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July 08, 2021 08:20

• Analysts explain CSTO’s refusal to intervene in Baku-Yerevan conflict

  Experts in Baku have regarded the unwillingness of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to intervene in the Armenian-Azerbaijani border conflict as confirmation of Yerevan's wrongness. In their turn, Armenian experts link the CSTO’s statement with Russia's position on this issue.

July 07, 2021 22:36

• Theologian reprimands Chechen women for addressing sorcerers

  According to a report released by the “Grozny” TV Channel, Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, held a conversation with the women detained for visiting sorcerers. Social media users pointed to an excess of stories about the fight against sorcerers on the “Grozny” TV Channel.

July 07, 2021 22:00

• Djumaev’s defence points to mistake of investigation in his case

  Pleadings in court in a case against Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, accused of using violence against law enforcers, have been postponed until August 18. The defence points out that a big mistake has been made in the legal assessment of the young man’s actions at the stage of the preliminary investigation in the case against Said-Mukhammad Djumaev.

July 07, 2021 21:45

• Court refuses to commute sentence to Azerbaijani human rights defender Mamed

  The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan did not grant the cassation appeal against the verdict to journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, and the defence decided to seek his conditional early relief.

July 07, 2021 19:08

• Police report over 100 detainees in Tbilisi

  68 people detained for administrative offenses have been released, and two persons have been detained in criminal cases, the Georgian police reports today.

July 07, 2021 18:55

• Report on border with Chechnya disrupted in Nazran by a bomb threat call

  The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) postponed the discussion of the report of the commission on the determination of the border with Chechnya after the visit of law enforcers, who were checking information about house mining. An author of the bomb report was planning to disrupt the meeting of the Ingush Council of Teips, Instagram users suggested.

July 07, 2021 15:04

• Terms for giving out POWs from Azerbaijan spark criticism in Armenia

  Azerbaijan is unlawfully claiming Nagorno-Karabakh minefield maps in exchange for Armenian prisoners of war (POWs), Yerevan online debaters believe.

July 07, 2021 14:37

• Number of wounded Armenian soldiers on Azerbaijani border grows to two

  On July 6, two Armenian soldiers were wounded in a shootout with their Azerbaijani counterparts, Armen Grigoryan, the head of the Armenian Security Council, has informed.

July 07, 2021 14:24

• 23 persons found victims at action against "Tbilisi Pride"

  Within the case of confrontation on July 5, during the action against the “Tbilisi Pride”, a total of 23 persons have been recognized as victims, including 17 media professionals. NGOs have blamed Georgian authorities for the incident.

July 07, 2021 11:41

• Soldier’s remains found in Fizuli District

  In the Fizuli District, Karabakh rescuers have found remains of a military serviceman. Thus, the total number of bodies and remains found in the battle zone has reached 1596, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

July 07, 2021 11:17

• Georgian politicians are negative to police’s actions during Tbilisi riots

  Law enforcers knew in advance the potential places of unrests during the LGBT action held in Tbilisi on July 5, but they wouldn’t prevent them. Georgian authorities used radicals to deal with their opponents; and the attacks themselves were organized to disrupt Euro-Atlantic integration, the Georgian politicians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 07, 2021 09:10

• Azerbaijani serviceman wounded in Agdam District

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the shelling delivered by Armenian units in the responsibility zone of the Russian peacemakers in Nagorno-Karabakh. A soldier of the Azerbaijani Army was wounded.

July 07, 2021 08:59

• In central Tbilisi, actions turn into clashes

  On July 6, actions were held in central Tbilisi in support of victims of the July 5 unrests, and of LGBT opponents. A police cordon was set up between them, but radicals attacked the participants in a silent rally in support of the suffered journalists. Several people were injured.

July 07, 2021 08:50

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay over 40,000 euros to Grozny resident

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensation to a resident of Grozny, Rizvan Abdulkhanov, who became disabled due to the wounds received during law enforcers’ special operation.

July 06, 2021 23:07

• Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of a shelling attack at border

  An Armenian soldier and two Azerbaijani soldiers were wounded as a result of a shootout at the border in the Gegarkunik District, the spokesperson for the Armenian General Headquarters reported. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan denied the information about the incident.

July 06, 2021 22:50

• Kadyrov nominated as a candidate for leader of Chechnya

  Ramzan Kadyrov submitted documents to participate in the September election for the leader of Chechnya, the Chechen Election Commission reports.

July 06, 2021 22:32

• ECtHR awards compensation to mother of a Kabardino-Balkarian resident killed by law enforcers

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced a decision that the Russian authorities ineffectively investigated the killing of Aslan Yemkuzhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, by law enforcers and the version that he was tortured before his death. The Strasbourg Court obliged the Russian authorities to pay 70,000 euros of compensation to a mother of the killed resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.

July 06, 2021 19:43

• Azerbaijani citizen dies after being wounded at Iranian border

  A shootout took place at the border with Iran, when five violators tried to enter the territory of Azerbaijan. One of them, a citizen of Azerbaijan, was wounded and died on the way to hospital, while four others fled back to Iran.

July 06, 2021 19:29

• In Azerbaijan, two Armenian citizens accused in case on espionage

  Azerbaijani investigators accused Armenian citizens Gevorg Sudjyan and David Davtyan of espionage, and the criminal case was transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

July 06, 2021 19:17

• Chechen native sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment in case of an attack on police

  In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Makharbi Tosuev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of an armed riot, acts of banditry, an attempt on policemen, and a murder, and increased his term of imprisonment to 25 years.