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Instagram users claim there is no extremism in the actions of Aitakhadji Khalimov, a resident of Kaliningrad, who posted videos about the war in Chechnya. Users of the social network note that the state-run TV Channel also showed similar videos.

At their session, MPs have demanded to sort out the situation with the incident in the Tskhinvali colony, since this is the second emergency there within ten months; instead they used physical force and insults, MPs have stated.

The monitoring conducted by activists in districts and cities of Dagestan has shown that the situation with coronavirus infection and community-acquired pneumonia has stabilized.

Doctors have confirmed coronavirus in a resident of Stepanakert after he had attended a funeral in the Artashen community of the Hadrut District. After that, the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) decided to close four district communities on quarantine and introduce restrictions on funerals.

The court of the Swedish city of Gävle has arrested in absentia another person whom investigators treat as participant in the attack on the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

The coronavirus death toll in Armenia has reached 245, while the number of cases has reached 14,669. The rapid COVID-19 spread is caused by the negligent attitude of local residents to the observance of anti-epidemiological rules, Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, and Suren Papikyan, the Minister of Territorial Management, have stated.

Yusup Kutaev, a native of Chechnya, has been kept in a Moscow police station for 24 hours, where advocates are not allowed to visit him and another detainee, the advocates have reported. According to their version, law enforcers failed to register the men's presence at the station and refused to explain the reasons for the detention.

In the near future, two new hospitals with 300 beds for coronavirus patients will soon be launched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). Instagram users treat the fact as an indication of the worsened epidemiological situation.

A court imposed a fine on a resident of the Gudermes District, who posted on his social network page a song of well-known bard Timur Mutsuraev. The fined resident of Chechnya claimed that he was not aware of the inclusion of the bard's song in the list of extremist materials.

The "Roszdravnadzor" (Federal Public Health Supervisory Agency) has declined to answer the question of whether female circumcision is acceptable, claims the Centre for the Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence. The NGO demands to close a clinic in Ingushetia after complaints that a nine-year-old girl had been subjected to female genital mutilation surgery.

More than 30 people took part in a protest rally in the centre of Yerevan after a private company had attempted to demolish a historic building near the territory of the former "Firdusi" market.

According to Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, it was the Dagestani side who proposed to define the borders. Magomed Daudov associates the initiative with territorial claims of Dagestan against Chechnya.

108 names are included in the updated list of political prisoners, compiled by a working group consisting of Azerbaijani human rights defenders, activists of NGOs, and lawyers.

The coronavirus epidemic in Armenia led to drop of incomes, layoffs and closures of enterprises, residents of the republic have reported.

Elvin Mamedov and Arif Babaev, activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) have complained that employers forbade them to appear at work. The oppositionists believe that they were fired because of their political activities.

The Malokarachay District Hospital is facing deficit of medics; they are not paid their salaries and incentive bonuses; while local residents are denied medical care, free medicines and tests, said the authors of a collective appeal sent to the leadership of Russia and the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

Workers of the Dzidziguri and Mindeli Mines in the city of Tkibuli have demanded to repair the lifting equipment after some miners got stuck in the elevator. Bosses of the company that manages the mines have accused workers of violating safety requirements.

Azerbaijani authorities have promised to accept, on June 15, another group of their citizens from among those, who are waiting in Dagestan for crossing the border, but they failed to announce the particular list of people, the residents of tent camps have stated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has decided to extend by two months the custody of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, all accused of financing terrorism.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to pay the compensations to Batyr Pshibiev and Aslan Berov. Each complainant is to get 13,000 euros. Over 10 years of the investigation in the case on the attack on Nalchik, the defendants were not allowed to get a single long visit of their relatives.