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September 11, 2021 12:20

• Commander of Russian peacemakers assess his work in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Rustam Muradov, a former commander of the Russian peacemaking mission in Nagorno-Karabakh, has presented his successor to the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). Civilians have returned to Karabakh; life in the region "is in full swing," Muradov has stated.

September 10, 2021 23:58

• Victim expresses his indignation about closure of case against policeman in Chegem

  An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria got off with a fine for fabricating a criminal case against a relative. The court’s decision allows the law enforcer to continue working in the law enforcement agencies, a representative of the victim notes.

September 10, 2021 23:55

• Film by Nalchik director shown at Venice Film Festival

  The premiere of the film “Mama, I’m Home” by Nalchik director Vladimir Bitokov took place in the contest programme of the Venice Film Festival.

September 10, 2021 23:52

• Azerbaijani diplomat Gasanov denies charges in court

  All projects were coordinated at the highest official level, former Azerbaijani ambassador Eldar Gasanov told the court in connection with accusations of misappropriation of funds. At the court hearing, he felt bad, and the judge postponed the hearing.

September 10, 2021 22:45

• Names of suspects killed during CTO in Dagestan reported

  Suspects killed in a special operation in the Buinaksk District of Dagestan were identified as Urudj Ramazanov and Airuz Abdulaev, sources reported.

September 10, 2021 16:54

• Talgi villagers tell about situation in CTO venue

  Two militants were killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) by law enforcers in a forest near the village of Talgi. In the village, school classes were cancelled; there is an accumulation of military equipment; and the entrance to and the exit from the village were blocked, local residents have informed.

September 10, 2021 16:51

• CTO in Buynaksk District was second in Dagestan in 2021

  The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime introduce in the Buynaksk District, in which law enforcers killed two militants near the village of Talgi, was the second one in Dagestan since the start of the year.

September 10, 2021 16:41

• Two militants killed in CTO in Dagestan

  During a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District, law enforcers killed two militants. Weapons, ammunition and an improvised bomb were found at the shootout venue, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has informed.

September 10, 2021 11:59

• Boxer woman reproaches Dagestan fighter Nurmagomedov with sexism after his words about ring girls

  It's high time for the Dagestani fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, to reconsider his outdated views, a Russian female athlete, Angelina Semyonova, said after his words about the uselessness of ring girls at MMA (mixed martial arts) tournaments.

September 10, 2021 11:56

• Ingush woman suspected of being trained in terrorist camp

  In a camp for recruits of the "Islamic State" (IS)* in Syria, a woman from Ingushetia, earlier suspected of links with militants, received training in mine explosives, investigators assert.

September 10, 2021 01:24

• Defence treats law enforcers' testimonies in Gadjiev's case as unconvincing

  At the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, law enforcers acted as witnesses; however, they did not see any actions imputed to Gadjiev and failed to present any proofs of money transfer to terrorists, the Gadjiev's defence asserts.

September 10, 2021 01:08

• Iritov challenges verdict for brawl with law enforcers

  The defence of Aslan Iritov has appealed against the decision of the Nalchik City Court, which has found Iritov, an activist with amputated wrists guilty of using violence against a policeman.

September 09, 2021 22:55

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Salaev placed in a punishment cell

  Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is serving his sentence for insulting a policeman, refused to sign a motion for pardon and was placed in a punishment cell, a prisoner’s son reports.

September 09, 2021 22:42

• Karabakh refugees dissatisfied with official meeting in Yerevan

  Today, a representative of the Armenian government has not announced any ways of solving the housing problems of forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh, claim participants of a protest action held in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers.

September 09, 2021 18:21

• Khalitov and Mamakaev report release of their relatives in Chechnya

  Blogger Khasan Khalitov, who lives in Turkey, and Ilman Mamakaev, a resident of Belgium, report about the release of their relatives, detained in Chechnya after an incident in Istanbul when a law enforcer had been beaten there.

September 09, 2021 18:06

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, activists announce an action to help disabled children

  The “Circassian Renaissance” charitable organization has announced a fundraising campaign for the purchase of wheelchairs for disabled children in Kabardino-Balkaria.

September 09, 2021 17:52

• France allocates over 500,000 euros to Azerbaijan to search for missing people

  France has allocated more than half a million euros to Azerbaijan in search of nearly 4000 citizens who disappeared during the first Karabakh war, the French Embassy in Baku reports.

September 09, 2021 16:39

• Turkish-Azerbaijani exercises show vulnerability of Lachin Corridor to Armenia

  The Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercises conducted in Karabakh are mastering various scenarios for the situation development in the region, including the closure of the Lachin Corridor, Mger Akopyan, a military expert, and Andrias Gukasyan, a political analyst, believe.

September 09, 2021 16:07

• Krasnodar: journalists against law on foreign agents

  Valeria Dulskaya and Anastasia Scheglova, Krasnodar journalists, have held solo pickets as part of the all-Russian action in support of their colleagues stigmatized as foreign agents.

September 09, 2021 10:21

• Armenian rights defenders claim abuse of POWs in Azerbaijan

  At a press conference held in Yerevan on September 8, human rights defenders presented a report in which they accused Azerbaijan of inhuman treatment of Armenian prisoners of war during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. They have noted that the report is entirely based on evidence, the reliability of which had been confirmed.