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January 22, 2021 11:57

• Political analysts find Armenian opposition incapable of achieving Pashinyan's resignation

  The opposition in Armenia is not strong enough to force Nikol Pashinyan to resign, Armenian political analysts have stated.

January 22, 2021 11:47

• Georgian rights defenders assess consequences of ECtHR decision on claim against Russia

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which found Russia involved in human rights violations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, will help in speeding up the consideration of the armed conflict at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and will make it possible to achieve a decision at the UN International Court of Justice on the return of the lost territories, the Georgian human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

January 22, 2021 11:32

• Azerbaijani military experts treat MoD's data on losses as realistic

  Azerbaijani military observers have called the official statistics of losses in the battles for Karabakh as close to reality.

January 22, 2021 08:48

• "Kommersant" presents details of CTO in Katar-Yurt

  While watching his ancestral village of Katar-Yurt, Chechen law enforcers found Aslan Byutukaev's secret hiding place, says the publication by the "Kommersant". Law enforcement sources said that the militants had tried to break out of the encirclement.

January 22, 2021 08:36

• Journalist Totrov reports he was beaten up for criticizing Bibilov

  Ruslan Totrov, a journalist and a blogger, said he was beaten up by two men who expressed their anger about his critical publications about the President of South Ossetia. The local authorities treat the incident as a provocation.

January 21, 2021 23:29

• Analysts assess protest activity in Dagestan after Navalny's arrest

  After the arrest of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, activists of Dagestan were warned about the inadmissibility of any unsanctioned protests. The authorities of Dagestan try to prevent protest actions in support of Alexei Navalny, even though there are few of his supporters in the region, experts note.

January 21, 2021 23:11

• Military Prosecutor's Office reports about 2858 deceased Azerbaijani military personnel

  According to the results of the expert examinations, the bodies of 2858 soldiers and officers killed during the combat actions in Nagorno-Karabakh have been identified, the Military Prosecutor of Azerbaijan reports.

January 21, 2021 22:48

• ECtHR partially grants Georgia's claim against Russian troops' actions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia

  In its today's judgment in the case of Georgia v. Russia (II), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized that Russia was involved in the violation of human rights in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but was not responsible for the hostilities in August 2008.

January 21, 2021 19:47

• Georgia's Ombudsperson calls on authorities to eliminate oppression of people in prisons

  Influential prisoners under the control of prison administrations try to prevent Ombudsperson's officers from inspecting prisons and other prisoners – from filing complaints, Georgia's Ombudsperson Nino Lomjaria claims. She has urged the Georgian government and parliament to intervene in the situation.

January 21, 2021 19:23

• PFPA activist Akhmedov faces new charges

  Niyameddin Akhmedov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), arrested in a case on financing of terrorism, has been charged with public appeals against the state and illicit trafficking in banned items. Niyameddin Akhmedov pleads not guilty, the PFPA reports.

January 21, 2021 13:45

• Rights defenders report decrease in number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  Over the past five months, the number of political prisoners has decreased by 46, and now makes 146 persons, the Union "For Freedom of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan" (UFFPPA) has stated. At the same time, human rights defenders treat the fact of the presence of political prisoners in the country – a member of the Council of Europe as unacceptable, and call on the authorities to release all the political prisoners.

January 21, 2021 13:26

• Over past 24 hours, more than 180 refugees returned to Stepanakert

  Peacemakers have escorted a group of 187 refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, making the total number of returnees 50,303 persons, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

January 21, 2021 11:22

• "Glasnaya" Project tells story of domestic violence victim from Chechnya

  Asya Gazhaeva from Grozny is hiding from her husband with her four children, unsuccessfully seeking a divorce. It's problematic to dissolve a marriage in Chechnya, since Ramzan Kadyrov declared that there are "no divorces" in the republic, Ms Gazhaeva said in her interview with the "Glasnaya" (Public) Social Project, which aims to overcome gender stereotypes.

January 21, 2021 11:08

• Analysts treat Kadyrov's statement on underground liquidation as premature

  After the liquidation of a militant grouping headed by Aslan Byutukaev in Katar-Yurt it is too early to declare the end of armed conflicts in Chechnya, as a young generation is growing up, dissatisfied with authorities' policies, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

January 21, 2021 10:54

• Karabakh war outcomes change Azerbaijanis' attitude towards "Black January" victims

  After the last autumn war, as a result of which a part of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent regions came under Azerbaijan's control, the feeling of grief and despair on the anniversary of the Soviet troops' invasion into Baku is complemented by satisfaction that the victims of the "Black January" were not in vain, the participants in the mourning action told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

January 21, 2021 08:56

• Ecologists treat inquiry into palace near Gelendjik as blow to Putin's image

  In its investigation "Palace for Putin. Story of the Biggest Bribe", the Anti-Corruption Foundation (known as the FBK) has not so much made a sensation, but rather systematized data from various sources on the construction of Putin's "dacha" (summer residence) near Gelendjik, analysts assert.

January 21, 2021 08:45

• Armenia counts 3439 its perished people in Nagorno-Karabakh

  A total of 3439 bodies of those who perished on the Armenian side in the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh have been found, the Armenian Vice-Premier has stated. Armenian authorities are sure that the country's losses in battles for Nagorno-Karabakh did not exceed 4000 persons.

January 21, 2021 08:33

• Five law enforcers wounded in CTO in Katar-Yurt

  Five law enforcers were slightly wounded in a shootout that broke out in the outskirt of the village of Katar-Yurt, the Chechen Minister for Information and Press has informed.

January 20, 2021 22:07

• Shootout with Byutukaev becomes fourth armed incident in Chechnya within 2 months

  A special operation in the village of Katar-Yurt was preceded by two attacks on policemen in Chechnya and the killing of a suspected militant in the Achkhoi-Martan District.

January 20, 2021 21:49

• NAC updates Kadyrov's data on number of killed militants

  Five suspected militants were killed in a special operation, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports today. All participants of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Chechnya will be nominated for state awards, announces Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov today.