A large number of grebe birds have been found dead in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea coast. According to state-run media outlet Azertac, the authorities are investigating their cause of death. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/thousands-of...

A court in sentenced Rustam Nogmov to 15 years for murdering an elderly woman in Nalchik in a seemingly random but brutal assault. Nogmov is the son of an assistant to the head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

A French court has ordered Georgia to pay $383 million in compensation to Turkish construction giant ENKA Renewables over the construction of the Namakhvani HPP. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/french-court...

Zeinab Zeinalli, a 25-year-old TikToker known on social media as ‘Koti’, was charged with publishing obscene statements and openly displaying disrespect for society, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Saturday.

The authorities in Daghestan have charged an unidentified teenager with allegedly making public calls for terrorist activities and justifying terrorism. oc-media.org/daghestani-t...

Georgian films are failing to reach local audiences, largely due to weak infrastructure, monopolies, political pressure, and limited distribution.

The Georgian government has moved to restrict the employment of foreign nationals without permanent residence in delivery services, passenger transport, and tour guiding.

Roza Dunaeva, a representative of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Austria, has spent years highlighting the cases of Chechens deported to Russia.

🎥 OC Reviews: Ana Urushadze’s 2017 debut film follows a Tbilisi housewife whose secret manuscript unravels the fragile architecture of family life. oc-media.org/review-scary...

The Georgian government has announced plans to ban the import of cars older than six years starting from spring 2026. The decision has sparked public debate, with some within ruling circles also questioning it. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/georgian-gov...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have participated in the inaugural session of the Peace Board in Washington. 🔺 The two leaders attended the session on Thursday. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/pashinyan-an...

The security detail of President Ilham Aliyev assaulted Azerbaijani protesters in Washington as they gathered to confront him on Thursday. The beatings, which took place in plain view of US police officers, were captured on film and widely circulated on social media.

Mikhail Negmatov, who is described as a ‘war correspondent’ embedded with Chechnya’s Akhmat special forces unit, has been accused of unlawfully wearing an award given to Wagner private military company fighters — the Platinum Star of the PMC hero. oc-media.org/russian-war-...

Iran’s Ambassador to Georgia acknowledged controversial wording allegedly used by the embassy to refer to the historic deportations of Georgians, but claimed that modern-day Iran was not responsible for actions committed by Safavid Iran.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia–Alania has ruled to confiscate property belonging to former Head of the Vladikavkaz City Assembly Makhharbek Khadartsev worth ₽168.8 million ($2.2 million) in favour of the state.

Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, who previously called for Catholicos Karekin II to step down and backed PM Pashinyan’s church reform agenda aimed at ousting the Catholicos, has appeared to turn on Pashinyan. oc-media.org/pro-pashinya...

US President Donald Trump acknowledged his past difficulties pronouncing the word 'Azerbaijan' in comments at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting. Beyond repeatedly mispronouncing Azerbaijan, Trump also referred to Armenia as Albania on several occasions.

After 12 years of fighting, the Second Chechen War ended in 2009. Yet the conflict left deep scars — an entire decade of death, disappearing cities and villages. Those who refused to join the Russian side were forced to leave their homeland. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/a-personal-c...

The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, controlled by the Kadyrov family, has directed ₽43.3 billion ($560 million) for the war effort in Ukraine, Chechnya’s Prime Minister Magomed Daudov has said. oc-media.org/chechnya-say...

Ramazan Magomedov, an employee of a private security company, has been sentenced to 15 years for the 2011 murder of the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations, Maksud Sadikov, and his nephew Zalimkhan Musaev. oc-media.org/daghestani-m...

Moscow has pushed back against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s suggestion of a third-country takeover of Armenia’s railways from Russia as a solution to Armenia losing its ‘competitive advantage’ by having international routes pass through the country. oc-media.org/russia-warns...

Georgia’s State Security Service has announced that it arrested two foreign nationals in Kutaisi for attempting to purchase uranium and cesium-137 for $3 million. The agency said that the pair intended to transport the materials to another country. oc-media.org/two-foreign-...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Elliot Brandt, the CEO of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), during his trip to Washington, where he is set to attend the inaugural meeting of US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. oc-media.org/aliyev-meets...

Giorgi Bachiashvili, an ally-turned-critic of Georgia’s ruling party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, has been released from a Tbilisi prison following a plea agreement, after nearly nine months in detention. oc-media.org/bidzina-ivan...

On Tuesday, Akhmed Barakhoev and Musa Malsagov, convicted in the so-called ‘Ingush case’, were released from general-regime penal colonies. The case related to protests in Magas took place on 26–27 March 2019. oc-media.org/two-politica...

