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August 30, 2022 14:55

• Abkhaz activists oppose transfer of land in Pitsunda to Russia

  At their meeting with the Russian ambassador, female activists from Abkhazia, who oppose the transfer of the state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, stated that the alienation of this territory would provoke anti-Russian sentiments in the society.

August 30, 2022 12:01

• Azeri politicians criticize Armenia's proposal on routes to Nakhichevan

  The transport routes offered by Armenia for Azerbaijan's communication with the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) are unprofitable for Baku, and are a ploy to disrupt the Zangezur Corridor project, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

August 30, 2022 11:36

• Kadyrov reports sending new group of fighters to Ukraine

  After training at the Russian Special Troops University, another group of volunteers has flown from Grozny Airport to the special military operation, the head of Chechnya has announced.

August 30, 2022 11:16

• Saakashvili's case aggravates Georgian authorities' foreign policy risks

  Two foreign doctors have received a temporary license from the Georgian Ministry of Public Health and have already examined Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. The West will not leave unanswered any confirmation of the abuse of power against Saakashvili, local analysts have pointed out.

August 30, 2022 08:59

• After meeting president, Karabakh activists stage rally

  The activists, dissatisfied with the transfer of the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan and the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, have demanded resignation of high-ranking officials. After meeting with the president, they gathered a mass rally in Stepanakert.

August 30, 2022 08:36

• Stavropol activist reports pressure on her mother

  Policemen have repeatedly visited the mother of Darya Andreeva, an activist from the town of Georgievsk, insisting that Darya and her husband, who had been fined for discrediting the army, return to Russia. The activist has treated these visits as law enforcers' pressure.

August 29, 2022 21:53

• Menyailo demands to recruit detachments of volunteers to be sent to Ukraine

  The heads of the regions of North Ossetia should form detachments of volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, and this is a new criterion for evaluating the work of municipal officials, Sergey Menyailo, the leader of the republic, announces.

August 29, 2022 21:32

• Launch of a new road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia scheduled for August 30

  The traffic along the alternative route to the Lachin Corridor to Armenia will be open on the evening of August 30, the office of the President of Nagorno-Karabakh reports today.

August 29, 2022 20:22

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 22-28, 2022

  Persecution of pacifists in Southern Russia; Ramzan Kadyrov’s reaction to the accusations of the Security Service of Ukraine; deployment of the Azerbaijani security forces in Lachin, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 22-28, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 29, 2022 19:15

• Azerbaijani analysts explain new tasks of peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh

  According to experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”, Russian peacekeepers will stay in the Lachin Corridor until the launch of an alternative road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, and then they will change their location and take control of the new route.

August 29, 2022 19:02

• Georgian Ministry For Public Health allows foreign doctors visiting Saakashvili

  Today, one of the foreign doctors admitted by the Georgian Ministry for Public Health to examine former President Mikhail Saakashvili has arrived at a Tbilisi clinic. He and his colleagues should examine whether the former Georgian President is seriously ill and whether his illness prevents him from serving his sentence, a politician’s advocate reports.

August 29, 2022 18:49

• Gadjiev’s colleagues hold pickets in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, two solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to release political prisoners.

August 29, 2022 13:26

• Relatives of perished Armenian soldiers call on to arrest Pashinyan

  Parents of the Armenian soldiers who perished in the 2020 Karabakh war have announced a protest action demanding to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, inviting political forces and activists to join them.

August 29, 2022 13:12

• NCFD republics are among top five in number of terrorist crimes

  In January-July, 2022, Dagestan registered the largest number of terrorist crimes among Russian regions – it follows from the data of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The top five of the rating also includes Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria.

August 29, 2022 12:38

• Two years after Djabiev's death, court fails to find perpetrators

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has failed yet with the demand voiced out by the court on August 1 to eliminate violations in the case of the death of Inal Djabiev, Sergey Bitiev, the Acting Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has informed. Those guilty of Djabiev's death remain unpunished for two years, Telegram users have pointed out.

August 29, 2022 12:21

• Video with public condemnation of tourists in Dagestan angers Internet users

  The author of the video with remarks to tourists visiting Dagestan about their appearance behaved aggressively and was sparking the conflict despite the tourists' apologies, Telegram users have noted in the comments to the video.

August 29, 2022 12:07

• Azerbaijani military police posts set up in Lachin Corridor

  At the dwelling settlements located in the Lachin Corridor that came under the control of Baku, military police posts began operating, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

August 29, 2022 11:54

• Officials oblige Chechen athletes to coordinate their behaviour with authorities

  Chechen athletes should agree their behaviour when outside the republic with authorities, local officials have announced, explaining this by the concern for the image of the Chechen people.

August 28, 2022 12:02

• Social network users dispute on the right to shame tourists in Chechnya

  The remarks of passers-by to tourists about their appearance in Chechnya are quite appropriate, users of the Chechen public wrote after a video of men walking down the street in shorts. Hotels and the Ministry of Tourism should control tourists' behaviour, others have objected.

August 28, 2022 11:59

• Threats to deprive social care used as recruiting method in Chechnya

  Officials will take Ramzan Kadyrov's words about depriving the families of those who refused to go to serve in law enforcement bodies as a guide to action; such methods of pressure indicate a shortage of people who want to get enrolled in new structures, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, have pointed out.