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August 04, 2021 08:48

• Azerbaijani MP Salimov arrested for three months

  A Baku court has arrested Eldaniz Salimov, an MP, who was deprived of his parliamentary immunity, under a case of abuse of office.

August 04, 2021 08:32

• Kuban hoteliers suffer losses due to demand of tourist vaccination

  When accommodating into a hotel in the Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory, called like that by the name of the main river, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), tourists must present vaccination certificates or a promise to get the first vaccination within three days. The accommodation demands have reduced, as these demands scare tourists away, tourism professionals report.

August 03, 2021 22:20

• Fellow villagers report about release of disappeared native of Chechnya

  Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the Chechen village of Sernovodskoye, who disappeared in June on his way from the Magas airport after his return from Greece, is at home, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

August 03, 2021 21:13

• Astrakhan family complains about non-admission of an autistic child to water park in Volzhsky

  In the city of Volzhsky, employees of the water park unreasonably refused to let in a family with a disabled child who had come to rest from Astrakhan, the boy’s parents complained. The Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the incident.

August 03, 2021 19:07

• “Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” requests President Putin to restore dialogue with Tbilisi

  Activists of the opposition “Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” Party have addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which they asked him for assistance in settling the Georgian-Russian relations, the “Georgia Online” reports today with reference to Irma Inashvili, the leader of the “Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” Party.

August 03, 2021 18:53

• Chechen resident sentenced for assisting in terrorist activities

  A court found Mokhyamadkhan Abdulvakhabov, a resident of Chechnya, guilty of transferring money to a friend for travelling to Syria and sentenced him to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

August 03, 2021 14:12

• Almost 90 mass wedding participants fined in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, 89 persons who attended weddings have been fined for violating the quarantine restrictions; 2700 more people were not let to the celebrations because of absent of COVID-19 passports, the Azeri Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

August 03, 2021 13:57

• Remains of four militaries found in Fizuli District

  In the Fizuli District, Karabakh rescuers have found remains of four military servicemen who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities. The total number of bodies and remains of Armenian militaries found has reached 1623.

August 03, 2021 13:44

• In new football season, Chechnya retains practice of forcing fans to attend "Akhmat" FC's matches

  In the first home match of the Russian Premier League football championship, the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) lost to "Sochi" FC. Residents of Chechnya complained about being forced to attend the team's match.

August 03, 2021 11:34

• Baku: rights defenders argue about sentences to Armenian militaries

  The human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have diverged in their opinions regarding the sentences passed to Armenian militaries: some treat them to be adequate to the imputed crimes, while others treat the sentences to Mkrtchyan and Khosrovyan as excessively lenient and compared them with those passed to Azerbaijani oppositionists.

August 03, 2021 11:19

• Abdulmumin Gadjiev's colleagues hold pickets in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, solo picketers have demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, and all political prisoners; they also called to stop arrests without proofs.

August 03, 2021 08:36

• Woman from Chechnya suspected of torturing children

  A 53-year-old resident of Chechnya, whom investigators have suspected of torturing two children, was detained.

August 03, 2021 08:24

• Baku court sentences two Armenian militaries to long prison terms

  A military court in Baku has found Ludvig Mkrtchyan and Alyosha Khosrovyan guilty of torturing Azerbaijani soldiers during the first Karabakh war and sentenced each to 20 years in prison.

August 02, 2021 22:41

• A tourist explains her video with a bone in Dargavs necropolis

  A female traveller, suspected of desecrating the remains after her video with a bone in the Dargavs necropolis in North Ossetia, explained her act by ignorance and confidence that it was a dummy. The young woman complained about threats on social media.

August 02, 2021 22:25

• Opposition boycotts first session of Armenian new parliament

  MPs from the opposition “Armenia” and "I Have the Honour" factions left the first session of the Armenian National Assembly of the eighth convocation, boycotting the discussion of the candidacy of Alen Simonyan, the speaker of the ruling “Civil Contract” Party, the “News-Armenia” reports today.

August 02, 2021 21:29

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 26-August 1, 2021

  Aggravation of the border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; verdict in a case on the death of Vladikavkaz resident Vladimir Tskaev at a police department; successes of athletes from the Caucasus and Southern Russia at the Tokyo Olympics, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 26-August 1, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 02, 2021 20:38

• On July 26-August 1, 2021, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of July 26-August 1, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

August 02, 2021 20:24

• Heydarabad residents go to agricultural work in spite of shelling attacks

  Shootouts involving Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers take place away from the Heydarabad town, and people go about their daily activities and gather crops without fear of being hit by shelling attacks, local residents says.

August 02, 2021 20:08

• Pashinyan reappointed Prime Minister of Armenia

  The President of Armenia signed a decree on the appointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, whose candidacy was proposed by the “Civil Contract” faction on the first day of the work of the new parliament.

August 02, 2021 14:27

• Chechen law enforcers punish authors of inscriptions on road bumpers

  In the Vedeno District, police found the people who had left inscriptions on the bumpers on the highway in Kezenoi-Am and forced them to paint the inscriptions over, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Tourism has announced, treating it as "public works."