With their houses cracking and collapsing around them, people in Shukruti are afraid that they will receive attention only when disaster strikes.
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Russia has charged a feminist activist from Kabarda–Balkaria with ‘justifying terrorism’ over comments she made on social media.

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Journalists and activists arrested in Azerbaijan’s latest crackdown on independent media have been accused of smuggling foreign currency. ‘When the government wants to arrest someone, it will find a reason’, said civil activist Anar Mammadli.

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BREAKING: Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Lazare Grigoriadis to nine years in prison on charges of arson and attacking a police officer during the March 2023 protests against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law.

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In a scathing hour-long speech, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hit out at Russia, accusing it of dragging Armenia to war, and suggesting that it used the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to keep Armenia ‘on a leash’.

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A Russian deserter ‘abducted’ in Armenia has reportedly expressed his willingness to return to Russia in a meeting with a lawyer. The lawyer reported that the deserter appeared to be repeating memorised phrases.

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Georgian parliamentary majority leader Mamuka Mdinaradze responding to the US ambassador’s criticism of the foreign agent law, which has been condemned by the US and EU, and praised by Russian officials.

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has told reporters to ‘stay tuned’ regarding possible sanctions on Georgian officials responsible for reintroducing the foreign agent bill.

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Azerbaijani police have sentenced an activist arrested in August after spraying the name ‘Stalin’ on a Heydar Aliyev statue to six years in prison on drug charges.

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Russian troops have allegedly abducted a Russian deserter seeking refuge in Armenia. If confirmed, Shchetin would be the second Russian to have been kidnapped from the city of Gyumri.

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Georgian society is split on how the country’s economy should interact with Russia’s, with these differences of opinion varying substantially along social, demographic, and partisan lines.

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Chechnya’s Ministry of Culture has issued a decree banning all music that is slower than 80 bpm and faster than 116 bpm. ‘Chechen music must comply with the ‘Chechen mentality’.

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Thousands have gathered in front of the Georgian Parliament calling for the foreign agent law to be withdrawn.

Thousands of protesters have blocked Rustaveli Avenue and are marching to the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, in protest against the government’s revival of the foreign agent law.

The Georgian Government has been accused of using civil servants to deliver messages on social media supporting their controversial draft foreign agent law.

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Georgia’s draft foreign agent law has passed its first stage, with Parliament’s Bureau giving the legislation the go-ahead to proceed amidst noisy protests outside the building.

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The political wing of the far-right and pro-Russian extremist group Alt Info, the Conservative Movement, has been de-registered by Georgian authorities.

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Abkhazia has introduced daily six-hour power cuts following significant damage to a section of the Enguri (Ingur) hydroelectric power plant and insufficient Russian-provided electricity.

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Armenia and Azerbaijan have exchanged accusations over border clashes over the weekend, as Armenian officials attended a trilateral meeting with the EU and US in Brussels. oc-media.org/weekend-of-cla…