Caucasus news

Int’l human rights NGOs demand Azerbaijani authorities remove investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova from no-fly list

January 21, 2020

Khadija Ismayilova was earlier sentenced to seven and a half years on false charges, but conditionally released in 2016

Russia is using South Ossetia to finance self-proclaimed republics in Eastern Ukraine

Russia

January 20, 2020

The scheme uncovered by the Security Service of Ukraine allows Russian banks and enterprises to circumvent international sanctions

Black January – 30 years since the massacre of civilians in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

January 20, 2020

In January 1990, more than a hundred people in Baku were killed by bullets or tanks of the Soviet army

Ex-President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan may soon find himself in the dock

January 20, 2020

If proven guilty he may be sentenced to a term between four to eight years in prison

Georgian border zone residents block road to Armenia demanding water problems be solved

January 20, 2020

Local residents say the water problem is a result of corruption amongst officials

They've lived in Georgia for more than 100 years - yet no one knows about them

Travel Georgia

January 18, 2020

"We are not Azerbaijanis, it's a mistake." The forest once provided food and shelter to the Lahijs, but this is gone now

UPDATE: Girl held against her will in Azerbaijan by relatives flees

January 17, 2020

The mother of 18-year-old Sevgia Ismayilova denies that the girl was beaten

Sick, corrupt general released from prison in Armenia – activists demand treatment and punishment

Corruption scandals in Armenia

January 16, 2020

A group of activists from Etchmiadzin, the hometown of Manvel Grigoryan, demands he receive treatment – and be punished.

Azerbaijani opposition protests high cost of election campaigning on TV – from $13/second on air

January 15, 2020

Many experts and candidates believe that the authorities are thus trying to interfere with the opposition’s election campaign.

Armenia to use tax payments of working students to cover tuition

January 15, 2020

The bill will only cover master’s and doctor’s students for the time being

Armenia commemorates victims of 1990 pogroms in Baku

January 14, 2020

Accounts of the event that happened 30 years ago from both Armenia and Azerbaijan

Op-ed: 100 synonyms for ‘intimate services’ or How to get a job in Azerbaijan

January 14, 2020

The story of how one job searche turned into a dangerous experiment

Maternity hospitals to be closed en masse in regions of Armenia

January 14, 2020

Employees protest, but the ministry explains its decision by optimizing costs and increasing the level of medical care

Yerevan Zoo facing endless diseases, animal deaths – why?

Armenia

January 13, 2020

Problems have built up at the zoo over the years, and the recent resignation of the zoo director has only added to the uncertainty of the situation

Results of Azerbaijan municipal elections approved amid claims of falsification

January 13, 2020

Blogger Mehman Huseynov intends to bring a suit to the Supreme Court, while feminist candidate Rabiya Mammadova has been accused of ‘offensive behaviour’

Update – criminal case against ex Armenian president Sargsyan to be taken to trial

January 10, 2020

Sargsyan stands accused of embezzling budget funds to the amount of more than a million dollars

Azerbaijani political emigrant detained in Poland on charges of tax evasion released on bail

January 09, 2020

He will be in Warsaw while the Polish prosecutor’s office carries out an investigation

Armenia pushes tourism development – with cleaner toilets

January 09, 2020

The government seriously discussed the proposition of “closing and bankrupting” all restaurants and gas stations that do not have normal bathrooms

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