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April 02, 2022 12:08

• Statement on referendum in South Ossetia points to Russia's plans to affect Georgia

  Moscow can use Anatoly Bibilov's proposal to include South Ossetia into Russia as a tool to put pressure on Georgia, the Georgian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

April 02, 2022 11:54

• ECtHR refuses to consider Saakashvili's complaint

  The complaint of the third President of Georgia, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on his medical care and treatment in custody has been excluded from the list of cases that are under consideration, Beka Dzamashvili, a Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia has informed. Saakashvili said that he himself asked to suspend the consideration of the complaint.

April 02, 2022 08:48

• Baku police disrupt Shakhbaz Guliev's protest action

  On April 1, Shakhbaz Guliev, who spent six years in prison in Nagorno-Karabakh, intended to hold a protest action outside the Azerbaijani presidential administration. He planned to demand a pension, disability category and assistance in employment. Policemen detained him, but took him from the police station to the Centre for receiving complaints from citizens of Azerbaijan.

April 02, 2022 08:36

• Astrakhan activist fired from school

  The school managers have fired Elena Baibekova, a teacher from Astrakhan, who spent five days under arrest after her pacifist picket; she was fired for absenteeism. Baibekova intends to seek reinstatement at work.

April 02, 2022 08:25

• Muftiates of North-Caucasian regions announce Ramadan starting date

  The holy month of Ramadan will start in Dagestan, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia on April 2, the Muftiates have announced.

April 01, 2022 22:10

• Refugees from Ukraine report about reception in Tbilisi

  Refugees from Ukraine are accommodated in hotels in Georgia and do not experience any problems with housing, but they are worried about material difficulties and uncertainty about the timing of their return to their homeland.

April 01, 2022 21:53

• Kuban teenager arrested in extremism case

  A court arrested for two months a minor resident of the village of Kaluga in the Krasnodar Territory. According to the investigators’ version, the minor suspect was a member of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth radical community “M.K.U.” and prepared to commit murder.

April 01, 2022 18:46

• Screening of a film about Irganai IDPs cancelled due to disrupted “Artdocfest” film festival

  A film about residents of Dagestani villages that fell into the flood zone of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant was included in the programme of the “Artdocfest” documentary film festival, but its screening was cancelled because of an attack on Vitaly Mansky, an organizer of the film festival, and the disruption of the “Artdocfest”, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reported.

April 01, 2022 14:26

• Georgian President declares support for anti-Russian sanctions

  Georgia supports the international sanctions against Russia imposed because of the special operation in Ukraine. Because of this, Georgia is forced to suffer financial losses, Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, has stated.

April 01, 2022 13:53

• Akhmed Pogorov's relatives alarmed by his health condition

  The medical unit of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, is being treated, has no conditions for providing Pogorov with the medical treatment he needs, his relatives have stated.

April 01, 2022 13:29

• Analysts are sceptical on South-Ossetian initiative to join Russia

  Anatoly Bibilov, the president of South Ossetia, has used the topic of the republic's accession to Russia in order to increase his ratings at the presidential election, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

April 01, 2022 11:29

• Azerbaijani residents commemorate victims of 1918 genocide

  On the Genocide Day, Baku hosted a solemn ceremony of laying flowers at the obelisk of martyrs erected in memory of the victims of the March events of 1918.

April 01, 2022 11:03

• South-Ossetian border guards detain resident of Georgia on suspicion of attempted sabotage

  Levan Machabeli, a former Georgian military, entered the Tskhinvali District aiming to commit a provocation against Russian militaries, the Committee for State Security (known as KGB) of South Ossetia has informed.

April 01, 2022 08:36

• Dagestani MIA is searching for 2000 suspects of taking part in terrorist organizations

  A total of 1967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has announced at the session of the People's Assembly (Parliament).

April 01, 2022 08:23

• Criticism of Medinsky gives Kadyrov chance to demonstrate his loyalty to Putin

  By criticizing the position of the Russian delegation at talks with Ukraine, Kadyrov is trying to curry favour with Putin, at the same time claiming to increase his importance, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

April 01, 2022 00:00

• Oppositionist Shakhin Gadjiev sentenced to six years of imprisonment

  Shakhin Gadjiev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, was sentenced to six years of imprisonment on the charge of drug trafficking. His party colleagues consider the sentence politically motivated.

March 31, 2022 22:37

• Activist Erdneev gets second fine under article on discrediting Russian armed forces

  A court in Elista again imposed a fine on Aducha Erdneev, an activist of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people, for discrediting the Russian army. No evidence of discrediting was submitted in court, and the decision will be challenged, says Aducha Erdneev.

March 31, 2022 22:08

• Bibilov proposes to unite North and South Ossetia

  South Ossetia may become part of Russia as a separate subject and then unite with North Ossetia. This has been proposed today by Anatoly Bibilov, President of South Ossetia. The referendum on joining Russia will not have legal force, emphasizes Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani.

March 31, 2022 19:08

• In Yerevan, residents call on UN to stand up for residents of Nagorno-Karabakh

  In Yerevan, participants of a protest action held in front of the UN office called on the international community to pay attention to the threat to the security of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

March 31, 2022 18:52

• Journalists argue about attitude of residents of South Ossetia to presidential election

  Militaries from South Ossetia take part in the special military operation in Ukraine, and residents of the republic are more concerned about their fate than about the presidential election, Zaur Farniev suggests. In South Ossetia, voters are in a depressed state not only because of the special military operation in Ukraine, but because of a whole range of socio-political problems, Ruslan Totrov believes.