Nagorno-Karabakh after the truce: A two-year war

November 11, 2019 23:50

• Armenian priest killed in Syria

  Ovsep Petoyan, a spiritual pastor of the Armenian Catholic community of Qamishli, and his father were shot dead in the north-east of Syria. The responsibility for the killings was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

November 11, 2019 23:49

• Man suspected of murdering Ingush CCE chief escapes to Chechnya, investigators report

  A suspected assassinator of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, could escape to Chechnya, the "Baza" Telegram channel reports.

November 11, 2019 22:57

• Appeal of well-known Russian designer to Kadyrov provokes irony in social network

  Russian designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev reproached Ramzan Kadyrov for his calls to punish severely the authors of negative posts about Chechnya. The critical appeal of the blogger is written with an emphasized correct tone, Facebook users note.

November 11, 2019 20:51

• Azerbaijani activist Gurbanov associates his detention with criticism of authorities

  Law enforcers released oppositionist Arzuman Gurbanov after he had written an explanatory note about his alleged calls for participation in an unsanctioned rally. Arzuman Gurbanov said that law enforcers demanded from him to stop criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities on social networks.

November 11, 2019 18:42

• Blogger Abdurakhmanov announces new Chechen authorities' campaign against him

  Chingiz Akhmadov, Director of the "Chechnya Today" Agency, has posted a video on the Instagram accusing Tumso Abdurakhmanov of lying. He quoted the blogger's saying about people from Chechnya who might have been involved in the murder in Germany of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. According to Abdurakhmanov, the Chechen authorities have launched a new campaign aimed to discredit him.