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Antisemitism

Vitali Safarov’s mother: I must know why they killed my son

by Dato Parulava

•6 min read

Vitali Safarov, a 25-year-old Jewish Georgian man, was stabbed to death in Tbilisi in September 2018. Two men were jailed for 15 years each on charges of group murder, however, the court ruled his killing was not ethnically motivated despite witness testimony that he was killed by neo-Nazis because he was Jewish. The family of the deceased have appealed the judgment as they are confident that Safarov was the victim of a hate crime. [Read more about Vitali Safarov’s case on OC Media:

Children

Arrests follow fatal school stabbing in Tbilisi

by OC Media

•3 min read

Two 16-year-old boys have been stabbed to death in a school brawl in Tbilisi. The Prosecutor’s Office has charged two teenagers with ‘premeditated murder of an underage person’, and three others for failing to report the crime. Davit Saralidze and Levan Dadunashvili died from multiple stab wounds sustained during the fight, which broke out following an argument earlier that day. Both suspects fled the scene. The Prosecutor’s Office charged two teenage boys with ‘premeditated murder of an

Analysis

Murders, suicides, and fatal accidents plague the Armenian military [Analysis]

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•4 min read

Human rights in the military is an issue of concern to rights groups around the world. In Armenia, reports by local and international organisations and the US Department of State suggest a concerning situation in the the country’s armed forces. Reports of physical abuse and suicides in the Armenian army are not new. Such incidents are in part connected to a tradition of hazing, known as dedovshchina, which was practiced in the Soviet Army before Armenia regained independence in 1991. Re