Ramzan Kadyrov (RFE/RL North Caucasus Service)
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has provoked outrage in neighbouring Daghestan by criticising Imam Shamil, the leader of the resistance to the Russian Empire’s 19th-century conquest of the North-east Caucasus. [Read more…]
(Dinamo Tbilisi)
FC Dinamo has been fined for allegedly racist behaviour by its fans during a recent Europa League game. [Read more…]
Kibar Khalvashi. (Mzia Saganelidze /RFE/RL)
Khalvashi is selling the indebted opposition television channel less than a month after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) allowed him to take ownership of the channel. [Read more…]
Protest in front of Evolution Gaming office, Tbilisi. (GTUC)
Employees of online gambling provider Evolution Gaming in Georgia have created a union after several employees claimed to have been fired for demanding better wages and working conditions. [Read more…]
Nika Gvaramia. (Photo: Presa.ge)
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has indicted Nika Gvaramia, the former director of pro-opposition TV channel Rustavi 2, for ‘abuse of power’. [Read more…]
Sultakhan Ibragimov. (Memorial)
A court in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has awarded a local man ₽800,000 ($12,000) in compensation for moral damages over his illegal criminal prosecution. [Read more…]
The Kvishkheti tunnel construction site. (Photo: Kartli.ge)
Sixty railway construction workers at an international company in Georgia’s central Shida Kartli region have left their job after unsuccessfully demanding a raise. [Read more…]
Nikol Pashinyan (centre) in Stepanakert with Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan (left) and the President of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan (right) (official photo)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for ‘unification’ between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, in a wide-ranging speech that was delivered amidst an atmosphere of tension between authorities in Yerevan and Stepanakert. [Read more…]
Ruslan Kasheshov (Memorial)
Rights group Memorial has published a report detailing the alleged torture of a local businessman in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the summer of 2018. [Read more…]
MP Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker Archil Talakvadze, and Chair of the Central Election Commission Tamar Zvhania during the 5 August Working Group meeting (Retrieved from Talakvadze’s official FB page)
To the chagrin of critics, the ruling party has recently announced that their proposed package of electoral reforms include regulations on campaign finance rules and political ads in media.
