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In Chechnya, people are waiting for lifting the ban on leaving home to be able to earn money; many have no money for holding weddings, local residents and Instagram users said in their comments to the statement of the Chechen Mufti about the permit to hold weddings according to the Sharia.

By pardoning Ramil Safarov, found guilty of killing Gurgen Margaryan, an officer of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Azerbaijani authorities have violated the articles on the right to life and the prohibition of discrimination, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

On May 25, several official Chechen mass media outlets published an open letter by relatives of former militants, who demanded to remove the article on adaptation problems of families of former militants by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya from the website of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan blamed the population for the aggravating situation with the spread of the coronavirus infection. The country's health system will fail in the nearest future, virologist Ovakim Zakaryan warns.

Five days after reports about his illness, the leader of Chechnya appeared at a meeting of the operational headquarters to combat the coronavirus infection. The last time Ramzan Kadyrov appeared in public 11 days ago, on May 15, also at a meeting of the operational headquarters.

The people's reaction to an incident in the Samashki village proves that residents of Chechnya express dissatisfaction with the violation of their rights, despite the threat of coercion to public apologies, experts believe.

In Adygea, the head of the rural settlement in the Krasnogvardeisky District allowed a funeral ceremony with participation of crowds of people, and that fact provoked the outbreak of COVID-19. This follows from a version of investigators announced on May 25. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on negligence.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone and in a village on the border with Armenia were shelled 26 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

The ban on marriages according to Islamic standards, introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic, has been lifted provided that no crowded weddings are held, the Mufti of Chechnya announced on May 25.

Over 500 villagers have suffered from viral pneumonia; 11 of them died, said the head of the village of Kirovaul in the Kizilyurt District, where the family of a Dagestan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov lives.

Faig Amirli, an assistant to the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been arrested for 15 days. This is his second administrative arrest within the past six weeks.

The women, who had spread messages about beatings of residents of the village of Samashki for ignoring the self-isolation regime, have apologized. The respective video has appeared in the public on the Instagram, which is supported by the Chechen government. Locals have criticized the authors of the video clip.

Elena Baibekova from Astrakhan has held a solo picket against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Passers-by have supported the activist.

The hospital corridor, where a video was filmed with Elkhan Suleimanov, the head of the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) of Chechnya, looks like the interior of a hospital in Moscow, which does not exclude that the minister is in Russian capital, some media have suggested.

The absence of clear information about Kadyrov's disease is causing concern among residents of Chechnya, regardless of their attitude to him, since the whole republic's ruling system is based on him; and his absence is associated in people with a loss of stability, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

After an appeal from Circassian activists, Turkey sent to Dagestan items of personal protective equipment, medicines, and five mechanical ventilation devices.

In Chechnya, in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoi-Martan District, law enforcers beat a man, who left home on the holiday of Eid al-Fitr despite the restrictions of the quarantine regime, and his female relative, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On May 24, in Grozny, about 400 religious figures gathered for the only holiday namaz (prayer) in Chechnya on the occasion of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen TV and Radio Company) reported. Amid the restrictions imposed because of the pandemic, ordinary believers had to celebrate the holiday at home, Instagram users complained.

Over 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled both in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; celebration of Eid al-Fitr amid the pandemic; unofficial information about the Ramzan Kadyrov's illness, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 18-24, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".