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September 24, 2020 10:47

• Extortions in Chechen schools become all-Russian practice

  Teachers are often independently solving the issues of classroom repairs and decoration, teachers of Grozny schools have commented on parents' complaints about extortions. Collecting money in Chechen schools continues the all-Russian trend, analysts believe.

September 24, 2020 10:42

• Azerbaijan: court refuses to release ex-Ambassador Gasanov on bail

  Eldar Gasanov, a former Ambassador of Azerbaijan, accused of abuse of powers and misuse of budgetary funds, was denied the release on bail. Gasanov refuses to plead guilty and insists on an objective investigation, his advocate has stated.

September 23, 2020 23:53

• Chechen residents dispute Ramzan Kadyrov's opinion on vaccine against COVID-19

  Ramzan Kadyrov declared the unconditional confidence of the Chechen authorities in developers of a Russian vaccine against coronavirus. The leader of Chechnya also announced mass vaccination, starting with elderly people. Local residents fear that the vaccine is insufficiently tested and do not want to be vaccinated.

September 23, 2020 23:50

• Pressure on opposition Chechen "1Adat" Telegram channel makes it even more popular

  The "1Adat" Telegram channel is supported by a people's movement with activists in Russia who did not stop their activities after the kidnapping of Salman Tepsurkaev.

September 23, 2020 21:45

• In Chechnya, police chief reprimands detainees for using drugs

  The chief of the OVD (Interior Division) for the Urus-Martan District made detainees repent for using drugs and driving while being in a state of alcoholic intoxication. Parents of the offenders, whom law enforcers warned about responsibility for the behaviour of their children, promised to control them.

September 23, 2020 21:36

• In Yerevan, labour migrants go on hunger strike

  In Yerevan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met protesters who demanded to open the borders with Russia. The authorities do not cancel the emergency regime introduced because of the epidemic, while families and jobs remained abroad, the protesters explain.

September 23, 2020 16:17

• Baku analysts link "Kavkaz-2020" exercises with incidents on Armenian border

  The latest incidents on the border, including the killing and wounding of Azerbaijani soldiers, are associated with the "Kavkaz-2020" military exercises, Djasur Sumerinli, an analyst and military expert, believes.

September 23, 2020 16:12

• Hermitage Centre in Nalchik aims to revive North-Caucasian archaeological school

  The "Hermitage-Caucasus" Cultural and Educational Centre, which is planned to open on the basis of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU), will allow reviving its own archaeological school in Northern Caucasus, said Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.

September 23, 2020 11:29

• Georgian PO confirms falsification of proofs in Bachaliashvili death case

  According to the Prosecutor's Office (PO) of Georgia, the satellite images of the car, in which Tamar Bachaliashvili's body was found, and which were presented by the advocate of Tamar's family, had been falsified.

September 23, 2020 11:18

• Armenia: three Amulsar defenders arrested on suspicion of hooliganism

  Residents of the city of Jermuk have been arrested after a brawl with supporters of the development of the Amulsar deposit; and the gathering in support thereof ended in new detentions.

September 23, 2020 09:44

• Chechen blogger Lomaev wins case versus Russia at ECtHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 50,500 euros to Musa Lomaev, who emigrated after being detained and tortured in Grozny.

September 23, 2020 09:41

• Residents of Makhachkala suburb report clashes with law enforcers

  In the Makhachkala district of Krasnoarmeyskoye, clashes broke out with policemen, who, in response to stones thrown at them, opened fire in the air, local residents inform.

September 23, 2020 09:35

• Argun resident convicted of recruiting militants to Syria

  The court has sentenced Nurdi Bersanukaev, a resident of Chechnya, to six years in prison for calling his acquaintances to take part in the Middle East conflict.

September 23, 2020 09:34

• Amid relatives' hunger strike, Tbilisi prisoners cut themselves

  In Tbilisi, three inmates have wounded themselves after being denied cigarettes and tea, the Penitentiary Service has informed. The wife of one of them, who is on a hunger strike demanding a large-scale amnesty, doubted this version.

September 22, 2020 22:59

• Chechen resident to get compensation for torture and unfair sentence

  The European Court of Human Rights ruled to pay 67,000 euros to Chechen native Muslim Chudalov, who, being tortured, confessed to be a militant and was sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment.

September 22, 2020 22:54

• Investigators find photos from place of Georgian programmer Bachaliashvili's murder unreliable

  A lawyer hired by the family of programmer Tamar Bachaliashvili, who deceased in Georgia, is suspected of falsifying photos from the place of her murder. The lawyer treats the investigators' version as an attempt to discredit or intimidate him.

September 22, 2020 19:21

• Nephew of Chechen leader appointed supervisor of two districts

  Ramzan Kadyrov appointed Idris Cherkhigov, the chief of the Chechen road police department (known as GIBDD), to be a supervisor of the Gudermes and Shelkovsky Districts to replace Ruslan Alkhanov, the Chechen Minister of Internal Affairs. At the first meeting, Idris Cherkhigov suggested that heads of the villages organized subbotniks (voluntary clean-up work days).

September 22, 2020 19:16

• Ingush village elders impose fine for long wedding party corteges

  In the village of Kantyshevo, wedding party corteges should consist of a maximum of four cars, imams of mosques and elders in the Nazran District of Ingushetia decide. They threatened violators of the new regulation with a fine of 50,000 roubles.

September 22, 2020 19:07

• After start of his hunger strike, Salaev, PFPA activist, transferred to another colony

  Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who had complained about beatings in the colony and went on a hunger strike, was transferred, after appealing to the Ombudsperson and the Penitentiary Service, to another colony located in a suburb of Baku. In the new place, the oppositionist has no complaints of harassment, said Salaev's son.

September 22, 2020 17:52

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded near Armenian border

  As a result of a shelling attack on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a soldier was wounded, who was at a combat post in the village of Agdam, Tovuz District.