Crime

July 10, 2023

Eight sentenced, including the director of Greenservice+, already accused of corruption in 2013

The Supreme Court refuses to acquit the accused of raping a tourist girl in Abkhazia

June 24, 2023

The crime was committed in 2019. Edgar Abukhba, who has been found guilty, is currently serving a term in a strict regime colony.

Abkhaz Security Service employee suspected of killing a taxi driver

May 03, 2023

Taxi driver murdered in Abkhazia because the alleged killer didn't want to pay him a debt of about $2,500

"My father is a crime boss" Sons talk about their fathers. Three stories

January 03, 2023

About childhood, trauma and relationships with fathers

Chechen blogger Tumso, who campaigned against Kadyrov, killed in Sweden

North Caucasus

December 05, 2022

A Chechen video blogger and outspoken critic of Kadyrov, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who had been living in exile in Sweden, has been killed.

"The rule of law, not a thieves' racket" - an Abkhaz passport for a Sochi businessman

October 18, 2022

Crime boss Tatulyan in Abkhazia insults the opposition for questioning his bona fides

"Kicked with the chair leg, thrown on the cold floor"- Ombudsman's report on Ninotsminda orphange

December 24, 2021

Georgian Public Defender's report on Ninotsminda boarding house details the crimes committed against children residing there, such as punishments with chair legs and public humiliation

Five people detained for murder of a British citizen in Georgia

October 11, 2021

Thomas Kennedy, British citizen killed in Georgia, was a student of a medical college. He was drinking in a bar with local men who later beat him and threw him in the river

How Anna was killed

Russia

October 10, 2021

The film about the murder of Anna Politkovskaya was prepared by the journalists of Novaya Gazeta, where she worked

The Dzhako case in North Ossetia. Gang leader accuses politicians of contract murder

October 08, 2021

The Dzhako case In North Ossetia sparks controversy, as criminal criminal gang leader accused several high-ranking officials of ordering him to carry out assassinations

Op-ed: Crime and provision of justice in Abkhazia

June 22, 2021

The issue of crime and justice in Abkhazia has become especially relevant after the shooting incident in which a local resident wounded two Russian tourists. But how effective is the Abkhaz system in punishing those responsible for serious crimes?

Russian tourists wounded in a shooting in Abkhazia

June 15, 2021

A citizen of Abkhazia has shot two Russian tourists. The suspect has been arrested and wounded tourists are being treated in a hospital in Sochi

Nephew of first president, crime boss Kamal Ardzinba killed in Abkhazia

May 18, 2021

Kamal Ardzinba, nephew of the first president Vladislav Ardzinba and a crime boss, was killed in Abkhazia. He was shot in his own house

Hostages freed, attacker arrested following hold up of microfinance organisation in Tbilisi

November 20, 2020

An armed man holds nine people hostage in Tbilisi and demands to lower bank interest to 7%, lower prices for medicines and ban gambling

Bank robbery in west Georgia being investigated as act of terrorism

October 26, 2020

The crime was committed by a former soldier

Zugdidi bank robber took money from bank, not from state