Thousands demand release of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautiyeva
The online campaign for her release was started on 28 September and has garnered support from all over Russia.
Georgian MP resigns after questioning ‘morals’ of colleague targeted by sex tape leak
Comments by Vano Zardiashvili towards Eka Beselia were widely condemned as sexist.
Pashinyan joined by Rouhani and Putin at Eurasian Economic Union summit in Yerevan
Eight heads of state visited the Armenian capital including Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was his first visit to Armenia since the Velvet Revolution.
Hunger striking South Ossetian prisoners ‘severely beaten’
South Ossetian Justice Minister questioned the legitimacy of the hunger strike.
Former Kabardino-Balkaria anti-corruption chief arrested for corruption
Sergei Rybnikov was arrested as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation into officials from Kabardino-Balkaria’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Russian authorities raid offices of Daghestan’s Chernovik newspaper
Masked and heavily armed men entered the paper’s offices on Wednesday morning as part of a criminal case into journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev.
Azerbaijani MP resigns after ‘offering parliamentary mandate as collateral’
Rafel Jabrayilov allegedly offered his parliamentary mandate certificate as collateral on a $300,000 debt which he failed to repay.
Georgian opposition leader Khazaradze condemned for sexist khachapuri remark
Mamuka Khazaradze said Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili ‘maybe bakes khachapuri well’ but had ‘no idea what infrastructure is’.
Protests outside Tbilisi prison in support of ‘Gavrilov’s prisoners’
Protesters gathered outside Gldani prison to support 16 people arrested in the wake of 20 June clashes in Tbilisi.
Four Georgian officials allegedly targetted in new sex-tape scandal
MP Eka Beselia, a former influential member of Georgian Dream, said three women and one man from the ruling party were being blackmailed.