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November 05, 2020 11:34

• Azerbaijani journalist sentenced to seven years in jail

  A court in Baku has found Afghan Sadygov, the head of the "Azel.tv" website, guilty of extortion through threats and sentenced him to seven years in prison. The journalist himself has claimed falsification of the criminal case and again went on a hunger strike.

November 05, 2020 11:23

• Putin speaks about situation with caricatures in Kadyrov's and Khabib's spirit

  Following the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the MMA fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has condemned the "provocateurs" who offend believers under the guise of the freedom of speech.

November 04, 2020 22:42

• In Nagorno-Karabakh, key motorway closed because of an armed clash with saboteurs

  At night on November 4, a group of saboteurs from Azerbaijan was discovered near the city of Shushi, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. The Defence Army of Karabakh announced the partial closure of the Shushi-Berdzor motorway for residents in connection with the search for sabotage groups.

November 04, 2020 22:40

• Georgian Penitentiary Service: participants in beating of Giorgi Rurua punished

  Five prisoners who participated in an attack on Giorgi Rurua, a co-owner of the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel, have been transferred to another penitentiary institution with a tightening of the penal colony regime. The investigation into a criminal case on beating is underway, the Georgian Special Penitentiary Service reports.

November 04, 2020 22:33

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports 190 civilian casualties

  Since the beginning of the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, 46 people were killed and 144 others were injured during shelling attacks on cities, towns, and villages in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports Artak Beglaryan, Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh. He associates most of the casualties with cluster bombing.

November 04, 2020 16:30

• Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh exchanged accusations of shelling civilians

  Military servicemen of Nagorno-Karabakh are shelling five villages in the Terter and Agdjabedi Districts, Azerbaijani authorities have claimed. Nagorno-Karabakh declares victims as a result of the strike on the city of Shushi.

November 04, 2020 16:25

• Military experts find use of phosphorus shells in Karabakh unproved

  The use of banned phosphorus weapons threatens with condemnation by the international community; the parties to the Karabakh conflict will not dare doing it, experts have stated after mutual accusations from Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. They treat the published evidence of using phosphorus shells as inconclusive.

November 04, 2020 12:58

• Arguments of suspect of attempting Tumso failed to convince the blogger

  Ruslan Mamaev, accused of attacking the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had to disobey the order of those who sent him to Sweden from Grozny, the blogger asserts.

November 04, 2020 12:54

• Abkhazia: law enforcer gets under inquiry after woman's death after visiting SIZO

  According to investigators, Dmitry Mikvabiya has allowed, contrary to the law, a 24-hour-long visit of a Sukhumi woman with a man held at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). In the morning, she was found dead there.

November 04, 2020 12:44

• Instagram deletes post of Chechen newspaper post with caricatures on Charlie Hebdo

  The Instagram administration has removed the post of the Chechen newspaper "Vesti Respubliki" (Republic's News) with caricatures on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. Chechen authorities have reproached Instagram for double standards.

November 04, 2020 12:16

• Russian MFA estimates the number of mercenaries in Karabakh conflict zone

  The number of mercenaries from the Middle East countries in the Karabakh conflict zone has approached 2000, Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.

November 04, 2020 11:39

• Officials of the Dagestani "Tangim" Mosque treat raids on believers as radicalization factor

  The regular Friday law enforcers' raids at the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala create an image of illegality for it and frighten off the believers. Forced to avoid visiting the mosque, such believers are trying to search for religious information on the Internet and risk to fall under the influence of radical views, the representative of the mosque have stated.

November 03, 2020 22:26

• Number of killed residents of Nagorno-Karabakh rises to 46

  The number of killed civilians has increased to 46, while the number of wounded – to 142, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh reports. In the morning, the cities of Martuni and Shushi have been shelled with missiles, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports.

November 03, 2020 22:20

• In Azerbaijan, frontline villagers make dugouts to hide from shelling attacks

  In Azerbaijani villages, no bomb shelters were equipped at a distance from the frontline, and therefore, local residents have to arrange dugout shelters by themselves. Villagers, whose houses have been destroyed in shelling attacks, move to their neighbours' and relatives' places.

November 03, 2020 22:03

• Kadyrov and Mezhiev do not react to terror acts in Vienna

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Salakh Mezhiev, the republic's Mufti, who were actively commenting on the murder of the teacher in France, did not react to the terror acts in Vienna. The authorities of the European countries cannot cope with the influx of Muslim refugees and do not take into account their religious specifics, political analysts note.

November 03, 2020 21:57

• Natives of Northern Caucasus detained after terror acts in Vienna

  After the terror acts in Vienna, the Austrian authorities detained natives of Northern Caucasus and the Balkan countries, Russian Ambassador to Austria Dmitry Lyubinsky reported.

November 03, 2020 21:43

• Karabakh MoD claims new evidence proving use of phosphorus weapons by Azerbaijan

  The area of forests burned down in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of shelling attacks by the Azerbaijani troops with incendiary weapons has reached 1815 hectares, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports. In turn, the Azerbaijani authorities have accused Nagorno-Karabakh of attacking with similar weapons the forests in the vicinity of the Shusha city.

November 03, 2020 16:23

• UEFA opens case against head of press service of "Karabakh" FC for hate speech

  Nurlan Ibragimov, the head of the press service of the Azerbaijani "Karabakh" Football Club (FC) has published a post in social networks calling for violence against Armenians. The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) has appointed a disciplinary investigation into this case.

November 03, 2020 16:19

• Social network users treat destruction of menhirs in Northern Caucasus as barbarism

  The destruction of ancient menhirs (tall stones put in vertical position by people in prehistoric times) ruins the memory of the past, Facebook users were outraged after the message of a local historian from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) about another toppled menhir.

November 03, 2020 10:33

• Trial of Abdurakhmanov's attempted murder starts with suspect's confession

  The man accused of an attempted murder of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the well-known Chechen blogger, has partially admitted his guilt, but insists that he had not planned to kill him. The woman accused of aiding the attacker completely denies her guilt, writes the "Dagens Nyheter".