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Armenia sends military ‘humanitarian mission’ to Syria

14 February 2019 by Knar Khudoyan

Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu met his Armenian coun­ter­part, Davit Tonoyan, in Moscow on 8 February. (Defence Ministry of Armenia)

Armenia has sent an 83-person team of deminers, medics, and an accom­pa­ny­ing security detail to the Syrian city of Aleppo․ [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: aleppo, Armenia, defence, humanitarian mission, pashinyan, russia, security, syria

‘Enhanced security’: Armenian settlers in Nagorno-Karabakh

3 October 2018 by Armine Avetisyan

Karvachar, Shahumyan District, Nagorno-Karabakh (Armine Avetisyan /OC Media)

The author­i­ties in Nagorno-Karabakh are hoping to incen­tivise more people to settle in the sparsely populated areas of Nagorno-Karabakh to encourage economic growth and strength­en its sense of security. However, the unre­solved conflict with Azer­bai­jan casts shadow on these plans.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: Armenia, artsakh, Azerbaijan, conflict, gubadli, kalbajar, karvachar, kashatagh, lachin, migration, nagorno-karabakh, peace, settlement, seyran ohanyan, shahumyan, shusha, shushi, syria, zangilan

Kabardino-Balkaria’s commission on former militants — handcuffed by police ambitions?

10 September 2018 by Aslan Urumov

Nalchik Airport (aviateka.su)

The Com­mis­sion on adap­ta­tion of militants coming back from Syria to peaceful life has func­tioned in Kabardino-Balkaria for over 6 years. Despite its mandate to rein­te­grate former militants into society, a number of high-profile pros­e­cu­tions has raised doubts over the author­i­ties’ true com­mit­ment to peace­ful­ly returning them to civilian life.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: extremism, isis, islamic state, jihad, kabardino-balkaria, kbr, north caucasus, police, reintegration, russia, syria

Right of return? — The struggles of the Circassian diaspora to settle in Adygea

1 August 2018 by Madina Aliyeva

Mafekhabl (/wikimedia.org)

Today marks Adygea’s 20th annual cel­e­bra­tion of the Day of the Repa­tri­ate, honouring the Cir­cas­sians who returned to their ancestral land after more than 150 years in exile. Many in Adygea say there is little reason to celebrate, however, as few are able to settle in the republic.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: adygea, circassia, circassians, diaspora, migration, repatriates, repatriation, syria

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to visit South Ossetia

31 July 2018 by OC Media

Anatoly Bibilov giving a Caucasian sabre to Bashar al-Assad on 23 July in Damascus (mfa-rso.su)

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has accepted an invi­ta­tion to visit Tskhin­vali (Tskhinval), South Ossetian president Anatoly Bibilov announced in a Monday press con­fer­ence. The Georgian gov­ern­ment condemned the announce­ment, calling it a ‘gross violation of inter­na­tion­al norms’.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: anatoly bibilov, bashar al-assad, georgia, independence, recognition, samachablo, south ossetia, syria, tskhinval, tskhinvali, tskhinvali region

North Caucasian women appeal to Putin over families imprisoned in Iraq

23 July 2018 by OC Media

Women and children arrive in Grozny from Mosul in September 2017 (Rita Roytman/OC Media)

Around 50 women from the North Caucasus have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to help return family members impris­oned in Iraq to Russia, according to Caucasian Knot. In a letter addressed to the president on 15 July, the group appealed for their relatives to face trial in their homeland. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, iraq, islamic state, kabardino-balkaria, north caucasus, syria, vladimir putin

Syrian rebel leader condemns Abkhazia and South Ossetia recognition

29 June 2018 by OC Media

Nasr al-Hariri (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

Syrian rebel leader Nasr al-Hariri has crit­i­cised president Bashar al-Assad for his decision to recognise the inde­pen­dence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, according to Georgian news agency IPN. Al-Hariri heads the National Coalition for Syrian Rev­o­lu­tion­ary and Oppo­si­tion Forces as well as the oppo­si­tion High Nego­ti­a­tions Committee, which is taking part in UN-sponsored talks in Geneva with the Syrian Gov­ern­ment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, georgia, russia, south ossetia, syria

Western countries slam Syrian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

31 May 2018 by OC Media

(Kan Taniya/Twitter)

A number of Western countries  and inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions have condemned the Syrian government's decision to recognise Abkhazia and South Ossetia as inde­pen­dent states. Syria made the announce­ment on Tuesday, becoming the fifth state to do so.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, georgia, independence, recognition, south ossetia, syria

Georgia cuts diplomatic relations with Syria after it recognises Abkhazia and South Ossetia

29 May 2018 by OC Media

(Kan Taniya/Twitter)

Georgia has cut off diplo­mat­ic relations with the Syrian Arab Republic, after Syria recog­nised Abkhazia and South Ossetia as inde­pen­dent states. In a press briefing, Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Davit Dondua said that by recog­nis­ing Abkhazia and South Ossetia as inde­pen­dent, ‘Assad’s regime supported the military aggres­sion of the Russian Fed­er­a­tion against Georgia, illegal occu­pa­tion of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and years long ethnic cleansing’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, georgia, russia, south ossetia, syria

‘Happy is he who is happy at home’ — a Syrian shoemaker in Nagorno-Karabakh

1 May 2018 by Anahit Danielyan

Nerses’s main clients are teachers and students of Artsakh State Uni­ver­si­ty, who order shoes to be modeled on designs found online (Anahit Danielyan /OC Media)

Stories written about Armenians from the diaspora who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh are, as a rule, positive: about suc­cess­ful busi­ness­es or achieve­ments in agri­cul­ture. But among those who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh there are many who struggle to make ends meet; the Demirchyans, are such a family. They decided not to run away from problems, but to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: armenians, business, karabakh war, nagorno-karabakh, shoemaker, small business, syria

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