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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberRussian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order to reduce the requirements for citizens of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to obtain Russian citizenship.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Elizaveta Chukharova |Aytan Farhadova |Shota Kincha
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberDozens of teenagers have been arrested in connection to mass street fights that occurred on at least two separate occasions — 16 May and 17 May — in the Daghestani capital of Makhachkala, local authorities reported.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Yousef Bardouka |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberThe Georgian government has withdrawn Zurab Pololikashvili’s candidacy for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Secretary-General, backing the UAE’s nominee instead.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Aytan Farhadova
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberThe head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, has visited Minsk to consecrate the country’s first such church. It was his first visit to Belarus, which comes amidst tense relations between Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan and his Belarusian counterpart Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Armenian authorities are taking steps to introduce new restrictions on media and freedom of speech ahead of the 2026 parliamentary elections. At the end of April, Armenia’s Justice Ministry released a series of draft legislative amendments, which, if adopted, would require media outlets — as well as individual social media users — to not only publicly refute or publish a response to insulting or defamatory content, but also to remove such expressions or even the entire publication.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Elizaveta Chukharova |Aytan Farhadova |Shota Kincha |Nate Ostiller
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberRussian security forces have classified the armed assault on traffic police officers in Makhachkala on 5 May as a terrorist act. Russia’s Investigative Committee claims that the attackers had been planning the attack since December 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova |Shota Kincha |Nate Ostiller
Members’ ExclusiveBecome an OC Media member and receive exclusive access to:OC Insider NewsletterThe Caucasus Daily BriefEarly access to storiesClosed Discord communityAudio version of the articlesA Caucasus-themed giftSupport independent journalism in CaucasusAlready a member? Related ArticlesDaily BriefRegional * On Wednesday morning, Armenia dismissed new Azerbaijani accusations of a ceasefire violation.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Elizaveta Chukharova |Aytan Farhadova |Shota Kincha |Nate Ostiller
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberMassive rockfall that occurred on Tuesday morning along the border between Daghestan’s Charodinsky and Gunibsky districts has completely cut off the Charodinsky district from the rest of the republic.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Yousef Bardouka |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberGeorgia’s former Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has called for the release of youth detained in anti-government protests, saying that their release would ‘result only in positive things for the country and the government’. Kvirikashvili called for the release of detained protesters on Tuesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Elizaveta Chukharova |Aytan Farhadova |Shota Kincha |Nate Ostiller
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberKarachay–Cherkessia’s former Prime Minister, Vladimir Kaishev, is facing criminal charges over what investigators describe as a decade-long scheme of corruption and asset seizure.
