News

The video clip by Chingiz Akhmadov, a journalist of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) showing Valid Yakhikhanov, who, according to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had been killed in Chechnya, is actively commented on by Instagram users. Some of them doubt that Yakhikhanov is alive.

Ruslan Amirov and Alizamin Salaev, activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), were detained by several men and taken away to some unknown place, the PFPA has informed.

The Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) has closed an event dedicated to the anniversary of the terror act in parliament for a number of media outlets. Rights defenders and journalists have condemned the ban, treating it as a restriction imposed on the freedom of speech.

In Nazran, participants of a mourning rally expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict had not been given any chance to deliver their speeches at the rally. The authorities hold the rally formally, but this is not a reason to ignore the event, human rights defender Tamerlan Akiev believes.

By requiring villagers to observe mourning for their deceased neighbours, Ramzan Kadyrov continues to formulate a "code of conduct for a Chechen native," believes Mikhail Roschin, a researcher engaged in the oriental studies. The imposition of rules of behaviour leads to a decrease in the popularity of Ramzan Kadyrov, believes historian Alexei Malashenko.

The Azerbaijani troops shelled villages and military positions in the Tavush District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. The Armenian side regarded the shelling attack as a provocation related to a meeting of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers in Baku.

The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the resolution on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

The closure of checkpoints on the border with Georgia deprived many residents of South Ossetia of timely medical care, declared the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) after the death of Margarita Martiashvili in a clinic in Tskhinvali.

After a blood stroke, a woman from South Ossetia was taken to a clinic in Tskhinvali and died. Because of the closed border, the patient was not taken to Tbilisi where she could be provided with more qualified medical treatment.

Law enforcers started to check for extremism the movement "Vo Blago Obschego Naroda" (For the Good of the Common People, also known as V.B.O.N.) after video records had been posted on the Internet in which people were beaten and forced to apologize for their negative statements addressed to Azerbaijanis.

It's senseless to limit the number of cars in wedding corteges, since most accidents involving them do without grave consequences, Grozny residents believe. In their opinion, it's just enough to send a patrol car to accompany a wedding motorcade.

Two years have passed since the events of the "four-day war," which ended in April 2016 with the conclusion of a truce agreement between the parties to the conflict: Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan, on the other hand. The formal truce did not stop the confrontation.

Organizers of the campaign "End to torture!" have condemned the authorities' inaction on the issue of ill-treatment of detained oppositionists and activists and stated their intent to attract the international community to the solution thereof. They have presented their action plan within the ten-day-long public campaign.

A transgender man, Nikolo Gviniashvili has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about Georgian authorities' refusal to change his gender record in documents. To change the data on the gender in documents, they demand from Georgian transgender people to confirm the fact of changing the gender, human rights defenders report.

Chingiz Akhmadov, an employee of the Chechen television, has shown a man in the video, who, according to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had been killed. The man was named as a relative of Islam Kadyrov, whose name was mentioned in connection with the attempt on the head of Chechnya.

The organizer of the event, Saida Tuchalova, has pointed out just single aggression acts towards the participants of the "AniDag" anime festival, which was disrupted because of threats in 2018. Spectators of the festival have noted its importance for self-realization of Dagestani youth.

At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the assassinated shepherd brothers, has demanded to dismiss the policeman, Ibragim Aliev, who had reported about the killing of two militants.

An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was detained in front of the courthouse before the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrest of rally participant Abdullah Makhmudov. The PFPA associates the detention of its activist with the preparation of a new rally.

In Dagestan, two wives of a militant killed in Syria got pensions for the loss of primary income earner for more than three years. They are suspected of forging documents, a source reports.

A scandal around video records with the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov did not get a resonance in the public institutions, noted residents of Chechnya and users of social networks. They fear that the verification of the video records made public will not lead to the criminal proceedings against the former mayor of Grozny.