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Today, the court has found Irakli Okruashvili, the former Georgian Minister of Defence, guilty of participating in riots during protests which took place in Tbilisi on June 20-21, 2019. Irakli Okruashvili is sentenced to five years of imprisonment.

In Gagra, residents of a nine-storey building are isolated in their apartments after their neighbours had been diagnosed with the coronavirus infection. For the seventh day, the people are deprived of any opportunity to go to work, visit their summer cottages, and leave the building at all. No date for the quarantine end is announced, the tenants of the building note.

Increase in the number of coronavirus victims in Southern Russia and in the countries of Southern Caucasus; celebration of Easter by Catholics and believers of the Armenian Apostolic Church amid the coronavirus pandemic; pardoning of prisoners in Georgia and Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 6-12, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the republic, has apologized for his words about opponents of the Chechen-Ingush agreement on the administrative border only to the elders who were present at that moment, and not to those Ingushes whom he had insulted, social network users have emphasized.

Bako Saakyan, President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has decreed the introduction of the state of emergency in his republic because of the threat of coronavirus spread. However, the second round of the presidential election, scheduled for April 14, has not been postponed.

A report on a charity action organized by the Kadyrov Fund caught the attention of Instagram users. Volunteers unloaded the bread intended for the poor onto the cloth spread directly on the ground; those who helped in unloading and forming food packages were without basic protection means, social network users have noted.

The Ramzan Kadyrov's public polemic with Russian Premier Mikhail Mishustin has affected the official coronavirus statistics in Chechnya, the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper has noted.

An apology for the repost of the meme made amid the pandemic about the panic was preceded by a "prophylactic conversation" with employees of the "E Centre", Artyom Logunov, a Maykop student, has informed.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the eviction of Isiyat Dzaurova, a refugee from Chechnya, from the "Promzhilbaza" temporary accommodation centre (TAC) in Ingushetia, a violation of the right to respect one's housing, as set out in the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

The number of coronavirus cases in Armenia has increased by 11 and amounted to 977. The Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has stated that the government will extend the state of emergency in the country by another month after April 14.

The gloating over the criminal prosecution in Chechnya of the Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva is unworthy of Muslims, Instagram users have pointed out. They wished Djikaeva to repent that she had acted in provocative videos wearing hijab.

During the past 24 hours, two coronavirus patients died in Chechnya; and the number of infected persons has increased to 48, said Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Parliament, linking the increase in incidence with the crowded funerals in the Shali District.

Because of coronavirus threat, Easter services in churches and temples of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) are held behind closed doors. All the Easter church ceremonies at the Church of the Protection of God's Mother in Stepanakert are broadcasted on the local TV channel.

In Georgia, refugees from Abkhazia received food packages; parcels were sent to 9000 families. First of all, the help was rendered the refugees, who are under quarantine due to coronavirus, and elderly people, the government of Abkhazia in exile has informed.

The head of Chechnya has admitted that he had lost self-control, when cursing opponents of the border agreement with Ingushetia. He has apologized to the elders of both republics. Instagram users had criticized the Kadyrov's emotional statement.

The toughening of the quarantine measures introduced by the Azerbaijani authorities led to loss of earnings; the SMS-based pass system has flaws; people have to go out at risk of being detained by policemen, residents of Baku have complained.

Given the isolation of three communities, authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) should declare the state of emergency and postpone the second round of presidential election, human rights defenders believe.

More than 50 medics have signed a petition calling to announce the state of emergency in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) due to the worsening situation with coronavirus. Mary Grigoryan, the author of the petition, believes that the regional authorities underestimate the danger.

Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, was planted on with drugs in order to punish her for her shocking videos in a hijab, her relatives assert, complaining that Chechen advocates are ready to take up Djikaeva's case only for a huge fee.

Muslims of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya held their Friday namaz (prayer) at home, as mosques are under quarantine because of coronavirus. Some believers hoped to get to the mosque today – they are worried that they have to violate the prescription of compulsory collective prayers.