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Wedding bouquet. Photo: CC0 / Anna Siracusa / flowers

14:12, 3 August 2021

Almost 90 mass wedding participants fined in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, 89 persons who attended weddings have been fined for violating the quarantine restrictions; 2700 more people were not let to the celebrations because of absent of COVID-19 passports, the Azeri Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Search activities in the combat zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: press service of the Emergency Service of the Ministry of Interior of Nagorno-Karabakh

13:57, 3 August 2021

Remains of four militaries found in Fizuli District

In the Fizuli District, Karabakh rescuers have found remains of four military servicemen who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities. The total number of bodies and remains of Armenian militaries found has reached 1623.

Screenshot of the "Akhmat" FC Instagram page, http://www.instagram.com/akhmatgrozny/

13:44, 3 August 2021

In new football season, Chechnya retains practice of forcing fans to attend "Akhmat" FC's matches

In the first home match of the Russian Premier League football championship, the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) lost to "Sochi" FC. Residents of Chechnya complained about being forced to attend the team's match.

Armenian soldier. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia

11:34, 3 August 2021

Baku: rights defenders argue about sentences to Armenian militaries

The human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have diverged in their opinions regarding the sentences passed to Armenian militaries: some treat them to be adequate to the imputed crimes, while others treat the sentences to Mkrtchyan and Khosrovyan as excessively lenient and compared them with those passed to Azerbaijani oppositionists.

Poster in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Photo by Ilyas Kapiev for the Caucasian Knot

11:19, 3 August 2021

Abdulmumin Gadjiev's colleagues hold pickets in Makhachkala

In Makhachkala, solo picketers have demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, and all political prisoners; they also called to stop arrests without proofs.

08:36, 3 August 2021

Woman from Chechnya suspected of torturing children

A 53-year-old resident of Chechnya, whom investigators have suspected of torturing two children, was detained.

Ludvig Mkrtchyan. Photo: http://jam-news.net/ru/людвиг-мкртчян-военнопленный-караба/

08:24, 3 August 2021

Baku court sentences two Armenian militaries to long prison terms

A military court in Baku has found Ludvig Mkrtchyan and Alyosha Khosrovyan guilty of torturing Azerbaijani soldiers during the first Karabakh war and sentenced each to 20 years in prison.

A video with a bone posted by the tourist. Screenshot: http://www.instagram.com/pCSB7mEvjg7F/

22:41, 2 August 2021

A tourist explains her video with a bone in Dargavs necropolis

A female traveller, suspected of desecrating the remains after her video with a bone in the Dargavs necropolis in North Ossetia, explained her act by ignorance and confidence that it was a dummy. The young woman complained about threats on social media.

Policemen at the Parliament of Armenia. Photo: REUTERS/Artem Mikryukov

22:25, 2 August 2021

Opposition boycotts first session of Armenian new parliament

MPs from the opposition “Armenia” and "I Have the Honour" factions left the first session of the Armenian National Assembly of the eighth convocation, boycotting the discussion of the candidacy of Alen Simonyan, the speaker of the ruling “Civil Contract” Party, the “News-Armenia” reports today.

20:38, 2 August 2021

On July 26-August 1, 2021, no one fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week of July 26-August 1, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An Armenian serviceman in the conflict zone. Photo: official website of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, http://mil.am

20:24, 2 August 2021

Heydarabad residents go to agricultural work in spite of shelling attacks

Shootouts involving Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers take place away from the Heydarabad town, and people go about their daily activities and gather crops without fear of being hit by shelling attacks, local residents says.

Nikol Pashinyan. Photo: the Kremlin press service

20:08, 2 August 2021

Pashinyan reappointed Prime Minister of Armenia

The President of Armenia signed a decree on the appointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, whose candidacy was proposed by the “Civil Contract” faction on the first day of the work of the new parliament.

People who had left inscriptions on the bumpers on the highway in Kezenoi-Am are painting the inscriptions over. Screenshot: http://www.instagram.com/p/CSCQPlcoh4e/

14:27, 2 August 2021

Chechen law enforcers punish authors of inscriptions on road bumpers

In the Vedeno District, police found the people who had left inscriptions on the bumpers on the highway in Kezenoi-Am and forced them to paint the inscriptions over, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Tourism has announced, treating it as "public works."

Dwelling settlement of Heydarabad, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. Photo: Turanmahmudov, http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гейдарабад

14:10, 2 August 2021

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling on NAR border

Tonight, Armenian servicemen shelled the Azeri positions located near the dwelling settlement of Heydarabad of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Azerbaijani militaries opened fire back, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Interrogation of a detainee on suspicion of organizing a blood feud motivated murder. Screenshot: http://bryansk.sledcom.ru/news/item/1597254

13:51, 2 August 2021

Three Dagestani residents detained on suspicion of blood feud motivated murder

Three residents of Dagestan have been detained on suspicion of organizing a kidnapping and killing a citizen of Tajikistan; a resident of the Moscow Region has been detained with them. According to investigators, blood feud was the motive for committing the crime.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Screenshot: http://www.kp.ru/online/news/4385003

11:11, 2 August 2021

Zhirinovsky reacts to protest note of Azerbaijani MFA

In response to the protest note put forward by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which treated Vladimir Zhirinovsky's statements about Ilham Aliev as offensive, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) has reminded officials about the freedom of speech, called the Azerbaijani President a wise leader and admitted that his party was against the deployment of Russian troops in Southern Caucasus.

Blogger Ayub Vakhaevich. Screenshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKNncRzL5s

10:43, 2 August 2021

Network users doubt the release of Chechen blogger

Ayub Vakhaevich, a native of Chechnya, has posted the first video clip after his disappearance, in which he assures that he is at large and everything is OK with him. Commentators have treated the video as staged one and doubted that the blogger was really at large.

Resident of Udmurtia Ivan Yakovlev who managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan. Screenshot of the Instagram post by the "Alternativa" anti-slavery movement: http://www.instagram.com/p/CSAL8MCLlgT/

10:28, 2 August 2021

Resident of Udmurtia freed from labour slavery in Dagestan

Ivan Yakovlev managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan twice; at first he worked at a brick factory, then on a farm as a shepherd, the "Alternativa" anti-slavery movement has reported. Commentators are outraged by the widespread use of forced labour in Dagestan.

11:54, 1 August 2021

Renewed hostilities have no affect on dwelling settlements in Azerbaijani Kelbadjar District

The forced migrants have not yet returned to the border villages of the Kelbadjar District, which came under Azerbaijan's control after the 2020 war; therefore, the hostilities there are no threat for civilians. This was stated by Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, and Bakhruz Bairamov, a member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association.

A lava field of the Porak volcano on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Photo: Jim Luhr https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Азербайджано-армянская_граница

11:52, 1 August 2021

Yerevan analysts are sceptical about idea to place Russian militaries on Azerbaijani border

The presence of Russian border guards can ensure stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, but Moscow has to account for Baku's opinion, Boris Navasardyan, the head of the Yerevan Press Club and Kirill Krivosheev, a journalist, believe.

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