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June 25, 2021 12:18

• Rights defenders criticize judicial reform in Georgia

  The assessment criteria that the High Council of Justice has applied in the selection of Supreme Court Judges are incomprehensible and raise questions, while the discussion of candidates was not public, the Coalition of Human Rights NGOs of Georgia has pointed out.

June 25, 2021 12:04

• 345 Azerbaijani citizens remain in Dagestani camp

  On June 24, 115 people departed home from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) deployed in the Kaitag District in the territory of the "Ogonyok" children's camp for those Azerbaijanis who are waiting for the chance to leave for their homeland. The procedure for compiling lists for the departure is unknown, the camp residents have noted.

June 25, 2021 08:32

• LGBT opponents announce protests in Tbilisi

  Since morning on July 5, opponents of the gay parade in Tbilisi intend to take control over Rustaveli Avenue in order to prevent the "March of Dignity" from being held. The organizers of the action have called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to react to violence threats.

June 25, 2021 08:15

• Analysts treat congress in Chechnya as demonstration of Kadyrov's populism

  The events like the World Congress of Chechen Nations are usually held at the expense of the state budget and for the sake of a specific leader, said Ruslan Kutaev, President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations. Ali Bazhaev spoke at the congress on behalf of Chechens of France, but Chechens in Europe know neither him nor the organization he represents, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has pointed out.

June 24, 2021 23:47

• Derbent drug police officers accused of violence and fabrication of a criminal case

  Dagestani law enforcers forced a not-guilty person to confess to selling drugs and demanded a million roubles from him, investigators suggest. A criminal case has been sent to court.

June 24, 2021 23:30

• Dagestanskie Ogni residents complain about interruptions in supply of water and electricity

  In the town of Dagestanskie Ogni, local residents complain about experiencing regular electricity and water supply cuts. In connection with the problems with housing and communal services, a group of activists sent a notification to the authorities about a next protest action.

June 24, 2021 19:09

• “Akhmat” FC sues Google

  Today, the administration of the Grozny’s “Akhmat” football club (FC) has announced that it has filed a complaint against Google to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and to the United Nations for blocking the “Akhmat” FC YouTube channel due to US sanctions.

June 24, 2021 18:45

• Rights defenders consider court’s decision in case on torture of Debishev to be a trick

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has cancelled the decision of a lower instance court that upheld the investigators’ refusal to institute a criminal case on a complaint about torture filed by Grozny theatre actor Timur Debishev. The transfer of the case for reconsideration does not allow appealing to a court of cassation outside the republic and to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), notes a lawyer of the “Committee against Torture” (CaT).

June 24, 2021 18:32

• PACE reports unresolved problems with political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan’s authorities did not recognize the problem with political prisoners, described in the PACE resolution in January 2020, and the problem remains unresolved, the PACE declares in its new report.

June 24, 2021 16:39

• Dagestani residents oppose ban on mass worshiping

  Dagestani believers have expressed the opinion that the ban introduced in the region on worshiping with the presence of people is unjustified, since most of the residents have had coronavirus, while another part has been vaccinated.

June 24, 2021 16:19

• Zaza Gakheladze's relatives hold protest action in Ergneti village

  On June 23, in the village of Ergneti, oppositionists, activists and relatives of Zaza Gakheladze, who was convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, held a protest action demanding from Georgian authorities to take efficient actions to release him.

June 24, 2021 11:33

• Analysts treat Yerevan's influence on Azerbaijani border as minimal

  The Armenian party discussed the deployment of Russian peacemakers on the border with Azerbaijan even before the parliamentary elections in Armenia, but the main negotiations on this issue are underway between Moscow and Baku, analysts in Yerevan believe.

June 24, 2021 11:16

• Bobokvati residents announce endless protest action

  In the village of Bobokvati, protesters set up a tent and organized round-the-clock on duty post in the land plot, which authorities plan to sell to investors through an auction. These lands were illegally confiscated from local residents, activists assert.

June 24, 2021 11:04

• Azerbaijani activists treat reasons for criminal prosecution as political

  The conditional prison terms awarded to 12 members of the last group that took part in the rally in support of the army, held in July 2020 in Baku, have to do with the systematic persecution of the opposition, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has stated.

June 24, 2021 08:44

• Political analysts treat Kadyrov's participation in election of head of Chechnya as predictable

  The carte blanche issued by Putin to Kadyrov for taking part in the upcoming September elections has confirmed that Kadyrov's May statement about his readiness not to run for a new term was nothing more than ritual, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

June 24, 2021 08:31

• Three persons fall victim to shootout in Ingushetia

  One man was killed, and two others wounded in an Ingush village in a shootout that followed after a land dispute, said an informed source.

June 23, 2021 21:55

• Putin recommends Kadyrov to participate in election for leader of Chechnya

  Vladimir Putin voiced a proposal to Ramzan Kadyrov to participate in the autumn election in order to continue to lead Chechnya. Earlier, the Ramzan Kadyrov has declared he is not willing to be elected for a new term as the leader of Chechnya if even “a few percent of the population” are against his candidacy.

June 23, 2021 21:40

• Cossacks attack cyclists in centre of Stavropol

  A video posted on a social media site depicted how two cyclists were attacked by Cossacks on a pedestrian street in Stavropol, and one of them tried to throw a bicycle at a teenager.

June 23, 2021 19:12

• Family members of victims of Tu-154 plane crash near Sochi appeal to ECtHR

  A complaint has been filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of 70 relatives of those killed in a plane crash near Sochi. The affected people consider the closure of the criminal case and the refusal to pay compensation unreasonable, a plaintiffs’ lawyer reports today.

June 23, 2021 18:47

• Zaza Gakheladze’s father refuses to visit South Ossetia

  The Patriarchate of Georgia appealed to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a request to help in the release of Zaza Gakheladze and asked the convict’s father not to visit the territory of South Ossetia.