Crime

20 years later: Three sentenced in absentia in South Ossetia for "collaboration with Georgian intelligence"

South Ossetia

February 27, 2024

No one recalls the other two convicts. It's unclear why all three Karkusov brothers were accused, but only one convicted, especially since one is already in a Russian prison

"Ordinary people": how Abkhazia resists drug traffickers from Russia and Central Asia

Abkhazia

February 26, 2024

"The mephedrone generation" - specialists point to a sharp increase in the number of consumers in Abkhazia. Meanwhile, among the convicted sellers, almost all are Russians and citizens of Central Asia

Abkhazia: Anzor Tarba dies in custody, and the accused gets a new appointment

Abkhazia

February 04, 2024

The former leadership of the Gal district also stepped down following the death of the individual detained during interrogation

One and a half years in prison for activist Lazare Grigoriadis, case of violence against his father

Georgia

September 27, 2023

Lazare Grigoriadis is sentenced for violence against his father, but the family says the father himself was to blame. He faces 7 to 11 years in prison in the main case of assaulting police officers

Dzhako's case: Ossetian criminal mastermind sentenced to life, confident of early release

Russia

September 08, 2023

Some consider Gagiyev a bloody criminal and murderer, others consider him an "Ossetian Robin Hood"

Those responsible for the death of teenager in Vake Park in Tbilisi sentenced to 3-6 years in prison

Georgia

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

Crime

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

Abkhazia

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

Georgia

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

Abkhazia

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 orphanage

Georgia

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

"Ashamed to be a victim": stories of torture victims from Abkhazia

Abkhazia

December 22, 2021

Torture in Abkhazia - why do law enforcement officers torture people, why do victims prefer to stay silent, and how to end this practice? An investigation by a JAMnews correspondent

Five people detained for murder of a British citizen in Georgia

Crime

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

Crime

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

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

Crime

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

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