with judge about status of witnesses

  A court refused to grant Ingush activists the status of witnesses in a case on seven leaders of protests against the border agreement with Chechnya. The court’s refusal can result in the exclusion of the testimony from the case, the defence declares.

July 22, 2021 21:49

• Eight persons detained in Stavropol Territory in case on extremism

  In the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers detained eight suspected members of the extremist organization “At-Takfir wal-Hijra”*, banned in Russia.

July 22, 2021 21:35

• Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh receive houses in Armenia under charity programme

  Three families of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have been granted houses in the Lori Region from the “Children of Armenia” charity foundation, and other ten families are expecting to be settled in August.

July 22, 2021 20:32

• Dubakov sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for taking part in Karabakh war

  In Baku, a court has recognized Russian citizen Eduard Dubakov as a participant in the battles against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

July 22, 2021 20:20

• Two Azerbaijani construction workers injured in a mine explosion in Karabakh

  Takhir Makhmudov and Yasin Mekhraliev, workers of a construction company, were injured in a mine explosion during reconstruction works in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reported.

July 22, 2021 14:35

• Dagestani activists treat ban to film law enforcers as unjustified

  Djambulat Gasanov, a human rights defender, has challenged in court a policeman's ban on video filming a picket in Makhachkala. Law enforcers are unreasonably demanding not to film them for fear of video recording of violations, local activists have suggested.