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April 29, 2021 18:59

• FSB reports about detention in Kuban of supporters of a radical grouping

  The FSB of Russia reported about the detention in nine Russian cities, including Krasnodar and Anapa, of 16 supporters of the “M.K.U.” extremist community, who were plotting massacres and terror acts. The detainees were receiving instructions from the leader of the grouping, Yegor Krasnov, a citizen of Ukraine, reported the video posted by law enforcers.

April 29, 2021 13:07

• EU demands from Baku to return Armenian POWs

  The Azerbaijani authorities must provide the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with all the information about the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) captured in Nagorno-Karabakh and expedite their return to their homeland, the European Union (EU) has stated.

April 29, 2021 12:42

• Authors of hiking project note recreational potentials of Northern Caucasus

  A group of enthusiasts has announced fundraising for the creation of the first hiking trail in the regions Northern Caucasus from the Caspian to the Black Sea. The tourist trail will help the economic development of the Caucasus, the authors of the project believe.

April 29, 2021 11:40

• Victims put forward no claims against Ingush activists

  The four "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) servicemen, interrogated on April 28 as victims in the case of the leaders of the Ingush protest, told the court that they had no claims against the defendants, and found it difficult to explain why they had treated them as guilty of organizing a rally in Magas, the advocates has informed.

April 29, 2021 11:27

• Source treats the man killed in Ingushetia as not linked with militants

  The car driver shot dead by law enforcers in Nazran was not a militant, a law enforcement source has stated. Instagram users demand proofs that law enforcers had reasons to use firearms.

April 29, 2021 10:59

• Instagram users complain about extortions in Chechen medical institutions

  A message from a Shali woman, who complained that doctors of the local hospital are incompetent and claim money even for services that are supposed to be provided for free, was posted on the Instagram. Users sympathize with the woman and share their own negative impressions of visiting Chechen medical institutions.

April 29, 2021 08:36

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Said Mamedzade sentenced to real prison term

  Said Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on charges of hooliganism. His defence has disagreed with the verdict and stated its intent to appeal against it. The PFPA is sure that Mamedzade is being persecuted for political reasons.

April 29, 2021 08:18

• One person killed in a shootout with law enforcers in Ingushetia

  A car driver was shot dead in Nazran after he put up armed resistance to law enforcers, law enforcement sources have reported.

April 28, 2021 23:05

• HRC “Memorial”* recognizes Akhmed Pogorov as a political prisoner

  The criminal proceedings against Akhmed Pogorov, like other Ingush activists, are of political reasons and aimed at stopping public criticism of the authorities. Human rights defenders demand the immediate release of the Ingush activists, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

April 28, 2021 22:47

• Natives of Caucasus stop their hunger strike after concessions from colony administration

  Ten prisoners, including three residents of Dagestan and a native of Azerbaijan, stopped their protest in one of the penal colonies of the Smolensk Region. Some of the prisoners’ demands have already been met, their relatives say today.

April 28, 2021 18:19

• Court leaves Magamadov and Isaev in custody

  Today, the Supreme Court of Chechnya has refused to grant an appeal filed by the defence against the decision to arrest Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev. Advocates from the “Russian LGBT Network” insist that the Ismail Isaev’s term of detention expired weeks before the decision on his arrest.

April 28, 2021 17:31

• Disputes over pardoning law enforcers exacerbate political conflict in Georgia

  The law enforcers who took part in the harsh dispersal of a rally in Tbilisi in June 2019 should be pardoned only with the consent of victims of their actions, the Georgian opposition states. During the rallies, people suffered both from the police actions and from the actions of the opposition, MPs from the ruling “Georgian Dream” Party argue.

April 28, 2021 13:45

• Refugees in Nagorno-Karabakh complain about difficulties in obtaining housing

  The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh are providing temporary housing to refugees from the territories that have passed over to Azerbaijan on time; however, they are protracting the provision of permanent housing, refugees have complained.

April 28, 2021 13:19

• Nagorno-Karabakh's Ombudsperson complains about pilgrims' non-admission to Dadivank

  The Azerbaijani party has not allowed a group of pilgrims to visit the Dadivank Christian Monastery on their way to the ordination ceremony of ministers of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh has claimed.

April 28, 2021 12:02

• Analysts welcome idea of holding talks on Ingush-Chechen border

  Any negotiations on the disputed territories on the Ingush-Chechen border are better than confrontation, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the prepared meeting of leaders of "Mekhk-Khel" with Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

April 28, 2021 11:23

• UN experts call on Azeri authorities to release Gusein Abdullaev

  The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Arrests has demanded to immediately release Gusein Abdullaev, a former Azerbaijani MP, who is serving his term in a colony.

April 28, 2021 08:34

• Rights defenders achieve revision of Kardashov's disappearance case

  The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has supported the human rights defenders who demanded to reconsider the conditional sentences passed to two employees of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), accused of exceeding their powers when detaining Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan, and ruled to send the case for a new trial.

April 28, 2021 08:20

• Armenian Ombudsperson urges to create buffer zone near border villages

  The villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia should be separated from Azerbaijani border posts by a special security zone, since a resident of one of Armenian communities was attacked, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated.

April 27, 2021 22:40

• President Aliev voices “last warning” for Armenia

  While commenting on an incident with a shelling attack in the direction of the village of Seyidlyar, Ilham Aliev has said that Azerbaijani border guards will fire for effect in case of new shelling attacks on the border with Armenia.

April 27, 2021 22:07

• Chechen resident reports about forced vaccination for law enforcers

  In the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, the police personnel were vaccinated against coronavirus infection without finding out if some of them had any contraindications, a local resident reports.