Live updates: fighting continues in Nagorno-Karabakh
Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces is continuing for a second day.
First day of clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan
The ‘blitz counter-offensive’ by Azerbaijani forces began this morning.
Armenians demanding return to Russia end hunger strike
Armenian authorities promised to enter negotiations to allow 200 people whose situation is ‘urgent’ to return to Russia.
Chechnya: No criminal charges in homophobic exorcism case
According to Aminat Lorsanova, her father forcibly injected her with tranquilisers, while his friend tried to ‘drive the djinn out of her’ by beating her.
Second man dies after swimming Enguri from Abkhazia
The unnamed resident of Abkhazia’s Gali District was attempting to access medical treatment in Zugdidi
Azerbaijan calls on reservists and confiscates cars after ‘provocation’
Azerbaijan called up reservists and confiscated trucks for military use after Nagorno-Karabakh announced they would move their parliament.
Sweeping labour reforms go ahead in Georgia despite opposition from business groups
The amendments are widely expected to pass in the third and final reading in the coming weeks.
New judges for Armenia’s top court, opposition boycotts the vote
One of the three new judges has been widely criticised of judicial malpractice for rulings made before the country’s 2018 revolution.
Hunger striking Azerbaijani opposition leader ‘to stop drinking water’
Doctors have warned that Musavat Party member Tofig Yagublu could soon fall into a coma.
‘My secret life’: Gay and Azerbaijani in rural Georgia
While strides have been made in fighting for queer rights in Tbilisi and Georgia’s other urban centres, queer members of Georgia’s ethnic minorities say they have been left behind.