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The US authorities have included five individuals and six legal entities associated with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, into the Magnitsky list, namely, Vakhit Usmaev, the deputy chairman of the Chechen government, the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation and two sports clubs named "Akhmat".

Murtazali Gasanguseinov did not achieve in court the cancellation of the fourth investigators' refusal to prosecute the law enforcer, who reported about the killing of two Dagestani shepherds.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia has lifted the restrictions on the movement in the centre of Tskhinvali, where a protest action continues for the seventh day with the demand to punish the persons responsible for the death of detained Inal Djabiev.

Today, Ilham Aliev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have watched a parade to celebrate the victory in the Patriotic War, timed to coincide with the end of the military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish military personnel have also taken part in the victory parade. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which played an important role during the battles, and captured military equipment of the armies of Karabakh and Armenia have been demonstrated during the parade.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are experiencing problems because of the shortage of infrastructure facilities. Among other problems, the people are cut off from the electricity supply and Internet access. Internet users criticize the regional authorities for inaction amid the humanitarian crisis.

29 people have been taken to police stations from a protest action held in front of the Armenian government building, the police report.

Several hundred activists are holding a protest action in front of the parliament building in Yerevan, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

Accompanied by Russian peacemakers, 649 refugees returned to Stepanakert from Yerevan over the past 24 hours. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), a special hotline received 400 reports about missing local residents.

The Azerbaijani authorities have returned to the Armenian party the civilians who were captured during the Karabakh conflict, Tigran Avinyan, the Armenian Deputy Prime Minister, has informed.

The city of Berdzor has enough jobs that had existed before the transfer of the Lachin Corridor under the control of Russian peacemakers, but for townspeople to return, security guarantees are needed. The exodus of Armenians from Berdzor increases the risks of travelling along the Lachin Corridor, residents of Stepanakert have noted.

Some members of the Chinkhoi teip (family clan), to which Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot by French police after killing the teacher Samuel Paty, belonged, were not allowed to his funeral in the village of Shalazhi. The authorities explained the closure of the village by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dutch MPs have unanimously adopted a resolution on urgently ensuring the security of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh and defining the status of the unrecognized republic.

In Berdzor, policemen do not wear their service uniforms and weapons and cannot ensure security of the local population, townspeople assert; they demand security guarantees and resumption of work of schools and a kindergarten.

In Moscow, a court dismissed a collective lawsuit filed by residents of Dagestan who found themselves in the flooding zone after the Irganai Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) had been commissioned. Marina Agaltsova, who represents the plaintiffs' interests, has announced the intention to appeal against the court decision.

Today, the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia has announced a plan to start negotiations on the demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border with the mediation of Russia by the end of 2020.

The French police detained five Chechen natives from among acquaintances of Abdullakh Anzorov, who beheaded teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a source reported.

Kuban advocates sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and attached to it a photo of bruises and cuts on the body of Dmitry Baksheev, who was sentenced for murder and who died in a prison hospital. Investigators refuse to institute a case on the Dmitry Baksheev's death.

Yakub Belkhoroev, a former head of the Ingush branch of the Social Insurance Fund, accused of embezzling 19 million roubles, is checked for involvement in the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Centre "E" in Ingushetia, and other terror acts, Rostislav Rassokhov, Deputy Head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has informed.

Russian peacemakers have escorted over 36,000 refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, including 1136 over the past 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The losses of both parties during the aggravation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh are approximately equal, the total death toll will be approximately 10,300, the blogger of the "Caucasian Knot" has counted. Military observers have agreed with these estimates.