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Sending Chechen volunteers to Ukraine. Screenshot of the video from Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram-channel https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/2099

11:33, 16 May 2022

Telegram users urge Kadyrov to reveal Chechen death toll in Ukraine

Many volunteers have been sent from Chechnya to Ukraine, but the republic's authorities fail to disclose the number of those who perished in the special operation, the commentators to the Ramzan Kadyrov's another report about sending 600 volunteers to Ukraine have pointed out.

The funeral of Georgian volunteers. Screenshot of the video "Слава Україні! - Героям слава!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n75k3qPRAuo

11:29, 16 May 2022

Death toll of Georgian volunteers in Ukraine reaches eleven

Rati Shurgaya, 38, became the 11th Georgian volunteer to perish in Ukraine since the start of the Russia's special operation.

Opposition supporters held a march in Yerevan on May 15, 2022. Screenshot of the video https://t.me/novostiarmenia/39258

11:21, 16 May 2022

Armenian opposition calls on its supporters to scale up disobedience actions

Opposition supporters held a march in Yerevan, calling on the townspeople to join them. Large-scale disobedience actions will lead to a pan-Armenian strike and ensure the success of the protest movement, Ishkhan Sagatelyan has stated, announcing the blocking of the metro.

The "Eurovision-2022" participants from Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Georgia. Screenshots of the video by the Eurovision Song Contest

11:16, 16 May 2022

Azerbaijan and Georgia accused Eurovision organizers of replacing marks

Representatives of Azerbaijan and Georgia have stated that the organizers of the Eurovision song contest had changed the marks of their jury when vote tabulation.

Zarema Musaeva. Image made from video posted by ChGTRK ‘Grozny’

11:52, 15 May 2022

Zarema Musaeva's son informs about start of her treatment at SIZO

Doctors began treating Zarema Musaeva as prescribed, Abubakar Yangulbaev, her son, has informed, expressing his concern over his mother's custody in Grozny.

11:35, 15 May 2022

Armenia rejects accusation of shelling Azerbaijani border

Armenian militaries did not shell the positions of the Azerbaijani Army, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Clashes with policemen at a protest action in Baku. Image made from video posted by Meydan TV on May 14, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5w2VgDymLU

11:22, 15 May 2022

Police stop rally against violence on journalists in Baku

Law enforcers have dispersed a protest action against violence on journalists and activists; the action was triggered by the attack on the journalist Aiten Mamedova. At least 28 people were detained at the action.

Khadizhat Kadyrova, head of the preschool department of the Grozny Mayoralty, inspects local kindergartens. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdfTHEsISF8/

17:01, 14 May 2022

Residents of Chechnya demand eliminating violations in kindergartens

During inspections, violations have been revealed in four kindergartens in Grozny, officials of the Mayoralty have reported. There are problems in other preschool institutions, including extortions, lack of places in groups and poor heating, residents of the republic pointed out to officials on the Instagram*.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia. Photo by Elena Vekua for the Caucasian Knot

16:37, 14 May 2022

Abkhaz authorities ban youth project on intercultural dialogue with Georgia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia has banned the project of the NGO "Movement against Hunger" on intercultural dialogue of young people of Abkhazia with their peers in Georgia, claiming that with the help thereof Georgia is promoting its political goals.

16:04, 14 May 2022

Georgian PM rules out Saakashvili's transfer abroad for medical treatment

Poland is ready to provide Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili with the necessary treatment and send a plane to Georgia to pick him up, Giuli Alasaniya, the mother of the country's third president, has informed. However, Irakli Garibashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister (PM) has treated the information about Saakashvili's grave health condition as a speculation.

A mosque in a Dagestani village. Photo: https://riadagestan.ru/news/g_kizilyurt/v_tsentralnoy_mecheti_goroda_kizilyurta_organizovali_mavlid_dlya_slabovidyashchikh/

15:35, 14 May 2022

Analysts explain reasons for conflicts over land near Dagestani mosques

The territories around mosques in Dagestan are attractive for doing business; therefore, disputes around them are not uncommon, the journalists and Caucasian scholar interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted in their comments on the incident in the village of Karabudakhkent District.

Protest action in Yerevan. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the Caucasian Knot

12:10, 14 May 2022

Armenian opposition starts blocking state institutions

The oppositional "Resistance" movement has held disobedience actions in Yerevan. They blocked for an hour one of the government buildings, where a number of Armenian ministries are located. Activists will periodically block state institutions until Nikol Pashinyan resigns, oppositionists have claimed.

Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Photo by Konstantin Volgin for the Caucasian Knot

11:56, 14 May 2022

Gadjiev's defence demands to re-examine his articles

At the court session on the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, his defence put forward a petition demanding to comprehensively examine the journalist's articles.

Law enforcers in Magas. Photo: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B8_(2018%E2%80%942019)

11:36, 14 May 2022

Law enforcers refuse to plead guilty of non-fulfilment order at rally in Magas

At trial, the policemen charged with disobeying the order to disperse protesters in Magas in 2019 have refused to plead guilty. Their advocate claims that their actions at the rally made it possible to avoid serious consequences.

08:55, 14 May 2022

Attack on Mamedova confirms authorities' interest in Suleimanov's case

The court failed to receive any proofs of Ilkin Suleimanov's guilt in the murder of a ten-year-old girl; and his allegations of torture were considered only formally, his advocate, Alibaba Rzaev, has stated.

Volunteers from Chechnya. Photo: ‘Grozny-Inform’, https://grozny-inform.ru/news/society/138531/

08:37, 14 May 2022

Rights defenders receive signals about forced sending of residents of Chechnya to the front

Dozens of residents of Chechnya have sent messages asking for help to leave Russia in order to avoid being sent to Ukraine, the Chechen human rights association "Vayfond" has informed.

Anatoly Bibilov. Photo: http://kremlin.ru

08:25, 14 May 2022

Bibilov appoints referendum on joining Russia on July 17

On May 13, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia approved a package of documents on holding a referendum on joining Russia; and incumbent president Anatoly Bibilov signed a decree on holding the referendum on July 17.

Rufat Safarov. Photo: https://www.turan.az/ext/news/2022/5/free/Social/ru/4858.htm/001

22:14, 13 May 2022

Organizers of a protest against attacks on journalists in Azerbaijan report receiving threats

A father of Rufat Safarov, the head of the “Line of Defence” NGO, one of the organizers of the rally demanding an end to violence against activists and journalists, received threats of his son’s arrest if he joined the rally.

Policemen in Yerevan, May 13, 2022. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the Caucasian Knot

21:53, 13 May 2022

Six persons detained at a protest action of students in Yerevan

Activists of a youth movement held a rally in Yerevan, calling on students to join the opposition protests. Six persons were detained and charged with failure to obey law enforcers, the police reported.

19:44, 13 May 2022

FSB reports about prevention of a terror act in Sochi

A suspected terrorist was detained for preparing a terror act on Victory Day in one of the shopping and entertainment centres in Sochi, the Russian FSB reports today. During an interrogation, the suspect confessed that he intended to kill more than 50 people.

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