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January 07, 2021 12:22

• Armenian MP offers exchanging part of Shurnukh from Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan occupies a part of the territory of Armenia from the side of Nakhichevan; therefore Yerevan can claim the return of the parts of Shurnukh and Vorotan lost during the border delimitation, Edmon Marukyan, an MP and the leader of the "Enlightened Armenia" Party, has stated.

January 07, 2021 11:58

• Tarki residents report mass brawl after activist's murder

  A people's gathering demanding to evict the alleged drug dealer, due to which an activist, Vali Abduragimov, was killed earlier, has turned into a mass brawl in the dwelling settlement of Tarki that is a part of Makhachkala. Social networks have messages about casualties and wounded people; however, this information has not been officially confirmed.

January 07, 2021 08:31

• Azerbaijani GPO treats video with POW's incineration as original

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has recognized the video footage of the burning of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier-prisoner of war (POW) to be authentic and opened a criminal case based on this footage. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has demanded from international organizations to react to this and other war crimes.

January 07, 2021 08:20

• Social network users worried about Dagestani orphan's fate in Grozny

  The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.

January 06, 2021 23:03

• Advocate and mother of blogger Djikaeva report about her stay at Grozny SIZO

  Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

January 06, 2021 22:37

• Pashinyan isolates himself amid protests near Yerevan Cathedral

  In the morning, protesters gathered near a church in Yerevan to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from attending the Christmas service. Nikol Pashinyan did not come to the church, and his press secretary explained the Prime Minister's absence by the epidemiological situation.

January 06, 2021 20:18

• Kadyrov ignores mask regime at meeting with coronavirus-infected MMA fighter

  MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev flew to Chechnya after he had cancelled a fight at the UFC tournament because of his positive COVID-19 test. However, according to posts on social networks, at the meetings with Khamzat Chimaev, Ramzan Kadyrov, other athletes, and relatives of the MMA fighter neglected the mask regime in force in the republic.

January 06, 2021 20:07

• Social network users criticize law enforcers after murder of an activist in Dagestan

  After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.

January 06, 2021 17:46

• Balasanyan accuses Azerbaijani forces of violating border

  The Azerbaijani side does not comply with the terms of the peace agreement and sends its armed forces deep into the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, states Vitaly Balasanyan, Secretary of the Security Council of the unrecognized republic.

January 06, 2021 15:34

• Azerbaijan reveals number of captured Nagorno-Karabakh residents

  Five Nagorno-Karabakh militaries and two civilians are being held captive in Azerbaijan, while the unrecognized republic keeps two Azerbaijani civilians, said Ismail Akhundov, the head of the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs.

January 06, 2021 15:22

• Azerbaijani sappers find 27 phosphorus shells

  At the positions of Karabakh militaries in the Agdam District, 528 ordnances, including 27 shells with white phosphorus, were found and neutralized, the Azerbaijani Demining Agency has informed.

January 06, 2021 11:17

• Air flights of law enforcers from Grozev's investigation coincide with hunt for Doku Umarov

  The special intelligence agents, whom journalists have linked to the attempt on Alexei Navalny, had flown to Northern Caucasus before the poisoning of the militant leader, Doku Umarov, in 2013, and in 2017, during the preparations of his remains for transportation, the materials of Khristo Grozev, a Bellingcat's investigator, assert.

January 06, 2021 11:05

• Shurnukh village head reports talks with Azerbaijani border guards

  The Armenian and Azerbaijani parties are coordinating the location of border posts in the village of Shurnukh; the issue of creating a neutral zone is still open, said Akop Arshakyan, the head of the village.

January 06, 2021 10:52

• On Christmas Eve, Stepanakert townspeople pray for war victims

  On the eve of the Orthodox Christmas, liturgies were held in two operating churches in Stepanakert. Believers prayed for the wounded, killed and missing military servicemen during the Karabakh conflict aggravation.

January 06, 2021 08:36

• President of Azerbaijan declared Shusha to be cultural capital

  Ilham Aliev, Azerbaijani President, has ordered to return the city of Shusha to its historical appearance, restore mosques and return the Days of Vagif's Poetry and the "Khary Bulbul" Festival back to the city.

January 06, 2021 08:23

• "Novaya Gazeta" reports death of those detained after October CTO in Grozny

  The bodies of the owner of the house, in which alleged militants were killed on October 13, 2020, in Grozny, his pregnant wife and brother, were handed over to their relatives about a month after their detention, the "Novaya Gazeta" writes.

January 05, 2021 22:56

• Ingush Council of Teips expresses condolences to family of policeman killed in Chechnya

  The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) expressed the condolences to relatives of Chechen policeman Magomed Djabrailov, who was killed in Grozny. It was also noted that the incident was being used to stir up ethnic hatred. The above statement was made after the threats voiced by Chechen MP Magomed Khanbiev against Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip.

January 05, 2021 22:43

• President Aliev announces construction of international airport near Shusha

  An international airport in Fizuli will reduce the travel time to Shusha for foreign tourists, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev announces. According to him, the take-off runway is to be constructed this year.

January 05, 2021 22:30

• Tskaev's widow expresses her indignation at Bibilov's criticism of protest in Tskhinvali

  A widow of Vladimir Tskaev, who died after an interrogation at the Vladikavkaz ROVD (District Interior Division), wait for an apology from the President of South Ossetia for his statement about a mother of a Vladikavkaz citizen. Anatoly Bibilov compared the stories of Vladimir Tskaev and Inal Djabiev and condemned the behaviour of the latter's mother.

January 05, 2021 18:56

• Blogger Litvin joins promotion of Kadyrov's associates on Instagram

  Mikhail Litvin, a popular Instagram blogger, announced a luxury SUV as a prize by inviting his followers to subscribe to the users he indicated, including relatives and close associates of Ramzan Kadyrov.