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February 22, 2019 12:23

• Parents of missing Ingush students meet them in Egypt

  The parents of three students from Ingushetia, who had disappeared in Egypt, managed to meet them in Cairo, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has reported. Four of the five missing students are imprisoned there; the fate of the fifth one is still unknown.

February 22, 2019 12:21

• Visit of Co-Chairs of Minsk Group to Yerevan and Baku reminds of attempts to return NKR to negotiating table

  The Co-Chairs of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group have met heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan. However, Stepanakert was not included in their visit programme to Southern Caucasus. Armenia's initiatives to return the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) to the negotiating table have received no developed. Armenian political analysts exclude the military way of settling the conflict.

February 22, 2019 08:28

• KBR resident accuses law enforcers of torture

  In the Tersky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a man was beaten up and strangled in an attempt to knock out testimony from him, investigators have reported.

February 22, 2019 08:24

• Man, who has served his term for attempt on Kadyrov, arrested in Moscow

  Lors Khamiev, a native of Chechnya, has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of killing an Azerbaijani taxi driver. Khamiev has served his eight-year-long prison term for plotting an assassination attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov. Sources have linked the driver's murder with the mass brawl in the "Neolit" Café.

February 22, 2019 08:20

• Armenian opposition accuses Pashinyan of devaluing Karabakh movement

  The absence of traces of scotch tape on the package with drug, found, according to prosecution, on Oyub Titiev, indicates unreliable case materials, the advocates have stated. They failed to persuade the court to study the history of telephone calls made by the GIBDD (traffic police) inspector, who detained Titiev.

February 22, 2019 08:16

• Defence presents signs of falsification of Oyub Titiev's case

  The absence of traces of scotch tape on the package with drug, found, according to prosecution, on Oyub Titiev, indicates unreliable case materials, the advocates have stated. They failed to persuade the court to study the history of telephone calls made by the GIBDD (traffic police) inspector, who detained Titiev.

February 21, 2019 23:12

• ECtHR obliges Azerbaijani authorities to pay 24,000 euros to Novruzali Mamedov's relatives

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized the violation of the rights of Novruzali Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", who died in an Azerbaijani prison, and obliged the authorities to pay his widow compensation in the amount of 2000 euros.

February 21, 2019 23:08

• Azerbaijani Ambassador aggravates dispute about instigators of mass fight in Moscow

  After the Ambassador of Azerbaijan stated that a mass fight of Chechens and Azerbaijanis in Moscow had been provoked by the third party, Facebook users wrote their versions about the ethnicity of the "third forces."

February 21, 2019 23:03

• Armenian authorities agree to review five cases on soldiers' deaths

  The Investigating Committee of Armenia concluded an agreement with human rights organizations to review under public control the cases on the deaths of six soldiers, whose relatives were dissatisfied with the results of the investigation.

February 21, 2019 22:59

• Azerbaijani journalist Mustafa Gadjibeili subjected to suspended sentence

  In Baku, the court sentenced Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the website "Bastainfo.com", to 5.5 years of suspended sentence with a two-year probation period. The journalist does not agree with the verdict and intends to continue his professional activities.

February 21, 2019 22:56

• Azerbaijani rights defenders add 127 names to list of political prisoners

  A working group of Azerbaijani rights defenders, NGO activists, and lawyers made public an updated list of political prisoners which included 127 names. Cases of other 54 prisoners are being monitored.

February 21, 2019 21:30

• More than 200 Georgian citizens leave South Ossetia after opening of border

  The authorities of South Ossetia allowed citizens of Georgia to return home across the border, closed in January because of the outbreak of swine flu. In connection with the quarantine, some residents of South Ossetia could not continue receiving medical treatment in Georgia, and businessmen had to raise the prices of food.

February 21, 2019 17:36

• Blogger Alibek Mirzekhanov suspected of having links with Syrian militants

  Alibek Mizerkhanov, a native of Dagestan, who disappeared in Moscow on February 20, was detained as a suspected recruiter of Syrian militants, his advocate reported.

February 21, 2019 17:31

• Ramzan Kadyrov: road to "Kezenoy-Am" tourist complex cleaned

  The authorities of Chechnya reported cleaning roads from snow in the mountainous regions of Chechnya, but residents of the republic described rural roads as covered with snow and noted the traffic became impossible there.

February 21, 2019 12:28

• Witnesses in Azerbaijani journalist Mustafa Gadjibeili's case confused in testimonies

  At the trial in the case against Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the website "Bastainfo.com" in Azerbaijan, the court completed listening to witnesses. The court listened to the testimonies of two women, who said they were "alarmed" by articles published on the website, but did not specify what "alarmed" them, a defendant's advocate reported.

February 21, 2019 12:25

• Dagestani activists report information vacuum around border demarcation process

  Khizri Shikhsaidov, the speaker of the Dagestani parliament, promised to include activists in the commissions to clarify borders with Chechnya. However, it is still unknown when and how his promise will be fulfilled, say members of the Dagestani public commission on border demarcation.

February 21, 2019 12:20

• Nagorno-Karabakh marks 31st anniversary of liberation movement

  Concerts in honour of the 31st anniversary of the Karabakh liberation movement took place in all regional centres of the unrecognized republic. In Stepanakert, the event was attended by more than 500 people.

February 21, 2019 08:30

• OCCRP tells about expensive Russian real estates of President Ilham Aliev's children

  Since 2007, Ilham Aliev's son owns a land plot and a house in the Moscow region; and other family members have expensive assets in Russia, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has found out.

February 21, 2019 08:27

• GPO challenges refusal to arrest Kocharyan's administration head

  The court will consider the complaint of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia on the refusal of the first-instance court to arrest Armen Gevorkyan, the former head of Robert Kocharyan's administration, who was accused under the case of dispersing demonstrators on March 1, 2008.

February 21, 2019 08:25

• Defence demands to acquit residents of Ingushetia accused of terrorism

  The guilt of the five residents of Ingushetia of plotting a terror act at the French Embassy in Moscow has not been proved, except for their testimonies knocked out under torture, their advocates have stated.