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February 06, 2019 13:11

• Residents of Abkhazia criticize authorities for raising bread price

  In Abkhazia, bread makers explain they had to raise bread prices because of an increase in the cost of flour and gasoline. Residents of the republic express their fears that after the increase in the cost of bread, the prices for other food and goods of general consumption will also grow.

February 06, 2019 13:10

• Abkhazia temporarily opens border with Georgia

  Since February 5, the border between Abkhazia and Georgia is temporarily open, but the quarantine regime of its crossing is still valid. If the situation with the swine flu in Georgia deteriorates, the border will be closed again, reports Temur Nadaraya, the head for the administration of the Gali District.

February 06, 2019 08:44

• Defence of KBR resident-returnee from Syria to challenge verdict at ECtHR

  The decision of the Russia's Supreme Court (SC), which has refused to reconsider the verdict to Islam Gugov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who has voluntarily returned from Syria, will be appealed against at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), his advocate has stated.

February 06, 2019 08:37

• Georgian priest released from detention centre in Tskhinvali

  The South-Ossetian party has handed the priest David Durglishvili, who was detained on the border, over to Georgian law enforcers.

February 06, 2019 08:34

• Chechnya and Dagestan split Lake Kezenoi-Am

  The discussion of the Dagestani-Chechen border in Grozny passed without conflict, said Shamil Khadulaev, a member of the Dagestani delegation, showing a map fragment with the border across Lake Kezenoi-Am. Residents of Dagestan called on the authorities to ensure the open process of delimitating the border with Chechnya.

February 05, 2019 23:55

• Relatives of young men killed in special operation in Georgia lose trial to law enforcers

  A Tbilisi court has refused to find that the State Security Service (SSS) had violated the presumption of innocence, by stating the involvement of Temirlan Machalikashvili, killed in a special operation in Pankisi, in extremism.

February 05, 2019 23:52

• Azerbaijani military Guseinzade released from captivity in NKR

  Elnur Guseinzade, an Azerbaijani prisoner of war, has served his two-year sentence and asked to send him not to Azerbaijan, but to a third country, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

February 05, 2019 20:09

• Georgian priest detained on border with South Ossetia

  Priest David Durglishvili from the village of Nikozi was placed to an isolation ward in Tskhinvali after his detention near the border with South Ossetia, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) reported.

February 05, 2019 20:01

• Azerbaijani reporter claims being persecuted for criticizing head of state-owned company

  A case against Noureddin Ismayilov, the editor-in-chief of the website "Teref.az", charged with calls against the state after reprinting articles criticizing top managers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "AzerEnergy", was transferred to the Baku court. The journalist treats the charge against him as unfounded.

February 05, 2019 19:57

• In Yerevan, scientists protest against threat of mass layoffs

  250 researchers from the Yerevan State University (known as YeSU) will lose part of their income and other 200 will lose their jobs due to the fact that the Armenian Cabinet of Ministers revised the financing of scientific projects, scientists state. They believe the government's decision contradicts the law and threaten to hold protest actions.

February 05, 2019 19:52

• Speaker of Dagestani parliament comes to Daudov to discuss border with Chechnya

  Today, Khizri Shikhsaidov, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, has paid a return visit to Magomed Daudov, the chairman of the Chechen parliament, to discuss the issue of the border between the two republics.

February 05, 2019 15:57

• Scientists in Chechnya tell history of re-fixing borders with Stavropol Territory

  Chechen historians said that there is no point in re-fix the borders of Chechnya with the Stavropol Territory once again, all the more, it is impossible to conduct such experiments in Southern Russia, given the mentality of the nations living in the region.

February 05, 2019 15:57

• CoE criticizes restriction of national minorities' rights in Azerbaijan

  National minorities in Azerbaijan are restricted in their right to express opinions and face difficulties in learning in their native language, while Talyshes and Lezgins are unreasonably accused of separatism, a Committee of the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated. The restrictions on the rights of national minorities are a consequence of the general restriction of democratic freedoms in Azerbaijan, Togrul Djuvarly, a political analyst, has stated.

February 05, 2019 15:54

• Armenian filmmaker goes on hunger strike at Parliament

  Ovannes Galstyan, an Armenian Film Director, has demanded to resume funding the film "My Granma's Curls". He stopped his first hunger strike last December after meeting the Minister of Culture, but resumed it due to non-fulfilment of agreements.

February 05, 2019 13:44

• Residents of Ingushetia accused of terrorism denied inquiry into torture

  The persons accused of plotting terror acts in Ingushetia and at the French Embassy in Moscow were denied initiating a case on the abuse of official powers by law enforcers.

February 05, 2019 13:42

• "Muslim Unity" activists go on hunger strike in jail

  Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and Abbas Guseinov, an activist of the movement, are on a hunger strike in Gobustan Prison in protest against torture.

February 05, 2019 08:32

• Policeman wounded at attack in Nalchik dies

  Aslan Balkarov, the DPS (road-and-patrol service) inspector, who was wounded in the attack committed in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on January 25, has died in hospital on Monday, February 4, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

February 05, 2019 08:30

• Two oppositionists detained in Baku

  Amil Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained on Monday, February 4, 2019, has been sentenced to 25 days of arrest. The fate of activist Elnur Djabbarly is not yet known, said Ilham Gusein, member of the PFPA's Presidium.

February 04, 2019 23:59

• Court releases on bail "Donbass" veterans detained in Georgia

  Seven former militaries of the Ukrainian battalion "Donbass", detained during a special operation in December in Tbilisi, have been released on bail, said Semyon Semenchenko, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Assembly) of Ukraine.

February 04, 2019 23:57

• South-Ossetian authorities complicate Georgian border crossing

  Citizens of South Ossetia will no longer be able to cross the border with Georgia on their passports; they will have to get a special pass, the South-Ossetian KGB (Committee for State Security) has announced.