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November 15, 2020 16:28

• Dagestani woman's story about female circumcision sparks disputes over women's rights in Islam

  Female genital mutilations are wildness, Instagram users have pointed out when discussing the story of a native of a Dagestani village. They have expressed opposing views on whether this practice speaks of a violation of women's rights in Islam.

November 15, 2020 15:31

• Armenian Church declares desecration of cathedral in Shushi

  The Kazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi was desecrated after the city was captured by Azerbaijani troops, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) has claimed. The Armenian Ministry of Culture has treated the incident as vandalism and called on international organizations to protect cultural monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh.

November 15, 2020 15:11

• Stepanakert confirms revision of timing of closing highway via Karvachar

  The Martakert-Karvachar-Vardenis highway will be closed not on November 15, but later, David Babayan, an adviser to the President of Nagorno-Karabakh, has confirmed. There is no talk of blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, President Araik Arutyunyan has assured.

November 15, 2020 14:59

• Oppositionist Vanetsyan suspected of plotting Pashinyan's murder

  Arthur Vanetsyan, a former head of special services, now the leader of the "Fatherland" Party, was detained in connection with an attempt to usurp power and preparation of the assassination of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, Vanetsyan's defence has stated he is treating it as political persecution.

November 14, 2020 18:41

• Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh exchange casualties' bodies

  The militaries of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh have collected the bodies of the servicemen who perished in battles near the city of Shusha and have exchanged them, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

November 14, 2020 18:12

• Political analysts treat talks of Georgian authorities with opposition as concession

  Georgian authorities have yielded to the opposition by starting negotiations on the results of the parliamentary elections. However, the talks may get protracted, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

November 14, 2020 17:45

• Baku analysts explain peacemakers' role in Lachin Corridor

  The motor traffic between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh will remain by the existing road via Lachin and Shusha, but cars there will be accompanied by Russian peacemakers there, analysts from Baku believe.

November 14, 2020 17:20

• New road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia requires border demarcation

  To build a new road across the Lachin Corridor to ensure communication of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, a preliminary border demarcation is needed, which will depend not so much on maps as on the actions of topographic groups on the ground, the geographers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. The delimitation in the Shushi area will be most painful, they have noted.

November 14, 2020 13:12

• Stepanakert townspeople announce plans to return home

  Almost a third of Stepanakert residents who had left for Armenia during the conflict aggravation have returned back, David Sargsyan, the city Mayor, has informed. The refugees themselves said that they had temporarily settled in Yerevan, but were going to return home.

November 14, 2020 13:04

• Court finds six minors guilty of killing footballer Shakarashvili

  The Mtskheta District Court has found six minors guilty of killing footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili. All of them have been convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code, with one common one – participation in group violence.

November 14, 2020 12:48

• Rights defenders treat new reconciliation in Karabakh conflict as fragile

  The participation of international structures in resolving the Karabakh crisis is justified, but the world community is behaving passively, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, believes. For a long-term peace, guarantees of the preservation of the Armenian enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh are needed, but the international community will not seek concessions from Baku, Oleg Orlov, the head of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", is sure.

November 14, 2020 08:40

• Karvachar residents leave Nagorno-Karabakh against authorities' plans

  The population of Karvachar and the surrounding region is leaving en masse with their belongings for Armenia by the road to Vardenis, although Araik Arutyunyan, the president of the unrecognized republic, has promised to maintain control over this highway and resettle the victims in Stepanakert.

November 14, 2020 08:26

• Putin counts victims of Karabakh conflict

  As a result of the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, over 4000 people perished; about 8000 were wounded, tens of thousands became refugees, Vladimir Putin has stated.

November 13, 2020 23:08

• In Italy, native of Chechnya detained in case on terror act in Vienna

  Italian law enforcers detained Turko Arsimekov, a native of Chechnya, on suspicion of making forged documents for members of an Austrian terrorist grouping, the Corriere della Sera reported.

November 13, 2020 22:47

• HRC "Memorial": Gudermes residents kept in a secret prison

  For the ninth day already, at least 13 residents of Gudermes have been unreasonably kept in custody by Chechen law enforcers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports. The human rights defenders express their concern that law enforcers torture the detainees in an attempt to force them to incriminate themselves.

November 13, 2020 17:55

• Azerbaijani authorities impose curfew in regained territories

  Azerbaijan has imposed a curfew in villages, towns, and cities lost by Nagorno-Karabakh under the terms of the peace agreement. Azerbaijani police stations have been opened in Shusha and Hadrut.

November 13, 2020 17:37

• Nakhichevan becomes a transport priority for Armenia amid loss of road from Vardenis

  The peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh will make it possible to open the road between Yerevan and Syunik, as well as to resume transport communications with Iran through Nakhichevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced. The road between Karvachar (Kelbajar) and Vardenis will be closed on November 15. At present, it is full of cars in which local residents are leaving Karabakh.

November 13, 2020 14:09

• Tofig Yagublu reproaches court of protracting with decision on his complaint

  The decision on the appeal against the verdict is being unreasonably protracted, the convicted oppositionist, Tofig Yagublu, said after the court session held in Baku on November 12. He suggested that the court had not yet received an instruction on what the verdict should be.

November 13, 2020 13:46

• MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh counts 1339 perished soldiers

  Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has released data on other 37 military servicemen, who perished in the conflict zone. The total MoD's death toll makes 1339.

November 13, 2020 12:14

• Dagestani native's story reveals problems with victims of female circumcision

  A woman from a small village in Dagestan has learned, only at the age of 42, that she had been circumcised in childhood, since it is not customary to discuss such topics, says the "AfishaDaily". Russia should introduce a new article in the Criminal Code, criminalizing all types of mutilation, Yulia Antonova, a lawyer with the "Legal Initiative" Project, believes.