Azerbaijani authorities have detained two TikTokers — Sardar Majnunov (Serdar Inanki) and Rena Jafarova (Renka) — for allegedly publishing content with ‘obscene expressions or gestures’. ➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/two-azerbaij...

Journalist Eliso Kiladze was detained in Tbilisi in a case involving fraudulent call centres. The Prosecutor General’s Office alleged she was part of an 'organised criminal group' linked to disgraced former Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze. oc-media.org/georgian-jou...

Georgia’s Constitutional Court has refused to review a local judge’s request that two pieces of legislation providing for administrative detention in specific cases be declared unconstitutional. oc-media.org/georgian-con...

A list released by a Russian-state run research institute has again listed South Ossetia as the ‘friendliest’ neighbour in terms of communication, followed by Abkhazia. The rating of Georgia rose compared to 2024, while the ratings of Armenia and Azerbaijan both fell. oc-media.org/south-osseti...

Russia’s Wrestling Federation has announced that the International Testing Agency (ITA) dropped doping charges against North Ossetian Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Khadzhimurat Gatsalov. oc-media.org/internationa...

⭕ Opinion | Vance’s visit shows the US wants to stay engaged — on the region’s terms oc-media.org/opinion-vanc...

A ripple effect that holds back economic progress — growing up poor in Armenia oc-media.org/a-ripple-eff...

The Chechen Supreme Court has overturned the sentence of political prisoner Zarema Musaeva and sent the criminal case back for retrial in a court. oc-media.org/chechnyas-su...

A small Georgian opposition-leaning TV Kavkasia said it is under a state inquiry for receiving a donation from a private individual from the US. The process is based on a law that prohibits broadcasters from receiving funding from abroad. oc-media.org/georgian-opp...

The Kutaisi University, founded by Bidzina Ivanishvili, is offering astroscience and astroarchaeology programmes — disciplines widely recognised as pseudoscientific — provided by a gematria specialist who claims to receive knowledge in his dreams. oc-media.org/ivanishvili-...

Armenian authorities have deported a Chechen man who had been arrested earlier in February for threatening to kill his daughter. The man has also been banned from reentering Armenia, human rights defender Artur Sakunts told Civilnet on Monday. oc-media.org/armenia-depo...

Bashir Alibiev, a native of Chechnya suspected of killing his former wife, was found dead on 11 February in a detention centre in the southern French town of Grasse. oc-media.org/chechen-man-...

Armenian authorities have barred Catholicos Karekin II from leaving the country as part of a criminal case opened in January. The restriction came days ahead of a bishops’ synod scheduled for 16–19 February in Austria. oc-media.org/armenia-bars...

The Baku Military Court has sentenced former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison. Vardanyan was convicted of crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes, terrorism, and the financing of terrorism. 🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/ruben-vardan...

In Chechnya, 3,009 previously divorced families have been reunited, the Grozny-Inform news agency reported, citing data from the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya (DUM). oc-media.org/more-than-3-...

Georgia’s ruling party has presented draft legislation that would criminalise the ‘establishment of a perception’ that Georgia’s governmental bodies are illegitimate. The bill introduces penalties including up to three years in prison. oc-media.org/ban-on-quest...

#paidcontent: How Georgian civil society is turning to international law to survive repression Paid for by: Equality Now oc-media.org/how-georgian...

In an interview with Russian opposition TV Dozhd (TV Rain), Armenia’s Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan has said that his country seeks to maintain a ‘balanced policy’ towards Russia, despite its apparent shift towards the West. oc-media.org/armenias-sim...

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has sentenced two residents of Ingushetia to five and 11 years for acts of sabotage and the illegal trafficking of explosive substances. oc-media.org/ingush-court...

Nikol Pashinyan said a country friendly with both Russia and Armenia could buy the concession rights to Armenia’s railways, now managed by Russia, to help restore the country’s competitive advantage in international transit routes. oc-media.org/pashinyan-pr...

Russia attacked the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv deliberately on more than one occasion, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. oc-media.org/russia-struc...

Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov’s eldest son and Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, 20-year-old Akhmat Kadyrov, has received a federal-level sports award for his ‘personal merits and achievements’. ➡️ more: oc-media.org/kadyrovs-eld...

Georgia’s price wars: what’s really behind increasing costs: Economists and government officials have differing opinions over why domestic inflation is increasing in Georgia. oc-media.org/georgias-pri...

‘Inspiring acts of solidarity’ — Bahruz Samadov pens open letter to Slavoj Žižek oc-media.org/inspiring-ac...

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Ukrainian-born Vitalii Hayvoronskyi to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for allegedly preparing a bomb attack at the Nalchik railway station on behalf of the SBU.