Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov: Today is a sad date in the history of the Chechen people: on February 23, 1944, by the inhuman order of the damned Joseph Stalin, the Chechens and Ingush were forcibly deported to Siberia and Central Asia. Operation Lentil was led by Lavrenty Beria. This criminal order led to casualties: thousands of people died on the road, in the harsh conditions of special settlements, from hunger, cold and disease.
Azerbaijan has announced that it will close the BBC's Baku office, a move that the British media outlet described as "restrictive of press freedom."
9 month agoSome of the usual chants at the Georgia Protests: “Until the end.” “The end of winter is coming - the people’s spring is arriving.” “Georgia, revolt.” “We won’t stop, schedule the elections.”
9 month agoDay 85 of the protest: reading names of ten more Georgians killed in Ukraine to pay tribute to them. "Glory to heroes." They chant
Armenian PM calls for referendum on new constitution
9 month agoRustaveli avenue, blocked for the 84th consecutive night
Lasha Jioshvili, a cameraman for the opposition TV Pirveli channel, was reportedly snatched off the street by masked "men in black" wearing no police insignia, at around midnight local time. He had earlier taken part in a protest rally on Rustaveli Avenue
9 month agoOn the birthday of Georgia’s oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, protesters in central Tbilisi say there’s nothing to celebrate and that his regime must end.We have 50 prisoners of conscience, around 500 unlawfully arrested, and over 300 beaten, tortured, or ill-treated.
Gunba has preliminarily received 46.38% of the votes, Ardzinba - 36.92% following the results of the first round of the presidential elections in Abkhazia, the Central Election Commission reports.
9 month agoGeorgians marched today on 80th day of ongoing protests from Europe square to Rustaveli Avenue
Azerbaijan closes branch of Radio Sputnik — MIA Rossiya today will be allowed to keep only 1 reporter in the country
The Armenian Parliament voted to begin the process of the country's accession to the EU
10 month ago“Power is in unity”, “We will fight for truth until the end”, Rustaveli now
Armenian Foreign Ministry: Currently, there is no progress in the context of opening the border crossing between Armenia and Turkey
10 month agoThe administrative trial of the nine people who held a 20-minute protest outside the house of Judge Malkhaz Okropirashvili in Kutaisi is underway. Okropirashvili did not accept the appeal to change the imprisonment of Mzia Amaglobeli
10 month agoMasked police officers “cleared” Rustaveli Avenue from protesters. They’ve started using this method yesterday.
10 month agoRustaveli Avenue is blocked for the 73rd day in a row
10 month agoProtesters marched to Rustaveli Avenue and blocked it again. As the 72nd day of Georgia Protests comes to an end, protesters chant that they will not stop
Georgia's ruling party said Friday it would replace a widely criticized law on "foreign influence" with a direct copy of a U.S. law, after months of protests
The AZAL plane was shot down by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, a source in the Azerbaijani government told Reuters. Fragments of the Pantsir-S missile were allegedly found at the crash site. The Azerbaijani side has a fragment of the Pantsir-S missile, which was removed from the plane and identified during an international examination
10 month agoDay 69 of nonstop protests on Rustaveli. The street is quite packed
Georgian Parliament Speaker accuses USAID of interfering in elections and protests
Journalist and editor Vantsent Khabeishvili is hospitalized after being attacked by the police while reporting from the ground
10 month agoDay 68 of consecutive daily protests in Tbilisi, at 23:30 peaceful protesters still remaining on Rustaveli avenue
10 month agoGiorgi Okmelashvili, a demonstrator detained during the protest rallies against the law on Foreign Agents has been sentenced to five years in jail by Tbilisi City Court
10 month agoAs citizens walk back 15km from today's main protest venue to the center of Tbilisi, the police are periodically brutally picking out and arresting them. Here at the Mtkvari embankment. Nini Gabrichidze/Civil.ge
Protests against the government are taking place again in Georgia. Two opposition leaders were arrested. One of them was Nika Melia, the leader of the pro-European party Achali
10 month agoPart of protesters have blocked Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue at the parliament, while another group of demonstrators keep walking long miles from Tbilisi Mall rally Rustaveli Ave. Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
Most protesters are still marching at the Tbilisi entrance, and the rest of the protesters still managed to block Rustaveli tonight. We're everywhere, we're fearless, and we're determined.
10 month agoMassive police presence near Tbilisi Mall, the location of today’s protest and ahead of announced blockage of the main road leading to a from Tbilisi
