Incidents

July 19, 2019 19:16

• Passengers of flight from Moscow to Yerevan injured in aircraft emergency

  A flight of the plane on route from Moscow to Yerevan was interrupted because of smoke in the cabin. According to various sources, 5-10 passengers needed the help of doctors.

July 19, 2019 14:36

• Law enforcers treat clashes in Ijevan as a planned provocation

  All people injured in clashes in Ijevan have been discharged from the hospital, reports the spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry for Public Health. An action held by people engaged in logging was a planned provocation, officials declared.

July 18, 2019 18:48

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded on border with Armenia

  The Armenian armed forces shelled the Azerbaijani positions with large-calibre weapons and wounded soldier Djeikhun Bairamov, the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reports today.

July 17, 2019 17:53

• Head of Armenian village reports about shelling attacks on houses and fields

  Last night, the Azerbaijani armed forces have shelled an Armenian village, and bullets hit roofs of houses, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports. According to the head of the rural community, starting from July 11, the Azerbaijani armed forces are shelling the sown fields for a fire to break out there.

July 16, 2019 22:35

• Two law enforcers wounded during special operation in South Ossetia

  Two militiamen were hospitalized with wounds after an attempt to detain a man suspected of robberies and kidnapping, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for South Ossetia.

July 16, 2019 11:02

• Audio record with girl brought to Chechnya provokes new questions

  A Moscow female resident who complained to human rights defenders about being forced to forcibly marry in Chechnya recorded an audio appeal with a refutation of the information. The girl was forced to make such a record, believes Ekaterina Vinokurova, a member of the Human Rights Council.

July 13, 2019 23:38

• Nagorno-Karabakh claims 90 shelling attacks from Azerbaijan over a week

  In the period from July 7 to 13, the Azerbaijani armed forces more than 90 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line and made about 800 shots, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

July 12, 2019 23:20

• Armenian GPO reports death of 29 soldiers in six months

  In January-June 2019, during their military service, 11 servicemen of the Armenia Armed Forces and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished; 18 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has informed.

July 12, 2019 19:09

• Incident with Ingush minor exposes problem of conservatism of society in Caucasus

  A mother of a seven-year-old girl, beaten by an aunt in Ingushetia, said that she was not allowed to see her daughter. The tradition of leaving children in a father's family often leads to isolation of a child from society, lawyers report. In the regions of Northern Caucasus, the traditions do not always take into account the interests of a child, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports.

July 12, 2019 17:01

• In Abkhazia, Georgian citizen detained for illegal border crossing

  Beglar Tsilosani, a citizen of Georgia, was placed to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on suspicion of illegally crossing the border. His daughter who was with him was handed over to her mother, the State Security Service of Abkhazia reported.

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