NATO sets the maximum task - to open a second front against Russia in the South Caucasus. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. According to her, the recent visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to the regions of Transcaucasia is another attempt to draw the countries of the South Caucasus into the zone of Euro-Atlantic influence.

The lawyer who defended Crimean Tatar political prisoners was denied the right to appeal the arrest

Azerbaijan celebrates Novruz holiday

In Crimea, a court rejected a complaint against the administrative arrest of lawyer Alexey Ladin. After the decision enters into legal force, the Bar Association may consider disciplinary proceedings against Ladin with the aim of depriving him of his license, the Tribunal TG channel reported. Crimean episode."

Society

Armenia approved an agreement on the status of the EU mission on the border with Azerbaijan

In connection with the beginning of Novruz, the days from March 20 to March 26 inclusive in Azerbaijan have been declared non-working.

Politics

The Armenian Parliament ratified an agreement on the work of the EU mission on the border with Azerbaijan.

A Crimean Tatar political prisoner, who has been kept in a punishment cell for the second year, complained of deteriorating health

Crimean Tatar Server Zekiryaev, sentenced to 13 years, has been regularly placed in a PKT (cell-type room) in correctional colony No. 1 in the city of Donskoy, Tula Region, for more than a year. Since February 2023, his conditions of detention have also been tightened, placing him in a punishment cell (punishment cell).

Azerbaijani journalists' arrest extended

A court in Baku extended the initial sentence of imprisonment for two months for the head of the Internet television channel “Channel 13” Aziz Orujev and an employee of this media outlet Shamo Eminov.

A resident of Dagestan was arrested during the presidential elections, threatening to throw him under a train

Activist from Dagestan Ibragim Parkuev was detained on July 15 and released from a special detention center on July 17. According to him, in this way the police limited his freedom on the days of voting in the presidential election.

The case against a Chechen athlete accused of justifying terrorism was refused to be declared illegal

NATO Secretary General called on Armenia to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan

The Moscow City Court refused to recognize as illegal the decision to initiate a criminal case against a native of Chechnya, Ilyas Yakubov. Previously, the MMA athlete was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism. The reason for the arrest was his publication on social networks.

Politics

Jens Stoltenberg, at a meeting in Yerevan with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, called on Armenia to quickly sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan. “Baku and Yerevan can achieve lasting peace,” the guest said.

In North Ossetia, a criminal case was opened against a man for the phrase “Someone burn this sauna”