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May 06, 2022 15:29

• Nagorno-Karabakh opposition and activists support Yerevan protesters

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, people support the demands of the protesters in Yerevan, but due to the ban on mass events, they cannot express their solidarity with them, local oppositional activists have stated.

May 06, 2022 15:24

• Opposition threatens to paralyze traffic in Yerevan

  On May 5, the opposition marched in Yerevan, calling on townspeople to join the movement demanding Pashinyan's resignation. The protesters announced large-scale actions and their intention to block traffic in Yerevan from four directions.

May 06, 2022 15:17

• Authorities confirm deaths of two natives of North Ossetia in Ukraine

  Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has presented the relatives of 16 natives of the republic who perished during the military operation in Ukraine with the Order of Courage, including the relatives of Senior Lieutenant Igor Kovalyov and Private Akop Kazaryan, whose deaths were not officially reported earlier.

May 06, 2022 15:14

• Memorial plaques opened in memory of residents of Stavropol Territory who perished in Ukraine

  Alexander Mescheryakov, Evgeny Boiko, Ruslan Mgoev, Oleg Manuilov and Maxim Manzyk have perished in Ukraine; memorial plaques have been installed at the schools where they studied, the head of the Novoaleksandrovsky urban district has informed.

May 06, 2022 14:06

• Activists claim despotism in Azerbaijani higher schools

  The protesters who gathered near the building of the Azeri Ministry of Education have stated discrimination, suppression of free thought at universities and students' social problems.

May 05, 2022 23:56

• In Yerevan, a protester dies of cardiac arrest

  An opposition supporter who participated in a protest action in Square of France died of cardiac arrest. The authorities have accumulated a lot of law enforcers near the square, but there is not a single ambulance car near the place of the protest, one of the activists has expressed her indignation.

May 05, 2022 23:53

• Authorities report about death in Ukraine of two natives of Dagestan

  Nurutdin Mamaev from Buynaksk and Amir Aliskhanov from the village of Yamansu perished in Ukraine.

May 05, 2022 23:49

• Blogger Insa Lander faces difficult situation after her arrest, her friends say

  Insa Lander, a blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria, found herself without money after she was banned from using the Internet under house arrest. The costs of an advocate, a rented apartment, and food are being covered by blogger’s friends, while Insa Lander does not have access to her bank accounts, her friends say.

May 05, 2022 23:47

• Human rights defender Elchin Mamed’s mother asks President Aliev to pardon her son

  Rakhilya Mamedova, a mother of convicted journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, called on the President of Azerbaijan to pardon her son. The woman fears that a hunger strike in prison could result in her son’s death.

May 05, 2022 23:35

• Number of activists detained in Yerevan reaches 69

  In Yerevan, the police detained 69 protesters for failure to obey the police. Levon Kocharyan, one of the organizers of the protest action, called a clash between marchers and policemen the result of a provocation by the police.

May 05, 2022 16:22

• Chechen Djumaev placed into dungeon

  Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years within the case of using violence against law enforcers, has been place into the dungeon (punishment cell).

May 05, 2022 16:16

• Amid sanctions, Russian govt corrects NCFD development plans

  With account of the anti-Russian sanctions, the North-Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) will mainly develop its agriculture, the transport infrastructure and tourism, including in Dagestan, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and Chechnya, the Russian government has indicated in the development strategy for Northern Caucasus.

May 05, 2022 15:56

• Pashinyan's opponents block streets in Yerevan

  The activists demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, have blocked several streets in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. Law enforcers have detained at least three persons.

May 05, 2022 15:36

• Rights defenders state doctors' non-admittance to Saakashvili

  The prison administration has refused a council of doctors to visit Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, an ex-president of Georgia, the NGO "Empathy Centre for Psychological Rehabilitation of Torture Victims" has informed. In Tbilisi, protesters demanded to let Saakashvili to go abroad for medical treatment.

May 05, 2022 14:36

• Military experts dispute about Kadyrov's data on sending volunteers to Ukraine

  In Chechnya, it is realistic to train within a week about two hundred volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, if they already have experience in military service, a military expert has pointed out in his comment on Ramzan Kadyrov's words about training of volunteers.

May 05, 2022 14:33

• Analysts assess potentials of protest movement in Armenia

  The Armenian protest movement has the potentials capable to paralyze the state ruling, but the organizers are using them incorrectly, experts believe.

May 05, 2022 14:27

• Azerbaijani activists demand to stop pressing media

  In Azerbaijan, the independent journalists and bloggers who expose corruption are under pressure and persecution, the participants of the conference on the state of media in the country have stated.

May 04, 2022 23:59

• National Security Service of Armenia warns opposition against storming parliament

  The opposition is preparing to storm the parliament building, the National Security Service of Armenia has announced, warning protesters of criminal liability. The parliament building is under heavy police protection.

May 04, 2022 23:57

• Coming-out of a transgender woman from Dagestan highlights problems of queer people in Northern Caucasus

  In Northern Caucasus, transgender people face rejection from their relatives and friends and persecution, and they are exposed to mortal danger, therefore they prefer to hide their sexual orientation and leave their native lands, but they also face difficulties with employment and documents outside their homeland.

May 04, 2022 23:53

• Armenian Ombudsperson criticizes police actions

  The police act aggressively while detaining people at protest actions in Armenia, and a number of activists have been injured, Ombudsperson Kristine Grigoryan reports.