Afghan war veterans’ hunger strike in Makhachkala (Saida Vagabova /OC Media)
Forty-five Afghan war veterans are on a hunger strike in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian Republic of Daghestan, demanding improved housing conditions.
The protest of veterans in August (Saida Vagabova /OC Media)
Daghestan’s minister of labour and social affairs has come under fire for failing to spend money meant to provide housing for veterans of the war in Afghanistan. At a meeting on Tuesday, Daghestan’s acting Prime Minister, Artyom Zdunov, questioned where the funds had gone. Veterans protested in August over the lack of promised housing.
Seyid with his daughters (Seymur Kazimov /OC Media)
A number of Afghans came to Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. Twenty-three years on, many have stayed, making a new life for themselves, in a foreign country. [Read more…]
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria paying condolences to the family of the fallen soldier (Facebook)
A Georgian soldier serving in Afghanistan has died after a suicide bomber attacked a military base in Afghanistan.
