Culture

December 19, 2025 00:03

• A teacher shortage in Chechnya has raised questions about the quality of education

  Chechen schools are short of primary school teachers and Chechen language teachers, and rural areas also face problems with subject teachers. School vacancies number in the hundreds. Parents are concerned about the quality of education their students are receiving.

December 15, 2025 02:02

• The destruction of monasteries in Karabakh has raised doubts among Azerbaijani analysts

  Azerbaijani analysts have questioned the veracity of claims of vandalism at monasteries in Karabakh. They argue that Christian monuments in Azerbaijan are protected by the state.

May 30, 2025 18:02

• Book about refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh presented in Yerevan

  More than a hundred stories of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are collected in the book entitled “Artsakh: Blockade and Forced Displacement in Human Stories”. The facts presented in the book should become evidence in international courts, journalists claim.

May 27, 2025 13:50

• Astrakhan residents demand to repair monument to victims of political repressions

  In their appeal, residents of Astrakhan have demanded from the city police to identify the persons responsible for damaging the monument to victims of political repressions and find out whether the damage was inflicted as a result of act of vandalism or whether it resulted from poor-quality repairs to the monument by a contractor. The Astrakhan residents call on government officials to ensure the restoration of the pedestal.

May 24, 2025 18:22

• Bellucci appears in Balagov’s film about Circassians

  Italian actress Monica Bellucci starred in the “Butterfly Jam” film directed by Kantemir Balagov from Kabardino-Balkaria. The film reports about the life of the Circassian community in the United States.

March 19, 2025 22:40

• Stand-up comedian from Yeysk accused of insulting SMO fighter

  A criminal case was opened against Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from the city of Yeysk, after his performance in which he joked about a disabled person who had stepped on a mine. Investigators saw his words as an insult to a participant in the special military operation (SMO), but Ostanin himself claims that he was joking about a simple beggar.

January 28, 2025 23:17

• In Volgograd, rally participants honour memory of Holocaust victims

  In Volgograd, a rally, dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was attended by members of the Jewish community, local officials, and guests of the city. Some participants of the rally have claimed that the tragedy of the Holocaust is not being sufficiently covered in educational institutions’ programmes.

September 16, 2024 23:10

• Court treats Semyon Slepakov*'s songs as reason for adding him to register of foreign agents

  The anti-Russian songs and poems that Semyon Slepakov*, a native of the Stavropol Territory, used to post in social networks were the reason for his inclusion into the register of foreign agents.

August 11, 2024 22:16

• Residents of Chechnya treat paid education at madrasahs as being in demand

  The paid teaching of the Koran and the Arabic language is in demand in Chechnya; and the demand to introduce free education at madrasahs was a Muftiate's attempt to gain control over this area, local residents and a Caucasus expert have stated.

July 09, 2024 23:58

• North-Ossetian Muftiate supports banning niqabs

  The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM or Muftiate) of North Ossetia recommends that believers refuse to wear niqabs, the republic’s Deputy Mufti has stated, noting that a complete ban on niqabs would be contrary to the Russian laws.

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