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June 11, 2021 18:37

• Police take Khalimat Taramova from Dagestan to Chechnya

  Chechen native Khalimat Taramova and her female friend from Perm were kidnapped and taken to Chechnya after a police raid to a Makhachkala apartment for victims of domestic violence, the “Russian LGBT Network” reported.

June 11, 2021 13:34

• KBR teenager publicly apologizes to Kadyrov

  A minor resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has asked Ramzan Kadyrov to forgive him for the video with insults, says the post in the Chechen Instagram public.

June 11, 2021 13:13

• Remains of four soldiers found in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Near the cities of Varanda and Djrakan (Djebrail), Karabakh rescuers have found remains of four soldiers, thus, bringing the total number of bodies and remains found to 1567, the Nagorno-Karabakh emergency service has informed.

June 11, 2021 12:28

• Disappearance of Khalimat Taramova triggers alarm among social network users

  Among the inhabitants of the crisis apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala, whom law enforcers took to the police division in Makhachkala, there was no Chechen woman, Khalimat Taramova, who ran away from her relatives because of beatings; her fate remains unknown.

June 11, 2021 12:06

• Volgograd court upholds fine imposed on Navalny's supporter

  The Volgograd Regional Court has refused to satisfy the complaint lodged by the activist, Timofei Andronov, who asked to cancel his fine of 20,000 roubles imposed for his participation in the action in support of Alexei Navalny on April 21, 2021.

June 11, 2021 11:51

• Armenian and Azerbaijani MODs accuse each other of shelling

  Azerbaijani positions came under fire on the Armenian border, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated. Armenian militaries were forced to open fire after being shelled while trying to stop engineering works at the border section in Gegarkunik Region, the Armenian MoD has stated in its turn.

June 11, 2021 08:40

• Social network users criticize Chechen law enforcers for humiliating offenders

  Inspectors of the traffic police (known as the GIBDD) of Chechnya have not only chastised the offenders of traffic rules, but also spread a video of the "prophylactic briefing" in social networks, thus, humiliating them, Instagram users have pointed out.

June 11, 2021 08:25

• Azerbaijani GPO sends cases of 26 Armenian militaries to court

  A preliminary inquiry is over in relation to 26 figurants of the criminal case against Azerbaijani militaries and civilians, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) reported on June 10 in a joint statement with the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan.

June 10, 2021 23:17

• Analysts point to Kremlin’s key role in border demarcation between Chechnya and Dagestan

  The dispute around the border between Chechnya and Dagestan will be won by the side supported by the federal centre, and any full-fledged negotiations will unlikely take place between the republics. This opinion was voiced by Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, and political analyst Ali Magomadov.

June 10, 2021 22:57

• Journalist claims being beaten for investigation about “Akhmat” fight club

  Medical officers diagnosed journalist Andrei Afanasiev with a broken nose. He was beaten in the Amur Region after launching an investigation with regard to managers of the local branch of the “Akhmat” fight club. Andrei Afanasiev said that attackers explained their actions as revenge for his activities.

June 10, 2021 22:27

• Human rights defenders consider Chechen penal colony dangerous for Gadaev

  Magomed Gadaev, who was deported from France, is sentenced to a short term of imprisonment, but unfairly, and the actual conditions in a penal colony-settlement on the territory of Chechnya may turn out to be worse than in a high-security penal colony, human rights defenders note.

June 10, 2021 19:56

• Nukhanov complains to ECtHR about torture for video about houses of Kadyrov’s associates

  In a complaint filed to the European Court of Human Rights, human rights defenders pointed out that Islam Nukhanov, an author of the video about the wealth of the persons from among the associates of the leader of Chechnya, was sentenced based on confessions knocked out under torture.

June 10, 2021 19:40

• Ingush activist Ali Khamkhoev sentenced to nine months of imprisonment in a penal colony

  The Zheleznovodsk City Court found Ali Khamkhoev, a participant in a rally in Magas, guilty of using violence against a fighter of the National Guard of Russia. However, taking into account the time spent by the defendant in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), the Court released the activist from custody. Ali Khamkhoev became the 37th activist sentenced to imprisonment for participation in the protests in Ingushetia, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reported.

June 10, 2021 19:27

• Kocharyan’s supporters detained at a protest action in Yerevan

  In Yerevan, a protest action took place against the Nikol Pashinyan’s participation in the parliamentary elections. Several dozen supporters of former President Robert Kocharyan were taken to a police station after clashes with law enforcers in front of the Armenian government building.

June 10, 2021 14:04

• Shukruti villagers stop hunger strike

  Residents of the Georgian village of Shukruti, located in Imereti, who demand compensations for their destroyed houses, have achieved the appraisal of the damage and ended their hunger strike, the protesters have informed.

June 10, 2021 13:36

• Elchin Mamed's mother claims deterioration of his health in colony

  The health condition of Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, has deteriorated in the colony due to absence of medical treatment, his mother has stated. The issue of Mamed's transfer to the prison hospital is being solved, human rights defenders have informed.

June 10, 2021 11:29

• Experts dispute on UN role and position in Armenian-Azeri border conflict

  After the collapse of the USSR, the United Nations (UN) recognized the independence of Azerbaijan and Armenia, without specifying their borders, since this is not its responsibility, experts assert.

June 10, 2021 11:11

• Melikov's threats draw attention to forced trend of vaccination campaign

  Sergey Melikov has resorted to threats of layoffs because of vaccination low rates to create an image of the efficient Dagestani leader, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.

June 10, 2021 10:57

• Rights defenders and activists hope for fair inquiry into Vekil Abdullaev's murder

  The release from custody of policeman, Alexander Gusev, suspected of killing the ethnic Azeri, Vekil Abdullaev, in the Novosibirsk Region, is not counter the law and does not mean that he will evade responsibility, said the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

June 10, 2021 08:24

• Garibashvili rules out construction of Namakhvan HPP on current conditions

  The government will seek better conditions from the "Enka" Company for the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP), Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia, has stated.