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Policemen have detained a man without a medical mask in a street in Yerevan, which is mandatory under the coronavirus epidemic. Law enforcers acted excessively rudely, although the offender was ready to fulfil their demands, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsman, has stated.

Chechen authorities have observed the Arab tradition of reciprocal gifts by sending foodstuffs to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in exchange for the help with protective means and coronavirus tests. However, UAE residents, unlike those of Chechnya, face no foodstuff deficit, Orientalists have noted.

In the Krasnodar Territory, law enforcers are regularly using torture to obtain confessions from detainees, the "Mediazona" has concluded.

The count of coronavirus cases in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has risen sharply; new potential infection carriers arrive from Armenia daily. Authorities should introduce tough restrictive measures so that Stepanakert does not become a hotbed of the epidemic, experts assert.

At least 6 inmates of the Tskhinvali colony were taken to hospital with wounds after a conflict with the administration. Their relatives assert that inmates were beaten up. The authorities of South Ossetia insist that the incident was caused by regime violations by the inmates.

In Chechnya, collective Friday prayers have been partially resumed after more than a two-month break. A significant part of believers could not get into mosques because of the restriction on the number of worshipers.

In response to posts about the alleged hospitalization of Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Abuzaid Vismuradov, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that the Deputy Prime Minister is in a good health.

The restrictions imposed in Chechnya because of the coronavirus pandemic led to a decline in sales volumes and provoked financial difficulties, entrepreneurs complain.

Law enforcers called pickets of advocates in support of their colleagues from Kabardino-Balkaria a "hidden form of a mass event." Protesters insist that they held solo pickets. They intend to challenge the accusations up to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

After a severe hurricane in Chechnya, 23 people received traumas; the roofs of 33 houses were damaged; of them, 26 have already been repaired, the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed.

Over the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia were shelled for 25 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

A court in Baku has upheld the arrest of Niyameddin Akhmedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), within the case of financing terrorism. Akhmedov declared his innocence; and his father has stated that he is not allowed to visit and call his son, contained in jail.

In recent years, North-Caucasian regions have faced great political and civil activeness, but in Russia it is followed by criminal prosecutions, human rights defenders believe. Apart from Moscow, scaled protests were observed only in Northern Caucasus, the "Amnesty International" (AI) has noted.

From June 6 to the morning of June 8, residents of Baku and other large cities will be banned from leaving their homes, the Azerbaijani government has announced.

By marking borders in the Gumbetovsky District, Chechnya is trying to push Dagestani authorities to finalize the demarcation works, journalists believe. It is time for Dagestani authorities to clarify the territorial issue in order to avoid provocations, they assert.

Dagestan law enforcers have unreasonably used weapons to detain a teenager, and forced him to apologize, Instagram users have suggested. The detainee had to apologize for publicly insulting law enforcers, other commentators have objected.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in the Karabakh conflict zone and at the border with Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation sent 30 tons of food products to one of the richest countries in the Middle East, while there are many people in need in Chechnya, users of the social network note. This is a response gesture to the humanitarian aid with personal protective equipment and tests for coronavirus sent to Chechnya and Dagestan, the Chechen authorities explain.

While commenting on the statement of Ramzan Kadyrov about the unprecedented support of the quarantine measures by residents of Chechnya, Denis Volkov has emphasized that a poll conducted in social networks cannot be considered relevant. The population is loyal to the measures of self-isolation, but 98 percent support is out of the question, experts claim.

The Armenian authorities forbade local residents to leave their homes without medical masks because of the spread of the coronavirus infection.