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Chechnya is not among the regions with mandatory coronavirus vaccination, because local authorities prefer various forms of pressure on residents, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, believe.

According to a complaint sent to the European Court, the threats that Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*, and his colleagues received in 2019, resulted from the Ramzan Kadyrov’s call to punish authors of gossips about Chechnya.

The Strasbourg Court has found that the Russian authorities are responsible for the disappearance during a special operation and the probable deaths of eleven residents of the Borozdinovskaya village in Chechnya, ill-treatment, discrimination, and torture. The European Court has obliged Russia to pay compensation to 71 villagers in the amount exceeding 1.8 million euros.

Elez Merzhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, explained his conflict with singer Aina Getagazova in a café in Nazran by a sudden outbreak of aggression and a loss of self-control. The man has emphasized he admits he was wrong.

The “Hayastan” bloc is preparing materials to file an appeal against the results of the parliamentary elections to the Constitutional Court of Armenia in connection with numerous violations committed during the voting. This has been announced by Robert Kocharyan, the leader of the “Hayastan” bloc.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) replaced the real term of imprisonment with a suspended sentence for athlete Said Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, charged with disorderly conduct after his open support for the opposition.

Dagestan police have detained a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, Islam Vagabov, who was put on the wanted list after a brawl in Makhachkala, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

In Fizuli, Karabakh rescuers found remains of three military servicemen, bringing the total number of bodies and remains found in the battle zone up to 1583, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Mary Davtyan, the chair of the NGO "Gadrut De-Occupation", and David Avanesyan, a Stepanakert resident, have gone on a hunger strike after the rally, where a resignation demand of Araik Arutyunyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh President, was put forward.

In Makhachkala, Ramazan Ramazanov, a student, and Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, have held solo pickets in support of journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and against groundless arrests.

In Stepanakert, a rally was held demanding the resignation of Araik Arutyunyan from the post of Nagorno-Karabakh President. The protesters are unhappy that Arutyunyan has supported Nikol Pashinyan and congratulated the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia on his victory at the parliamentary elections.

During the week from June 14 to June 20, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about any casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The “Khotæ” (Sisters) movement urges to stop the harassment of Irina Makoeva, the leader of the North-Ossetian Women’s Committee, provoked by her call on young women to give up miniskirts and ripped jeans. Residents of Vladikavkaz told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent about their attitude to the initiative of the North-Ossetian Women’s Committee.

Enemies of Ramzan Kadyrov are the enemies of the entire Chechen people, and they must be fought in various ways, including murders, declares Chingiz Akhmadov, the director of the “Grozny” ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcast Company).

The leader of Chechnya has tightened the anti-epidemic measures at the Grozny airport out of a wish to please the federal centre, dissatisfied with the increase in the number of infections, Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, and Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov note.

According to lawyer Gohar Meloyan, numerous violations give grounds for revising the results of the voting for the National Assembly of Armenia, and the right of the Nikol Pashinyan’s “Civil Contract” Party to solely determine the composition of the government has not yet been confirmed.

1818 units of endangered species of trees were cut down during the time when Lachin was under the control of Armenia, and the damage amounted to about 890,000 US dollars, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan declares today.

Parliamentary elections in Armenia; complication of the situation with coronavirus in Southern Russia; visit of the Turkey’s President to Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 14-20, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has published a bulletin describing and analyzing the main events of the three spring months in Northern Caucasus – the new data on the "execution case" in Chechnya; the expulsion of North-Caucasian natives from the European Union (EU); the "Ingush trial"; and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on complaints received from residents of the region.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia has denied the initiative of a group of activists to hold a referendum on the construction of a cascade of hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) in Namakhvani, the "News-Georgia" Agency has reported today citing the CEC.