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January 07, 2022 22:56

• Rights defenders appeal to Putin in connection with kidnappings of relatives of Kadyrov’s critics

  Russian and international human rights organizations appealed to the Russian President with a request to do everything possible to end the repressions in Chechnya, ensure that human rights violations, committed by the Chechen authorities, are investigated and that all those responsible are brought to justice.

January 07, 2022 22:33

• Journalist Polad Aslanov goes on hunger strike in prison

  On the evening of January 6, Polad Aslanov, an imprisoned director of the “xeberman.com” website, went on a hunger strike. The convicted journalist demands a reconsideration of his case and protests against the delay in the consideration of his complaint by the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan.

January 07, 2022 18:40

• Baku analysts assess consequences of CSTO troops entering Kazakhstan

  Analysts from Baku believe that the deployment of the Collective Security Treaty Organization troops to Kazakhstan will aggravate the political crisis in the country and strengthen the anti-Russian sentiments and the desire of society to withdraw from the CIS institutions.

January 07, 2022 18:17

• Armenia sends 100 soldiers to Kazakhstan

  The Armenian military forces will ensure the protection of facilities of strategic importance, the Ministry of Defence of Armenia reports.

January 07, 2022 14:09

• Prosecutor asks 11 years in prison for Eldar Gasanov

  The prosecution has demanded from the court to sentence Eldar Gasanov, a former Azerbaijani Public Prosecutor General and Ambassador to Serbia, to 11 years in prison, as well as to confiscate his property.

January 07, 2022 13:30

• Politicians dispute on probability of Kazakh scenario in Azerbaijan

  Mass protests such as those underway in Kazakhstan are possible in Azerbaijan if the authorities fail with democratic reforms, oppositionists believe. Mass actions in Azerbaijan have been ruled out due to people's high trust in the president, a member of the ruling party is sure.

January 07, 2022 12:18

• Former Georgia's General Staff head released in Germany

  Giorgi Kalandadze, the former head of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces who was detained in late December in Germany at the request of the Georgian authorities, has been set free.

January 07, 2022 11:37

• Court seizes USD 1400 from Tsarnaev in favour of Boston terror act victims

  The federal benefit allocated because of the coronavirus pandemic to the Chechen, Djokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for committing terror act at the Boston Marathon, will be transferred by a court decision to the terror act victims.

January 07, 2022 09:40

• Social network users condemn decision to send Armenian troops to Kazakhstan

  Armenia should not send its military personnel as part of the peacemaking contingent of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), given the geopolitical situation, as well as the fact that Premier Pashinyan himself came to power through street protests, users of the Armenian Facebook segment have stated.

January 07, 2022 08:58

• Operative headquarters claims poorer COVID-19 situation in five regions of Southern Russia

  Over the last week, the epidemiological situation with coronavirus has worsened in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Kalmykia and the Rostov Region; it has improved in the Volgograd Region, the operative headquarters for COVID-19 prevention stated on January 6.

January 06, 2022 22:56

• Social media users criticise Dagestani MP for calling to annex Kazakhstan to Russia

  According to Facebook users, the proposal of State Duma member Biysultan Khamzaev to annex Kazakhstan to Russia is populism. Biysultan Khamzaev must remove the posts with his proposal as not to dishonour natives of Dagestan, Instagram users urge.

January 06, 2022 22:37

• Commanders deny sending military forces from Rostov Region to Kazakhstan

  A spokesperson for the Southern Military District called false the information about a transfer of a brigade of guards from Kamensk-Shakhtinsk to suppress riots in Kazakhstan. Paratroopers from Tula have already arrived in the country to perform the CSTO mission.

January 06, 2022 18:14

• Saakashvili extends term of his ultimatum to authorities of Georgia

  Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, agrees to wait till late January for the fulfilment of his demands concerning involvement of foreign doctors in his treatment and visits of advocates. In case of refusal to fulfil his demands, Mikhail Saakashvili can go on hunger strike again, his advocate says today.

January 06, 2022 17:59

• Residents of a village near Volgograd deprived of water supply for eleventh day

  Most residents of the large village of Dubovy Ovrag have been deprived of water supply since December 27, 2021. Officials from the Svetloyarsk District have been ignoring the water supply problems for years, the head of the village states.

January 06, 2022 13:28

• Tbilisi residents are dissatisfied with increase of public transport fares

  The Tbilisi Sakrebulo (City Council) has approved the system of subscription fares in public transport, but townspeople are outraged by the increase in travel costs.

January 06, 2022 13:05

• Head of Ochamchira District apologizes for shooting incident in Sukhumi

  Beslan Bigvava, the head of the Ochamchira District, has asked to forgive him for a shooting incident in a Sukhumi restaurant and pointed to the need to wait until the end of the investigative actions within this case.

January 06, 2022 11:13

• Ingushetia and Chechnya set records in number of divorces

  In January-November 2021, all the regions of the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) saw more divorces than in the same period of 2020, according to the data released by the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal Statistics Service). Ingushetia and Chechnya were the so-called "anti-leaders" in terms of the increase in the number of divorces, where their number increased by 218% and 163%, respectively.

January 06, 2022 10:58

• Pashinyan announces sending CSTO peacemakers to Kazakhstan

  After the appeal of the President of Kazakhstan, where mass actions are underway, accompanied by protesters' clashes with law enforcers, it was decided to send peacemakers in order to stabilize the situation in the country, Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, has stated.

January 06, 2022 08:52

• Kadyrov draws parallels between Kazakhstan and Chechnya

  Ramzan Kadyrov has reacted to the events in Kazakhstan, by urging the protesters against the authorities there to behave peacefully and not to destroy their state. Kadyrov has stated this during a live broadcast with Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, on the lord_095 page on the Instagram.

January 06, 2022 08:41

• Georgian authorities state new coronavirus wave

  Georgia sees a new wave of coronavirus infection, Amiran Gamkrelidze, the head of the National Centre for Disease Control has stated and urged the country population to speed up the vaccination process.