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March 06, 2020 11:56

• Azerbaijani advocate Shakhla Gumbatova awarded for human rights defence

  Shakhla Gumbatova, whose powers as a lawyer are suspended in Azerbaijan, has become a laureate of the US Department of State's International Award "Women of Courage".

March 06, 2020 11:41

• Relatives of convicted Astrakhan residents complain about ban on visits

  The guilt of five residents of the Astrakhan Region, sentenced to long terms under the case of a unit of the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court), has not been proved; the verdict will be appealed against, the advocates have stated. Relatives complain that they could not see the defendants from the day they were detained.

March 06, 2020 08:45

• Azerbaijani military serviceman killed on Armenian border

  Pashazade Orkhan Nazim oglu, an Azerbaijani border guard, was mortally wounded during a shelling attack committed by Armenia, the Azerbaijani State Frontier Service has stated.

March 06, 2020 08:32

• Despite protests, Azerbaijani CC approves election outcomes

  Despite the objections of hundreds of candidates for MPs, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Azerbaijan has declared that the parliamentary elections have taken place. On March 5, outside the CC building, protesters promised to complain to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about election violations.

March 06, 2020 08:22

• Dagestani authorities ignore Gasanguseinov's pickets

  For the second day in a row, Dagestan authorities make no reaction to the pickets held by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers. He explains his pickets by an attempt to prevent new killings of innocent people by law enforcers.

March 05, 2020 22:33

• "7x7": Dagestani native sentenced for terrorism claims torture

  In Yaroslavl, law enforcers planted explosives to Arthur Kadiev, a native of Dagestan, and tortured him to force him to confess to plotting a terror act, the journal "7x7"reports.

March 05, 2020 22:20

• Analysts rule out threat to Russian-Abkhaz relations from Valery Bganba's ultimatum

  A sharp statement voiced by the acting President of Abkhazia, who demanded from the Russian authorities to justify the Russian media's reports about the poisoning of Aslan Bzhaniya, was addressed to the Abkhaz electorate on the eve of the presidential election and would not entail any deterioration in the Russian-Abkhaz relations. This opinion was voiced by analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 05, 2020 22:08

• Dagestani MIA recognizes policeman's misconduct in street conflict

  In a conflict between residents of Dagestan and law enforcers, both sides behaved inappropriately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MA) of Dagestan declares.

March 05, 2020 17:35

• Sources report detentions of activists in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers detained two persons after searches in a case on a rally in Magas, and one more person was put on the wanted list, sources report.

March 05, 2020 17:25

• Azerbaijan claims sniper shelling attacks in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 25 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

March 05, 2020 14:45

• Azerbaijani political emigrant detained in Belgium

  On March 4, in Brussels, law enforcers detained Fuad Akperov, a member of the organization of Azerbaijani political emigrants. His colleagues have linked the detention with Fuad's political activities.

March 05, 2020 14:27

• Swedish media link attack on Tumso with killings of Kadyrov's opponents in Europe

  Jens Shelund, an advocate for Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has drawn attention of Swedish media to the blood feud announced by Speaker Magomed Daudov to the blogger. The assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili has caused a political scandal; therefore, new executions of Kadyrov's critics are presented as domestic crimes, the "Vaifond" Association asserts.

March 05, 2020 11:28

• Freedom House treats Russia and Azerbaijan as non-free countries

  In 2019, human rights violations and persecutions of activists continued in Russia and Azerbaijan, says the report of the international organization "Freedom House" released on March 4. Human rights defenders ranked Georgia and Armenia as partly free countries.

March 05, 2020 11:14

• Kadyrov scolds critics of his cadre policy

  Ramzan Kadyrov has criticized those residents of Chechnya, who are dissatisfied with the fact that he appoints his close relatives to high republic's posts. He has labelled the opponents of such a cadre policy as "goats" and "shaitans".

March 05, 2020 11:01

• Gasanguseinov urges Putin to speed up inquiry into his sons' killing

  Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered shepherd brothers, has resumed his actions in Makhachkala demanding to investigate his sons' assassination.

March 05, 2020 08:39

• Shootout in Alkun is the fourth armed incident in Ingushetia over 12 months

  On March 4, the special operation, conducted in the village of Alkun, Sunzha District, during which a suspected militant was killed, was the first armed incident in Ingushetia in 2020 and the fourth one in the past 12 months. Law enforcers are searching for casualty's possible accomplices.

March 05, 2020 08:28

• Attempt on Tumso triggers splash of his opponents' activeness in Chechnya

  Over the week after the attack on Tumso Abdurakhmanov, Chingiz Akhmadov, the head of the pro-governmental "Chechnya Today" News Agency, placed four posts on the Instagram, in which he ridiculed the blogger's version of the assassination attempt. Some social network users have condemned Tumso's opponents for their persistent attempts to expose the blogger as a liar.

March 04, 2020 22:58

• South Ossetia allows emergency departures of its residents for medical treatment in Georgia

  Departure of residents of South Ossetia to Georgian hospitals is permitted, but upon their return, people will be subjected to quarantine for two weeks because of the coronavirus, the chief sanitary inspector of South Ossetia announces.

March 04, 2020 22:47

• One person killed during special operation in Ingushetia

  A person who fell victim to a special operation in the village of Alkun in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia was presumably a native of Dagestan.

March 04, 2020 18:03

• Valery Bganba delivers ultimatum to Russian Ambassador in Abkhazia

  The acting President of Abkhazia has demanded from the Russian Ambassador to submit the information on the basis of which the Russian media reported about poisoning of Aslan Bzhaniya. If no information is submitted, and the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation does not institute a case on poisoning, that will be regarded as an unfriendly act, the authorities of Abkhazia announce.