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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month 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 * CivilNet has reported that Vigen Eoljekjian, a Lebanese–Armenian imprisoned in Azerbaijan since 2020, went on a hunger strike for 15 days in order to be allowed to call his family.
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1 month ago | 
oc-media.org | Elizaveta Chukharova |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Shota Kincha
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 memberAdam Kadyrov, the 17-year-old son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has been awarded another honour — this time, a commemorative medal marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Akhmat-Grozny OMON (a special police unit).
