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August 05, 2022 21:42

• Residents of Karabakh villages outraged by demand to leave their homes

  Residents of Berdzor blocked the road after a meeting with the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures of Nagorno-Karabakh, at which the official announced that the people are to leave their houses in the communities of Berdzor, Akhavno, and Sous by August 25. The protest action of the residents stopped after the authorities promised that the government of Nagorno-Karabakh would assist in the move.

August 05, 2022 20:54

• HIMARS to be unlikely delivered to Georgia, experts say

  US Congressman Adam Kinzinger voiced the proposal to transfer HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to Georgia on the eve of the elections, counting on the voters’ support, and the supply of those weapons to Georgia is unlikely, Yuri Rogulyov and Pavel Zolotaryov, experts on the US, point out.

August 05, 2022 20:04

• Georgian bar under attack on social media after introduction of “visas” for Russians

  Google removed negative reviews about the Georgian “Dedaena” bar, which introduced a kind of “visas” for Russian citizens: in order to visit the bar, they are expected to condemn the special military operation in Ukraine and recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia.

August 05, 2022 19:51

• Azerbaijani MoD did not confirm information about withdrawal of troops from heights in Karabakh

  There are no changes in the operational situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today, without confirming the information that the Azerbaijani troops left the occupied heights. The reliability of reports about the withdrawal of troops is questionable, military expert Telman Abilov points out.

August 05, 2022 19:36

• Crimean lawyers associate deprivation of their status in Chechnya with political persecution

  The Department for Chechnya of the Ministry of Justice has succeeded in pressure on the local bar association to withdraw the status of three of its former members working in Crimea. The disqualified lawyers associated the decision with political persecution and plan to appeal against it, human rights defenders report.

August 05, 2022 15:00

• Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh state shelling

  Over the last 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled 12 times; three of them – from the territory of Armenia, and nine – from Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. Its Nagorno-Karabakh counterpart claims that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime by using small arms.

August 05, 2022 14:32

• Law enforcers report preventing terror act in KChR

  The man, who, according to the FSB (Russian Federal Security Bureau), was preparing a terror act in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained. Law enforcers treat him as a supporter of the "Right-Wing Sector"*.

August 05, 2022 14:18

• Rights defenders comment on stamping military IDs of those from Southern Russia who refuse to go to Ukraine

  The command of the military unit puts an unreliability stamp into service IDs of those servicemen who refuse to take part in the special operation in Ukraine in order to intimidate others, the lawyers and human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

August 05, 2022 11:02

• Operation in Nagorno-Karabakh improves Azerbaijan's strategic dominance

  As a result of the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, on August 3, the Azerbaijani Army occupied important heights that ensure control over strategically important roads on the border, the Baku analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

August 05, 2022 10:41

• Eight people detained after attacking Azeri Embassy to UK

  The unidentified persons who attacked the Azerbaijani Embassy to the United Kingdom raised religious flags and shouted radical religious slogans from the balcony of the building, the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

August 05, 2022 08:34

• Regulator announces Islamic banking project in Chechnya and Dagestan

  The Central Bank of Russia has planned an experiment to develop Islamic banking in Chechnya and Dagestan; a pilot project will be launched in 2023.

August 05, 2022 08:22

• Russia's MoD finds four violations of ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh

  During the past 24 hours, peacemakers recorded four ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 04, 2022 23:39

• Azerbaijani MFA considers accusations of violation of trilateral agreement hypocritical

  Official Baku reacted to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, which accused Azerbaijan of violating the trilateral ceasefire agreement. The reason for the aggravation of the situation was the failure of the Armenian side to comply with the clause of the agreement on the withdrawal of troops, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan stated.

August 04, 2022 23:30

• Petition for visa regime for Russian citizens in Georgia gains more than 14,000 votes

  Over 14,000 votes were received in the first day by a petition calling on the Georgian authorities to introduce a visa regime for citizens of Russia, as well as Belarus.

August 04, 2022 23:13

• Kremlin reacts to Pashinyan’s statement about functions of Russian peacekeepers

  In response to the Nikol Pashinyan’s proposal to discuss the functions of Russian peacekeepers, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said that the Russian side is acting in Nagorno-Karabakh in accordance with the trilateral agreement and expects its compliance also from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

August 04, 2022 18:47

• Military experts call escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh a “knife in back” for Russia

  Russia justifiably accused Azerbaijan of violating the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh and would similarly react to the escalation from the Armenian side, as Russia treats attempts to aggravate the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the special military operation in Ukraine as a “knife in the back”, Russian military experts point out.

August 04, 2022 18:27

• Ashurov’s spouse demands reaction of police and Ombudsperson to provocations in temporary detention facility

  The police did not conduct an examination of a drink, after which Azerbaijani oppositionist Samir Ashurov, who was kept in a temporary detention facility, felt ill, and the Ombudsperson did not provide verification of the reasons for the oppositionist’s deterioration in health, a spouse of the arrested activist states.

August 04, 2022 14:31

• Azerbaijan claims calm border after "Retribution" operation

  After the "Retribution" operation conducted in Nagorno-Karabakh, the situation in the territory where the Russian peacemaking contingent is temporarily stationed, as well as on the border, is relatively calm, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

August 04, 2022 13:59

• Russia's MoD accuses Azerbaijan of breaking ceasefire regime

  Twice in two days, the Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) laid the blame on Azerbaijan for violating the ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone.

August 04, 2022 11:07

• CC returns request for transfer "Pitsunda" state dacha to Russia to Abkhaz Parliament

  The materials on the agreement on the transfer of the "Pitsunda" state dacha to Russia have been returned to the MPs, while the Constitutional Court (CC) invited them to state their position on the issue in the appeal. They were given three days to correct the documents.