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October 24, 2018 21:29

• Parliament doesn't elect Nikol Pashinyan as Premier

  Not a single MP has voted today for the appointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister of Armenia. The next vote is scheduled for October 31.

October 24, 2018 21:23

• Tuapse residents tell about flooding of the city and nearby settlements

  As a result of heavy rains, in Tuapse, the bridge over the Tsypka River was destroyed. The central part of the city turned into a swirling stream that carries away cars, townspeople report.

October 24, 2018 18:11

• Supporters of Pashinyan hold rally at parliament building

  Supporters of Nikol Pashinyan have held an action in the yard of the building of the National Assembly of Armenia (Parliament) with posters "Immediate dissolution of parliament and judiciary".

October 24, 2018 18:01

• Chechen authorities deny housing to critics of hostel inspections

  The video clip with a woman, who, according to the author of the video, fainted when a hostel in Grozny was inspected, irritated Ramzan Kadyrov. For the "unethical behaviour" it was decided not to provide new housing to those who filmed and posted the video, a source from the city Mayoralty has stressed.

October 24, 2018 14:19

• Azerbaijan claims 30 bombardments in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled at different sections of the frontline, including the territories "near the occupied villages," the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

October 24, 2018 14:09

• ICRF voices out reason of "Electrozinc" fire

  According to preliminary data of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the fire that occurred at the "Electrozinc" Factory in Vladikavkaz was a result of violations of the industrial safety regulations, investigators have stated.

October 24, 2018 10:59

• Chelyabinsk operative agents accused of native of Chechnya's death in colony

  The Metallurgical District Court of Chelyabinsk has held parties' debates on a criminal case initiated against four staff members of a correctional colony accused of beating up convicts and involvement in the death of a Chechen native. The prosecutor demanded from six years to 12.5 years in prison for them.

October 24, 2018 10:42

• Oppositionist Djeikhun Nabi detained in Azerbaijan

  Law enforcers have detained the activist Djeikhun Nabi in Shamkir and brought him to Baku. The detention may have to do with Nabi's posts on the Facebook, in which he criticized Azerbaijani authorities, Sardar Nabiev, Djeikhun's father, and Ogtai Gyulyalyev, a rights defender, have stated.

October 24, 2018 10:29

• Georgian MPs offer criminal liability for country's maps without Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  A draft law on criminal liability for making and spreading "maps of Georgia, which violate the territorial integrity" was registered at the Georgian Parliament.

October 24, 2018 08:41

• Residents of Yandare and Kantyshevo support opponents of border agreement

  Ingush officials are organizing meetings, where they try to convince residents of the republic of the legitimacy of the agreement on fixing a new border. The meetings also involve members of the organizing committee of the Magas rally; the participants of the meetings in the villages of Yandare and Kantyshevo have already supported them, activists have stated.

October 24, 2018 08:31

• Soldier wounded in NKR

  On October 23, as a result of a shot from Azerbaijani positions, a soldier of the Defence Army was wounded, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

October 24, 2018 08:23

• ECtHR awards 1.5 million euros to relatives of kidnapped residents of Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russia to pay compensation to relatives of 21 residents of Chechnya who disappeared during special operations of federal troops.

October 23, 2018 23:20

• Defence of Mikhail Benyash claims inaction of investigators

  Over a month, investigators still did not question the only witness to the detention of Krasnodar advocate Mikhail Benyash and did not carry out any investigative actions, reported Alexei Avanesyan, a defender of Mikhail Benyash.

October 23, 2018 23:11

• New Chechen-Ingush borders sharpen problem of disputed Dagestani villages

  The scandalous agreement on the borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia and the creation by Ramzan Kadyrov of a state commission to determine and confirm the administrative border of the republic have actualized the problem of disputed territories in Dagestan and the Stavropol Territory. Observers have expressed their concern about possible conflicts over the lands around Chechnya.

October 23, 2018 17:58

• LGBT activists tell about beatings and escape from Chechnya

  Lesbian girls in Chechnya have to completely obey the will of their parents; they are forced to endure beatings from relatives and to marry forcibly. Three Chechen girls of non-traditional sexual orientation who fled from Russia, despite the attempts of families to bring them home by force, told in their interview to Radio Liberty.

October 23, 2018 17:50

• 16 years since the capture of hostages at Dubrovka

  People in Moscow are coming today to the building of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, where 16 years ago Chechen militants captured 916 people as hostages. On October 26, 2002, at least 130 hostages died during the storming of the building.

October 23, 2018 17:40

• Court agrees to release lawyer Benyash on bail

  Mikhail Benyash will be able to leave the SIZO (pre-trial prison), when a deposit of 600,000 roubles is received to the account of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation, the court in Krasnodar has ruled today.

October 23, 2018 13:27

• Azerbaijan counts 29 attacks in the conflict zone

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today that the positions of its army deployed in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns.

October 23, 2018 13:16

• TV series episode with Circassian woman triggers protests among Caucasian Diasporas in Turkey

  The natives of Northern Caucasus living in Turkey found the phrase about the Circassian woman in the "One Hope" TV series as offensive and demanded, at a rally, to stop further show of the serial.

October 23, 2018 13:01

• Social network users treat the idea to transfer two districts of Chechnya to Stavropol Territory as provocation

  The board of the inter-regional public organization named "Caucasian Cossack Line" has appealed to the leadership of the Stavropol Territory with a call to restore the historical justice and return the Naur and Shelkovskoy Districts of Chechnya to the Stavropol Territory.