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February 26, 2021 23:59

• Pashinyan's position weakened by low authority in Armenian army

  The Nikol Pashinyan's conflict with the leaders of the General Headquarters of the Armenia's Armed Forces has revealed the Prime Minister's low authority in the army and the generals' ties with the previous authorities, political analysts note.

February 26, 2021 23:57

• Inal Djabiev's family ends protest action on its 82nd day

  In Tskhinvali, a protest action is stopped because of the health state of Inal Djabiev's parents. The family intends to wait for the trial.

February 26, 2021 23:51

• In Abkhazia, believers disappointed by suspension of church services

  Church services should not be stopped under any circumstances, especially because believers need spiritual support during the pandemic and crisis, parishioners of Abkhaz churches say.

February 26, 2021 21:40

• Ilham Aliev: all POWs transferred to Armenia

  Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia all the military personnel captured during the combat actions in Karabakh, and only "saboteurs" remain detained in Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliev announces.

February 26, 2021 21:15

• Armenian President agrees to meet opposition

  The opposition marched from the building of the Armenian parliament to the residences of the President and Prime Minister. President Armen Sargsyan agreed to meet opposition representatives to discuss ways out of the political crisis in the country.

February 26, 2021 13:13

• Akhmed Pogorov, co-chair of World Congress of Ingush People, detained in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers have detained Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of Ingush People, who was on the wanted list within the case of a rally in Magas, his advocate has informed.

February 26, 2021 13:03

• Police cordon off parliament building in Yerevan

  Law enforcers have encircled the building of the Armenian Parliament, in front of which a protest action by Nikol Pashinyan's opponents is held. Both additional police forces and opposition supporters are gathering in the square in central Yerevan.

February 26, 2021 11:25

• Experts on Caucasus treat links of LGBT activists with Chechen militants as absurd

  The version of Chechen law enforcers that LGBT people, Salekh Magamadov, and his underage brother supplied militants, who treat same-sex relations as a sin, is unrealistic, Alexei Malashenko believes. The resonant detention of Chechen residents in another region has forced authorities to fabricate a case, but by doing so they equated LGBT people to terrorists, said Mikhail Roschin, an Orientalist.

February 26, 2021 11:20

• Victims disbelieve repentance of killer of North-Ossetian woman

  In his last plea, Vadim Tekhov, sentenced to 16 years in a high-security colony for killing his ex-wife, Regina Gagieva, has pled guilty and repented. The victims failed to believe in his sincerity. The founder of the "Khotae" community to help domestic violence victims has stated that activists are satisfied with the verdict.

February 26, 2021 11:14

• Political analysts treat army's intervention into opposition's conflict with Pashinyan as possible

  Militaries can interfere into the internal political situation, if the President of Armenia approves the resignation of the Chief of the General Staff, or if protests are suppressed by force, political analysts have predicted. The General Staff's demand for Pashinyan's resignation has reduced his chances of retaining power, Stepan Danielyan, a political analyst, believes.

February 26, 2021 11:08

• Defence rejects GPO's offer to release Meliya on bail

  The Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has expressed its readiness to release Nika Meliya, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, from custody on bail, but advocates have criticized this proposal as politically motivated. The court refused to consider the defence's appeal against the oppositionist's arrest.

February 26, 2021 10:58

• 650 people take part in mourning rally dated to centenary of Georgia's sovietization

  At schools, they tell little about the events of February 1921, when the Red Army invaded Georgia, the participants in the mourning rally in Tbilisi have stated. It is important to preserve democracy in Georgia, the foreigners who took part in the rally have stressed.

February 25, 2021 23:59

• Analysts explain Kadyrov's interest in Dagestani Chechens by his ambitions

  The participation of the vice-speaker of the Chechen parliament in a rally on the anniversary of the deportation of Akkin people from Dagestan showed the Ramzan Kadyrov's claims to the role of the all-Chechen leader, says Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov.

February 25, 2021 23:57

• Nikol Pashinyan threatens to arrest oppositionists

  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the army must obey the authorities. He called the General Headquarters' statement an attempt of a military coup d'etat. The Armenian Prime Minister regarded the protests as an attempt of revenge from the previous authorities and threatened to severely suppress them.

February 25, 2021 23:53

• Kocharyan and Sargsyan support General Headquarters' call for a change of power in Armenia

  The General Headquarters of Armenia confirmed the position on the need for the Nikol Pashinyan's resignation. Former presidents of Armenia supported the country's General Headquarters.

February 25, 2021 21:18

• Second attack on law enforcers takes place in Karachay-Cherkessia within a year

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, an attack on law enforcers in the village of Uchkeken was preceded by a suicide bomber's attack on FSB agents in the same village in 2020.

February 25, 2021 21:12

• Participants of Baku action in support of army plead not guilty in court

  In Baku, a court has begun a consideration of a case instituted against participants of a rally in support of the army. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and the opposition claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.

February 25, 2021 14:13

• Pashinyan's opponents block streets in Yerevan

  On Thursday (February 25) the opposition resumed its actions demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan. Activists have temporarily blocked traffic in streets of Yerevan.

February 25, 2021 13:50

• Two law enforcers wounded in attack in KChR

  In the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), a policeman and a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) serviceman were stabbed and received gunshot wounds while trying to check the driver's documents; two attackers managed to escape.

February 25, 2021 12:07

• Seven Armenian natives convicted after conflict with Azerbaijanis in Moscow

  The natives of Armenia, detained after the attack on the Azerbaijani restaurant "1001 Nights" in Moscow during the escalation of hostilities on the two countries' border in July 2020, have been sentenced to two years in prison each.