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March 14, 2020 21:25

• Armenian Premier and his wife pass coronavirus test

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, and his wife, Anna Akopyan, have self-isolated after her visit to Brazil. Their coronavirus test results are expected today.

March 14, 2020 16:25

• Journalist leaves North Ossetia in protest against discrimination of female athletes

  Kristina Kokaeva, a journalist, has quit the "Ossetia-Iryston" TV Channel after she was prohibited to invite the female athletes, who practise "masculine" sports, to take part in her broadcasts.

March 14, 2020 16:21

• Azerbaijan reports sniper shelling from Armenian side

  During the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 30 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

March 14, 2020 16:11

• Young man's apologies show viability of clannish honour ideas in Chechnya

  A video clip of Marat Tsumaev's apologies is in line with public repentance for insulting women, traditional for the Chechen society, said Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

March 14, 2020 11:30

• Mass events banned in Azerbaijan due to coronavirus

  Because of the spread of coronavirus in Azerbaijan, all mass events have been cancelled for a month; the work of cinemas, entertainment centres and gyms is prohibited; the work of public catering establishments is limited.

March 14, 2020 11:18

• Makhachkala residents report summoning to police for visiting "Tangim" Mosque

  After the Friday namaz (prayer), more than 40 law enforcers were stopping the cars of the visitors to the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala and copying out their personal data. One of the believers was put on the so-called "prophylactic registry" after visiting the "Tangim"; and another reported being summoned to the police.

March 13, 2020 23:54

• Armenia and Azerbaijan exchange accusations of shelling attacks

  The Ministry of Defence of Armenia reported about a shelling attack on its positions near the city of Ijevan, while the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reported about a shelling attack on residential buildings in the village of Abbasbeili.

March 13, 2020 23:49

• Experts treat awarding of Ramzan Kadyrov's relatives as unprecedented facts

  Ramzan Kadyrov is the only Russian governor who distributes orders and medals to his close relatives, note experts on the oriental studies interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Such actions stimulate subordinates of the Chechen leader to serve him with special zeal, explains Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

March 13, 2020 23:44

• Two weeks of searching for brothers disappeared in Ingushetia bring no results

  The Ingush police did not succeed in a search for Khamzat and Ilez Dzeitov brothers, who were put on the wanted list after their arrival to the republic on February 27. Nothing in the brothers' behaviour would confirm the version that they had been allegedly recruited by militants, notes a father of the Dzeitov brothers.

March 13, 2020 23:39

• Immodest video about daughter of Kadyrov's adviser conflicts with Chechen traditions

  A video, shot on behalf of a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, the adviser to the leader of Chechnya, where the girl is called the "sultana of the sun and moon," does not comply with the Chechen ideas about nobility, Caucasian experts note. The demonstration of luxury style life on the video looks ostentatious, residents of the Chechen republic agree.

March 13, 2020 23:35

• Armenia extends quarantine in educational institutions because of coronavirus

  In Armenia, classes in educational institutions are suspended until March 23 after the detection of new cases of the coronavirus infection.

March 13, 2020 16:39

• Sources report searches within the case of violence at rally in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers are conducting searches in two houses of residents of Sunzha, sources have reported. According to their story, the searches have to do with the protests held in Magas in March 2019.

March 13, 2020 16:32

• ECtHR finds rights violation of Azerbaijani lawyer Ismailov

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint of the Azerbaijani lawyer, Aslan Ismailov about expelling him from the Bar Association, finding a violation of his right to a fair trial. However, the ECtHR did not appoint any compensation, since Ismailov had failed to put forward such a claim on time.

March 13, 2020 11:49

• Russian Embassy gets interested in Tumso's attempt case

  The Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has stated that after the assassination attempt on him, he expects no change in the position of Swedish authorities, who refused to provide him with political asylum. The Russian Embassy has asked Sweden to organize a telephone conversation with the Russians detained under the assassination attempt case on Tumso, committed in the city of Gävle.

March 13, 2020 11:40

• Georgian business suffers massive losses due to coronavirus

  The tourist business suffers losses; employees are fired; and hotels are massively closed, a female employee of one of tourist companies has stated. Panic caused by coronavirus collapsed the Georgian national currency versus US dollar, the National Bank has informed.

March 13, 2020 11:33

• One month later, search for Dagestanis who disappeared in Chechnya is still fruitless

  The whereabouts of the three residents of Derbent who disappeared in Grozny on February 10 is still unknown, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed. The mother of one of the missing persons has complained that law enforcement bodies fail to inform relatives about the course of the search.

March 13, 2020 11:29

• Social network users look for excuse for scandalous video with daughter of Kadyrov's adviser

  Kheda, a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, did not take part in the video, where she was called the "Sultana of Sun and Moon"; the video clip was a surprise gift, filmed by her relatives for her birthday, social network users assert. Some of them have suggested that the clip was a trolling.

March 12, 2020 23:57

• Court extends arrest of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  In Makhachkala, the court granted the motion filed by investigators and extended the pre-trial restriction measure to Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft), until May 13.

March 12, 2020 23:53

• First patient with coronavirus dies in Azerbaijan

  A woman from Azerbaijan who visited Iran has died from a coronavirus, the operational headquarters under the Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers reports.

March 12, 2020 23:49

• Residents of Abkhazia call themselves hostages of closed border with Georgia

  Border guards refuse to let residents of near-border regions returning from Georgia to Abkhazia enter the country and explain their refusal by the absence of rapid tests for coronavirus infection. Residents of the Gali District who left for Georgia to earn money, get medical treatment, or attend funeral ceremonies, have to stay in hotels.