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April 20, 2021 23:53

• Film "Goryanki" by Kabardino-Balkarian director awarded at Australian Film Festival

  The jury of the Doc.Sydney Australian International Documentary Film Festival found the film “Goryanki” (Mountain Women) by Maryam Makhieva, a film director from Kabardino-Balkaria, as the best full-length film.

April 20, 2021 22:54

• Scientists point to historical prerequisites for treating Cossacks as a people

  The directory of the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal State Statistics Service), prepared for the All-Russian Population Census, lists over ten nationalities containing the word "Cossack". The demands of the Cossacks living in Southern Russia to recognize them as a people are historically justified; however, they sound amid the erosion of Cossacks' national identity, scientists have pointed out.

April 20, 2021 22:50

• Refusal of Russian PACE delegates to discuss POWs' return angers residents of Armenia

  Some Russian delegates voted against discussing the issue of returning Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from Azerbaijan, the rest of them have abstained. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) must react to this decision, residents of Armenia have noted.

April 20, 2021 13:39

• "Georgian Dream" and opposition reach consent on elections and release of political prisoners

  On April 19, the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party and opposition parties signed an agreement to hold parliamentary elections and release political prisoners. The deal gives oppositionists a chance to enter the parliament while maintaining their reputation, analysts believe.

April 20, 2021 12:39

• "JAMnews" tells about problems of Shurnukh villagers near Azerbaijani border

  After the village of Shurnukh in the Syunik Region of Armenia occurred on the border with Azerbaijan, posts of Azerbaijani militaries are deployed near residential buildings; and the villagers are afraid to be under fire in the event of a new aggravation, the "JAMnews" writes.

April 20, 2021 12:37

• Armenian Ombudsperson accuses Azerbaijan of hiding POWs number

  Azerbaijani authorities are deliberately protracting the release of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs), and wouldn't disclose the real number thereof, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated. The Armenian delegation managed to achieve the inclusion of the POWs' issue into the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) agenda, Armenian MPs have informed.

April 20, 2021 11:59

• Sotk mine drivers in Armenia go on strike

  Employees of the Sotk mine have blocked roads, demanding a fixed salary and paying off the debts. In its turn, the "GeoProMining Gold" Company treats the complaints as unjustified and threatened to send the entire collective to unpaid leave.

April 20, 2021 11:39

• Deputy coordinator of Dagestani Navalny's office challenges his arrest

  In his appeal complaint, Murad Manapov, the deputy coordinator of Alexei Navalny's office in Dagestan, treats his detention and arrest as unlawful. The Makhachkala court failed to account for the activist's arguments, his advocate ha stated.

April 19, 2021 23:58

• “Voice of Beslan” activists go on hunger strike in support of Navalny

  Ella Kesaeva, the co-chair of the “Voice of Beslan” public committee, and four other activists of the movement began a hunger strike in solidarity with oppositionist Alexei Navalny.

April 19, 2021 23:56

• Instagram users criticize Chechen law enforcers for double standards

  In Grozny, law enforcers oblige drivers to remove the tint film from their cars, but use similar tinting themselves, Instagram users point out.

April 19, 2021 23:54

• Islamic experts discuss ban on cryptocurrencies imposed by Ingush Council of Alims

  The Ingush Council of Alims (Islam experts) has banned the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies by Muslims due to the lack of legislative guarantees for owners, explains Magomed Khashtyrov, the Deputy Mufti of Ingushetia.

April 19, 2021 23:52

• Law on Ossetian surnames becomes part of campaign to protect native languages

  North Ossetia has adopted the law, allowing children to be given surnames based on Ossetian cultural traditions. The law meets the needs of local residents and contributes to the preservation of their language and national identity, scientists note.

April 19, 2021 16:15

• Week of April 12-18 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of April 12-18, 2021, during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

April 19, 2021 16:06

• Rights defenders complain to German court about persecution of gays in Chechnya

  The European Centre for Constitutional Rights and the Russian LGBT Network have sent a complaint to a German court against Chechen law enforcers and officials in connection with the persecution of people with non-traditional sexual orientation in Chechnya, The Guardian has reported.

April 19, 2021 16:00

• Children of North-Caucasian natives returned from Syria

  44 children have been brought from the Middle East to Russia; after examination they will be handed over to their relatives in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Stavropol Territory, the children's ombudsperson has informed.

April 19, 2021 14:05

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 12-18, 2021

  Beginning of Ramadan; attacks with hostage-taking in Tbilisi and Vladikavkaz; opening of a war trophy park in Baku; transfer of Magomed Gadaev, deported from France, to Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 12-18, 2021, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

April 19, 2021 11:31

• Social media users sceptical about promises to pay compensations to Irganai resettlers

  More than 1150 families, whose houses fell into the flooded zone of the Irganai reservoir, failed to receive compensation for their houses; and more than 2000 families received no compensations for their lost gardens, the Dagestani authorities have stated, promising to solve these problems.

April 19, 2021 11:25

• Azerbaijan counts over 400 destroyed monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh

  More than 400 out of approximately 3000 cultural monuments located in the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh that passed under Azerbaijan's control, have been destroyed; and many historical artefacts have been taken to Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

April 19, 2021 11:22

• Victory of Kadyrov's son in boxing ring bewilders network users

  The son of the head of Chechnya has defeated his opponent in a boxing fight by technical knockout. Social network users find the victory strange and accompany the video thereof by ironic comments.

April 18, 2021 11:34

• Georgian political analysts dispute about link of OSCE's statement on Russia with Biden's sanctions

  Twelve OSCE countries have demanded from Russia to fulfil the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which has found Russia involved in human rights violations committed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. However, despite its interest in fulfilling the ECtHR's decision on the 2008 war, Georgia, will refrain from imposing sanctions against Russia, Georgian political analysts believe.