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April 06, 2022 09:14

• Volunteers from South Ossetia and Abkhazia perish in Donbass

  Robert Kulumbegov, an Honoured Artist of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Akhra Kirkinadze, a resident of the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, perished in battles in Donbass. They were volunteers of the "Pyatnashka" battalion under the command of Akhra Avidzba.

April 06, 2022 01:06

• Administration of Kamyshin District confirms death of a military man in Ukraine

  Captain Yevgeny Lisovoi from the Kamyshin District perished in Ukraine, the district authorities reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 17 perished military personnel from the Volgograd Region has been officially confirmed.

April 06, 2022 01:03

• “Memorial”* calls Russian courts a tool for reprisals against those undesirable for authorities

  In Russia, the institution of justice has been destroyed, courts have become a tool for reprisals against people and organizations undesirable for the authorities, and the country is returning to totalitarianism, states the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

April 06, 2022 00:57

• Gas supply to residents of Nagorno-Karabakh restored

  The “Artsakhgas” Company has resumed the supply of gas to houses and apartments of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

April 05, 2022 22:01

• Azerbaijani activist expresses his fears of extended term of imprisonment

  Consideration of a complaint filed by a captain of the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party, has been postponed again. Ali Aliev believes that the trial is being deliberately delayed so that at the end of the first term of punishment he will be given a new sentence.

April 05, 2022 21:56

• Students and pensioners come to support HRC “Memorial”*

  Today, people have come to the building of the First Court of Appeal in Moscow, which considered a complaint against the decision to liquidate the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”.

April 05, 2022 21:51

• Mayor of Pyatigorsk reports about death of a compatriot in Ukraine

  Viktor Gavrilov, a military man from Pyatigorsk, perished in Ukraine, City Mayor Dmitry Voroshilov reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, it has been reported about at least 10 natives of the Stavropol Territory who perished in Ukraine.

April 05, 2022 21:40

• Figurants in Lekso Lashkarava's death case sentenced to five years in prison

  A Tbilisi court has sentenced each of the five figurants in the case of the attack on Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company, after which he died, to five years in prison. The defendants were found guilty of assaulting the journalist and attempting to hamper his work.

April 05, 2022 21:36

• Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson treats situation near Parukh village as calm

  After the redeployment of Azerbaijani troops near the village of Parukh, there were no armed incidents there. The civilian population left Parukh back after the autumn war of 2020, Gegam Stepanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson, has stated.

April 05, 2022 18:33

• Court leaves Dagestani activist Ataev under arrest

  The arrest of Eduard Ataev, an activist suspected of possessing an explosive device, was upheld by the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan.

April 05, 2022 18:25

• Residents of Georgia demand to announce mourning for those who perished in Ukraine

  David Gobedjishvili, a Georgian fighter, who perished in Ukraine, was buried with military honours. Authorities have done everything possible to repatriate the dead Georgian fighters, the prime minister has stated.

April 05, 2022 14:56

• Karabakh villagers complain about security threats during agricultural works

  In a number of Nagorno-Karabakh communities, located not far from the contact line under the protection of Russian peacemakers, agricultural works have resumed. However, villagers don't feel safe and demand to withdraw Azerbaijani militaries away from their villages.

April 05, 2022 11:54

• Head of Derbent District of Dagestan announces death of his fellow countryman in Ukraine

  Rovshan Magomedov, a contract military serviceman from the Derbent District, has perished in Ukraine, the district head has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 67 natives of Dagestan have perished there.

April 05, 2022 11:52

• HRC "Memorial"* claims France's responsibility for death of a Chechen deported to Russia

  By handing documents from the migration case of Daud Muradov, who died after being deported to Russia, over to Russia, French authorities doomed him to torture and endangered other people, rights defenders and journalists in Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has stated.

April 04, 2022 23:56

• Documentaries about Caucasus from “Artdocfest” programme offered online

  Documentaries, the screening of which is cancelled due to the disruption of the “Artdocfest” film festival, are now available online to viewers who have bought tickets to a Moscow cinema, an organizer announces. The list includes three films about residents of Northern Caucasus.

April 04, 2022 23:50

• Azerbaijan’s MoD reports about a shelling attack on its positions on border with Armenia

  On April 3, units of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District were shelled from the territory of Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported. The Ministry of Defence of Armenia objected that the Armenian side did not open fire.

April 04, 2022 23:46

• Nine warders of Yaroslavl penal colony convicted for torturing a native of Chechnya

  A court sentenced employees of a penal colony in the Yaroslavl Region to different terms of imprisonment from three years to three years and four months for torturing prisoner Abubakar Tsagalaev.

April 04, 2022 20:32

• On March 28-April 3, 2022, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of March 28-April 3, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 04, 2022 20:30

• Wife of journalist Polad Aslanov demands to stop pressing him in colony

  The wife of the convicted journalist, Polad Aslanov, has held a protest action near the building of the Penitentiary Service in Baku, calling to stop pressing her husband. The beating of Aslanov, which caused her wife's action, could be sanctioned by colony bosses, Fikret Djafarli, a human rights defender, has suggested.

April 04, 2022 11:57

• OSCE calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to negotiate

  To settle all the outstanding problems, Armenia and Azerbaijan should hold talks, Zbigniew Rau the Chairman of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), has suggested.