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January 08, 2021 11:43

• Three Azerbaijanis claim torture in captivity

  Azerbaijanis Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilgam Askerov, who had been imprisoned in Nagorno-Karabakh for six years, as well as the released prisoner of war (POW) Amin Musaev, reported about beatings and deprivation of food in captivity.

January 08, 2021 08:33

• Conflict in Tarki sparks disputes about practice of evicting criminals' relatives

  The Makhachkala Mayor has reported the participation of Muslim leaders in resolving the conflict in the dwelling settlement of Tarki. Social network users dispute on whether it is acceptable to evict the family of the suspected killer from the settlement.

January 08, 2021 08:21

• Residents of Azerbaijan oppose compulsory contributions to aid funds

  The information about coercion to make donations into state funds to help families of perished soldiers has triggered Azerbaijani residents' protests.

January 07, 2021 23:27

• Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating peace agreement

  The Armenian Foreign Minister had no right to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) claims. Yerevan refused to recognize the above event as a violation of the peace agreement and voiced counter-accusations of conducting military operations in the conflict zone.

January 07, 2021 23:12

• Armenian Church explains need for Pashinyan's resignation

  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is responsible for the outcome of the autumn escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and is unable to rectify the situation, the spokesman for the Armenian Apostolic Church has claimed while commenting on the request of Catholicos Garegin II to the Armenian Prime Minister to resign.

January 07, 2021 22:54

• President Aliev offers Russia to use transport corridor through Nakhichevan

  Russia, along with Armenia, Iran, and Turkey, will be able to use the transport corridor to connect Nakhichevan with the eastern regions of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev has announced today.

January 07, 2021 17:39

• Sultygov teip reports details about Ingush natives detained by Chechen law enforcers

  Chechen law enforcers detained a father, a mother, and a sister of a native of Ingushetia involved in an attack on the police in Grozny, said Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip (family clan).

January 07, 2021 17:23

• Human rights defenders call punishment of militants' relatives typical for Chechnya

  The deaths of the people detained after a special operation conducted in October proved that the Chechen authorities continue repressions against families of suspected members of the armed underground, Igor Kalyapin believes. Svetlana Gannushkina suggests that extrajudicial killings of militants' relatives are pushing people on the path of radicalization.

January 07, 2021 13:10

• Sources present details of murder at gathering in Dagestan

  A resident of the dwelling settlement of Tarki has died in hospital after being stabbed during a people's gathering to discuss the murder of an activist on Tarki-Tau Mount, a Dagestani law enforcement source has informed.

January 07, 2021 12:53

• Russia's MfE reports restoration of houses in Nagorno-Karabakh

  About 260 houses and social facilities have been repaired in Nagorno-Karabakh using the construction materials brought from Russia, Russian rescuers have informed.

January 07, 2021 12:22

• Armenian MP offers exchanging part of Shurnukh from Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan occupies a part of the territory of Armenia from the side of Nakhichevan; therefore Yerevan can claim the return of the parts of Shurnukh and Vorotan lost during the border delimitation, Edmon Marukyan, an MP and the leader of the "Enlightened Armenia" Party, has stated.

January 07, 2021 11:58

• Tarki residents report mass brawl after activist's murder

  A people's gathering demanding to evict the alleged drug dealer, due to which an activist, Vali Abduragimov, was killed earlier, has turned into a mass brawl in the dwelling settlement of Tarki that is a part of Makhachkala. Social networks have messages about casualties and wounded people; however, this information has not been officially confirmed.

January 07, 2021 08:31

• Azerbaijani GPO treats video with POW's incineration as original

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has recognized the video footage of the burning of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier-prisoner of war (POW) to be authentic and opened a criminal case based on this footage. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has demanded from international organizations to react to this and other war crimes.

January 07, 2021 08:20

• Social network users worried about Dagestani orphan's fate in Grozny

  The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.

January 06, 2021 23:03

• Advocate and mother of blogger Djikaeva report about her stay at Grozny SIZO

  Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

January 06, 2021 22:37

• Pashinyan isolates himself amid protests near Yerevan Cathedral

  In the morning, protesters gathered near a church in Yerevan to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from attending the Christmas service. Nikol Pashinyan did not come to the church, and his press secretary explained the Prime Minister's absence by the epidemiological situation.

January 06, 2021 20:18

• Kadyrov ignores mask regime at meeting with coronavirus-infected MMA fighter

  MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev flew to Chechnya after he had cancelled a fight at the UFC tournament because of his positive COVID-19 test. However, according to posts on social networks, at the meetings with Khamzat Chimaev, Ramzan Kadyrov, other athletes, and relatives of the MMA fighter neglected the mask regime in force in the republic.

January 06, 2021 20:07

• Social network users criticize law enforcers after murder of an activist in Dagestan

  After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.

January 06, 2021 17:46

• Balasanyan accuses Azerbaijani forces of violating border

  The Azerbaijani side does not comply with the terms of the peace agreement and sends its armed forces deep into the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, states Vitaly Balasanyan, Secretary of the Security Council of the unrecognized republic.

January 06, 2021 15:34

• Azerbaijan reveals number of captured Nagorno-Karabakh residents

  Five Nagorno-Karabakh militaries and two civilians are being held captive in Azerbaijan, while the unrecognized republic keeps two Azerbaijani civilians, said Ismail Akhundov, the head of the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs.