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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.

December 08, 2021 11:01

• Alen Simonyan's words anger relatives of captured soldiers

  A video has appeared on the Internet, in which Alen Simonyan, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, discusses the fate of the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs). According to his version, many of the POWs are deserters, and the future of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is much more important. Relatives of POWs and missing servicemen have come to the government building and blocked roads in protest.

December 08, 2021 08:49

• Inmate of Volgograd SIZO self-mutilates

  A man who is kept under arrest at SIZO-4 (pre-trial prison) in Volgograd has cut his forearm. He is registered as a person prone to suicide and self-mutilation, the press service of the local branch of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has informed today.

December 08, 2021 08:28

• In Dagestan camp, 62 residents of Azerbaijan wait for border opening

  In the "Ogonyok" children's camp located in the Kaitag District of Dagestan, 62 Azerbaijanis are waiting for a permit to cross the land border and return home.

December 07, 2021 22:38

• ECtHR awards compensation to a woman from Ingushetia for death of her son

  The Strasbourg Court found the Russian authorities responsible for the unlawful detention and death of 17-year-old Magomed Gorchkhanov and obliged them to pay 70,000 euros in compensation to Dibikhan Pugoeva, a resident of Ingushetia.

December 07, 2021 22:18

• Supporters of “Sasna Tsrer” hold a protest action in Yerevan

  Members of the “Sasna Tsrer” (Daredevils of Sassoun) detachment were convicted groundlessly, said participants of a protest action held in front of the court building in Yerevan, where the appeal against the convicted person’s sentences was considered.

December 07, 2021 22:05

• Dunja Mijatović urges to discontinue liquidation of “Memorials”*

  In her letter to the Russian Prosecutor General, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović notes that the use of the Russian law on foreign agents to liquidate the “Memorials”* NGOs (the International Historical, Educational, Charity and Human Rights Society “Memorial”* (International Memorial) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* contradicts the European principles of human rights protection. The Council of Europe Commissioner has urged the Russian Prosecutor General to discontinue the liquidation proceedings against the human rights organizations.