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August 05, 2019 11:05

• Georgian railwaymen demand higher wages

  The trade union of Georgian railwaymen has called for a 1.5-fold wage increase, otherwise threatening a mass strike. The "Georgian Railways" have treated the workers' demands as unjustified.

August 05, 2019 10:52

• Nine homemade bombs found in Dagestani village

  Law enforcers have liquidated the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) found in an abandoned warehouse in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the Russia's FSB has reported.

August 05, 2019 10:41

• Orientalists believe blood feud atypical for modern Azerbaijan

  In the past, the practice of blood feud was widespread among Azerbaijanis, but for the modern country it is an atypical phenomenon, Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

August 04, 2019 11:19

• MP Fikret Radjabov arrested again in Makhachkala

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has arrested Fikret Radjabov, an MP of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Dagestan, for two months on suspicion of a fraud.

August 04, 2019 11:10

• Igor Kalyapin detained during protest action in Moscow

  The head of the Committee against Torture (CaT), Igor Kalyapin, was detained in Moscow at an unauthorized rally against the non-admission of opposition candidates to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. This time, the total number of detainees was 600 people.

August 04, 2019 10:58

• NKR counts 90 shelling attacks in conflict zone during week

  From July 28 to August 3, Azerbaijani military servicemen fired about 600 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 03, 2019 16:31

• Adjara music festival postponed due to clergymen's protest

  160 residents of Adjara and local priests signed against holding the "Georgian Rave" electronic music festival in the ancient fortress. The organizers said they would find another venue for the festival to avoid conflict.

August 03, 2019 15:56

• Detainee's death raises problem of torture in Abkhazia

  It is necessary to tighten the criminal liability for the use of torture by law enforcers, and record on video interrogations of detainees, Asida Shakryl, the Abkhaz Ombudsperson, has stated in connection with the resonant case of the death of the detainee, Anzor Tarba.

August 03, 2019 15:43

• Yerevan: garbage removal operator accuses Mayoralty of raiding

  Tax inspections and fines are desolating the garbage collection operator in Yerevan and prevent it from duly and efficiently performing its work, the head of the "Sanitek" Company has stated.

August 03, 2019 11:51

• Prosecutor suggests mitigating punishments to convicts for riots in Ganja

  The prosecutor has spoken at the Appeal Court and offered to re-qualify charges into softer ones for 11 people earlier convicted for participating in the events in Ganja in July 2018. The session was held amid the action held in front of the courthouse by convicts' relatives.

August 03, 2019 11:38

• Volgograd: activists plant trees in protest against construction near university

  Graduates of the Volgograd State University (VolSU) and local residents have opposed the construction of a children's hospital near the university, and laid out a park in this place.

August 03, 2019 11:26

• Participants in Baku meeting call to resume civil dialogue with Yerevan

  Contacts of civil society activists of Armenia and Azerbaijan may help in peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, but the informal dialogue of its parties has degraded, the authors of the study on possibilities of civil diplomacy, presented in Baku, have stated.

August 03, 2019 08:38

• Election Commission refuses to register Shevchenko for elections in Rostov-on-Don

  The Territorial Election Commission (TEC) has rejected 23 out of the 155 signatures collected in support of the nomination of Anastasia Shevchenko as a candidate for the Rostov City Duma. However, Ms Shevchenko herself claims that the handwriting examination, on the basis of which the signatures were rejected, was unreliable.

August 03, 2019 08:29

• Law enforcers' raid at Makhachkala mosque passes without detentions

  On Friday, August 2, after the traditional namaz (prayer), mobile patrol units checked documents of the parishioners of the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala. Law enforcers explained the checks by the conducted operations "Alcohol" and "Seat Belt".

August 02, 2019 21:51

• Court leaves "Musavat" Party activist under arrest

  Elman Guliev, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, sentenced to administrative arrest, declared an attempt to recruit him at a police detention centre. He made this statement during the consideration of his complaint about the arrest. The court has left the activist in custody.

August 02, 2019 21:38

• Woman detained for desecrating Armenian soldiers' graves released

  The female resident of Yerevan, suspected of vandalism at a military cemetery, has been set free under recognizance not to leave.

August 02, 2019 17:26

• Erosi Kitsmarashvili's relatives voice claims on "Rustavi-2" TV Company

  Family members of Erosi Kitsmarishvili, a deceased co-founder of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, intend to go to court and seek the transfer to them of 30% of the shares of the TV Company. Djardji Akemidze, a co-founder of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, decided to start a similar lawsuit.

August 02, 2019 17:12

• In Makhachkala, Afghan war veterans demand to provide them with housing

  Today, in Makhachkala, about 25 participants of the war in Afghanistan have gathered and threatened the authorities with a hunger strike. They recall that they have been expecting housing from the state for many years.

August 02, 2019 14:01

• Azerbaijan registers 20 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

August 02, 2019 13:46

• Ramzan Kadyrov's fellow villager appointed head of Argun police department

  Residents of Chechnya associate the appointment of Alikhan Tsakaev to the post of the head of the Argun police department with the desire of the Chechen authorities to strengthen the position of Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, a 28-year-old relative of the Chechen leader, who was appointed the Mayor of Argun.