[DW] Hardly anyone used to stray into the villages on Belarus' western border. But with more migrants colonists stranded here, residents are unsettled.
The Kamenets district near the well-known national park Belovezhskaya Pushcha is a rather deserted area on the Belarusian-Polish border. There's only one border crossing here to get to neighboring Poland legally. But, the Pestschatka checkpoint hardly sees any traffic nowadays due to coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... restrictions in Belarus.
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A) EUnuchs flood their countries with Muslim immigrants. When European public protest, their betters scold them for being rayciss & zenophobick n such.
B) Lukashenka invites Muslim immigrants into European nations, the EUnuchs scold Lukashenka for being .... "cynical."
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[KavkazUzel] A participant in the land conflict killed the imam of the mosque and wounded two people in the village of Ameterkmakhi.
According to local authorities, the attacker was also killed, TASS reported today.
A resident of the village of Ameterkmakhi opened fire from a machine gun, the cause was a land dispute.
"One of the opponents, the imam of the local mosque, was killed. The attacker himself died from a knife wound inflicted by a local resident who tried to stop him," he quoted the Interfax dispatch service today as saying. Two people received gunshot wounds and are in the hospital.
According to the source, several firearms were seized at the site of the shooting, including a Kalashnikov assault rifle. All weapons are unregistered, indicated in the publication.
62-year-old villager Asadulla Rakhmanov, previously convicted of illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, shot Imam Abid Magomedov with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and then opened fire on his relatives - Arip and Magomed. One of the wounded rushed at the attacker and stabbed him in the neck, killing him on the spot. The victims were hospitalized, they are operated on in a local hospital, Telegram-channel "112" reported.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, the imam was killed right in the mosque. A resident of a Dagestan village arrived with a machine gun, a grenade launcher and a pistol, Baza reported on the Telegram channel.
All participants in the conflict are local residents, said the head of the local administration Tagir Tagirov. "They know each other. I can't say anything about the reasons - maybe the land issue, but there were no conflicts before. Now there are all services, Rosgvardia. They cordoned off the houses, everyone is working," Tagirov was quoted as saying on the Pozym Telegram channel.
The police were not involved in the case, the investigation was immediately taken up by the Investigative Committee, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
"There is a murder. Nobody was hiding, the criminal investigation department was not involved in the search and detention of suspects. Therefore, the Investigative Committee immediately connected," the source said in the publication.
"Caucasian Knot" has no confirmation of the information provided by Telegram channels. On the website of the Dagestan Directorate of the Investigative Committee, as of 17.00 Moscow time on November 12, there is no information about the incident in Ameterkmakhi.
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[KavkazUzel] The Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk refused to satisfy the complaint in the case of the Chechen blogger Islam Nukhanov, convicted in 2020, but reduced the term of his detention, the Memorial Human Rights Center * reported today.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that Islam Nukhanov was detained after an attempt to publish a video about the luxurious living conditions of Chechen officials. At the same time, he was accused of storing cartridges. After six months of detention, on October 1, 2020, the court issued an unprecedented decision for Chechnya - Nukhanov was released under house arrest.
However, two hours later, after returning home, officers from the Federal Penitentiary Service again came for Nukhanov. The next day, the court suddenly considered his case, sentencing him to four years in prison. Human rights defenders filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, stating that Nukhanov was convicted on the basis of confessions extracted under torture.
The siloviki accused Nukhanov of having links with blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, but Abdurakhmanov himself denied this. The criminal prosecution of Islam Nukhanov is a "show flogging" for all residents of Chechnya trying to expose the authorities, he said.
Blogger Islam Nukhanov, like Tumso, was prosecuted in Chechnya after attempting to raise a socially significant issue, said Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina. YouTube users in the comments to Nukhanov's video demanded that he be released.
The cassation appeal in the case of a 29-year-old resident of Chechnya Islam Nukhanov was considered today by the Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk. The court rejected the cassation appeal in the case of Nukhanov on illegal possession of weapons and an attack on a security officer. At the same time, the cassation court decided to reduce the term of Nukhanov's detention by four months - to three years and eight months, the Memorial Human Rights Center * reported today.
Human rights activists also intend to seek an investigation into the abduction and torture of Nukhanov and illegal imprisonment. On October 2, 2020, the court released Nukhanov under house arrest, and officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service were illegally taken back two hours later, according to today's message on the center's website.
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[KavkazUzel] Oppositionist Malik Rzayev, accused of drug trafficking, said that he was tortured after his arrest. Rzayev's complaint about torture was forwarded to the Sumgait prosecutor's office, the lawyer said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the lawyer of Malik Rzayev, accused of drug trafficking, said on November 5 that he could not get a meeting with his client. Rzayev's relatives do not agree with the accusations and believe that the real reason for the arrest is his criticism of the Azerbaijani authorities.
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[NewFrontInfo] Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced Ukraine's plans to additionally purchase Turkish Bayraktar drones in 2022.
Reznikov noted that "the Turkish partners have publicly announced" that they are taking Ukrainian engines for the Bayraktar equipment.
According to him, despite the fact that the drones will be manufactured in Turkey, they will still be Ukrainian, "in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine stressed that the devices "will be used", since Ukraine must defend its independence.
Note that Belarus and Russia concluded a basing and military exercise agreement some weeks ago.
[REGNUM] Two contract servicemen of the Airborne Forces were killed during a parachute landing in Belarus due to a sudden gust of wind, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on November 12.
Recall that the tragedy occurred on November 12 during a parachute landing on an unfamiliar site near the city of Grodno.
"According to a report from the scene, as a result of a sudden strong gust of wind near the ground, the parachutes of two contract servicemen, who had high qualifications of parachute training instructors, descended. The domes of both parachutists went out. One of the servicemen made an attempt to stop the uncontrolled fall of both, using his reserve parachute, " stated in the message of the Russian military department.
The reserve parachutes did not have time to deploy due to insufficient altitude.
"Both servicemen were injured and were promptly taken to a local medical facility, where they received all the necessary assistance. Despite the efforts of the doctors, both contractual Russian servicemen died from their injuries," the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.
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