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April 08, 2021 13:11

• Friends tell about basketball player who perished in Karabakh war

  The remains of Aram Mkrtchyan, a basketball player of the Armenian national team, who perished in the Karabakh war in the fall of 2020, have been buried in Stepanakert. He had volunteered for the war and perished presumably in the vicinity of Varanda, his friends have reported.

April 08, 2021 13:06

• Rights defenders assess prospects of inquiry into Kadyrov's threats

  The appointed reconsideration of the claim put forward by human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov does not guarantee that his statements will be really examined. This was stated by Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Dmitry Makarov, a co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

April 08, 2021 04:45

• Human rights defenders achieve reconsideration of complaint about threats against Kadyrov's critics

  The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has ruled to reconsider the claim of human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov.

April 08, 2021 04:41

• "Project" discloses data on secret real estate of Kadyrov's retinue

  Fatima Khazueva, the finalist of the beauty contest, who enjoys Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, owns a luxurious mansion in Grozny; she, along with Ramzan's wife, possesses apartments in elite residential complexes in Moscow. This is stated in the investigation of the edition named "Project".

April 08, 2021 04:37

• "Meydan.TV": Azeri victims of shelling complain about meagre compensations

  Residents of Azerbaijani villages and towns, who came under fire during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, have declared that authorities had violated their promises of paying compensations for destroyed houses.

April 08, 2021 04:32

• Residents of Ingushetia tell about law enforcers' checks

  In the evening on April 6, law enforcers completed their special actions in the Sunzha District; the mobile Internet disconnected for the time being was restored only on Wednesday morning, local residents have informed. According to unofficial information, the checks had to do with the case initiated after the rally in Magas.

April 08, 2021 04:27

• Filmmakers about Ingush protests outraged by ban to screen it at festival

  The documentary "Doazuv" (Border) Maryana Kalmykova has been removed from screening at the "Artdocfest" festival because of the position of the Russian Ministry of Culture, which saw incitement of interethnic hatred in the film. It tells about protests of the residents of Ingushetia against the border agreement with Chechnya.

April 07, 2021 23:57

• HRC “Memorial”* recognizes Salman Tepsurkaev as a political prisoner

  Salman Tepsurkaev, a moderator of the opposition 1Adat Telegram Channel, fell victim to a campaign to persecute dissidents in Chechnya and he is a political prisoner, announces the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

April 07, 2021 23:54

• Participants of Chechen wedding procession apologize to GIBDD for dangerous driving

  The Chechen GIBDD (road police) releases a video in which four residents of Urus-Martan are apologizing for violating traffic rules on a wedding day.

April 07, 2021 23:52

• “Novaya Gazeta” sees no progress in investigation into “chemical attack” on its office

  Despite numerous street surveillance cameras, the law enforcement bodies failed to find a person who poured chemical liquid over the entrance to the building hosting the editorial office of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. The investigations into attacks on the newspaper employees were also ineffective.

April 07, 2021 23:48

• Police prevent protesters from breaking into building of Armenian government

  Activists of the "Veto" movement accused the Armenian authorities of the pro-Turkish policy and concealment of information about combat losses and prisoners of war (POWs). Female participants of a rally dedicated to the Motherhood and Beauty Day tried to break into the government building. At least one of the protestors was detained.

April 07, 2021 20:32

• Azerbaijani militaries suffer in explosion near Sugovushan village

  The military servicemen, Aliev Punkhan Shaban oglu and Bakhtiyar Ilgaroglu, have been wounded in a mine explosion near the village of Sugovushan while searching for missing soldiers.

April 07, 2021 20:30

• Advocate reports health worsening of Ingush activist Sautieva

  Zarifa Sautieva's health condition has deteriorated in recent days; she needs an endocrinologist's consultation, Bilan Dzugaev, her advocate, has stated.

April 07, 2021 20:28

• Azerbaijan: activists demand explanations from Moscow on use of "Iskanders" in Karabakh

  A group of Azerbaijani journalists and bloggers has demanded from the Russian party to officially comment on the use of "Iskander" missile complexes in the recent Karabakh, as well as to investigate the use thereof in shelling of Shusha.

April 07, 2021 12:12

• Organizers of "Artdocfest" decide to show films about Chechen gays online

  The "Artdocfest" festival has posted the film "Welcome to Chechnya" about the persecution of gays on its online platform; they are also preparing an online screening of the documentary "Quiet Voice". In Moscow, "the rules of life are dictated from Chechnya," said the programme director of the festival in connection with the pressure on the organizers.

April 07, 2021 12:03

• Russian screenwriter receives threats over "Topi" serial episodes with a Chechen woman

  The serial "Topi" (Moors) to the scenario by Dmitry Glukhovsky, has outraged social network users from Chechnya, who treated the behaviour of the film's heroine as immoral. Some commentators demanded apologies from the writer; others expressed direct threats against him, after which Glukhovsky's personal data appeared on the Internet, including his address and cell phone number.

April 07, 2021 11:56

• Nagorno-Karabakh residents report damage to nearly 7000 dwellings facilities

  During the shelling in the fall of 2020, in the territory controlled by Karabakh authorities, a total of 6943 apartments and private houses were completely destroyed or damaged, as it follows from the applications submitted by local residents. In their turn, authorities counted 24 unrecoverable and 58 badly destroyed houses in Stepanakert and Martuni District.

April 06, 2021 23:59

• Russian analysts do not agree while assessing versions on use of Iskander in Karabakh war

  Armenia may have a non-export version of Iskander missile systems, despite the Russia’s commitments not to provide such type of weapons to other countries, experts say. Direct sales to Yerevan of weapons intended for the Russian army have unlikely taken place, analyst Alexander Golts believes. He also doubts very much the possibility of Russia using Iskander missile systems during the Karabakh conflict.

April 06, 2021 23:57

• Chechen prosecutors to check a video with a young woman shooting from a pistol

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has announced launching a check after a video posted on the Internet with a young woman firing a pistol into the air in a public place. Instagram users suggested that the video was filmed at a wedding party.

April 06, 2021 23:52

• Residents of Sunzha District alarmed by law enforcers’ activities

  In Ingushetia, law enforcers accumulated their vehicles in the streets of several villages in the Sunzha District, and their activities were accompanied by a shutdown of mobile internet service, eyewitnesses say. The law enforcers did not explain to the local residents what was happening, the villagers complain.