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August 10, 2018 14:23

• 86 relatives of disappeared Chechen residents get genetic passports

  The authorities of Chechnya have reported on the issuance of genetic passports for next 86 relatives of the people disappeared during military campaigns. Local residents complain that it takes a lot of time to get those documents.

August 10, 2018 12:45

• Tourist from Russia drowns in Georgia

  A man who stayed in Poti as a tourist was carried away to the sea during a storm, while a woman who accompanied him was rescued, reported rescuers.

August 10, 2018 12:43

• Azerbaijan claims machine-gun shelling in Karabakh conflict zone

  The ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated 94 times during a day, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

August 10, 2018 07:47

• About 20 people gathered near the grave of journalist Rasim Aliev in Baku

  Three years after the death of journalist Rasim Aliev, Azerbaijan still faces persecutions of the freedom of speech, the activists, who gathered to pay tribute to Aliev's memory, have stated.

August 10, 2018 07:45

• Archpriest Mamaladze asks Georgia's President for pardon

  Giorgi Mamaladze, sentenced to nine years in prison for an attempt to poison the Patriarch's Secretary, has asked the Georgian President to pardon him; however, he refuses to plead guilty.

August 09, 2018 21:57

• Georgian Premier specifies conditions for restoring relations with Russia

  The withdrawal of Russian troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia may signal the normalization of relations with Russia, Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Prime Minister of Georgia, has stated. The Russia's presence in these territories affects "extremely negatively" on people's lives after the "Five-Day War", the UK representative to the United Nations has stated.

August 09, 2018 21:56

• Chechen resident suspected of killing a child and attacking his fellow villagers

  A resident of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya killed a child and wounded two men by attacking them with a knife.

August 09, 2018 17:59

• Court forbids Oyub Titiev to sit next to his advocates

  The Shali City Court has dismissed the defence's petition asking for the time of the session to release Oyub Titiev from the metal cage.

August 09, 2018 17:58

• Azerbaijani courts decide to block four oppositional websites

  The Azerbaijani Centre for Electronic Security (CES) has found violations of the law in the activities of four oppositional websites, in particular, libel and insults. Media experts treat these actions as illegitimate.

August 09, 2018 13:36

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of four villages in conflict zone

  Within the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Army's positions in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 83 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

August 09, 2018 13:33

• Georgian experts indicate shortcomings of Five-Day War report

  The report of the international commission headed by Heidi Tagliavini on the Georgian-Russian war in August 2008 fails to present some important facts, due to the limited time for collecting evidence, and leaves many questions unanswered, Georgian experts believe.

August 09, 2018 10:02

• Brother of the former Armenian Prime Minister detained

  Investigators conducted searches at the mechanic-repair plant located in the village of Mkhchyan in the Ararat Region and found a lot of weapons. They have detained Ambik Gevorkyan, who is registered as the owner of the plant, and Genrikh Abramyan, the brother of former Prime Minister of Armenia Ovik Abramyan.

August 09, 2018 09:57

• Investigators prove helpless in searching for Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev

  August 8 is a year since the disappearance of the famous Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev. The 25-year-old Bakaev disappeared in Grozny; and a year after his disappearance, a source from investigating bodies has confessed that there was "no progress" in the case.

August 09, 2018 09:53

• Russian helicopter pilots hold missile anti-intelligence training in Abkhazia

  Combat helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator" of the Russia's Southern Military District (CMD) have conducted training at the "Naggvalou" training ground in Abkhazia.

August 09, 2018 08:23

• Defence states unreliability of investigator's testimonies in Titiev's case

  The investigator, who has initiated a criminal case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and who was questioned today at the court session, denies the obvious things, said the defender's advocate.

August 09, 2018 08:20

• Dagestan: Afghan War veterans demand to provide them with housing

  25 veterans of the war in Afghanistan have gathered in central Makhachkala, stating that they had been waiting for housing from the state for 20 years. They threatened to go on an endless hunger strike.

August 08, 2018 22:18

• Armenia's GPO denies MPs' request to release former President Robert Kocharyan

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) was not convinced by the guarantee of 61 MPs from Yerevan and Stepanakert, who asked to release Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, from arrest.

August 08, 2018 22:15

• Chechen authorities hold their own mourning events for Temirkhanov

  On August 7, the commemoration of Yusup Temirkhanov, organized by the authorities of Chechnya, was attended by much fewer people than his funeral, local residents have stated.

August 08, 2018 18:00

• At farewell ceremony for Orkhan Djemal, people describe his work in hot spots

  At the farewell ceremony for Orkhan Djemal, who was killed in the Central African Republic (CAR), his friends said that when working in hot spots, the journalist was not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions to armed people and was ready to die. The friends called Orkhan Djemal a man of action, always ready to help.

August 08, 2018 17:59

• Residents of Abkhazia describe devastation in villages 10 years after five-day war

  After the five-day war of August 2008 and recognition of the Abkhazia's independence, there is no significant development there, but even in the Kodori Gorge, local residents feel safer despite the devastation. Some residents of Abkhazia say they want the republic to become part of Russia, while others want to preserve their independence.