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August 26, 2020 22:59

• Georgian politician's visit provokes political conflict in Abkhazia

  The Abkhazian opposition demands the resignation of the presidential adviser, who organized the trip of Irma Inashvili, the leader of the "Alliance of Patriots of Georgia" Party, to the Gali District. The politician's visit was coordinated with Russia, Georgian political analysts suggest.

August 26, 2020 17:18

• Chechen law enforcers publicly reprimand driver for violation committed two years ago

  According to a video posted on Instagram, a resident of the Kurchaloi District was reprimanded at a police station for careless driving in 2018. Social network users were surprised that the law enforcement bodies were interested in highlighting the violation committed two years ago.

August 26, 2020 17:15

• CTO in Ali-Yurt becomes sixth in Ingushetia since early 2020

  Today, one of the suspected militants has been killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) held in the village of Ali-Yurt in the Nazran District. The CTO in Ali-Yurt was preceded by four other special operations in the Sunzha District and one in Nazran conducted in 2020.

August 26, 2020 16:47

• Action in support of Belarusians turns into persecution of Rostov activists

  Administrative protocols have been drawn up against 14 Rostov activists for violating the procedure for holding a picket and laying flowers in support of citizens of Belarus.

August 26, 2020 16:41

• Dagestani resident accused of links with extremist grouping

  The inquiry into the case of a 38-year-old resident of the Khasavyurt District, accused of membership in a unit of the "At-Takfir Wal-Hijra", a religious extremist organization banned in Russia, is over, investigators have informed.

August 26, 2020 10:28

• Experts on Caucasus regard laying flowers to Akhmat Kadyrov's obelisk alien to Islamic traditions

  Some rituals of honouring the dead, for example, laying flowers on graves, date back to Soviet times, but are alien to the Islamic and Chechen traditions, Caucasian scholars have noted in their comments on the celebrations of the 69th birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, the ex-head of Chechnya.

August 26, 2020 10:23

• Armenian analysts dispute on exchange of officer captured in Azerbaijan

  The exchange of Gurgen Alaverdyan, the captured Armenian officer, for the Azerbaijanis convicted for committing murder in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is unequal and will be a mistake, the analysts, Ayk Khachikyan and Vlad Vartanyan, believe. The likelihood of the exchange is high given the change of the NKR leadership, Naira Airumyan, a political observer, has noted.

August 26, 2020 10:20

• Azerbaijan: Armenian officer faces criminal charges

  Gurgen Alaverdyan, the Armenian officer detained by Azeri militaries, was charged with espionage and waging an aggressive war.

August 26, 2020 10:16

• Residents of Chechnya note modest help to those in need from Kadyrov's Foundation

  The Kadyrov Foundation has organized a large-scale charity campaign of distributing food packages among those in need on the anniversary of the birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, the former head of Chechnya. Residents of the republic have treated the amount of help as insignificant and complained that it failed to reach all the poor.

August 26, 2020 10:11

• After sending another group, about 800 people stay in Kullar camp

  On Tuesday, August 25, 400 Azerbaijani citizens were taken from the camp near Kullar to the Azerbaijani border. About 800 other citizens are still awaiting their return to homeland. The number of people arriving in Dagestan for sending to Azerbaijan will only grow, Afig Allakhverdiev, a deputy chairman of the National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in the Moscow Region, has suggested.

August 26, 2020 10:08

• Analysts associate "Moral Guards" in Europe with Chechen authorities' policy

  The Chechen Diaspora has many members who support Ramzan Kadyrov and share his attitude to women, Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, and Svetlana Gannushkina, a rights defender, believe. The appearance of the "Moral Guards" is due to the conservative lifestyle of Chechens, said Ruslan Kutaev, an activist.

August 25, 2020 23:52

• Azerbaijan claims 45 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in two border areas, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 25, 2020 23:51

• 12 people fell victim to teip conflict in Ingushetia

  In Sunzha, nine participants of a conflict with a shooting were wounded, while three others were injured during a fight, sources reported.

August 25, 2020 18:32

• About 50 residents of Georgian Kobuleti face threats of eviction

  A businessman privatized a house in Kobuleti, which was home to 12 families in a difficult situation. Tenants held a protest action with the demand not to evict them from the building or provide them with housing.

August 25, 2020 18:26

• Law enforcers find hideout with weapons near Sergokala in Dagestan

  A submachine gun, a pistol, a grenade and cartridges were found in a forest hideout in the Sergokala District of Dagestan, the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has informed.

August 25, 2020 18:17

• Journalistic study raises uneasy questions about Georgian programmer Bachaliashvili's death

  Journalists from the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Company are investigating the death of the Georgian programmer, Tamar Bachaliashvili. The young woman was engaged in drawing funds out of bank accounts of some company, and was killed as an unwanted witness; and traces of the country's authorities are seen in the case, Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the TV Company, has stated. Mikhail Ramishvili, an advocate, pointed to inconsistencies in the programmer's death case.

August 25, 2020 10:59

• Protesters in Georgia demand release of detainees after mass brawl

  At the protest action, residents of the Georgian village of Toriya, which is predominantly populated by Armenians, demanded to release their three fellow villagers detained after the conflict with Azerbaijanis over a place for grazing.

August 25, 2020 10:57

• Sources name Gadamauri, extradited to Russia, among militants killed in Ingushetia

  One of the two men killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia on August 6 turned out to be Khusen Gadamauri, a native of Chechnya, who was extradited from Germany in 2017 under Russia's guarantees, sources have reported. Human rights defenders assert that asylum requests in Europe, especially submitted by North-Caucasians, are considered superficially.

August 25, 2020 10:52

• Arrest of Ingush activist Isropil Nalgiev extended

  The court extended the arrest of Isropil Nalgiev, accused of attacking a law enforcer during a rally in Magas on March 26, 2019, by two months. The activist denies the prosecution's version of political motives of his attack.

August 25, 2020 10:42

• Azeri analysts treat exchange of captured Armenian officer as possible

  Gurgen Alaverdyan, the captured Armenian officer, faces criminal prosecution, but Azerbaijan can exchange him and two other convicted Armenian military servicemen for the Azerbaijani citizens kept in jails in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Armenia. This is the opinion of Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, and Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO "Military Officers".