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A resident of the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya demonstrated ingratitude when posting on the Internet a video in which he showed bread and green tomatoes he had got from the authorities as assistance. The above opinion was expressed by social network users.

Georgian authorities have extended the ban on air travels until April 30. Marketplaces are closed in districts because of non-compliance with sanitary standards; and in Tbilisi, street disinfection is carried out.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his comrades-in-arms have made a collective prayer, despite the prohibitions related to the threat of coronavirus spread. Residents of the republic have expressed their bewilderment at the violation by the authorities of their own prohibitions.

The head of Chechnya has promised to reward policemen for beating a quarantined violator in the city of Argun and announced his readiness to "beat up people with truncheons and put them in jail" in order to protect the population from coronavirus.

After the video appeal of the wife of Aslambek Akhmetkhanov, who asked Ramzan Kadyrov to forgive her husband, Facebook users have rebuked the head of Chechnya of trying to use women and children with the aim to put pressure on the entrepreneur.

Spread of the coronavirus infection and new methods to combat it in Southern Russia; special operation in the Stavropol Territory; presidential and parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh; updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 30-April 5, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Chechen law enforcers have publicly subjected a man to humiliating beatings for the absence of a medical mask, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed. Instagram users have also criticized law enforcers' actions.

A resident of the Achkhoi-Martan District has issued a video message with his apology for the video, in which he mockingly commented on the food package received from the authorities. The man has apologized involuntarily, his fellow countrymen have suggested.

Since April 5, Azerbaijan introduced a permissive system of travels: one category of people may travel freely, the second – through the online registration, and the third one – after receiving a permit by means of an SMS message. Activists saw a violation of fundamental freedoms in these measures.

Tezekhan Miralamli, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, was summoned to the police in connection with his critical post placed in social networks about law enforcers' work during the quarantine regime. The police released the journalist after taking his explanatory note and a promise to remove the post.

An employee of a private medical centre closed for quarantine has found herself without a salary or state assistance, while living in a rented apartment with her two children.

During the past week, Azerbaijani militaries fired over 1300 rounds at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

The wife of Aslambek Akhmetkhanov, who was severely criticized by the head of Chechnya, has admitted that a quarantine violation is a shame, and asked Ramzan Kadyrov to forgive her husband. Akhmetkhanov disappeared from Gekhi, his fellow villager has informed.

The restrictions introduced due to coronavirus should also cover the Georgian Orthodox Church, the "Free Democrats" Party has stated.

Elchin Mamed was arrested after his critical report on the observance of human rights in Azerbaijan, the "Amnesty International (AI) has stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the right of the activist, Vardges Gaspari, to an impartial and fair trial had been violated.

The Chechen authorities are demonstratively putting things in order, forcing everyone, whose behaviour and words differ from their ideas about the norms, to publicly apologize. The aim of this campaign is to receive Moscow's approval, the journalists and activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Oppositional parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have stated they did not recognize the legitimacy of the newly elected parliament.

After being discharged from the mental clinic, where the Azerbaijani oppositionist, Adil Gumbatov, was forcibly placed on the eve, he was again placed there. A few days before the re-hospitalization, doctors found him healthy. His party colleagues assert that Adil's forced hospitalization is the persecution for his criticizing the authorities.

The epidemic threat has brought to life the tradition of self-organization of the Caucasian society: people are actively helping each other to deal with the common problem, the residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.