News

June 18, 2021 23:33

• “Project” re-edits investigation about Kadyrov after claim of “Grozny” TV Channel

  Authors of the investigation into the secret real estate of Ramzan Kadyrov’s associates removed from the video footage of the Chechen “Grozny” TV Channel, which claimed intellectual property rights.

June 18, 2021 23:16

• Influx of tourists from Turkey supports tourism sector in Adjara

  With the resumption of overland communication with Turkey, Batumi opened casinos, which suffered significant losses during the quarantine. The border is also open for Adjarian entrepreneurs, but some of them went bankrupt before the quarantine measures were mitigated.

June 18, 2021 23:01

• Georgia’s Ombudsperson demands safety for gay pride parade participants

  It is not a solution to report threats to participants of a gay pride parade every year, and the police must ensure the possibility of holding the march, says Georgia’s Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya. LGBT activists should be refused in holding the “March of Dignity”, notes Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the “Georgian Dream” Party.

June 18, 2021 22:55

• Kadyrov’s threats encourage compulsory vaccination in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, the vaccination process is haphazard, and among others, people with chronic diseases also get vaccines, which can lead to health problems, a doctor says. Schoolchildren and employees of public institutions are being persuaded to get vaccinated under the threat of being denied access to studies and working places, local residents complain.

June 18, 2021 22:17

• Azerbaijani GPO declares search of three businessmen-Armenian natives

  Three Russian businessmen of Armenian origin have been accused of illegal supply of weapons for conducting hostilities against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has announced.

June 18, 2021 22:06

• Opposition accuses Pashinyan of using administrative resources in election campaign

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, has gathered a many-thousand-strong rally of his supporters by putting pressure on budget-funded state servants, oppositional parties have claimed. In general, the parliamentary election campaign is passing calmly; there are no prerequisites for any serious confrontation in the country, political analysts believe.

June 18, 2021 14:09

• Remains of three soldiers found in Martuni District

  In the territory of the Martuni District that is now under Azerbaijan's control, Karabakh rescuers found remains of three soldiers, bringing the total number of bodies and remains of Armenian militaries found in the Karabakh conflict zone to 1579, the Nagorno-Karabakh Emergency Service has reported.

June 18, 2021 14:06

• PFPA activist sentenced to 4 years of conditional imprisonment

  The court has sentenced Ruslan Amirov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was accused of violating the public order and causing harm to the health of a state official, to four years of conditional imprisonment with a three-year probationary period. Amirov has treated the verdict as politically motivated.

June 18, 2021 11:41

• Video of scuffle in Makhachkala shelter posted

  Law enforcers used force to enter the shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala, where Khalimat Taramova was hiding; it follows from the video posted on the Telegram.

June 17, 2021 23:59

• Human rights defenders demand to punish law enforcers after entering shelter for Taramova

  Law enforcers broke into an apartment shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala in civilian clothes, without presenting any warrants, the human rights group “Marem” claims.

June 17, 2021 23:57

• Erdoğan associates creation of a military base in Azerbaijan with position of Russia

  The condition for the appearance of a Turkish army base in Azerbaijan is the consultations of Ilham Aliev with Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan notes.

June 17, 2021 23:55

• Georgian citizen released from imprisonment in South Ossetia

  Lasha Khereteli was handed over to the Georgian side after serving a year in a Tskhinvali prison in a border violation case.

June 17, 2021 23:53

• Director of orphanage in Ninotsminda agrees with Ombudsperson to monitor institution

  The administration of an orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda will monitor the situation in the institution next week together with Georgia’s Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe, the director of the orphan boarding school, announces.

June 17, 2021 20:54

• Investigating Committee of Armenia reports number of soldiers missing in Karabakh

  In total, during the autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, 275 people are listed as missing from the Armenian side, the Investigating Committee of Armenia reports.

June 17, 2021 20:52

• Kadyrov threatens to impose severe coronavirus restrictions in Chechnya

  Chechen authorities will have to impose severe restrictions related to coronavirus in case the republic shows low vaccination rates, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

June 17, 2021 20:50

• Resident of Agdam blown up by a mine

  The body of Djasarat Khatemkhanov, who went missing on June 7, was found on June 16 in the Agdam District. He died after triggering an anti-personnel mine.

June 17, 2021 13:46

• Exchange of POWs for minefield maps gives arguments to Pashinyan's critics

  The exchange of 15 prisoners of war (POWs) for minefield maps has hardly brought Nikol Pashinyan any political benefits ahead of the elections, as it has weakened Armenia's negotiating positions, analysts in Yerevan believe. The minefield maps of the territories now under the control of Baku are no longer needed by Armenia, but the safety of local residents depends on them, said Telman Abilov, an Azerbaijani expert.

June 17, 2021 13:43

• Director of Ninotsminda boarding school announces reform plan

  The boarding school for orphans named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda will be transformed into three small boarding facilities, which will keep children who do not want to leave the institution, said the manager of the boarding school, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe. Authorities refuse to take decisive measures in relation to the boarding house, as wouldn't like to spoil relations with the church, which during election campaigns supports the ruling party, analysts believe.

June 17, 2021 13:42

• New manager of Ninotsminda boarding school announces staff cleansing

  Of the 40 educators, 19 will go on working at the boarding school, Bishop Yakov, the new head of the boarding school for orphans in Ninotsminda, has explained. He is ready to meet the Ombudsperson, but refused to let inspectors into the boarding school, explaining this by the children's potential psychological trauma.

June 17, 2021 13:40

• Instagram users dispute about forcing teens to apologize to Kadyrov

  A head of the region should pay no attention to adolescents' offensive posts that appear in social networks, the readers of the Chechen Instagram have pointed out in connection with another public apology to Ramzan Kadyrov. Their opponents, including the plenipotentiary of the head of Chechnya, have called for punishing Kadyrov's offenders with community works.