Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will visit the country to further assess the honoring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
Visit of the rapporteurs is carried out against the background of the publication of the international NGO European Stability Initiative (ESI) report on "Caviar Diplomacy-2", which contains the facts of bribery by some members of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, members of the Assembly. Official Baku has not commented on these condemns.–06D--
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A court in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan has sentenced blogger Azamat Sarsenov to a 10-day detention for filming the crash site of an Embraer 190 passenger plane in Aktau. The ruling was confirmed by the court's press service, according to reports from RBC.
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The families of those killed in the crash of the AZAL passenger plane “Embrayer-190” will be paid compensation in the amount of 40 thousand manats (about 24 thousand dollars).
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On 26 December, Ramzan Kadyrov awarded his nephew Khamzat Kadurov, who holds the post of secretary of the Chechen Security Council, with the medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic".
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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