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

April 24, 2019 21:35

• "Mothers of Beslan" gets MIA's support in struggle for checkpoint

  The Chief Directorate for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NFCD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) found rational an appeal filed by the NGO "Mothers of Beslan" with a request to preserve the "Chermen" checkpoint at the border with Chechnya, a member of the NGO reports today. The "Mothers of Beslan" opposed the Ramzan Kadyrov's call to remove all checkpoints between the regions of Northern Caucasus.

April 24, 2019 18:55

• Ingush students arrested in Egypt face sharp health deterioration, their relatives report

  Four Ingush students kept in a Cairo prison were transferred to a medical unit because of deterioration of their health state after a hunger strike, their relatives reported. After a meeting with family members of the arrested students, human rights defenders promised to contact the Russia's Ombudsperson.

April 24, 2019 18:35

• ICRF: two residents of Stavropol Territory involved in Shamil Basaev's raid on Dagestan

  Takhir Begeldiev and Nariman Otepov, two residents of the Stavropol Territory, were involved in an attack on Dagestan led by Shamil Basaev and Emir Khattab in 1999, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

April 24, 2019 15:43

• Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh demand compensation for Armenian Genocide

  In Stepanakert, participants of a torchlight procession urged the international community to give the legal assessment of the Armenian Genocide and force the guilty party to pay compensation to the Armenian people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

April 24, 2019 15:31

• NATO ship arrives for joint exercises with Georgian military personnel

  The US Navy USS Ross DDG-71 destroyer has arrived in Batumi. The US ship will take part in joint exercises with two Georgian patrol boats, and then it will leave the territorial waters of Georgia on April 25.