South Caucasus

July 22, 2025 22:53

• A soldier from Dagestan was killed in the Kursk region

  Zamir Ramazanov from the Khivsky district was killed in combat. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have officially recognized at least 1,472 fighters from Dagestan as killed.

July 22, 2025 21:58

• Supporters of Georgia's European integration continue protests for 237 days in a row

  Oppositionists blocked traffic on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi for the 237th day in a row. At the protest outside the parliament, a new issue of the prison newspaper "Cell 101", published by political prisoner Zviad Tsetskhladze, was presented.

July 22, 2025 20:56

• Chechin and Gribul conduct dry hunger strike together in Tbilisi prison

  Russian citizens Artem Gribul and Anton Chechin, arrested on drug trafficking charges after participating in protests in Georgia, are holding a dry hunger strike together in Gldani Prison.

July 22, 2025 16:54

• Activist Nijad Ibrahim sentenced to prison term

  A Baku court sentenced activist Nijad Ibrahim to 6.5 years in prison. He pleaded not guilty, and his defense intends to appeal the verdict.

July 22, 2025 10:53

• Tbilisi court upholds life sentence for murder of transgender woman

  The Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the life sentence of Beka Jaini, who was found guilty of the premeditated murder of Kesaria Abramidze. The court and the investigation concluded that the murder was committed with particular cruelty and was related to gender intolerance.

July 22, 2025 04:53

• Georgian Revenue Service Seizes Batumelebi Accounts

  The Georgian Revenue Service linked the arrest of Batumelebi's accounts to the existence of debt, but journalists are certain that the authorities are trying to close the publication and put pressure on its founder, Mzia Amaglobeli.

July 22, 2025 01:56

• Z-bloggers demand that pro-Putin political scientist be recognized as a foreign agent for his praise of Aliyev

  Against the backdrop of worsening Russian-Azerbaijani relations, a number of Z-bloggers have called for pro-Kremlin political scientist Sergei Markov, who praised Ilham Aliyev in front of Azerbaijani journalists in Shushi, to be declared a foreign agent. Markov responded by recalling that he has been "a supporter of Putin for all 26 years."

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