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December 17, 2020 11:29

• Rights defenders link Baidulaev's radicalization with law enforcers' actions

  Law enforcers' illegal violence and repressions push young people to the path of radicalization; and as a result they join the underground, Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has commented on the story of Kazbek Baidulaev, a native of a Chechen village.

December 17, 2020 11:03

• Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh reports number of POWs captured in Gadrut District

  About 60 military servicemen disappeared in the vicinity of the village of Khtsaberd in the Gadrut District, Artak Beglaryan, the Ombudsperson, has stated. In his turn, Araik Arutyunyan, the president of the unrecognized republic, has stressed that the actions of the Azerbaijani Army are directed not so much against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh as against the Russian peacemakers.

December 17, 2020 10:44

• Authorities of Shirak Region promise protesters to return POWs

  The governor of the Shirak Region of Armenia has met local residents who had blocked roads demanding to release their relatives and fellow countrymen from Azerbaijani captivity. The protesters believe that the Armenian authorities are passive.

December 16, 2020 23:55

• Investigators report details of CTO in Chechnya

  Suspected militant Kazbek Baidulaev threw a grenade at law enforcers after they requested him to surrender. The suspect was killed by return fire, investigators reported.

December 16, 2020 23:51

• Compatriots of soldiers missed in action block motorway in Armenia

  Dozens of soldiers from the Shirak District of Armenia were captured in the Hadrut District of Nagorno-Karabakh, protesters claim with reference to some videos posted on the Internet. According to a source from the Defence Army, a group of Armenian soldiers was cordoned off, and only a few dozen of them managed to break through.

December 16, 2020 23:48

• Djabiev's widow insists on resignation of South-Ossetian General Prosecutor

  In Tskhinvali, about 50 people have stayed to spend the night in a square, where relatives and friends of Inal Djabiev are holding a round-the-clock protest action. The main demands of the protesters remain unchanged: the resignation of the General Prosecutor and the punishment of the persons guilty for the Inal Djabiev's death.

December 16, 2020 18:10

• Journalists assess impact of US sanctions on Ramzan Kadyrov's sports assets

  The "Akhmat" fight club will not be able to attract sponsors' funds from abroad and invite foreign fighters because of the US sanctions, while the "Akhmat" football club (FC) will be less affected by sanctions, sports observers suggest.

December 16, 2020 18:07

• Russian analysts: too early for people to return to Khin Takher and Khtsaberd

  In fact, the villages of Khin Takher and Khtsaberd in the Hadrut District of Nagorno-Karabakh stay abandoned, military expert Alexander Golts notes. According to expert Vladimir Yevseev, it is too early and unsafe for people to return to the destroyed villages. The expert also adds that a "gray zone" should be created to prevent such incidents.

December 16, 2020 15:03

• CTO in Chechnya was third since start of year

  The counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, in which law enforcers liquidated an alleged militant, became the third in Chechnya since the start of the year. The previous CTO was conducted in Grozny in October.

December 16, 2020 14:53

• Nagorno-Karabakh claims soldiers' disappearance in Gadrut District

  The communication with soldiers of several military posts set up in the vicinity of the villages of Khin Takher and Khtsaberd has been lost; searching for them is underway, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

December 16, 2020 13:02

• Resident of Chechnya declared killed for the second time

  Kazbek Baidulaev, a native of the Chechen village of Yandi, whose murder in a counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District, was announced by Ramzan Kadyrov, was earlier named among those killed on October 11. According to law enforcers, the man perished in a shootout in the Sernovodsk District.

December 16, 2020 12:53

• Alleged militant killed during CTO in Chechnya

  During a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) was killed, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, indicating that the alleged militant was alone; and the law enforcers involved did not suffer.

December 16, 2020 12:39

• Instagram users criticize appeal of blogger Djikaeva's mother to Kadyrov

  The defence of the blogger, Malika Djikaeva, will appeal against the verdict announced by the court of three years in prison within a drug dealing case. Social network users have expressed bewilderment at the apology of Djikaeva's mother to Ramzan Kadyrov.

December 16, 2020 11:57

• The Guardian: bodies of two beheaded men identified in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The two elderly men beheaded in the video have been identified, The Guardian reports. They were ethnic Armenians, their fellow villagers have reported.

December 16, 2020 11:42

• Authorities report results of negotiations on the road to Khin Shen village in Karabakh

  For three days already, more than 60 Khin Shen villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot leave the village because the road is blocked by Azerbaijani militaries, David Davidyan, the head of the neighbouring Mets Shen community, has reported.

December 15, 2020 23:59

• President of South Ossetia willing to meet Inal Djabiev's family

  Relatives of deceased Inal Djabiev disagree with the results of a forensic examination, and that fact prevents the transfer of the criminal case to court, states Anatoly Bibilov, President of South Ossetia. The leader of the republic has also added that he will pay for the repeated forensic examination if the family has financial difficulties and will meet the relatives of Inal Djabiev at any time.

December 15, 2020 23:54

• Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadygov transferred to intravenous nutrition

  Journalist Afghan Sadygov has been refusing to accept food and water for the 42nd day in a SIZO (pre-trial prison). The SIZO medical staff began to administer intravenous food to Afghan Sadygov. According to physician Aidar Abdullin, intravenous injections of nutrients are applied to critically ill patients.

December 15, 2020 19:32

• Political analysts see mistake in Nagorno-Karabakh President's refusal to meet OSCE Minsk Group co-Chairs

  Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, refused to meet the co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group from the United States and France. The Russian co-Chair did not come to the meeting due to illness. Araik Arutyunyan has missed a rare chance to discuss with the mediators the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and the problems that arose after the war, political analysts note.

December 15, 2020 19:26

• Azerbaijani citizen claims being unable to return home from Dagestan

  For several months, the family of Nadir Shakhbazov has been unable to reunite with their daughter in Azerbaijan because of the closed border with Dagestan and irregular departure of people to their homeland. The family members have to rent an apartment and are short of money to pay tickets for a plane.

December 15, 2020 17:20

• Activists arrested after protest action in Batumi

  The court has sentenced six protesters against the outcomes of the Georgian parliamentary elections to seven days of arrest each. They were detained on December 13, after an attempt to enter the Adjara parliament building and clashes with the police.