Photo: Caucasian Knot
Officials at a detention centre in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have denied access to lawyers to three activists detained after March protests in Magas. The activists from the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia were fighting against a land deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya. [Read more…]
People in Moscow holding posters saying ‘Freedom to Zarifa’ and ‘Freedom to political prisoners in Ingushetia’. Photo: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service.
An online protest is demanding the release of Zarifa Sautiyeva, an activist against Ingushetia’s controversial land deal with Chechnya. Thousands of people from all over Russia have uploaded videos calling for her release. [Read more…]
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South Ossetian prisoners who were on hunger strike in Tskhinvali last Friday were severely beaten, local media report. [Read more…]
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan with the President of Moldova Igor Dodon, President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Eight heads of state gathered this week in Yerevan at the annual meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union. The event included a one-on-one meeting between the Russian and Armenian leaders as well as Iran announcing its intentions to join the Russia-led trading bloc. [Read more…]
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Russian Railways has threatened to pull out of Armenia’s rail sector in response to an investigation by the Armenian government, triggering the latest row between the two countries. [Read more…]
Worshipers inside the Nazran Central Mosque (Photograph: Ingushetia.ru)
The Supreme Court of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia has ordered the liquidation of the Spiritual Center of Muslims of Ingushetia — the muftiate. Monday’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit from the republic’s Ministry of Justice. [Read more…]
Ramzan Akhiyadov. Image via On.ge.
A man accused of recruiting and fighting for the Islamic State has been extradited from Georgia to Russia. His lawyer insisted he is innocent and that he could face torture in Russia. [Read more…]
Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria. (Photograph: Chereck/Wikimedia Commons)
Two people have been killed by the security forces in a ‘counterterrorism operation’ in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The two men, who the authorities said were members of the ‘radical Islamist underground’, were killed just 10 kilometres from the republic’s capital, Nalchik. [Read more…]
Thousands of supporters of the Alliance of Patriots protesting near the US Embassy in Tbilisi. Photograph: Obiektivi.
Thousands gathered outside the US Embassy in Tbilisi on Sunday at a protest organised by conservative opposition party the Alliance of Patriots. Protesters were demanding that former US diplomats David J Kramer and Matthew Bryza be made persona non grata in Georgia. [Read more…]
Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
With persistent and growing talk of ‘polarisation’ in Georgia, CRRC-Georgia examines the actors, issues, and institutions that people think divide society. [Read more…]
