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Activists of the Artsakh Revolutionary Party (ARP) have blocked traffic along the main street of Stepanakert, demanding a meeting with the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). The action ended with clashes between activists and law enforcers; one protester was hospitalized; and 13 others were detained for several hours.

Lyudmila Baratova, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, sold air tickets from the city of Mineralnye Vody to Istanbul to the people, who subsequently moved to Syria and joined terrorists, investigators claim.

Forcing the guilty natives of Chechnya to return from Moscow to their homeland is a new practice; however, the punishment for an offense must comply with the Russian legislation and the rule of law, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Law enforcers have dispersed the protesters in front of the Turkish Embassy in Baku, who demanded to release Mubariz Mansimov, an Azerbaijani entrepreneur arrested in Istanbul. Law enforcers used force also against journalists.

Kadyrov's words that no one will die of hunger have failed to convince residents of Chechnya. They go even to Dagestan for buying foodstuffs.

A court has left Magomed Khamkhoev, a participant of a rally in Magas, in custody until June 25. The defence found the court's decision unfounded.

Seven Georgian citizens deported from Russia in 2006 received compensation awarded to them by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

After Vakhid Murdashev, a former associate of Aslan Maskhadov, had left a penal colony, he was detained by law enforcers. The man was not released until several days had passed, his fellow villagers report today.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 22 times within 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has reported.

On March 17, at a press conference in Tbilisi, workers of the Dzidziguri and Mindeli Mines demanded to open access to reports on the mine conditions. Public access will provide confidence in miners' secure work, human rights defenders believe.

In recent days, South Ossetia watches a massive buy-out of foodstuffs and essentials; there is a shortage of medical masks, while the demand for airline tickets has dropped, local residents inform.

Starting today, a fundraising campaign for the fight against the coronavirus infection has been announced in Armenia. The Ministry of Public Health intends to direct the raised funds to doctors' incentives and improvement of conditions in medical centres.

The responsibility for the actions of a Chechen girl, prior to her marriage, is on her father, Caucasian experts have noted in their comments to the video clip posted by Kheda Delimkhanova. In their opinion, no consequences will follow after the publication of the immodest video of Adam Delimkhanov's daughter.

Muftiate of Dagestan has called on mosque Imams to reduce the time for Friday namazes (prayers); and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has suspended teaching Koran and the Islam basics.

After posting a humorous video about a coronavirus-infected woman from the Armenian city of Echmiadzin, who had hid her symptoms and infected her relatives, the author of the video, the Armenian blogger, Sergey Sargsyan, was beaten up.

After being released from jail, the Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, has left for Germany, where his relatives live.

The verdict to Mukhtar and Ismail Kurbanov, sentenced to long prison terms under the case of links with Syrian militants, will be appealed against, because their guilt has not been proved, Alfat Gabbasov, their advocate, is sure.

A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria and two residents of Dagestan, including a believer who visited the "Tangim" Mosque and who disappeared on March 11, are suspected of financing Syrian militants, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

Chechen law enforcers found and forced to return to their homeland 47 natives of the republic. Relatives took responsibility for their behaviour and claimed on the air of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Company) that they themselves complained to the authorities about their relatives who left the republic.

In Chechnya, an unprecedented flow of buyers in grocery stores and wholesale points was a reaction to measures against the spread of the coronavirus infection taken by the federal and republican authorities, local residents suggest.