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The tourist business suffers losses; employees are fired; and hotels are massively closed, a female employee of one of tourist companies has stated. Panic caused by coronavirus collapsed the Georgian national currency versus US dollar, the National Bank has informed.

The whereabouts of the three residents of Derbent who disappeared in Grozny on February 10 is still unknown, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed. The mother of one of the missing persons has complained that law enforcement bodies fail to inform relatives about the course of the search.

Kheda, a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, did not take part in the video, where she was called the "Sultana of Sun and Moon"; the video clip was a surprise gift, filmed by her relatives for her birthday, social network users assert. Some of them have suggested that the clip was a trolling.

In Makhachkala, the court granted the motion filed by investigators and extended the pre-trial restriction measure to Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft), until May 13.

A woman from Azerbaijan who visited Iran has died from a coronavirus, the operational headquarters under the Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers reports.

Border guards refuse to let residents of near-border regions returning from Georgia to Abkhazia enter the country and explain their refusal by the absence of rapid tests for coronavirus infection. Residents of the Gali District who left for Georgia to earn money, get medical treatment, or attend funeral ceremonies, have to stay in hotels.

In Sukhumi, five hunger-strikers stopped their protest in a square in anticipation of the outcome of a meeting of the Abkhazian parliament. If anti-corruption laws are not updated, the hunger strike will be resumed, activists state.

The Georgian authorities have introduced a mandatory confirmation of the absence of a coronavirus infection for travellers from Germany, France, Austria and Spain. The respective ministries have switched over to the round-the-clock emergency regime, Giorgi Gakhariya, the Georgian Prime Minister, has announced.

Instagram users have refused to accept apology of Marat Tsumaev, a resident of Chechnya, for his abusive posts on the Telegram. The young man was "found and called to respond" by local residents themselves, the administrators of Chechen publics have emphasized.

The video filmed on behalf of Kheda, a daughter of Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya and a State Duma MP, in which she is called the "Sultana of Sun and Moon," is challenging Kadyrov and his family, social network users assert. The girl's behaviour does not comply with Muslim traditions; and she must apologize, residents of Chechnya believe.

Arsen Torosyan, the Minister of Public Health of Armenia, has stated that those infected with coronavirus are doing well, but pneumonia has developed in one of them. Facebook users have criticized the authorities for their failure to immediately isolate the citizens arriving from Italy, and called for closing the border.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has demanded from Azerbaijani authorities to cancel convictions of eight applicants from the "Ilgar Mamedov group", whose rights violation was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The authorities have time until April 30 to fulfil this demand.

Residents of the Gali District, who had travelled to Georgia, have complained that border guards did not let them home to Abkhazia, forcing them to stay in hotels. The measures have to do with the spread of coronavirus in Georgia, said the Minister of Public Health of Abkhazia.

Members of the Russian State Duma adopted amendments to the Constitution of Russia, including the concept of the Russian language as the "language of the state-forming nation." That fact caused discontent among historians in Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, and Adygea.

In connection with the spread of the coronavirus infection, Valery Bganba, the acting head of Abkhazia, has issued a resolution to completely close the border of Abkhazia and Georgia along the Ingur River starting from March 14.

The problem of domestic violence remains relevant in Southern Caucasus and in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). However, in Northern Caucasus, feminists do not go out to street protests, like activists in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.

Two women who returned from Syria to Chechnya were on the wanted list, and the law enforcement bodies consider the question of their criminal prosecution for involvement in the ranks of militants, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya reports.

The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to find the eight Dagestanis killed in the Chechnya guilty of assaulting law enforcers was not a surprise for their relatives. Examinations refute law enforcers' testimonies about the circumstances of Dagestanis' death, the advocate has stated.

After the resonant feminists' action in Baku, female activists in Yerevan have stated that domestic violence is a women's problem both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, Armenian activists do not dare to openly declare their support for Azerbaijani colleagues, fearing for the latter's safety.

A participant of the feminist rally held on March 8 in Baku was persecuted for the intimate content of her poster and tried to commit suicide. The General Prosecutor's Office (PO) has blamed activists of the feminist movement for the accident.