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The President of Abkhazia, Raul Khadjimba, is resigning, Sergey Shamba, a former Prime Minister of Abkhazia, and Beslan Bartsits, the incumbent Premier, have assured protesters in Sukhumi.

Following their Chechen colleagues, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has posted a video with apologies of a resident of Khasavyurt for violating traffic rules, treating the imposed administrative fine as an insufficient educative measure.

A Private Arthur Arzumanyan was wounded by a sniper's shot and hospitalized, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Officials have named two new schools built in Gudermes and Shelkovskaya after the first president of Chechnya in order to win Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, local residents believe. In its turn, the Chechen Ministry of Education has noted these secondary schools have allowed eliminating three-shift attendance of classes in several other schools.

In Abkhazia, about 500 protesters have taken control over the presidential administration in Sukhumi, stating that opposition leaders should ensure the resignation of the incumbent president Raul Khadjimba.

The development plans of the Mini-Park "Ann's Garden" in the suburb of Tbilisi named Varketili have outraged local residents. They prevented the construction company from starting its works in the mini-park. The action ended in clashes with the police.

Rashid Nurgaliev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and Raul Khadjimba, President of Abkhazia, have discussed the stabilization of the political situation in the republic. The Kremlin is interested in settling the crisis in Abkhazia peacefully, experts have noted.

Doctors of the Istanbul clinic have conducted a surgery on the Azerbaijani rights defender, Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who was injured in a road accident. Doctors find it difficult to name the time when he will regain consciousness, his son has informed.

On the anniversary of the restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR), Ramzan Kadyrov cursed Joseph Stalin. The residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have recalled the ban on mourning events on the anniversary of deportation.

In 2019, 20 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished during performing their service; 29 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties. Compared to 2018, the military death toll decreased by 22% the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has reported.

Despite the threat of pressure on the victim, a court in Khasavyurt has again placed the two law enforcers, accused of torturing Musa Aliev, a resident of Dagestan, under house arrest, said Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT). He insists that for the sake of objectivity, the case should be considered by a Makhachkala court.

The threat to seize a car, and forcing drivers to clean streets is used nowhere in the world to improve road safety, Sergey Kanaev, the head of the "Russian Federation of Car Owners", has stated. In Chechnya, detained drivers often face violations of their rights, Ruslan Kutaev, a public activist, has noted.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia has upheld the complaint submitted by Alkhas Kvitsiniya, the leader of the "Amtsakhara" Party, and appointed presidential election in the republic.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is waiting explanations from Georgian authorities on the complaint submitted by the family of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who perished during a special operation conducted in Pankisi, said Tamta Mikeladze, the head of the "Centre for Human Rights Training and Monitoring".

At the initiative of the Ingush branch of the Russian FSB, a court in Moscow has fined the "International Memorial" by 300,000 roubles. In total, the court has considered 22 protocols drawn up against "Memorial" structures leaders thereof for the absence of the marking "foreign agent" in their publications.

The Chechen Ministry of Tourism has issued a memo on how to dress in the republic and communicate with local women.

Shelters for victims of domestic violence in the republics of Northern Caucasus help women who suffered from ill-treatment by their husbands or became pregnant without being married, as well as mothers with children, employees of crisis centres report. In Dagestan, about half of female victims of domestic violence return to their husbands, the human rights defenders report.

Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister of National Policy, recorded a video message in response to negative reviews in connection with being awarded with the "Glory and Honour" Third Degree Order of the Russian Orthodox Church. Social network users and residents of the republic found that the Djambulat Umarov's award from the Russian Orthodox Church contradicted the concepts of Islam.

Shamkhan Khamurzaev, who disappeared in Grozny, returned home, his mother reported. The woman retracted an earlier statement that her son was found in a law enforcement unit. Human rights defender Oleg Orlov doubts the new version voiced by the woman from Grozny.

The ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia was violated 22 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.