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June 14, 2021 17:24

• Azerbaijani court sentences mercenary from Lebanon to 20 years in prison

  The court has found Viken Euldjekzhiyan guilty of terrorism, mercenarism and illegal border crossing. He refused to plead guilty, claiming that he had led a peaceful life in Armenia and was captured on the Lachin highway.

June 14, 2021 17:22

• Pashinyan claims transfer of only "small part" of minefield maps to Baku

  The minefield maps that Yerevan has handed over to Baku in exchange for 15 militaries make an essential, but only small part of the information about minefields, Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, has stated.

June 14, 2021 17:14

• Social network users condemn law enforcer for disclosing Taramova's shelter

  Three video clips have been posted on the Instagram of the "Marem" project, which allegedly show the man who took testimony from Khalimat Taramova shortly before her detention and extradition to Chechnya. It was he who had informed Chechen law enforcers about the girl's whereabouts at the Makhachkala shelter, social network users have suggested.

June 14, 2021 17:00

• Activists demand to take all pupils out of Ninotsminda orphanage

  At the rally held in front of the Georgian Parliament, NGO activists demanded to let the Ombudsperson into the boarding school in Ninotsminda and to remove all the pupils from there. In his turn, the Church spokesman has stated that the Patriarchy is not going to close the boarding school.

June 14, 2021 11:43

• Relative of pupil of Ninotsminda orphanage detained for threats

  An uncle of a witness in the case of child abuse at the boarding school named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda has been accused of threatening his nephew, the Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

June 14, 2021 11:33

• Remains of eight militaries found in Gadrut District

  The total number of remains of Armenian militaries found in the Karabakh conflict zone has reached 1576.

June 13, 2021 12:07

• Azerbaijan exchanges 15 Armenian militaries for minefield maps in Agdam

  Today, fifteen military servicemen held by Azerbaijan were handed over to Armenia in exchange for the maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines placed in the Agdam District, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

June 13, 2021 11:32

• Volgograd picketers call the Day of Russia a tragic date

  In Volgograd, activists of the "Left-Wing Front" have held three solo pickets criticizing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the adoption of the Declaration of the Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which is celebrated on June 12.

June 13, 2021 11:13

• Akhmed Pogorov's father urges Putin to release Ingush activists

  Sirazhudin Pogorov, an Ingush elder, has offered the Russian President to release, on the occasion of the Day of Russia, the arrested leaders of Ingush protests against the border agreement with Chechnya.

June 12, 2021 18:23

• Residents of Azerbaijan detained for violating ban on visiting Karabakh

  In the Kelbadjar District, policemen detained five residents who were trying to enter non-demined territories in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

June 12, 2021 17:38

• Activists state persecutions after congress of Oirat-Kalmyk nationals in Elista

  In Kalmykia, five activists reported that protocols were drawn up against them after they took part in the congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people held in Elista.

June 12, 2021 17:11

• Incident in Makhachkala shows violence victims' vulnerability in shelters

  The forced abduction of a girl from the crisis apartment in Makhachkala can undermine confidence of domestic violence victims in safety of shelters, Nailya Birarova, a social psychologist, is afraid.

June 12, 2021 13:32

• Law enforcers hand Taramova over to her family by deceit

  Khalimat Taramova, a resident of Chechnya, refused to leave the apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala with her father; and then she and her girl friend were persuaded to get into a car, promising to take them to a safe place. However, both residents of the shelter were brought to the building of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), where Taramova was given to her relatives, the journalist, Svetlana Anokhina, has informed.

June 12, 2021 13:18

• Pupils of Ninotsminda boarding school report threats after testifying

  Several former pupils of the Saint Nino boarding school in Ninotsminda have reported that after they gave testimonies to investigators, they received threats and were forced to leave their educational establishments.

June 12, 2021 08:52

• Court stops cases of all employees of Makhachkala shelter

  The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala has found no violations of the law in the actions of volunteers of the "Marem" project. The aim of the special operation of attacking the shelter was Khalimat Taramova, said Olga Gnezdilova, a lawyer of the "Legal Initiative"* project said.

June 12, 2021 08:39

• ECtHR awards compensation to Nagavkin for violation of his right to freedom

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the arrest and long custody in Volgograd of the activist, Igor Nagavkin, to be illegal. Russian authorities should pay him a compensation of 2700 euros.

June 11, 2021 22:43

• Khalimat Taramova asks for help because of threat to her life

  Khalimat Taramova, a daughter of one of the Ramzan Kadyrov’s close associates, had to flee Chechnya to save herself from domestic violence to which she was subjected because of her sexual orientation. In Chechnya, the young woman faces murder for “washing dirty linen of the family in public,” an activist from the “Russian LGBT Network” suggests.

June 11, 2021 22:24

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of a shelling attack on border

  Armenian soldiers opened fire from small arms at positions in the Kelbadjar District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

June 11, 2021 19:08

• Detainees from Makhachkala shelter complain about being beaten by police

  Lawyer Patimat Nuradinova reported about filing complaints to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about beating by the police of the people detained at a shelter apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala and the illegal keeping of the detainees at a law enforcement body.

June 11, 2021 18:51

• Villagers report details of search at Ingush imam’s house

  During a search, the police did not find any illegal items in a house of Adam Maloroev, the imam of the Sredniye Achaluki village. Law enforcers also questioned imam’s relatives, their fellow villagers said.