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June 17, 2021 23:59

• Human rights defenders demand to punish law enforcers after entering shelter for Taramova

  Law enforcers broke into an apartment shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala in civilian clothes, without presenting any warrants, the human rights group “Marem” claims.

June 17, 2021 23:57

• Erdoğan associates creation of a military base in Azerbaijan with position of Russia

  The condition for the appearance of a Turkish army base in Azerbaijan is the consultations of Ilham Aliev with Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan notes.

June 17, 2021 23:55

• Georgian citizen released from imprisonment in South Ossetia

  Lasha Khereteli was handed over to the Georgian side after serving a year in a Tskhinvali prison in a border violation case.

June 17, 2021 23:53

• Director of orphanage in Ninotsminda agrees with Ombudsperson to monitor institution

  The administration of an orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda will monitor the situation in the institution next week together with Georgia’s Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe, the director of the orphan boarding school, announces.

June 17, 2021 20:54

• Investigating Committee of Armenia reports number of soldiers missing in Karabakh

  In total, during the autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, 275 people are listed as missing from the Armenian side, the Investigating Committee of Armenia reports.

June 17, 2021 20:52

• Kadyrov threatens to impose severe coronavirus restrictions in Chechnya

  Chechen authorities will have to impose severe restrictions related to coronavirus in case the republic shows low vaccination rates, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

June 17, 2021 20:50

• Resident of Agdam blown up by a mine

  The body of Djasarat Khatemkhanov, who went missing on June 7, was found on June 16 in the Agdam District. He died after triggering an anti-personnel mine.

June 17, 2021 13:46

• Exchange of POWs for minefield maps gives arguments to Pashinyan's critics

  The exchange of 15 prisoners of war (POWs) for minefield maps has hardly brought Nikol Pashinyan any political benefits ahead of the elections, as it has weakened Armenia's negotiating positions, analysts in Yerevan believe. The minefield maps of the territories now under the control of Baku are no longer needed by Armenia, but the safety of local residents depends on them, said Telman Abilov, an Azerbaijani expert.

June 17, 2021 13:43

• Director of Ninotsminda boarding school announces reform plan

  The boarding school for orphans named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda will be transformed into three small boarding facilities, which will keep children who do not want to leave the institution, said the manager of the boarding school, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe. Authorities refuse to take decisive measures in relation to the boarding house, as wouldn't like to spoil relations with the church, which during election campaigns supports the ruling party, analysts believe.

June 17, 2021 13:42

• New manager of Ninotsminda boarding school announces staff cleansing

  Of the 40 educators, 19 will go on working at the boarding school, Bishop Yakov, the new head of the boarding school for orphans in Ninotsminda, has explained. He is ready to meet the Ombudsperson, but refused to let inspectors into the boarding school, explaining this by the children's potential psychological trauma.

June 17, 2021 13:40

• Instagram users dispute about forcing teens to apologize to Kadyrov

  A head of the region should pay no attention to adolescents' offensive posts that appear in social networks, the readers of the Chechen Instagram have pointed out in connection with another public apology to Ramzan Kadyrov. Their opponents, including the plenipotentiary of the head of Chechnya, have called for punishing Kadyrov's offenders with community works.

June 17, 2021 13:37

• Shusha Declaration evidences strengthening of Turkey's role in the Caucasus

  The declaration, signed by Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan in Shusha, demonstrates the increased role of Turkey in the region, while there are no benefits for Yerevan from the corridor suggested by Aliev and Erdogan, Armenian experts believe.

June 17, 2021 13:36

• Resident of Dagestan achieves, through the court, police's response about prophylactic registration

  Marat Shiraev, a resident of Makhachkala, who has been checked by policemen for several years, was only able to get a written response through the court from the police division that he was not under the so-called "prophylactic registration".

June 17, 2021 13:34

• Witnesses testify in favour of Ingush protest leaders

  Akhmed Barakhoev and Barakh Chemurziev did not call for violence at the rally in Magas and tried to calm the protesters down, Kureish Sapraliev, the head of the Public Security Department of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has stated.

June 17, 2021 07:35

• Russia’s Ombudsperson believes Chechen authorities’ information about Taramova

  Everything is in order with Khalimat Taramova, says Russia’s Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova. She refers to the information from the Chechen Prosecutor’s Office and the administration of the leader of the republic.

June 16, 2021 23:50

• 144 residents of Azerbaijan fell victim to mine explosions after autumn war

  Ilham Aliev associates multiple mine explosion casualties among civilians and military personnel after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh with the fact that Baku did not have maps of minefields. Without the maps, the process of demining may last 10 years, the President of Azerbaijan notes.

June 16, 2021 23:45

• Religious leaders of Northern Caucasus declare no alternatives to Hajj

  For the second year in a row, the authorities of Saudi Arabia restrict pilgrimages from other countries to Muslim shrines in Mecca and Medina in connection with the pandemic. According to religious leaders of Northern Caucasus, there are holy places in the republics of Northern Caucasus, for example, graves of prominent Islamic figures, and visiting those places are a good deed, but that will not replace a pilgrimage to Mecca, Medina, and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

June 16, 2021 22:02

• Law enforcers find hideout with ammunition in outskirt of Grozny

  A hideout with artillery shells, mines and a grenade launcher has been liquidated in the vicinity of Grozny region.

June 16, 2021 22:00

• Azerbaijani military analysts assess importance of Shusha Declaration

  By signing the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations, the heads of Azerbaijan and Turkey have fixed the results of the Karabakh war and formalized the legal basis for the countries' military alliance, analysts believe. The document guarantees the security of Azerbaijan and the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh under its control, Elkhan Shakhinoglu, the head of the "Atlas" Research Centre, has stated.

June 16, 2021 13:19

• Relatives of Zaza Gakheladze threaten Georgian authorities with protest actions

  The Georgian authorities must take efficient action to release Zaza Gakheladze, convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, his relatives have stated, threatening otherwise to hold protests.