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December 09, 2021 23:01

• Armenia and Azerbaijan exchange accusations of shelling attacks

  Azerbaijani units shelled the combat positions of Armenia in the Gegarkunik direction, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. Its Azerbaijani counterpart reported about a shelling attack on the Azerbaijani positions in the Kelbadjar District.

December 09, 2021 22:43

• Participants of Geneva Discussions on Abkhazia exchange reproaches for breakdown of negotiations

  On December 7-8, the 55th round of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the Transcaucasus was held in Geneva, which gathered representatives of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, and the United States took part under the co-chairmanship of the UN, EU, and OSCE.

December 09, 2021 22:31

• Two residents of Azerbaijan killed in a mine explosion

  In the Shusha District, two young workers involved in restoration work were killed in a mine explosion, the Azerbaijani police reported.

December 09, 2021 18:04

• Advocate reports irreversible deterioration of Salekh Rustamov’s health

  Turkish doctors diagnosed Salekh Rustamov with the brain cell regression, but the prisoner refused to end his hunger strike, which he has been continuing for 34 days already, an advocate of the prisoner reported. The Azerbaijani authorities have ignored numerous requests to release Salekh Rustamov, human rights defender Rufat Safarov notes.

December 09, 2021 17:47

• Students involved in checking QR code in shopping centres in Makhachkala

  Students of higher and secondary educational institutions are involved as volunteers in checking QR codes of visitors to large shopping centres in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of Dagestan announces.

December 09, 2021 14:19

• Azerbaijani soldier perishes in border shootout

  Asif Aliev, an Azerbaijani soldier was killed on the border of the Kelbadjar District with Armenia in a shootout with Armenian militaries, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. The Armenian MoD has accused Azeri militaries of the shootout on the border.

December 09, 2021 13:34

• In its struggle for influence in Southern Caucasus, USA stakes on investments

  The development of economic ties with countries of Southern Caucasus will allow the USA to restore is lost political influence in the region, the participants in the discussion organized by the "Foreign Policy" magazine in Tbilisi have stated.

December 09, 2021 11:12

• Georgian opposition resumes actions for Saakashvili's liberation

  On December 8, about two thousand supporters of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party held a protest action near the residence of Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, demanding to set Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili free. Failing to achieve a meeting with her, they threatened to switchover to tougher protest forms.

December 09, 2021 10:57

• Zangezur Corridor issue aggravates military threat to Armenia

  By demanding from Armenia to open the Zangezur Corridor, Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, has secured the support of the international community; therefore, his threats to solve the problem by force are quite real, the Azeri analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Baku is using the corridor issue as a lever of pressure on Armenia, and the country is vulnerable to it, political analysts in Yerevan have noted.

December 09, 2021 08:47

• On the 33rd day of hunger strike, independent doctor was let to visit Salekh Rustamov

  The health condition of Salekh Rustamov, an Azerbaijani activist, who has been on his protest hunger strike in prison for 33 days, continues deteriorating. He has severe headaches, his brother has stated. An independent doctor, Adil Geibulla, who visited Rustamov, reported that the hunger-striker was under "supportive treatment."

December 09, 2021 08:29

• Social network users urge relatives to find out trauma reasons of KBR patient

  Doctors have discharged a resident of the Urvan District from hospital with traumas in his face, explaining that they were caused by the patient's fall, his relatives complained.

December 08, 2021 23:07

• Armenian MoD reports about a shelling attack on its water carrier near border

  Azerbaijani militaries shelled a vehicle belonging to an Armenian military unit. No one was injured as a result of the shelling attack, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

December 08, 2021 22:38

• Chechen Diaspora concerned about possible extradition to Russia of man accused of Khangoshvili’s murder

  A man accused of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili deserves life imprisonment, but members of the Chechen Diaspora fear that even in case of such a sentence, the convict may be extradited to Russia.

December 08, 2021 22:09

• Protesters detained near Armenian parliament

  Relatives of the militaries missing in action during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a street in the centre of Yerevan. The police pushed them back. Ten people were detained during the protest action.

December 08, 2021 20:15

• YouTube users call on Dud to highlight practice of torture in Chechnya in more detail

  Video blogger Yury Dud should visit residents of Chechnya and ask them about torture, YouTube users suggest. Chechnya has become a testing ground for the spread of torture throughout Russia, notes Lyudmila Kukhnina, a coordinator of the database compiled by the “Committee against Torture”.

December 08, 2021 19:40

• Police consider death of a detainee in Rostov Region a suicide

  A detainee committed suicide at the police department in the Belokalitvinsky District. He was in solitary confinement, the police of the Rostov Region reports today.

December 08, 2021 14:41

• Relatives of POWs demand meeting with Speaker of Armenian Parliament

  The President (Speaker) of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia must personally explain his words about deserters, relatives of the prisoners of war (POWs) and missing servicemen demanded on the second day of their protest action.

December 08, 2021 14:12

• In response to disciplinary sanctions, Saakashvili rejects medical treatment

  As revenge for the fine imposed by the state inspector, the Georgia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has applied disciplinary sanctions, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has stated and refused from medical care at the prison hospital.

December 08, 2021 13:50

• Three Chechen women publicly reprimanded for witchcraft

  Law enforcers have detained two women-residents of Grozny and one resident of the village of Geldagan for practising occultism. Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, had a conversation with the detainees, as follows from the report of the "Grozny" TV Channel, posted on the Instagram.

December 08, 2021 11:26

• Yuri Dud's film tells about law enforcers' practice of torture in Kuban

  Yuri Dud, a popular Russian video blogger, has posted a documentary, in which torture victims shared their stories; and human rights activists told about their practice of inquiring into torture cases in Russia.