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August 06, 2022 17:46

• At Putin-Erdogan meeting, Kadyrov agrees to go to Turkey

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was included into the delegation that accompanied the Russian president at talks with the Turkish president in Sochi on August 5. The Turkish party offered Kadyrov to make a working trip to Turkey, to which he agreed.

August 06, 2022 17:31

• Azerbaijan claims capture of strategic height in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Azerbaijani militaries have occupied the Buzukh height located in Karabakh conflict zone, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

August 06, 2022 17:08

• Makhachkala townspeople complain about electricity and water supply outages

  For several days already, the Makhachkala neighbourhood of Talgi faces problems with the supply of electricity, which also caused a failure of the pumps that supply water, local residents have complained.

August 06, 2022 13:02

• Residents of Zegduleti demanded to return their pastures

  In the village of Zegduleti, Gori Municipality in Eastern Georgia, residents held a protest action, demanding from authorities to return their pasture lands that were sold out in 2008. They declared that would not allow the land owner to carry out agricultural works.

August 06, 2022 12:41

• KBR residents in despair from their water supply problems

  The cities of Chegem and Baksan and the villages of Nartan and Argudan are facing constant water shortages; but their utility bills come without recalculation, social network users from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have complained. Regular complaints to authorities gave no fruits, they lamented.

August 06, 2022 08:40

• Azerbaijani military killed by mine explosion

  Babek Aliev, a military serviceman of the Azerbaijani Army, was fatally wounded by a mine explosion in the Kelbadjar District, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 06, 2022 08:27

• Muscovite apologizes for filming Chechen with weapons on the beach

  A video clip with obscene comments, in which a resident of Chechnya is walking along a Moscow beach with weapons, was followed by the author's apology to the hero of his clip. The Muscovite has admitted that he was "guilty" about the Chechen people and promised that this would not happen again.

August 06, 2022 08:16

• Residents of Stepanakert called on Kremlin to put pressure on Azerbaijani authorities

  At a rally, more than 50 Stepanakert townspeople have urged Russian authorities to influence Azerbaijan in order to achieve de-escalation of the Karabakh conflict and ensure local residents' safety.

August 05, 2022 21:42

• Residents of Karabakh villages outraged by demand to leave their homes

  Residents of Berdzor blocked the road after a meeting with the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures of Nagorno-Karabakh, at which the official announced that the people are to leave their houses in the communities of Berdzor, Akhavno, and Sous by August 25. The protest action of the residents stopped after the authorities promised that the government of Nagorno-Karabakh would assist in the move.

August 05, 2022 20:54

• HIMARS to be unlikely delivered to Georgia, experts say

  US Congressman Adam Kinzinger voiced the proposal to transfer HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to Georgia on the eve of the elections, counting on the voters’ support, and the supply of those weapons to Georgia is unlikely, Yuri Rogulyov and Pavel Zolotaryov, experts on the US, point out.

August 05, 2022 20:04

• Georgian bar under attack on social media after introduction of “visas” for Russians

  Google removed negative reviews about the Georgian “Dedaena” bar, which introduced a kind of “visas” for Russian citizens: in order to visit the bar, they are expected to condemn the special military operation in Ukraine and recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia.

August 05, 2022 19:51

• Azerbaijani MoD did not confirm information about withdrawal of troops from heights in Karabakh

  There are no changes in the operational situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today, without confirming the information that the Azerbaijani troops left the occupied heights. The reliability of reports about the withdrawal of troops is questionable, military expert Telman Abilov points out.

August 05, 2022 19:36

• Crimean lawyers associate deprivation of their status in Chechnya with political persecution

  The Department for Chechnya of the Ministry of Justice has succeeded in pressure on the local bar association to withdraw the status of three of its former members working in Crimea. The disqualified lawyers associated the decision with political persecution and plan to appeal against it, human rights defenders report.

August 05, 2022 15:00

• Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh state shelling

  Over the last 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled 12 times; three of them – from the territory of Armenia, and nine – from Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. Its Nagorno-Karabakh counterpart claims that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime by using small arms.

August 05, 2022 14:32

• Law enforcers report preventing terror act in KChR

  The man, who, according to the FSB (Russian Federal Security Bureau), was preparing a terror act in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained. Law enforcers treat him as a supporter of the "Right-Wing Sector"*.

August 05, 2022 14:18

• Rights defenders comment on stamping military IDs of those from Southern Russia who refuse to go to Ukraine

  The command of the military unit puts an unreliability stamp into service IDs of those servicemen who refuse to take part in the special operation in Ukraine in order to intimidate others, the lawyers and human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

August 05, 2022 11:02

• Operation in Nagorno-Karabakh improves Azerbaijan's strategic dominance

  As a result of the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, on August 3, the Azerbaijani Army occupied important heights that ensure control over strategically important roads on the border, the Baku analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

August 05, 2022 10:41

• Eight people detained after attacking Azeri Embassy to UK

  The unidentified persons who attacked the Azerbaijani Embassy to the United Kingdom raised religious flags and shouted radical religious slogans from the balcony of the building, the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

August 05, 2022 08:34

• Regulator announces Islamic banking project in Chechnya and Dagestan

  The Central Bank of Russia has planned an experiment to develop Islamic banking in Chechnya and Dagestan; a pilot project will be launched in 2023.

August 05, 2022 08:22

• Russia's MoD finds four violations of ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh

  During the past 24 hours, peacemakers recorded four ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.