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July 28, 2019 11:46

• Agile Spirit 2019 military exercises aimed at Georgia's defence capacity

  The multinational military exercises Agile Spirit 2019 have started in Georgia. They are intended to master defensive skills, which corresponds to the country's position, military experts believe.

July 28, 2019 11:43

• Story about young Kadyrov's admirer show promotion techniques of Chechen authorities

  The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation has gifted a six-year-old video hero, who said he was dreaming of becoming Ramzan Kadyrov's bodyguard, ready to die for him. The boy's parents filmed the video, seeking an award, while Chechen authorities used it for self-promotion, said local residents.

July 28, 2019 11:40

• Rights defenders and residents of Chechnya disbelieve allegations that blogger Abdurakhmanov works for Chechen authorities

  The Grozny resident, whose kidnapping was reported by the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, accused him, in his video message, of collaborating with the authorities. Social network users have treated this statement as a fake. Rights defenders are sure that the author made his video under pressure.

July 27, 2019 20:54

• Georgian businesses see no decrease in tourist flows after Russian sanctions

  The ban on direct Russia-Georgia flights resulted in a decrease in the number of Russian tourists, but it was compensated by the increase of tourist inflow from Europe, the Georgia's Association of Entry Tourism has reported. Russian tour operators have reported that they found alternatives to the Georgian direction.

July 27, 2019 20:51

• Dagestani SC cancels permit for action in support of journalist Gadjiev

  The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the officials of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan on the issue of demonstration in support of the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Gadjiev's relatives are not able to visit him in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second month, the journalist's mother said.

July 27, 2019 10:27

• Malkhaz Machalikashvili's nephew detained in Georgia

  Moris Machalikashvili, a nephew of Malkhaz Machalikashvili, is suspected of assaulting policemen during the riots outside the parliament building in Tbilisi.

July 27, 2019 10:23

• Azerbaijan condemns Armenia for building road in the conflict zone

  The plans of Armenian authorities to build a new 150-kilometre road to Nagorno-Karabakh nullify the successes in resolving the conflict, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

July 27, 2019 10:12

• Kadyrov's relative appointed acting Mayor of Argun

  The 28-year-old Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, who earlier worked as an assistant to the head of Chechnya and the head of the Grozny's branch of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has been appointed to the post of Mayor of the city of Argun.

July 27, 2019 10:07

• Makhachkala: passersby support pickets in defence of journalist Gadjiev

  On Friday, July 19, outside the building of Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, solo pickets were held demanding to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik". The pickets found support among passersby and drivers of cars passing by.

July 27, 2019 09:51

• Journalist complains about detention at "Tangim" mosque

  Idris Yusupov, an employee of the Dagestani edition "Chernovik" (Draft), has stated that he was detained on Friday during a raid conducted by law enforcers near the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala.

July 27, 2019 09:39

• Dagestani woman finds her detained son in Chechnya

  Abidat Kurbanalieva met her son Kurban, detained in Moscow, in Chechnya. Law enforcers failed to explain the reasons for his detention, she said.

July 27, 2019 09:23

• Child's death in Dagestan actualizes problem of protecting mothers' right to custody

  In Northern Caucasus, divorced women find it difficult to achieve custody over their children if the ex-husband decides to keep them. Relatives can interfere with mother's contacts with children and put pressure on them, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated after the death of a four-year-old girl from Makhachkala in her stepmother's family.

July 26, 2019 23:57

• Advocate tells about hunger strike of Gasanov, Azerbaijani oppositionist

  The state of health of Azad Gasanov, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, who is conducting his hunger strike for the fourth day at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has deteriorated. He is protesting against the protraction of his trial, which has been on for more than six months, said his advocate.

July 26, 2019 20:50

• Azerbaijan claims shelling attacks on two villages in conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 19 times during 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

July 26, 2019 20:48

• Father of Georgian resident killed in special operation resumes his protest near parliament

  In Tbilisi, despite the ban of the law enforcement bodies, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of a resident of the Pankisi Gorge, killed in a special operation, set up a tent in Rustaveli Avenue.

July 26, 2019 15:04

• TV story about Chechen beggar points to new trend in Ramzan Kadyrov's propaganda

  A TV report about a woman who was begging in Grozny continued a series of exposing stories on the Chechen TV Channel. Residents of the republic condemned the public persecution of the family.

July 26, 2019 15:01

• Dagestani authorities challenge sanction for rally in support of journalist Gadjiev

  The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) filed a complaint against the court's decision to sanction a demonstration in support of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev in Makhachkala.

July 26, 2019 11:25

• OSCE mission fixes no shelling attacks in Karabakh conflict zone

  During their scheduled monitoring, officials of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) monitoring mission found no violations of the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line.

July 26, 2019 11:16

• ECtHR finds violation of Azerbaijani rights defenders' rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized a violation of the rights of three Azerbaijani activists under the article of "the freedom of association" of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and obliged Azerbaijan to pay them 4500 euros as compensation of their suffered moral harm.

July 26, 2019 09:45

• Dagestani woman reports detention of her son by Chechen law enforcers

  People in a car with Chechen number plates took Kurban Kurbanaliev from Moscow to Chechnya, relatives are not informed of the reasons for the detention, said Abidat, Kurban's mother in her appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov. Earlier, Chechen law enforcers suspected Kurbanaliev of having links with militants, but stopped persecuting him for absence of corpus delicti.