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May 18, 2021 12:37

• US calls on Yerevan and Baku to ease border tensions

  Jake Sullivan, an assistant to the US President for national security, has called on Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliev to hold talks on Armenian-Azerbaijani border demarcation, and treated the movement of troops on the border as irresponsible.

May 18, 2021 12:32

• Kadyrov threatens to kill social media user for comment

  One of Instagram commentators has called Ramzan Kadyrov a "shaitan". In response, the head of Chechnya promised to find the user who needed to write a will and threatened to liquidate him.

May 18, 2021 12:27

• Makhachkala: passers-by interested in picket in support of journalist Gadjiev

  At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, demanded freedom to journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev. People passing by got interested in Gadjiev's fate; and drivers of the passing cars supported the action with signals, said the picketer.

May 17, 2021 23:49

• Defence of policemen interprets results of examination on Djabiev’s death in their favour

  Inal Djabiev entered a police station being already injured, and the criminal case against policemen should be closed, the defence has claimed following the results of the examination. One of the charges was dropped from the policemen, but the General Prosecutor’s Office did not inform relatives of Inal Djabiev about that, his widow points out.

May 17, 2021 23:45

• Pashinyan reports partial withdrawal of Azerbaijani troops from border region

  Some of the 250 Azerbaijani soldiers remain in Armenia, and the crisis has not been overcome, announces Nikol Pashinyan, the acting Prime Minister of Armenia. He called on Baku to invite Russia to participate in the border demarcation process.

May 17, 2021 21:56

• On May 10-16, 2021, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of May 10-16, 2021, no killed or wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

May 17, 2021 20:48

• Social network users argue about sincerity of apology of Lezginka dancer in Derbent

  A young man from a Dagestan village has apologized for performing a Lezginka dance at a burial site in Derbent, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed. Some users treat the apologies as sincere, while others have noted that the burial site was marked insufficiently informatively.

May 17, 2021 17:28

• Azeri President reacts to Armenia's appeal to CSTO

  Azerbaijan is updating the border with the Syunik Region of Armenia; there is no conflict there; and Yerevan's appeal to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is groundless, President Ilham Aliev has stated.

May 17, 2021 12:48

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 10-16, 2021

  Celebration of Eid al-Fitr in Southern Russia; release from prison of the opposition leader in Georgia; conflict on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan; dissolution of the Armenian parliament and appointment of early elections; beginning of the trial in the Akhra Avidzba’s case in Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 10-16, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

May 17, 2021 11:26

• Georgian opposition unites to defend LGBTs' rights

  Fifteen oppositional parties in Georgia signed an agreement to combat discrimination and violence against the LGBT community and violations of the right of its members to peaceful assembly.

May 17, 2021 11:24

• Film about Chechen gay included into South-Korean festival programme

  At the documentary Diaspora Film Festival in South Korea, it is planned to screen the "Quiet Voice" film about the life of Khavadj, a MMA fighter from Chechnya, who had to flee to Belgium after his relatives learned about his non-traditional sexual orientation.

May 17, 2021 11:22

• Armenian border villagers complain about problems with access to pastures and water

  Under threat with weapons, militaries prohibit grazing livestock on border pastures and approaching the water reservoir, residents of the Syunik and Gegarkunik Regions of Armenia have stated. The authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan have resumed negotiations on the settlement of the conflict on the border.

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".