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December 31, 2020 21:33

• Grozny incident continues trend of knife attacks on law enforcers in regions of NCFD

  An attack on the police in Grozny has become at least the seventh knife attack on the police in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, that is, the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), over three years. Most of attackers were declared natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

December 31, 2020 21:16

• Dagestan: over 500 militias receive status of war veterans

  The list of candidates for the status of war veterans from among the 1999 militias included about 28,000 people, said Kamil Davdiev, Vice-Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament. However, only 520 of them received the respective certificates; and most of those who really fought were not among them, said activists of veteran organizations, Magomed Umargadjiev and Umakhan Umakhanov.

December 31, 2020 21:04

• Kadyrov suspects teip members of killed Ingushes of aiding terrorism

  The head of Chechnya has ordered to check whether there were any signs of complicity in terrorism in the words of the members of the Ingush teips (family clans), who had demanded proofs that their relatives, who were killed in the attack on policemen, were terrorists.

December 31, 2020 10:41

• Ingush teip renounces claims against Chechen authorities

  Members of the Ingush teips (family clans) of Timurzievs and Sultygovs have posted their second video about the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. According to their version, they watched the video from the venue, which clearly shows the actions of Khasan and Khusein, admitted that they were wrong and expressed condolences to the family of the killed law enforcer.

December 31, 2020 10:39

• Economists assess prospects for opening enterprises in Shusha

  The enterprises that are opening trade and service facilities in Shusha can hardly hope for any profits yet, economists have noted. However, in their opinion, the operation in Shusha will bring profits in the long term; it will also help increasing revenues in other regions of Azerbaijan, becoming a sort of advertising.

December 31, 2020 10:37

• Trend of blackmailing girls with intimate photos reaches KChR

  A resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) extorted money from girls by threatening to spread their intimate photos in social networks; the police have reported about 18 criminal cases initiated against the suspect. Similar cases are being investigated in other regions of Northern Caucasus; and fighters for morality acted as blackmailers.

December 31, 2020 10:35

• Chechen Speaker threatens blood feud to teip members of Ingushes killed in Grozny

  Magomed Daudov made an appointment in the Chechen Parliament for members of two Ingush teips, who had demanded from Kadyrov to prove the guilt of the natives of Ingushetia killed in Grozny. A blood feud for the death of a Chechen law enforcer awaits the members of the teips of the killed Ingushes, Minister Daudov has warned.

December 31, 2020 10:31

• Kadyrov symbolically improves power in Chechnya by honouring his son

  The naming of the sports complex in Bachi-Yurt after Ramzan Kadyrov's son speaks of an attempt to strengthen his regime in Chechnya, Mikhail Roschin, an Orientalist, believes. In his turn, Akhmet Yarlykapov, a Caucasian expert, has suggested that Kadyrov announced his heir, which could lead both to the unification of the elite around him and to the emergence of rivals in the struggle for power.

December 31, 2020 00:10

• Banner disputes highlight problem with demarcation of border between Armenia and Azerbaijan

  The banner on the road from Gori to Kapan is located on the territory of Azerbaijan, and it does not imply any claims to the Armenian lands, states Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijani Public Committee for European Integration.

December 31, 2020 00:07

• Police detain relatives of suspects killed in Grozny, advocate reports

  Advocate Magomed Bekov has reported about a complaint filed to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the detention in Chechnya of relatives of two Ingush natives killed in Grozny. Facebook users call on people for more active dissemination of the information reported by the advocate.

December 30, 2020 23:58

• Armenia announces reconstruction plan of roads in Syunik Region

  Reconstruction of roads in the Syunik Region is planned for 2021. The road reconstruction will ensure communication between villages, towns, and cities after some sections of the roads had come under the control of Azerbaijan, the Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures announces.

December 30, 2020 23:51

• Two Ingush teips request evidence of terror act in Grozny

  Members of the Timurzievs and Sultygov Ingush teips (family clans) requested Ramzan Kadyrov to prove that natives of Ingushetia killed by law enforcers in Grozny were terrorists. Authors of the video appeal insist on the giving-out of the bodies of the killed suspects.

December 30, 2020 17:50

• Armenian officer arrested within case of death of 18 soldiers in Karabakh

  A Lieutenant Colonel of the Nagorno-Karabakh Army ordered soldiers to get into the truck, despite the threat of a drone attack; as a result 18 soldiers were killed and one was wounded, the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

December 30, 2020 17:28

• Armenia treats border with Azerbaijan near Syunik as temporary

  The demarcation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border will start only after the establishment of diplomatic relations; now, only the two countries' actual control zones are defined. This was stated by the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after the protests held by residents of the Syunik Region of Armenia.

December 30, 2020 17:27

• Caucasian scholars name reasons for armed attacks in Chechnya

  Armed attacks in Chechnya are held amid glorification of rioters like Abdullakh Anzorov, dissatisfaction with the local authorities and the expansion of a new network associated with the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, analysts believe.

December 30, 2020 12:11

• Azerbaijani analysts treat conflicts with Armenian militaries as peacemakers' flaw

  Russian peacemakers fail to properly perform their functions of monitoring the observance of the ceasefire regime; therefore, Armenian militaries penetrate into the territories controlled by Azerbaijan. This is the opinion of Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO "Military Lawyers", and Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

December 30, 2020 12:07

• In spite of ban on mass events, residents of Kalmykia mark deportation day

  At the monument in Elista, residents of Kalmykia have commemorated those who perished during the Stalinist deportation. The authorities have actually ignored the date by failing to offer a programme of events, and also failed to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological safety in the territory of the memorial, activists report.

December 30, 2020 11:30

• Lawyers explain specifics of right to compensation in case of Russian peacemaker's death in Karabakh

  Families of perished military servicemen receive practically same compensations, but families of those who perished in armed hostilities are entitled to additional payments, the "Mother's Right" Foundation has reported in its comment on the death of Russian peacemakers in Karabakh.

December 29, 2020 23:28

• Rights defenders concerned over deterioration of human rights situation in Chechnya

  The killings of Ramzan Kadyrov's critics abroad, the attack on journalist Elena Milashina and advocate Marina Dubrovina in Grozny, and the public torture of Salman Tepsurkaev have become prime examples of the Chechen law enforcers' impunity, human rights defenders state.

December 29, 2020 23:20

• Honouring Kadyrov's son makes Chechnya look like medieval monarchies

  For the first time in Chechnya, an architectural facility is named after one of the Ramzan Kadyrov's children. This contradicts the Chechen culture and resembles the traditions of medieval monarchies, Caucasian experts note.