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August 04, 2020 08:30

• Transgender people complain about insecurity of LGBT people in Azerbaijan

  Policemen have detained a suspect of attacking a transgender in Baku and launched an investigation. The country has no efficient mechanisms for protecting the rights of LGBT people, transgender people assert.

August 03, 2020 22:27

• Fourth participant of kidnapping in Ingushetia sentenced to forced labour

  In Ingushetia, a court pronounced a verdict against a local resident in a case on the use of violence against policemen who tried to prevent the kidnapping of a patient from a hospital in Nazran, the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia reports today.

August 03, 2020 22:20

• Azerbaijan reports about machine gun and sniper attacks in conflict zone

  Over 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani troops were 35 times shelled on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone, including from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 03, 2020 18:55

• FSB reports about mass detentions of arms makers in Southern Russia

  Residents of 12 regions, including Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, the Rostov Region, and Chechnya, were detained on suspicion of manufacturing firearms and ammunition, the Russian FSB reported.

August 03, 2020 18:40

• Instagram users criticize Kadyrov's report on distribution of sacrificial animals in Mecca

  The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation had distributed 1000 sacrificial animals to residents of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of the holiday of Eid al-Adha, the leader of Chechnya reported. In response, some Instagram users noted that the assistance should have been directed to the needy residents of the Chechen republic.

August 03, 2020 18:25

• Armenians attack citizens of Azerbaijan, Canadian Diaspora claims

  On August 2, the Azerbaijani Canadian Association announced that natives of Armenia took part in an attack on Azerbaijani citizens in Toronto. Two persons were injured during the clash, and one of them was hospitalized, the Embassy of Azerbaijan reported.

August 03, 2020 15:17

• On July 27-August 2, one person fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from July 27 to August 2, 2020, one person died during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information about the wounded ones was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

August 03, 2020 15:06

• Social networks criticize contest in honour of Aimani Kadyrova

  Chechnya is holding a contest among schoolchildren for the best video clip dedicated to Aimani Kadyrova, Ramzan Kadyrov's mother. Residents of Chechnya treat the contest as an attempt to plant the cult of the Kadyrov family.

August 03, 2020 14:59

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 27-August 2, 2020

  Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; celebration of Eid al-Adha amid the pandemic; opening of the border between Russia and Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 27-August 2, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 03, 2020 14:06

• Historians explain special attitude to Stalin in Georgia

  Many residents of Georgia are unaware of the scale of Stalin's repression and are proud of Joseph Stalin as their fellow countryman who held the highest post in the Soviet Union, historians said.

August 03, 2020 11:23

• Opening Russian border alarms Abkhazian officials

  At an emergency sitting, Alkhas Kondjariya, the deputy head of the Abkhazian Ministry of Public Health (MPH), said that the opening of the Abkhazian-Russian border amid the increase in the number of COVID-19 infected people was a surprise for the MPH.

August 03, 2020 11:07

• Mother of deceased Tamar Bachaliashvili demands meeting with Georgian Premier

  The Georgian Government should inform the relatives of the deceased programmer Tamar Bachaliashvili to which officials she had access to before her death, the girl's mother explained her demand to meet the Georgian Prime Minister.

August 03, 2020 10:55

• Muslims of Dagestan and Azerbaijan regret Hajj cancellation

  The Hajj cancellation for foreign pilgrims, imposed by the Saudi Arabian authorities in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, has disappointed Dagestani and Azerbaijani Muslims. However, many of them expressed hope that they would be able to make the pilgrimage next year.

August 03, 2020 10:42

• Activists demand releasing those arrested after Baku action

  Two more activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), Elnur Djabbarov and Mushvig Guliev, were arrested in Baku. Criminal charges were brought against them under three articles in connection with the action in support of the army. In total, at least 37 people have been prosecuted, human rights defenders and activists report, demanding the release of those arrested.

August 02, 2020 11:58

• Chechen residents criticize Kadyrov for violating mask regime on Eid al-Adha

  Ramzan Kadyrov, his relatives, and participants of religious rituals held in the house of the leader of Chechnya and at the grave of Akhmat Kadyrov ignored the requirements issued by the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare), although ordinary people are fined for such violations, local residents claim.

August 02, 2020 11:55

• Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of 170 shelling attacks during a week

  In the period starting from July 26, the Azerbaijani troops have fired about 1700 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

August 02, 2020 11:52

• PACE rapporteurs condemn mass arrests in Azerbaijan

  Three PACE rapporteurs monitoring Azerbaijan criticized the country's authorities for the mass detentions of participants of a protest action held in Baku on July 15 and the "fabricated" charges against activists.

August 02, 2020 11:48

• Radio Liberty: local traditions complicate lives of transgender women from Caucasus

  Transgender people from Northern Caucasus cannot renew their IDs and find themselves in Russia outside the law, because they are afraid to visit their homeland because of the intolerance of their fellow countrymen. As a result, transgender people from Northern Caucasus often end up in the sex industry and are ready to flee the country, Radio Liberty reports in an interview with a transgender woman from Dagestan.

August 01, 2020 23:59

• In Ingushetia, believers modestly celebrate Eid al-Adha holiday

  Residents of Ingushetia could not afford to buy meat on the holiday of Eid al-Adha because of financial difficulties, since prices for meat increased significantly before the holiday, believers reported.

August 01, 2020 23:57

• Residents of Chechnya support throwing out of Tsarnaev's death sentence in USA

  The decision of the US Court of Appeal to revise the verdict to Chechen native Dzhokhar Tsarnaev provoked a resonance in Chechen Instagram public accounts. Residents of Chechnya believe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not involved in a terror act at the Boston Marathon in 2013.