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The Ministry of Defence of Armenia reported about a shelling attack on its positions near the city of Ijevan, while the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reported about a shelling attack on residential buildings in the village of Abbasbeili.

Ramzan Kadyrov is the only Russian governor who distributes orders and medals to his close relatives, note experts on the oriental studies interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Such actions stimulate subordinates of the Chechen leader to serve him with special zeal, explains Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

The Ingush police did not succeed in a search for Khamzat and Ilez Dzeitov brothers, who were put on the wanted list after their arrival to the republic on February 27. Nothing in the brothers' behaviour would confirm the version that they had been allegedly recruited by militants, notes a father of the Dzeitov brothers.

A video, shot on behalf of a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, the adviser to the leader of Chechnya, where the girl is called the "sultana of the sun and moon," does not comply with the Chechen ideas about nobility, Caucasian experts note. The demonstration of luxury style life on the video looks ostentatious, residents of the Chechen republic agree.

In Armenia, classes in educational institutions are suspended until March 23 after the detection of new cases of the coronavirus infection.

Law enforcers are conducting searches in two houses of residents of Sunzha, sources have reported. According to their story, the searches have to do with the protests held in Magas in March 2019.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint of the Azerbaijani lawyer, Aslan Ismailov about expelling him from the Bar Association, finding a violation of his right to a fair trial. However, the ECtHR did not appoint any compensation, since Ismailov had failed to put forward such a claim on time.

The Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has stated that after the assassination attempt on him, he expects no change in the position of Swedish authorities, who refused to provide him with political asylum. The Russian Embassy has asked Sweden to organize a telephone conversation with the Russians detained under the assassination attempt case on Tumso, committed in the city of Gävle.

The tourist business suffers losses; employees are fired; and hotels are massively closed, a female employee of one of tourist companies has stated. Panic caused by coronavirus collapsed the Georgian national currency versus US dollar, the National Bank has informed.

The whereabouts of the three residents of Derbent who disappeared in Grozny on February 10 is still unknown, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed. The mother of one of the missing persons has complained that law enforcement bodies fail to inform relatives about the course of the search.

Kheda, a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, did not take part in the video, where she was called the "Sultana of Sun and Moon"; the video clip was a surprise gift, filmed by her relatives for her birthday, social network users assert. Some of them have suggested that the clip was a trolling.

In Makhachkala, the court granted the motion filed by investigators and extended the pre-trial restriction measure to Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft), until May 13.

A woman from Azerbaijan who visited Iran has died from a coronavirus, the operational headquarters under the Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers reports.

Border guards refuse to let residents of near-border regions returning from Georgia to Abkhazia enter the country and explain their refusal by the absence of rapid tests for coronavirus infection. Residents of the Gali District who left for Georgia to earn money, get medical treatment, or attend funeral ceremonies, have to stay in hotels.

In Sukhumi, five hunger-strikers stopped their protest in a square in anticipation of the outcome of a meeting of the Abkhazian parliament. If anti-corruption laws are not updated, the hunger strike will be resumed, activists state.

The Georgian authorities have introduced a mandatory confirmation of the absence of a coronavirus infection for travellers from Germany, France, Austria and Spain. The respective ministries have switched over to the round-the-clock emergency regime, Giorgi Gakhariya, the Georgian Prime Minister, has announced.

Instagram users have refused to accept apology of Marat Tsumaev, a resident of Chechnya, for his abusive posts on the Telegram. The young man was "found and called to respond" by local residents themselves, the administrators of Chechen publics have emphasized.

The video filmed on behalf of Kheda, a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya and a State Duma MP, in which she is called the "Sultana of Sun and Moon," is challenging Kadyrov and his family, social network users assert. The girl's behaviour does not comply with Muslim traditions; and she must apologize, residents of Chechnya believe.

Arsen Torosyan, the Minister of Public Health of Armenia, has stated that those infected with coronavirus are doing well, but pneumonia has developed in one of them. Facebook users have criticized the authorities for their failure to immediately isolate the citizens arriving from Italy, and called for closing the border.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has demanded from Azerbaijani authorities to cancel convictions of eight applicants from the "Ilgar Mamedov group", whose rights violation was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The authorities have time until April 30 to fulfil this demand.