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August 02, 2021 22:41

• A tourist explains her video with a bone in Dargavs necropolis

  A female traveller, suspected of desecrating the remains after her video with a bone in the Dargavs necropolis in North Ossetia, explained her act by ignorance and confidence that it was a dummy. The young woman complained about threats on social media.

August 02, 2021 22:25

• Opposition boycotts first session of Armenian new parliament

  MPs from the opposition “Armenia” and "I Have the Honour" factions left the first session of the Armenian National Assembly of the eighth convocation, boycotting the discussion of the candidacy of Alen Simonyan, the speaker of the ruling “Civil Contract” Party, the “News-Armenia” reports today.

August 02, 2021 20:38

• On July 26-August 1, 2021, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of July 26-August 1, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were 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 02, 2021 20:24

• Heydarabad residents go to agricultural work in spite of shelling attacks

  Shootouts involving Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers take place away from the Heydarabad town, and people go about their daily activities and gather crops without fear of being hit by shelling attacks, local residents says.

August 02, 2021 20:08

• Pashinyan reappointed Prime Minister of Armenia

  The President of Armenia signed a decree on the appointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, whose candidacy was proposed by the “Civil Contract” faction on the first day of the work of the new parliament.

August 02, 2021 14:27

• Chechen law enforcers punish authors of inscriptions on road bumpers

  In the Vedeno District, police found the people who had left inscriptions on the bumpers on the highway in Kezenoi-Am and forced them to paint the inscriptions over, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Tourism has announced, treating it as "public works."

August 02, 2021 14:10

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling on NAR border

  Tonight, Armenian servicemen shelled the Azeri positions located near the dwelling settlement of Heydarabad of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Azerbaijani militaries opened fire back, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 02, 2021 13:51

• Three Dagestani residents detained on suspicion of blood feud motivated murder

  Three residents of Dagestan have been detained on suspicion of organizing a kidnapping and killing a citizen of Tajikistan; a resident of the Moscow Region has been detained with them. According to investigators, blood feud was the motive for committing the crime.

August 02, 2021 11:11

• Zhirinovsky reacts to protest note of Azerbaijani MFA

  In response to the protest note put forward by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which treated Vladimir Zhirinovsky's statements about Ilham Aliev as offensive, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) has reminded officials about the freedom of speech, called the Azerbaijani President a wise leader and admitted that his party was against the deployment of Russian troops in Southern Caucasus.

August 02, 2021 10:43

• Network users doubt the release of Chechen blogger

  Ayub Vakhaevich, a native of Chechnya, has posted the first video clip after his disappearance, in which he assures that he is at large and everything is OK with him. Commentators have treated the video as staged one and doubted that the blogger was really at large.

August 02, 2021 10:28

• Resident of Udmurtia freed from labour slavery in Dagestan

  Ivan Yakovlev managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan twice; at first he worked at a brick factory, then on a farm as a shepherd, the "Alternativa" anti-slavery movement has reported. Commentators are outraged by the widespread use of forced labour in Dagestan.

August 01, 2021 11:54

• Renewed hostilities have no affect on dwelling settlements in Azerbaijani Kelbadjar District

  The forced migrants have not yet returned to the border villages of the Kelbadjar District, which came under Azerbaijan's control after the 2020 war; therefore, the hostilities there are no threat for civilians. This was stated by Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, and Bakhruz Bairamov, a member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association.

August 01, 2021 11:52

• Yerevan analysts are sceptical about idea to place Russian militaries on Azerbaijani border

  The presence of Russian border guards can ensure stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, but Moscow has to account for Baku's opinion, Boris Navasardyan, the head of the Yerevan Press Club and Kirill Krivosheev, a journalist, believe.

August 01, 2021 11:50

• Advocates state grave condition of Eldar Gasanov, former Azerbaijani GPO head

  The defence of Eldar Gasanov, the former Public General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan, has appealed to authorities in connection with his grave health condition. They ask for help in changing his freedom restraint measure so that Gasanov could receive high quality medical care.

August 01, 2021 11:48

• Memo for tourists coming to North Ossetia appeared after Chechnya and Dagestan

  In North Ossetia, the use of strong alcohol is unacceptable, one should not show one's feelings in public and smoke, says the memo for tourists. The booklet also prescribes the dress code for visiting mountain sanctuaries.

August 01, 2021 11:45

• Azerbaijani Army soldier perishes

  The Azerbaijani MoD has launched an inquiry into the death of Private Shamil Aslanov. According to the preliminary version, the soldier died because of violating the rules for handling firearms.

August 01, 2021 11:43

• Armenia claims shelling on border with NAR

  Azerbaijani militaries have opened fire on Armenian positions in the Ararat Region and damaged a military logistics service vehicle, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

July 31, 2021 23:59

• Baku court refuses to release activist Agil Magerramov before term

  The court has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Agil Magerramov, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence has treated the judgement as unfair and intends to appeal against it.

July 31, 2021 23:58

• Nina Tseretilova, resident of Dagestan, complains about court's inaction after her children were stolen

  Court marshals arrived at the house of Magomed Tseretilov in Buynaksk to enforce the court decision on the transfer of children to their mother, but the procedure was disrupted because of marshals' inaction, Nina Tseretilova has complained. In his turn, Shamil Khadulaev, Magomed Tseretilov's advocate, insists that the children themselves refused to leave with their mother.

July 31, 2021 23:53

• Missing Makhachkala resident found in SIZO

  Timurlan Abakarov, a resident of Makhachkala, whose relatives had announced his kidnapping, was found in the SIZO (pre-trial prison). He is suspected of illegal arms possession, his advocate has informed.