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April 10, 2022 12:44

• Ten Tbilisi streets named after casualties of rally dispersal in 1989

  On Saturday (April 9), Tbilisi commemorated the 21 persons, who perished during the dispersal by Soviet troops of the rally on April 9, 1989. The City Council named 10 streets after those who perished in those events.

April 10, 2022 12:41

• Since start of special operation, over 6000 Ukrainian citizens arrived in Azerbaijan

  Since February 24, 2022, a total of 6163 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Migration Service has informed.

April 10, 2022 12:37

• Head of Dagestani Derbent District reports death of fellow countryman in Ukraine

  Artyom Verdiev, a military serviceman-native of the village of Belidji, has perished in Ukraine, the head of the Derbent District has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the death of at least 73 natives of Dagestan has been officially confirmed.

April 10, 2022 12:35

• Residents of Rostov farm frightened by missile incident

  A crater with a diameter of about three meters has formed in place of liquidation of the ammunition that fell into the building of a resident of the Frolov farm; villagers are afraid to talk about the incident, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has found out.

April 09, 2022 23:23

• Georgian authorities rule out any possibility of contraband of sanctioned goods to Russia

  Irakli Garibashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister, has treated the allegations that the country is smuggling sanctioned goods to Russia, including military goods, put forward by the Ukrainian authorities, as slander.

April 09, 2022 23:17

• Baku authorities refuse to sanction action in support of Ukraine

  The Baku Mayoralty has forbidden the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party (ADPP) to hold a picket near the Russian Embassy with a demand to stop the special operation in Ukraine. The city authorities have explained the refusal by restrictions on holding mass events during the pandemic.

April 09, 2022 12:43

• Serviceman from Derbent awarded Order of Courage posthumously

  Bekhman Verdikhanov, an officer from Derbent, who perished in the special operation in Ukraine, received the above order for his courage and bravery. Since the outbreak of hostilities, the authorities have confirmed the death of at least 72 militaries from Dagestan in Ukraine.

April 09, 2022 12:38

• Policemen stop action of Polad Aslanov's wife in Baku

  Gyulmira Aslanova has held a protest action in front of the Azerbaijani presidential administration. She spoke out against beating up her husband, Polad Aslanov, a journalist, in the colony where he serves his prison term, and demanded to ensure his safety.

April 09, 2022 12:28

• Lavrov claims refusal of France and USA to work in OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh

  France and the United States intend to stop communicating with Russia on the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh within the format of the Minsk Group of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.

April 09, 2022 10:31

• Administration of Astrakhan Region reports militaries' deaths in Ukraine

  On April 8, the contract servicemen, Muratbek Kilimov and Ramil Azhimov, were buried in the villages of the Volodarsky District. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 13 residents of the Astrakhan Region have perished there.

April 09, 2022 10:31

• Khramort villagers insist on security guarantees for returning home

  Should Nagorno-Karabakh authorities and Russian peacemakers provide security guarantees, the evacuated residents of the Khramort community plan to return to the village in order to engage in farming without fear of being shelled by Azerbaijani militaries.

April 08, 2022 23:53

• “International Memorial”* reports about blocking of its bank accounts

  At the request of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the “International Memorial”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) was excluded from the list of legal entities, although the liquidation of the organization has not been completed, human rights defenders report.

April 08, 2022 23:47

• Human rights defenders treat actions of French authorities in Daud Muradov’s case as criminal

  The authorities of France expelled Chechen natives to Russia at the slightest suspicion, and the mass deportation was stopped only with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, says Pascal Chaudot, the head of the “Chechen Committee” in France.

April 08, 2022 23:44

• Court acquits Pashinyan in case on riots in Armenia

  A court cancelled the sentence of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, convicted in 2010 on the charge of riots.

April 08, 2022 23:40

• Authorities of North Ossetia confirm information about militaries perished in Ukraine

  Vitaly Dedyushko from the Prigorodny District and Ruslan Kozaev from the Alagir District perished in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the special military operation, the authorities have reported about at least 31 perished natives of North Ossetia.

April 08, 2022 15:59

• Georgian analysts treat Russian's statements on bio laboratories as threat

  By stating that US biologists are developing biological weapons in Georgia, Moscow is trying to put pressure not on Washington, but on Tbilisi, analysts assert.

April 08, 2022 15:29

• Leyla Chemurzieva from Ingushetia detained

  Masked law enforcers broke into the home of Leyla Chemurzieva, a resident of the city of Nazran, and took her away to some unknown place. An improvised explosive device (IED) was planted on Leyla, her sister insists.

April 08, 2022 13:51

• Parents of militaries who perished in Chechnya achieve increase in payments

  A court in Krasnodar has raised the preferential category for the parents of the militaries who perished during the first Chechen war, giving them the right to receive increased payments; the court has also ruled to pay them the underpayment for previous years.

April 08, 2022 13:45

• Baku and Yerevan analysts assess efficiency of Brussels agreements

  The meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels was an attempt to avoid the conflict escalation, but the agreements reached there will give no guarantee of the end to provocations on the border, Akop Badalyan and Ovsep Khurshudyan believe.

April 08, 2022 13:36

• Donbass refugees claim unwillingness to stay in Russia

  The administration staff of the town of Krasny Sulin has to work without breaks and days off documenting refugees from the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics (LPR and DPR).