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August 27, 2021 22:30

• Baksan resident sentenced for aiding and abetting IS militant

  In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Arthur Chemkov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of aiding and abetting a member of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

August 27, 2021 17:10

• Azerbaijan reports a shootout at border with Armenia

  The Armenian armed forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District, and the shelling attack was suppressed by return fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 27, 2021 17:04

• Residents of Armenian villages deprived of medical care because of blocked road

  In the Syunik Region, villagers have limited access to food and medical services, as the road from Goris to Kapan has been blocked by Azerbaijani soldiers, the local authorities report.

August 27, 2021 16:58

• Azerbaijani political analysts voice conditions for unblocking of road from Goris to Kapan

  Azerbaijan will open traffic on the road from Goris to Kapan if Armenia investigates an incident with the wounding of an Azerbaijani border guard, punishes the guilty persons and guarantees that no provocations will repeat, suggest Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO “Military Officers”, and Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijan National Public Committee for European Integration.

August 27, 2021 16:54

• Ingush residents accused of aiding and abetting militants

  Members of a criminal grouping provided militants with food, transported them in personal cars, and one of the accused stored a pistol.

August 27, 2021 15:14

• Political analysts explain Baku's conditions for negotiations with Armenia

  The Armenian leadership is speeding up negotiations, as it is morally ready for compromises with Azerbaijan on the issue of border delimitation, Azerbaijani political analysts believe, adding that Baku will meet Yerevan halfway on economic issues, but under no circumstances will agree to discuss the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

August 27, 2021 11:33

• Five Pankisi residents arrested under terrorism case

  The court has ruled to the arrest five residents of the Pankisi Gorge accused of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS)*, by rejecting their defence's motion to release them on bail. All the five declared their innocence.

August 26, 2021 23:58

• Residents of three Armenian villages blocked after closure of road from Goris to Kapan

  Soldiers blocked a section of the road from Goris to Kapan, and as a result, residents of the villages of Vorotan, Shurnukh, and Bartsravan were left without a car connection. The blocked villages face problems with the supply of food.

August 26, 2021 23:54

• Azerbaijan withdraws peacekeepers from Afghanistan

  All 120 Azerbaijani peacekeepers have been sent from Afghanistan to Turkey, from where they will return home in the near future, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

August 26, 2021 20:56

• Chechen native Khalimat Taramova treated at a clinic near Moscow, “Meduza”* reports

  Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, was placed in an elite clinic near Moscow, which operated without a licence, where patients were treated with unknown drugs without requiring documents, the “Meduza”* reports.

August 26, 2021 20:51

• “Novaya Gazeta” reports information on fate of Dagestani women in Middle East

  Many of the men, who left Dagestan for Syria and Iraq to join militants, were killed, and their wives and children remained in a foreign country without money or a roof over their heads, the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” reports.

August 26, 2021 20:36

• Azerbaijani soldier detained in Nagorno-Karabakh

  A soldier of the Azerbaijani army entered a private house in Martakert and threatened minors, the Prosecutor’s Office of Nagorno-Karabakh reported. The soldier was treated in a psychiatric ward and escaped from the hospital, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 26, 2021 20:22

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of border shelling

  Tonight, Armenian soldiers have shelled the positions of Azerbaijani militaries located in the Kelbadjar District, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 26, 2021 20:18

• Pankisi residents are sure of innocence of their detained fellow countrymen

  The young people accused of involvement with the "Islamic State" (IS)* had left for Turkey to work and could have moved to Syria earlier, if the intelligence services' version about their plans was correct, residents of the Pankisi Gorge assert.

August 26, 2021 20:12

• Witnesses name law enforcers as perpetrators of riots in Magas

  All the witnesses questioned by the court on August 25 called the clashes at the protest action in Magas to be the result of law enforcers' provocative actions. Ingush activists, according to witnesses, tried to prevent clashes.

August 26, 2021 19:59

• Incident on Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires Russian militaries' intervention

  For several hours, Azerbaijani militaries blocked about 40 cars with residents of Armenia on the Goris-Kapan highway section, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated. Russian militaries have entered into negotiations in order to get people out of the blocked highway section.

August 26, 2021 19:54

• Political analysts point to risk of taking away children of Rostov Muslim woman in Grozny

  The grandmother's intention to take her grandchildren to Grozny after their mother, a native of Rostov-on-Don, was accused of aiding terrorism, could turn into difficulties with their return, analysts believe.

August 26, 2021 15:38

• Rights defenders condemn inclusion of the Ingush activist Pogorov into list of extremists and terrorists

  The inclusion of the Ingush activist, Akhmed Pogorov, into the list of extremists and terrorists of the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) at the stage of the prosecution is incorrect and may affect the verdict, human rights defenders believe. The advocates stated a violation of the presumption of innocence.

August 26, 2021 15:36

• Chechen court treats refusal to investigate Grozny resident's claim of torture as legitimate

  A Grozny court has found it legitimate the refusal to investigate the Lom-Ali Elbiev's statement of torture at the Mayoralty of Grozny, the Chechen capital. His advocate intends to appeal this decision at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.

August 26, 2021 11:31

• Baku accuses Armenian militaries of attacking border guard

  A serviceman of the Azerbaijani border troops was stabbed when two Armenian servicemen attacked him, the Azerbaijani State Frontier Service has informed.