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According to a recent poll by National Democratic Institute (NDI), 59% of the population think that there is no democracy in Georgia. In other indicators as well, the Georgian government is facing significant downturn in popularity. [Read more…]
Kizlyar administration officials, employees of Rospotrebnadzor, and employees of the Ministry of Health of Daghestan at the site of the Kizlyar water supply accident. Photo: Ria Novosty Daghestan.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Republic of Daghestan opened a criminal case on Wednesday after an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Kizlyar in the north of the republic. [Read more…]
Photo: Trend News Agency.
Several opposition and independent candidates have claimed to have been prevented from registering for 9 February’s snap parliamentary elections. Other opposition figures have reported facing pressure from the authorities to withdraw. [Read more…]
Artur Vanetsyan. Official Picture.
The former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan has come under fire over allegations he coordinated a smear campaign against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s family. [Read more…]
The President of Abkhazia, Raul Khadzhimba, has stepped down effective immediately following days of anti-government protests and a Supreme Court ruling that his election was unlawful. [Read more…]
‘Criminal cases were launched against 33 participants of rallies in the Republic of Ingushetia #freedomforpoliticalprisoners’. A woman holds a poster at the picket in Moscow. Photo: Yelizaveta Aleksandrova-Zorina.
Single-person pickets were held in Moscow and Saint Petersburg on Friday in support of Ingush activists arrested after protests against the Chechen-Ingush land deal. [Read more…]
The Supreme Court of Abkhazia. Photo: Ekho Kavkaza.
The Supreme Court of Abkhazia has overturned the results of September’s presidential elections, ordering a rerun of the vote. [Read more…]
Photo: Ekho Kavkaza.
Protesters have stormed and seized the building of the Presidential Administration in Sukhumi (Sukhum), demanding that the results of the presidential elections be recognised as unlawful. [Read more…]
Zurab Popkhadze in court. Photo: Prosecutor's Office.
Zurab Popkhadze, a high-ranking Georgian police official, pleaded guilty to beating and killing 24-year-old Murad Tsurtsumia, who, according to local media, ‘was stripped naked and left alone in the cold near a cemetery in Tbilisi’. The family of the victim said the deceased also had his eye gouged out. [Read more…]
Photo: Armenia's National Security Service, still from video.
An unidentified man has been detained by Armenia’s National Security Service for allegedly making a fake Facebook account which he used to disseminate false information about Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statements regarding the assasination of Qasem Soleimani. [Read more…]
