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October 09, 2020 11:16

• Armenian MoD reports on downed drones

  In the area of the Armenian city of Vardenis, militaries have shot down seven unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) belonging to the Azerbaijani Army, the Armenian Ministry of Defence has informed.

October 08, 2020 23:43

• Analysts rule out Ramzan Kadyrov's interference in Karabakh conflict

  The authorities of Chechnya will not help Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh without the approval of the Kremlin, expert Vasily Dandykin believes. Political analyst Ali Magomaev suggests that at most, natives of Chechnya may be included in the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation.

October 08, 2020 23:31

• Three journalists injured in shelling attack on cathedral in Shushi

  Today, while collecting the information about the damages inflicted to a cathedral in Shushi, reporters have come under a repeated shelling attack, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsman reported. Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, called the shelling attack on the cathedral a terror act and promised to restore it.

October 08, 2020 23:27

• Nikol Pashinyan reports about traitors on front line

  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reported about a detention of a Stepanakert resident, who called on soldiers of the Defence Army to leave their positions. Investigators suggest that the suspect was a member of a grouping which sought to demoralize the service personnel.

October 08, 2020 18:19

• Number of killed Karabakh soldiers reaches 339

  More 30 soldiers were killed in the Karabakh conflict zone, and the total number of killed service personnel of the Defence Army reached 339, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

October 08, 2020 18:16

• Salman Tepsurkaev's father forced to record an appeal, social network users believe

  A video appeal voiced by a father of a kidnapped moderator of the 1Adat Telegram Channel was recorded under pressure, and the whereabouts of Salman Tepsurkaev is still unknown, note some Instagram users. Their opponents argue that it is necessary to listen to Shirvani Tepsurkaev and stop discussing the torture his son had been subjected to.

October 08, 2020 18:06

• Armenia reports night missile attacks on Stepanakert

  This night, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh came under Azerbaijan's missile fire, Armenian authorities have stated.

October 08, 2020 18:00

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of villages in five border districts

  In the Karabakh conflict zone, villages of the Barda, Agdjabedi, Goranboy, Terter and Agdam Districts are being shelled; there are dead and wounded, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

October 08, 2020 17:51

• Commemoration participants call Politkovskaya example of fighter for justice

  Anna Politkovskaya was a bright example of an honest journalist who did not break down under authorities' pressure, those who took part in the memorial action in Moscow have stated. In a year, the statute of limitations for her murder case will expire; and the still unfound customer will remain unpunished, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, has stated.

October 08, 2020 11:08

• Stepanakert residents live in shelters due to intense shelling

  Most of October 7, residents of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, spent in basements of their houses, equipped as shelters. All shops are closed, but townspeople have assured that they have everything they need.

October 08, 2020 09:40

• Gezyal Bairamly, Azerbaijani political prisoner, dies

  Gezyal Bairamly, a famous politician and a former political prisoner, has died in Azerbaijan after a grave illness. Her colleagues and supporters are sure that her imprisonment had aggravated the disease.

October 08, 2020 09:35

• Grozny residents criticize motto "Akhmat is power" at entrance to the city

  Grozny has opened a new entrance arch from the side of the city of Argun. Residents of Chechnya reacted sceptically to the inscription "Akhmat is power" that crowns the arch.

October 08, 2020 09:31

• Audio version of Politkovskaya's article recalls her meeting with Kadyrov

  On the anniversary of the murder of the journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, an audio version of her report was made public, saturated with psychologically hard scenes from her trip to Ramzan Kadyrov's residence in 2004, and from her interview, at the end of which she expected gunfire in her back.

October 08, 2020 08:55

• Media: Karabakh residents link shelling intensification with imminent truce

  The losses of the Defence Army are much higher than those announced; soldiers lack ammunition, volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh assert. Local residents associate the shelling strengthening with Azerbaijan's desire to push forward the frontline before an imminent ceasefire.

October 08, 2020 08:53

• Father of publicly humiliated Chechen Salman Tepsurkaev asks to forget about his son

  In his new video message, Shirvani Tepsurkaev has called to "close the topic" with his son, stating that he was satisfied with the responses of Chechen authorities and had no complaints against them. However, the authors of the 1Adat Telegram Channel are sure that Salman's father was forced to record the new appeal because information appeared that two kidnappers of his son had been recognized.

October 07, 2020 23:53

• Two Georgian officials detained for transferring lands to Azerbaijan

  Two experts were detained for using incorrect maps of the wrong scale when determining the border with Azerbaijan. Investigators suggest that because of their actions, Georgia has lost more than 3500 hectares of territory.

October 07, 2020 23:52

• In Chechnya, officials follow Ramzan Kadyrov's example in ignoring mask regime

  In Gudermes, officials attended a ceremony to commission a residential building without wearing protective masks, local residents reported. According to them, the top-ranking officials of Chechnya follow the example of Ramzan Kadyrov and openly violate the mask regime.

October 07, 2020 18:57

• Caucasian experts call in question video about Chechen militants in Karabakh

  The footage of the video about the sending of Chechen natives to Nagorno-Karabakh does not contain any explicit signs to identify the location of the shooting, although military vehicles in the video are typical for the Middle East, experts says. The parties do not emphasize the religious background of the conflict, but it is the key motive for the natives of Chechnya, suggests Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov.

October 07, 2020 18:52

• Man accused of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili's murder refuses to speak in court

  In Berlin, a court held the first hearing in a case on the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge. The defendant, who identified himself as construction worker Vadim Sokolov, exercised his right to remain silent. Political refugee Rubati Mitsaeva expressed hope that he would not be extradited to Russia.

October 07, 2020 18:45

• Rights defenders claim discrimination of Muslims in Georgia

  Muslims in Georgia are discriminated more often than adherents of other faiths, the NGO "Human Rights Training and Monitoring Centre" has stated.