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May 17, 2021 11:20

• Relatives of Chechen Djumaev ask to support him on the eve of trial

  On the eve of the trial of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, scheduled for May 17, his relatives have urged Instagram users to support him and expressed their hope for an early sentencing.

May 16, 2021 11:44

• In Batumi, protestors support detained opponents of Namakhvani HPP

  Six athletes from Adjara are not guilty of clashes with the police during the protests against the construction of the Namakhvani hydroelectric power plant (HPP) and they are being prosecuted for political reasons, protesters in Batumi claim.

May 16, 2021 11:24

• Negotiations on situation in Syunik turn to be unsuccessful

  At a meeting with the participation of the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, delegates of Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to solve the border conflict. The Azerbaijani armed forces stay at the positions they took, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

May 16, 2021 11:07

• Leader of “Georgian Idea” disrupts LGBT action in centre of Tbilisi

  Guram Palavandishvili, the leader of the “Georgian Idea” movement, broke an installation erected by LGBT activists in a Tbilisi park. He is detained, and a criminal case on harassment is instituted.

May 15, 2021 16:15

• Armenian analysts announce conditions for bringing Syunik problem to UN Security Council

  The Armenian authorities will accept the proposal of the French President to submit the conflict in Syunik to the UN Security Council only if the situation gets out of control, but they fear the Russia's reaction, the Armenian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

May 15, 2021 15:49

• Peacemakers escort five columns of Azerbaijani militaries to Nagorno-Karabakh

  Four military columns of Azerbaijani Army accompanied by peacemakers drove along the Lachin Corridor and one - along the Shusha-Kadjar route and back, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

May 15, 2021 15:21

• Sochi Mayoralty explains shadowing pupils in social networks by teachers' initiative

  The class teachers at a Sochi school, with reference to the instruction of the city authorities, have been charged with monitoring the "suspicious" content on the pages in the social networks of their pupils starting from the 7th form, one of the teachers said. Olga Medvedeva, the head of the education and science department of the Sochi Mayoralty, said that no instructions on monitoring pupils' pages had been sent to schools.

May 15, 2021 12:01

• Victims of Georgian law enforcers turn for help to EU and USA

  Those who suffered from law enforcers' actions during the harsh dispersal of the rally in Tbilisi in June 2019, have asked, in their appeals to the Embassies of the European Union (EU) and the United States, not to allow applying amnesty to those responsible for the use of violence on the so-called "Gavrilov's Night".

May 15, 2021 11:43

• Caucasian scholars tell about problems of establishing border in Syunik Region

  The maps created in the USSR fail to unambiguously fix the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Black Lake area in the Syunik Region, the experts on the Caucasus interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

May 15, 2021 11:30

• Armenian political analysts treat CSTO's intervention into conflict with Azerbaijan as unlikely

  The countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will not enter into confrontation with Azerbaijan over Armenia, but one can hope that the Kremlin will persuade Baku to pull back the troops, the Yerevan political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

May 15, 2021 08:40

• Pashinyan asks Putin for military support

  Nikol Pashinyan, the acting head of the Armenian Government (Premier), has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to provide assistance, including military one, in resolving the situation in the Syunik Region on the border with Azerbaijan.

May 15, 2021 08:27

• Rights defenders achieve hospitalization of deported Chechen

  Mansur Ismailov, a native of Chechnya, who was deported from France, has received emergency medical care at a hospital.

May 14, 2021 22:08

• South Ossetia extradites to Georgia a man sentenced for border violation

  Today, a 45-year-old Alan Djaparidze, who was detained at the border on January 10, has been handed over to the Georgian authorities, the KGB of South Ossetia reports. The Tskhinvali District Court found the man guilty of illegally crossing the border and sentenced him to a year of suspended imprisonment, the South-Ossetian KGB reported on its Facebook page.

May 14, 2021 21:52

• Armenia appeals to CSTO to solve conflict at border with Azerbaijan

  An official appeal has been sent to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in connection with the penetration of Azerbaijani soldiers into the territory of Armenia, Tigran Avinyan, acting Deputy Prime Minister, reports today.

May 14, 2021 21:38

• Social media users consider Kadyrov’s address to Khabib a provocation

  By his statements about Khabib Nurmagomedov, Ramzan Kadyrov provoked disputes between Chechens and Dagestanis, and the desire of the leader of Chechnya to stage a demonstration fight is inappropriate during the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Instagram users note.

May 14, 2021 17:24

• Instagram users find it illogical to cancel carnival in Gelendzhik

  While commenting on the ban imposed by the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) on holding a traditional carnival in Gelendzhik, social media users noted that tourists from all over Russia came to the city for festivities and the cancellation of the outdoor event looked unjustified.

May 14, 2021 17:01

• Tbilisi City Mayoralty: WW2 veteran’s request to improve his housing conditions cannot be fulfilled

  Nikolai Chuyanov, a lonely World War II veteran, did not agree to an offer of the Tbilisi City Mayoralty to move to a nursing home, made after the “Caucasian Knot” had posted a video about the veteran’s complaints about his housing conditions. Officials from the Tbilisi City Mayoralty explain the city budget may not purchase the repairs of private housing.

May 14, 2021 14:48

• Baku explains situation on border with Armenia by redeployment of armed forces

  Azerbaijani border guards are changing their deployment in the Lachin and Kelbadjar Districts bordering on Armenia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan announced in response to accusations that Azerbaijani soldiers took up positions in the Syunik Region of Armenia.

May 14, 2021 14:31

• Human rights defenders secure an inspection of an orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda

  After requests from human rights defenders and a letter from the UN profile committee, officials from the Georgian Ministry for Public Health visited an orphan boarding school in the town of Ninotsminda to check information about child abuse.

May 14, 2021 11:41

• Baku military experts dispute about reasons for situation aggravation on Armenian border

  The Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have commented on the situation around the Syunik Region, while their opinions on Baku's intentions were different.