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08:51, 21 August 2021
In Chechnya, a total of 30.3% of the population has received both doses of coronavirus vaccine, while Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia remain in the last places in terms of the proportion of those vaccinated, the RBC (RosBiznesConsulting) has informed.
19:22, 19 August 2021
Today, Ashura, a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, has been marked in Azerbaijan amid restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
10:41, 19 August 2021
Again, the advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev was not allowed to visit them at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), as the stuff thereof said that the brothers were sick with coronavirus, the advocate said. The "Russian LGBT Network"* will ask again the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to take urgent measures to protect Magamadov's and Isaev's rights, said the press secretary, Tim Bestsvet.
08:30, 18 August 2021
The staff of the Armenian Parliament has admitted the illegality of its actions and returned the accreditation to the photojournalist, Lilian Galstyan, but the restriction of the freedom of media over the past year and a half has become a trend, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.
18:33, 17 August 2021
The ban on the operation of public transport does not reduce the number of cases of coronavirus infection, and it has only worsened the social situation of Georgian residents, as they face more difficulties while getting to work, protesters in Tbilisi claim today.
14:42, 16 August 2021
Deaths of nine patients in a Vladikavkaz hospital because of oxygen problems; flooding after downpours in Kuban; shelling attacks in the area of the Karabakh conflict and at the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan; tightening of COVID restrictions in Georgia; oil spill in the sea near Novorossiysk; arrest of officials from the government of North Ossetia in a case on embezzlement, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 9-15, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
23:13, 14 August 2021
In Georgia, the load on the ambulance service has grown significantly amid the deteriorating epidemiological situation; therefore, calls are served with a delay, the country's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has explained. Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister, has stated that it is planned to make the vaccination against coronavirus mandatory.
19:24, 5 August 2021
In Sochi, after the requirement of the vaccination had been imposed for tourists, the hotel occupancy rate has decreased by almost 1.5 times, and about a third of the resort’s guests refuse to be vaccinated, hotel owners complain.
13:24, 27 July 2021
Absolutely all the adults in Chechnya must be vaccinated against coronavirus, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated amid the human rights defenders' report about the massive coercion of republic's residents to get vaccinated.
11:45, 27 July 2021
In Chechnya, the budget-funded state servants have to get vaccinated under a threat of dismissal, while law enforcer take away cars from unvaccinated drivers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.
13:45, 26 July 2021
Celebration of Eid al-Adha amid the pandemic: new measures imposed by the authorities of Southern Russia to curb the spread of coronavirus; detention of suspected extremists, the regional GIBDD chief, and a murder of a law enforcer in the Stavropol Territory; trials in Baku in an Armenian soldiers’ case; appointment of new supervisors for Southern Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 19-25, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
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08:37, 24 July 2021
Imams and mosque visitors have reacted with understanding to the cancellation of Friday namazes (prayers) in Adygea; today, all the republic's mosques were closed. Some believers have offered to open mosques for those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
11:49, 23 July 2021
The compulsory vaccination introduced in Dagestan for workers in some spheres will have a bad effect on the vaccination campaign as a whole, says Ziyautdin Uvaisov, the head of the human rights organization "Patient's Monitor". "This initiative is discrediting the very vaccination procedure," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
06:44, 21 July 2021
On July 20, in Chechnya, collective prayers were attended by thousands of believers, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed. However, some residents of the republic refused to visit mosques, as they have not vaccinated against coronavirus.
23:33, 20 July 2021
In their appeal to the government of Abkhazia, activists claim that the authorities should increase fines for crowded wedding parties and memorial meetings, prohibit mass events, and impose mandatory PCR tests or require vaccination certificates for tourists.