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July 29, 2022 23:45

• Human rights defenders announce detention of a Grozny resident after his coming-out

  In Chechnya, the police detained a Grozny man who confessed to being homosexual, human rights defender Igor Kochetkov reported and called on the Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an investigation.

July 29, 2022 22:00

• Kadyrov threatens fellow countrymen with floor mopping for violating behaviour norms

  The natives of Chechnya who discredit the Chechen nation by their behaviour will be returned to the republic and forced to mop floors. This was stated by Ramzan Kadyrov after the incident with Arthur Ilyaskhanov, who made insulting remarks on behalf of Chechens in a Nizhnevartovsk store.

July 29, 2022 17:50

• Georgian opposition demands not to transfer Pitsunda dacha to Russia

  Georgian authorities should prevent the transfer by Abkhazia of the state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, and also make more efforts to return the republic into the country, oppositionists stated at their protest held in Tbilisi.

July 29, 2022 17:44

• Gulnara Bagautdinova hopes for the ECtHR in her son's death case

  All the legal possibilities to achieve the rehabilitation of Vali Bagautdinov, who was killed by law enforcers in November 2014, have been exhausted in Russia; the only hope is for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Gulnara Bagautdinova, the casualty's mother, has stated.

July 29, 2022 13:46

• "Prophylactic" talks at GPO outrage Azeri journalists

  The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has held the so-called "prophylactic" conversations with several Azerbaijani journalists, who disseminated information prior to it was released by the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

July 29, 2022 02:34

• Dagestanis make third of confirmed losses of SFD and NCFD in Ukraine

  Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 552 fighters from Southern Russia have been officially confirmed as perished, including 378 natives of the North-Caucasian and 174 natives of the Southern Federal District (SFD and NCFD).

July 29, 2022 02:30

• Residents of Krasny Bazar in Karabakh alarmed by resumed shelling

  After four months of calmness, shelling of the Karabakh village of Krasny Bazar resumed; the house of a local resident was damaged, the villagers have reported.

July 29, 2022 02:26

• Agvan Ovsepyan, former Armenian PPG, hospitalized

  Agvan Ovsepyan, who was arrested on charges of bribery and money laundering, has been taken to hospital in Armenia, his secretary has informed. The health condition of the former Public Prosecutor General (PPG) is grave.

July 28, 2022 23:57

• Relatives of contractors from Chechnya report about tricks of recruiters

  A native of a Chechen village was repeatedly sent to Ukraine against his will, without signing his letter of resignation, and a man earlier convicted for involvement in the armed underground was offered by law enforcers to whitewash himself in their eyes by participating in the special military operation, relatives of contract soldiers say.

July 28, 2022 23:51

• US Senate calls on to declare Russia a sponsor of terrorism because of hostilities in Chechnya and Georgia

  The US Senate called on the US Department of State to include Russia in the list of state sponsoring terrorism. Among other things, US senators explained their proposal by the executions of civilians in Grozny in 2000 and the participation of the Russian troops in the Five-Day War in Georgia.

July 28, 2022 23:45

• Forced migrants from Karabakh demand to build a settlement for them in Armenia

  At a protest action in Yerevan, more than 50 forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh have added to their earlier demands a call to build a separate settlement for refugees.

July 28, 2022 22:44

• Kadyrov announces readiness of Chechen fighters to assault any city

  Chechen fighters are ready to assault any settlement by orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov states.

July 28, 2022 22:38

• Rights defenders against extradition of Chechen native from Sweden

  Sweden is preparing to extradite a native of Chechnya to Russia, after denying him the refugee status despite the allegations of torture by Chechen law enforcers, the "Vayfond" Chechen Human Rights Association has stated.

July 28, 2022 20:44

• Project of Christ statue on Armenian mount sparks historians' and rights defenders' criticism

  The installation of a statue of Jesus Christ on Mount Atis violates the law on the protection of cultural heritage and natural areas, 16 human rights and public organizations have stated. They doubt the attractiveness of the statue for tourists.

July 28, 2022 11:54

• Armenian oppositionist Avetik Chalabyan back at large

  Avetik Chalabyan, an Armenian oppositionist, has been released from custody, because his detention term has expired and was not extended.

July 28, 2022 11:48

• Caucasian scholars dispute about motives for Ilyaskhanov's apology for incident in Nizhnevartovsk

  Members of the Chechen community in the city of Yugra have forced Arthur Ilyaskhanov, a native of Dagestan, to publicly apologize for his statements on behalf of Chechens, Ruslan Kutaev, a Caucasian expert, and Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, have pointed out.

July 28, 2022 11:43

• Third case on fakes initiated against editor-in-chief of "Fortanga"

  Izabella Evloeva, the editor-in-chief of the Ingush outlet "Fortanga", has been accused of publishing unreliable information about the Russian Armed Forces on her Telegram channel. The criminal case under this article is the third one against her.

July 28, 2022 11:40

• Baku: oppositionist Pyunkhan Kerimli sentenced to six years in prison

  Pyunkhan Kerimli, an oppositionist deported from Germany, has been sentenced to six years in prison; he refused to plead guilty of drug possession.

July 27, 2022 23:36

• Kadyrov boasts of a new award

  The Russian President signed a decree on the presentation of Ramzan Kadyrov to the Order of Alexander Nevsky for his contribution to the socio-economic development of the region, the leader of Chechnya himself reported.

July 27, 2022 23:29

• Defence challenges verdict to Chechen gays Magamadov and Isaev

  Advocates filed a complaint about the verdict to Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, whom a court in Chechnya found guilty of adding and abetting a militant.