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June 24, 2021 18:32

• PACE reports unresolved problems with political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan’s authorities did not recognize the problem with political prisoners, described in the PACE resolution in January 2020, and the problem remains unresolved, the PACE declares in its new report.

June 24, 2021 16:39

• Dagestani residents oppose ban on mass worshiping

  Dagestani believers have expressed the opinion that the ban introduced in the region on worshiping with the presence of people is unjustified, since most of the residents have had coronavirus, while another part has been vaccinated.

June 24, 2021 16:19

• Zaza Gakheladze's relatives hold protest action in Ergneti village

  On June 23, in the village of Ergneti, oppositionists, activists and relatives of Zaza Gakheladze, who was convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, held a protest action demanding from Georgian authorities to take efficient actions to release him.

June 24, 2021 11:33

• Analysts treat Yerevan's influence on Azerbaijani border as minimal

  The Armenian party discussed the deployment of Russian peacemakers on the border with Azerbaijan even before the parliamentary elections in Armenia, but the main negotiations on this issue are underway between Moscow and Baku, analysts in Yerevan believe.

June 24, 2021 11:16

• Bobokvati residents announce endless protest action

  In the village of Bobokvati, protesters set up a tent and organized round-the-clock on duty post in the land plot, which authorities plan to sell to investors through an auction. These lands were illegally confiscated from local residents, activists assert.

June 24, 2021 11:04

• Azerbaijani activists treat reasons for criminal prosecution as political

  The conditional prison terms awarded to 12 members of the last group that took part in the rally in support of the army, held in July 2020 in Baku, have to do with the systematic persecution of the opposition, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has stated.

June 24, 2021 08:44

• Political analysts treat Kadyrov's participation in election of head of Chechnya as predictable

  The carte blanche issued by Putin to Kadyrov for taking part in the upcoming September elections has confirmed that Kadyrov's May statement about his readiness not to run for a new term was nothing more than ritual, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

June 24, 2021 08:31

• Three persons fall victim to shootout in Ingushetia

  One man was killed, and two others wounded in an Ingush village in a shootout that followed after a land dispute, said an informed source.

June 23, 2021 21:55

• Putin recommends Kadyrov to participate in election for leader of Chechnya

  Vladimir Putin voiced a proposal to Ramzan Kadyrov to participate in the autumn election in order to continue to lead Chechnya. Earlier, the Ramzan Kadyrov has declared he is not willing to be elected for a new term as the leader of Chechnya if even “a few percent of the population” are against his candidacy.

June 23, 2021 21:40

• Cossacks attack cyclists in centre of Stavropol

  A video posted on a social media site depicted how two cyclists were attacked by Cossacks on a pedestrian street in Stavropol, and one of them tried to throw a bicycle at a teenager.

June 23, 2021 19:12

• Family members of victims of Tu-154 plane crash near Sochi appeal to ECtHR

  A complaint has been filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of 70 relatives of those killed in a plane crash near Sochi. The affected people consider the closure of the criminal case and the refusal to pay compensation unreasonable, a plaintiffs’ lawyer reports today.

June 23, 2021 18:47

• Zaza Gakheladze’s father refuses to visit South Ossetia

  The Patriarchate of Georgia appealed to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a request to help in the release of Zaza Gakheladze and asked the convict’s father not to visit the territory of South Ossetia.

June 23, 2021 14:49

• Armenia relies on deployment of peacemakers in Gegarkunik Region

  Armenian authorities have offered to place Russian peacemakers on the problem border sections in the Gegarkunik Region, Artak Davtyan, the Chief of the Armenian General Staff, has reported about negotiations.

June 23, 2021 13:45

• Restaurateurs are pessimistic about eased restrictions in Georgia

  The softening of anti-covid restrictions will not save catering establishments, since people have almost stopped visiting restaurants due to financial problems; and there is no hope for tourists, professionals of Georgia's restaurant business believe.

June 23, 2021 11:37

• Rights defenders criticize ECtHR's decision on Radik Bapinaev's case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has failed to award compensation to relatives of Radik Bapinaev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was shot dead by law enforcers, which reduces the significance of its decision, human rights defenders assert.

June 23, 2021 11:24

• Akhmed Pogorov left in custody for three months more

  The court in Essentuki has extended the detention term of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, for other three months, despite the arguments of the defence about his poor health and his father's old age.

June 23, 2021 11:12

• Prosecution witness states innocence of Ingush protest leaders

  None of the defendants entered into physical confrontation with "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) agents, a prosecution witness in the case of Ingush activists has declared.

June 23, 2021 08:46

• Chechen investigators refuse treating Salman Tepsurkaev's wife as victim

  Elizaveta, Salman Tepsurkaev's wife, has received the third refusal to recognize her as a victim. The decision of Chechen investigators will be appealed against in court, said Leisan Mannapova, a lawyer with the Committee against Torture (CaT).

June 23, 2021 08:31

• Chechen authorities rely on unlawful methods of coercing to vaccination

  Chechnya is not among the regions with mandatory coronavirus vaccination, because local authorities prefer various forms of pressure on residents, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, believe.

June 22, 2021 22:41

• Human rights defender Orlov complains to ECtHR about threats from “Kadyrov killer”

  According to a complaint sent to the European Court, the threats that Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*, and his colleagues received in 2019, resulted from the Ramzan Kadyrov’s call to punish authors of gossips about Chechnya.