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July 31, 2022 12:31

• KBR residents oppose propaganda in schools

  From the new school year, they introduce educational hours "Talk about the important" in schools. However, social network users from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have stressed that authorities should pay more attention to the quality of education, and not to engage in propaganda at schools.

July 31, 2022 12:29

• Amid opposition's support, Abkhaz activists stop their hunger strike

  Djansukh Adleiba, Vadim Markholiya and Daur Gunba stop their hunger strike and move on to other forms of protest. Their action has helped drawing public attention to the issue of handing over the Pitsunda state dacha to Russia, Adrug Ardzinba, the opposition spokesman, has stated.

July 31, 2022 12:26

• After autumn was, over 1000 refugee families receive housing in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Six large families of internally displaced persons (IDPs, or forced migrants) have moved into new houses built in the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh; they were provided with furniture, cows and poultry. In total, over 1000 families received housing. They plan to cultivate the land and raise livestock.

July 31, 2022 12:22

• Yerevan: protesters treat Pashinyan as crisis culprit

  During the time that Nikol Pashinyan is in power in Armenia, the issue of international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's independence has disappeared from the country's political agenda; the living standards have gone down; and corruption is flourishing, the members of the oppositional "Resistance" movement have stated.

July 31, 2022 12:17

• Colony staff again prohibit advocate to visit Chechen Salekh Magamadov

  Alexander Nemov, an advocate, was again denied a visit to his client, Salekh Magamadov, a native of Chechnya, convicted of assisting a militant. The advocate was told that Magamadov was not in the colony.

July 31, 2022 12:13

• Yerevan refutes Baku's statement about shelling

  The information that Armenian militaries shelled the positions of their Azeri counterparts' positions stationed in the Kelbadjar District is untrue, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

July 31, 2022 12:06

• CNN: Russia asks USA to include convict for Khangoshvili's killing into exchange

  Russian officials have offered to include Vadim Krasikov, convicted in Germany for assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former Chechen field commander, in negotiations with Americans on prisoners' exchange.

July 30, 2022 16:08

• Rights defenders criticize Georgian authorities' reaction to Takalandze's arrest

  Georgian authorities have shifted the responsibility for the fate Kristine Takalandze, who was arrested in Abkhazia for espionage, to special services, without trying to use any political mechanisms, human rights defenders have stated.

July 30, 2022 02:46

• Abkhaz protesters demand government resignation

  The leadership of Abkhazia has ignored the people's gathering announced in Sukhumi against the transfer of the Pitsunda state dacha to Russia. In this regard, the hunger strikers put forward a demand for the resignation of the government and announced the refusal to drink water.

July 30, 2022 02:42

• Peacemakers report shelling village in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Azerbaijani militaries have shelled a border village located in the Martuni District of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

July 29, 2022 23:57

• Azerbaijani activists treat sentence for murder of Avaz Khafizli as lenient

  In Baku, a court sentenced a defendant accused of murdering Avaz Shikhmamedov (Khafizli), a reporter and public figure, to 9.5 years of imprisonment.

July 29, 2022 23:54

• Human rights defenders treat activist Pyunkhan Kerimli’s sentence as revenge for criticizing Azerbaijani authorities

  Human rights activists believe that the verdict to activist Pyunkhan Kerimli, who was expelled from Germany, is intended to punish him for criticizing the authorities of Azerbaijan and is aimed at intimidating other political migrants abroad.

July 29, 2022 23:49

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Ashurov reports about a provocation in IVS

  Samir Ashurov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), needed the help of medical officers in an IVS (temporary detention facility), where he had been transferred from a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

July 29, 2022 23:45

• Human rights defenders announce detention of a Grozny resident after his coming-out

  In Chechnya, the police detained a Grozny man who confessed to being homosexual, human rights defender Igor Kochetkov reported and called on the Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an investigation.

July 29, 2022 22:00

• Kadyrov threatens fellow countrymen with floor mopping for violating behaviour norms

  The natives of Chechnya who discredit the Chechen nation by their behaviour will be returned to the republic and forced to mop floors. This was stated by Ramzan Kadyrov after the incident with Arthur Ilyaskhanov, who made insulting remarks on behalf of Chechens in a Nizhnevartovsk store.

July 29, 2022 17:50

• Georgian opposition demands not to transfer Pitsunda dacha to Russia

  Georgian authorities should prevent the transfer by Abkhazia of the state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, and also make more efforts to return the republic into the country, oppositionists stated at their protest held in Tbilisi.

July 29, 2022 17:44

• Gulnara Bagautdinova hopes for the ECtHR in her son's death case

  All the legal possibilities to achieve the rehabilitation of Vali Bagautdinov, who was killed by law enforcers in November 2014, have been exhausted in Russia; the only hope is for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Gulnara Bagautdinova, the casualty's mother, has stated.

July 29, 2022 13:46

• "Prophylactic" talks at GPO outrage Azeri journalists

  The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has held the so-called "prophylactic" conversations with several Azerbaijani journalists, who disseminated information prior to it was released by the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

July 29, 2022 02:34

• Dagestanis make third of confirmed losses of SFD and NCFD in Ukraine

  Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 552 fighters from Southern Russia have been officially confirmed as perished, including 378 natives of the North-Caucasian and 174 natives of the Southern Federal District (SFD and NCFD).

July 29, 2022 02:30

• Residents of Krasny Bazar in Karabakh alarmed by resumed shelling

  After four months of calmness, shelling of the Karabakh village of Krasny Bazar resumed; the house of a local resident was damaged, the villagers have reported.