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January 02, 2021 11:41

• Relatives of wounded Chechen law enforcer declare enmity with two Ingush clans

  Members of the Chechen teip (family clan) Ersno, to whom the policeman wounded in Grozny belongs, have announced that they are in a quarrel with the Timurziev and Sultygov teips from Ingushetia. The Ramzan Kadyrov's teip, Beno, has voiced out threats against these Ingush teips.

January 02, 2021 00:03

• Azerbaijani performances confirm Shusha's claims to status of cultural capital

  People's Artists of Azerbaijan have recorded music videos in the city of Shusha. The video records captured sights of the city damaged and survived during the shelling attacks.

January 01, 2021 23:53

• Azerbaijani resident blown up by a mine in conflict zone

  A citizen of Azerbaijan illegally entered the non-demined territory of the Fizuli District and was blown up by a mine. He lost both his legs in the explosion.

January 01, 2021 22:34

• Azerbaijan celebrates New Year under strict quarantine

  The quarantine conditions do not allow for crowded feasts, but some residents of Baku have found a way to bypass the restrictions and invite their relatives and friends. The holiday is overshadowed not only by the drop in incomes and the complicated epidemiological situation, but also by the grief over the thousands of deceased soldiers.

January 01, 2021 14:34

• IS claims responsibility for attack on policemen in Grozny

  The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, has claimed responsibility for the attack on law enforcers committed in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, as a result of which one policeman perished and another one was wounded.

January 01, 2021 14:28

• Inal Djabiev's relatives welcome New Year in at protest action

  Despite the New Year celebrations, the Djabiev family spent their 29th day of protest action in Tskhinvali. Social network users have expressed their support and once again demanded to punish those responsible for Inal Djabiev's death.

January 01, 2021 14:21

• Relatives of law enforcer killed in Chechnya declared blood feud to residents of Ingushetia

  Relatives of Magomed Djabrailov the policeman, who was killed in Grozny, have announced a blood feud to relatives of the two natives of Ingushetia, about which they had been warned earlier by Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

January 01, 2021 13:55

• Social network users link new resignations with Tskhinvali protests

  Instagram users have suggested that the resignations of Oleg Gagloev, the office manager of the South-Ossetian government, and Gulnara Kozaeva, the children's ombudsperson, have been caused by their support of the demands of Inal Djabiev's relatives. Social network users have also criticized the installation of a New Year tree in the square, where the protest action continues for 28 days.

December 31, 2020 22:27

• Ingush woman gets court decision on giving out of body of suspect killed in CTO

  The court granted a claim lodged by Madina Lolokhoeva and allowed to give out to her the body of her husband Aslangirei Gadaborshev, who was killed by law enforcers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reported. Meanwhile, the court dismissed a similar claim lodged by the mother of killed Ibragim Lolokhoev.

December 31, 2020 22:25

• Muftiate of Dagestan let Muslims voice Happy New Year wishes

  A Muslim may wish other people a Happy New Year and even Merry Christmas, but with the selection of an appropriate format not to violate Islamic norms, the Fatwa Department of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan announces.

December 31, 2020 21:37

• Rights defenders: Ingush teips forced to abandon claims against Chechen authorities

  Analysts call in question that the Timurziev and Sultygov Ingush teips (family clans) sincerely admitted that they were wrong. The experts suggest it has been a unique case when members of the Ingush teips objected to Ramzan Kadyrov and requested to prove that the suspects killed in a special operation were terrorists.

December 31, 2020 21:33

• Grozny incident continues trend of knife attacks on law enforcers in regions of NCFD

  An attack on the police in Grozny has become at least the seventh knife attack on the police in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, that is, the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), over three years. Most of attackers were declared natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

December 31, 2020 21:16

• Dagestan: over 500 militias receive status of war veterans

  The list of candidates for the status of war veterans from among the 1999 militias included about 28,000 people, said Kamil Davdiev, Vice-Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament. However, only 520 of them received the respective certificates; and most of those who really fought were not among them, said activists of veteran organizations, Magomed Umargadjiev and Umakhan Umakhanov.

December 31, 2020 21:04

• Kadyrov suspects teip members of killed Ingushes of aiding terrorism

  The head of Chechnya has ordered to check whether there were any signs of complicity in terrorism in the words of the members of the Ingush teips (family clans), who had demanded proofs that their relatives, who were killed in the attack on policemen, were terrorists.

December 31, 2020 10:41

• Ingush teip renounces claims against Chechen authorities

  Members of the Ingush teips (family clans) of Timurzievs and Sultygovs have posted their second video about the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. According to their version, they watched the video from the venue, which clearly shows the actions of Khasan and Khusein, admitted that they were wrong and expressed condolences to the family of the killed law enforcer.

December 31, 2020 10:39

• Economists assess prospects for opening enterprises in Shusha

  The enterprises that are opening trade and service facilities in Shusha can hardly hope for any profits yet, economists have noted. However, in their opinion, the operation in Shusha will bring profits in the long term; it will also help increasing revenues in other regions of Azerbaijan, becoming a sort of advertising.

December 31, 2020 10:37

• Trend of blackmailing girls with intimate photos reaches KChR

  A resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) extorted money from girls by threatening to spread their intimate photos in social networks; the police have reported about 18 criminal cases initiated against the suspect. Similar cases are being investigated in other regions of Northern Caucasus; and fighters for morality acted as blackmailers.

December 31, 2020 10:35

• Chechen Speaker threatens blood feud to teip members of Ingushes killed in Grozny

  Magomed Daudov made an appointment in the Chechen Parliament for members of two Ingush teips, who had demanded from Kadyrov to prove the guilt of the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. A blood feud for the death of a Chechen law enforcer awaits the members of the teips of the killed Ingushes, Minister Daudov has warned.

December 31, 2020 10:31

• Kadyrov symbolically improves power in Chechnya by honouring his son

  The naming of the sports complex in Bachi-Yurt after Ramzan Kadyrov's son speaks of an attempt to strengthen his regime in Chechnya, Mikhail Roschin, an Orientalist, believes. In his turn, Akhmet Yarlykapov, a Caucasian expert, has suggested that Kadyrov announced his heir, which could lead both to the unification of the elite around him and to the emergence of rivals in the struggle for power.

December 31, 2020 00:10

• Banner disputes highlight problem with demarcation of border between Armenia and Azerbaijan

  The banner on the road from Gori to Kapan is located on the territory of Azerbaijan, and it does not imply any claims to the Armenian lands, states Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijani Public Committee for European Integration.