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April 07, 2021 20:28

• Azerbaijan: activists demand explanations from Moscow on use of "Iskanders" in Karabakh

  A group of Azerbaijani journalists and bloggers has demanded from the Russian party to officially comment on the use of "Iskander" missile complexes in the recent Karabakh, as well as to investigate the use thereof in shelling of Shusha.

April 07, 2021 12:12

• Organizers of "Artdocfest" decide to show films about Chechen gays online

  The "Artdocfest" festival has posted the film "Welcome to Chechnya" about the persecution of gays on its online platform; they are also preparing an online screening of the documentary "Quiet Voice". In Moscow, "the rules of life are dictated from Chechnya," said the programme director of the festival in connection with the pressure on the organizers.

April 07, 2021 12:03

• Russian screenwriter receives threats over "Topi" serial episodes with a Chechen woman

  The serial "Topi" (Moors) to the scenario by Dmitry Glukhovsky, has outraged social network users from Chechnya, who treated the behaviour of the film's heroine as immoral. Some commentators demanded apologies from the writer; others expressed direct threats against him, after which Glukhovsky's personal data appeared on the Internet, including his address and cell phone number.

April 07, 2021 11:56

• Nagorno-Karabakh residents report damage to nearly 7000 dwellings facilities

  During the shelling in the fall of 2020, in the territory controlled by Karabakh authorities, a total of 6943 apartments and private houses were completely destroyed or damaged, as it follows from the applications submitted by local residents. In their turn, authorities counted 24 unrecoverable and 58 badly destroyed houses in Stepanakert and Martuni District.

April 06, 2021 23:59

• Russian analysts do not agree while assessing versions on use of Iskander in Karabakh war

  Armenia may have a non-export version of Iskander missile systems, despite the Russia’s commitments not to provide such type of weapons to other countries, experts say. Direct sales to Yerevan of weapons intended for the Russian army have unlikely taken place, analyst Alexander Golts believes. He also doubts very much the possibility of Russia using Iskander missile systems during the Karabakh conflict.

April 06, 2021 23:57

• Chechen prosecutors to check a video with a young woman shooting from a pistol

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has announced launching a check after a video posted on the Internet with a young woman firing a pistol into the air in a public place. Instagram users suggested that the video was filmed at a wedding party.

April 06, 2021 23:52

• Residents of Sunzha District alarmed by law enforcers’ activities

  In Ingushetia, law enforcers accumulated their vehicles in the streets of several villages in the Sunzha District, and their activities were accompanied by a shutdown of mobile internet service, eyewitnesses say. The law enforcers did not explain to the local residents what was happening, the villagers complain.

April 06, 2021 23:49

• “Musavat” Party activist arrested in Azerbaijan

  On April 5, Nizami Suleimanov, a member of the “Musavat” Party, was detained in the village of Surakhany. He was arrested for 20 days on the charge of drug trafficking, the “Musavat” Party reports. Colleagues of Nizami Suleimanov treat his arrest as pressure on the opposition.

April 06, 2021 23:45

• Political analysts point to likelihood of Kadyrov's re-election as head of Chechnya

  Ramzan Kadyrov's chances of being re-elected in September for a new term is office are great, since the Kremlin still treats him favourably, while Kadyrov's tense relations with law enforcers have smoothed out, experts gave stated.

April 06, 2021 18:43

• Filmmaker of "Quiet Voice" details threats received for his film about Chechen gay

  The filmmaker of the documentary "Quiet Voice" telling about the fate of a Chechen gay man was forced to close his account in a social network after the threats received from anonymous users who sent, among other things, a frightening video clip. The member of the Chechen community, after whose visit the film was removed from screening, behaved politely when they met, the organizers of the "Artdocfest" festival said.

April 06, 2021 17:45

• Baku and Yerevan analysts dispute about use of "Iskanders" in Karabakh conflict

  While demining the city of Shusha, Azerbaijani sappers have found fragments of "Iskander" missiles. Some experts assert that this type of missiles is exclusively among Russia's weapons. The scandal around the "Iskander" missile complexes may seriously harm Moscow's image as a mediator in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, experts in Baku believe. Their colleagues in Yerevan parry that Azerbaijan is using the "Iskander" issue for its political purposes.

April 06, 2021 11:33

• Azerbaijan: rights defenders update list of political prisoners

  The Union "For Freedom of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners" has released an updated list of those convicted for political reasons, which includes 111 persons. This year's March pardoning failed in solving the problem, since only 38 persons from the previous list were set free.

April 06, 2021 11:30

• Horsemen's march to Dagestan coincides with Chechen authorities' political line

  An equestrian march to the grave of Baisangur Benoevsky in Dagestan was a grassroots initiative, but such actions are approved by Ramzan Kadyrov, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender, and Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a blogger.

April 06, 2021 11:28

• Makhachkala: picketers support journalist Gadjiev

  The picketers in Makhachkala have demanded the release of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly and stop unjustified arrests. People's interest in the Gadjiev case remains high, his colleagues assert.

April 06, 2021 11:26

• After relatives' complaints, Azerbaijani activist Salaev receives medical help in colony

  Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), whose relatives complained about non-provision of medical care in the colony, was examined by doctors who prescribed some treatment. After that, he went on the mend, his son has informed.

April 05, 2021 23:56

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of refusing to provide maps of minefields

  After the escalation of the Karabakh conflict in 2020, 106 Azerbaijani citizens were blown up by mines, and Armenia still has not provided its maps of mined territories, Baku reports. The UN has allocated one million US dollars to Azerbaijan for mine clearance.

April 05, 2021 23:51

• SC schedules a date to consider complaint about Kadyrov’s death threats against critics

  Human rights defenders who demanded to carry out an investigation into threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov found themselves without access to justice. Investigators refused to issue any resolution on their complaints, and the court dismissed the complaint about the investigators’ inaction because they had not issued any resolution, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reported.

April 05, 2021 18:17

• Premiere of a film about Chechen gay disrupted at “Artdocfest” film festival

  Tickets for the premiere of the film “Quiet Voice” about the fate of a Chechen gay were bought out after organizers of the “Artdocfest” documentary film festival did not fulfil a request of a representative of Chechnya to remove the film from the screening, director Vitaly Mansky reported.

April 05, 2021 18:12

• Dagestani native complains about death threats for refusing to live with her parents

  A 22-year-old female native of Dagestan faced psychological abuse in her parents’ family and got death threats from her relatives after she had fled to another city.

April 05, 2021 18:02

• Week from March 29 to April 4 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from March 29 to April 4, 2021, no information was received about the casualties or wounded persons during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.