All news

According to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia, about 90% of all the votes have been tabulated. The independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili, supported by the "Georgian Dream" Party, has won 38.61% of the votes. Grigol Vashadze from the "United National Movement" (UNM) has 37.69%.

Zaza Saralidze, the father of a schoolboy killed in Tbilisi has been charged with assaulting a policeman. His defence has disagreed with the prosecution.

On October 27, the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, hosted an emergency congress of members of Ingush clans (teips). The main topics were the Ingush-Chechen border, and the nomination of delegates to the World Congress of the Ingush People.

A man armed with a grenade tried to break into the building of the Armenian government and threatened to blow it up, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has reported.

Isa Khamkhoev, the Mufti of Ingushetia, has stated that he would not be responsible for the local youth, if Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament came to him again, as follows from the video posted on October 27 in social networks.

Marina Begadze, Zaza Saralidze's mother, has headed an action demanding to punish those responsible for the murder of her grandson. The protesters criticized the actions of the police who forbid them to set up tents in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi.

During the week of October 14-20, Azerbaijani militaries fired a thousand shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from Armenia and from territories near the "occupied villages", the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The authorities of Ingushetia are ignoring the initiative trips of Kadyrov's people over the republic; while the apologies and reconciliations that accompany the visits will not make the residents of Ingushetia forget about the land issue, Ingush oppositionists have stated.

During the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory, six people perished and 60 others were injured, the fate of two persons remains unknown, the local emergency services have stated today.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced two citizens of Kyrgyzstan to 15 and 13 years of imprisonment, claiming their membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia by the court).

The campaign, initiated by Ramzan Kadyrov, resulted in the eviction of about 20 people from hostels; several dozen other tenants should leave their rooms in the coming days, the office of the head of Chechnya has stated.

After three days in custody, Djeikhun Nabi was released from the police and said that he was interrogated in connection with his publications on the Facebook, as well as about his relations with political emigrants in Europe.

Ikram Ragimov, the editor-in-chief of the "realliq.info" website has been detained in Baku. According to the advocate Elchin Sadygov, he was detained by agents of the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan.

Zaza Saralidze, the father of one of the two murdered schoolboys, who had been holding a protest action near the Georgian Parliament since October 10, was hospitalized from a police station, where he was taken for beating a policeman.

About two hundred participants of a rally held in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, have unanimously demanded the cancellation of the agreement on changing the Ingush-Chechen border and elected delegates to the World Congress of the Ingush People.

The visits of Ramzan Kadyrov and his closest officials to Ingush activists, who had criticized the head of Chechnya, are causing tensions in Ingushetia and can lead to bloodshed, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, believes.

The head of Chechnya and a number of his close associates have "warmly communicated" with the Ingush activist Akhmed Pogorov; the Chechen leaders apologized to Ingushes, Pogorov himself have stated.

Today, at their protest action, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company have stated the absence of the promised payments and coal; and that with the onset of cold weather they have nothing to heat up their homes.

Opponents of the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border had to walk to the venue of the Friday namaz (prayer) in Magas, since roads were blocked. Elderly believers were forced to refuse to participate in the prayer, activists have stated.