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A broadcasting station in Azerbaijan enacted a ban on French songs

In connection with adoption of a bill on criminalization of denial of genocide by the Senate of France, broadcasting station Media FM in Azerbaijan removed songs performed by French singers and all the songs in the French language from the air today.

South Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia > Conflicts, Society, Politics

Jan 26 2012, 18:00

Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Armenia went on a hunger strike

Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Yerevan went on a hunger strike. The protestors sentenced to life imprisonment for murders demand reconsideration of their criminal cases.

Armenia, South Caucasus > Crime, Human rights

Jan 25 2012, 23:10; CK correspondent

Another protest action staged in Baku at the French Embassy

Opposition activists of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) held a picket near the French Embassy to Azerbaijan. It was the third protest action in Baku over the past two days against the adoption by the French Senate of the bill that assumes criminalization of denial of the genocides, recognized as such by the laws of the country, including the Armenian Genocide.

Azerbaijan, Armenia, South Caucasus > Politics, Society

Jan 24 2012, 22:20

Baku hosts protest in front of French Embassy

Today, about 50 persons came to the Embassy of France in Baku to protest against adoption by the French Senate - the upper house of the parliament - of the bill assuming punishment for negation of the genocides regarded as such by the law.

Azerbaijan, South Caucasus, Armenia > Society, Politics

Jan 24 2012, 19:00

The Senate of France adopted a bill of criminal prosecution for denial of genocide of the Armenians

The Senate of France adopted a bill stipulating criminalization of denial of the genocides acknowledged by the laws of France, including the one of genocide of the Armenians.

Armenia, South Caucasus > Politics, Society

Jan 23 2012, 22:00

Moscow football fans demand to punish Caucasian who injured their comrade in Maloyaroslavets

On January 21, several hundred fans of Moscow football clubs arrived in the city of Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region, where they held an action with a demand to punish the young man from the Caucasus, who had knifed their comrade friend in a mass brawl.

Russia, Armenia, South Caucasus > Incidents, Society, Interethnic relations, Crime

Jan 20 2012, 18:00

An action of the residents who lost their flats passed off in Yerevan

On January, 19, an action of former residents of Aram, Buizand, Ekmalyan and Saryan streets passed off in Yerevan. The people who lost their flats intend to continue protest actions until the problem is solved.

South Caucasus, Armenia > Human rights, Society, Politics

Jan 18 2012, 22:30

Commission of French Senate rejects draft law on criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide

The Constitutional Commission of the French Senate opposed the draft law criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide.

South Caucasus, Armenia > Politics, Society

Jan 17 2012, 23:50; CK correspondent

Armenia hosts action in defence of Tegut forest

In Armenia, on January 15, the initiative groups "Let's save Trchkan Waterfalls" and the "Tegut Protection Group" organized information and ecological campaign to the Lori Region.

Armenia, South Caucasus > Economics, Nature And Ecology, Society

Activists-ecologists at the action in defence of the Tegut forest, Tegut village, Lori Region of Armenia, January 15, 2012. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"
Jan 17 2012, 22:30

In Turkey, Hrant Dink's killers sentenced to life imprisonment

On January 17, the Turkish court sentenced the two persons accused of involvement in the murder of Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper "Agos", printed in Istanbul, to lifelong imprisonment.

South Caucasus, Armenia > Crime, Interethnic relations

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