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The court recognized Magomed Elmurzaev, who participated in a shootout with border guards in 2017, as a member of the Khasavyurt grouping of militants and sentenced him to 22 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. Magomed Elmurzaev was helping the militants under threat of reprisal, the defence claimed.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Russian authorities to pay am amount totalling to 28,000 euros to employees of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", two of whom – Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya and Shamsuddin Tangiev – were beaten, while Zina Mukusheva, Zoya Muradova, Fatima Yandieva, and Albert Khantigov were detained for holding a picket in Nazran in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.

The updated list of the "Alliance for Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" includes three new names. In total, the list contains 158 people.

On June 22, in Azerbaijan, the Court of Appeal left rapper Elshan Teimurov under custody. The rapper was subjected to 60 days of administrative arrest. The young man denied the accusations of drug trafficking and disobedience to the police and said he was being prosecuted for performing a critical song, the rapper's father reports.

Mindiya Goradze was detained in Belarus after, on June 20, a court in Turkey ruled to release him from arrest and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours. On June 22, Goradze's relatives staged a protest rally in Batumi at which they demanded that the authorities extradite him to Georgia.

A compromise figure has been appointed the Imam in the Dagestani village of Tsiyab-Ichichali, where residents had turned to Ramzan Kadyrov because of their contradictions with the Muftiate; the conflict has been settled, the head of the village has informed. The Ramzan Kadyrov's public reaction to the villagers' appeal will provoke a negative reaction in Dagestan, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Galina Lazorskaya and Lyubov Nikolaeva have been detained by law enforcers of Sochi during their action against amending the Constitution.

Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliamentary, demonstrates his readiness for dialogue on Dagestani border, but Dagestani authorities wouldn't get involved in a conflict-prone process. For the least conflict-prone resolution of the problem, the mechanisms of Sharia law should be used, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Relatives of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge, who was killed in Berlin, have asked the German and Swedish authorities for protection, declaring fear of persecution by Russian special services.

Giorgi Gabuniya, a journalist for the "Mtavari Arkhi" Georgian TV Channel, who spoke obscene words about the Russian president a year ago, has again addressed Vladimir Putin in Russian by using rude expressions.

By a court judgement, all the ten suspects of attacking policemen at riots in Kullar have been arrested for two months each. A total of 541 people remain on the border with Azerbaijan.

For the period from June 22 to June 24, 2020, Abkhazia opens a humanitarian corridor for the return of residents of the republic who temporarily stay in Georgia. Only employees of the "IngurGES" HPP (hydroelectric power plant) and representatives of international organizations will be allowed to use the humanitarian corridor to cross the border from Georgia to Abkhazia.

Investigators found that a man suspected of murdering an Azerbaijani student was a member of an organization engaged in cultivating hatred towards people of different nationalities. The investigators suggest that the suspect made a deliberate decision to murder a non-Russian.

The Makhachkala City Mayoralty promises to consider opening markets if salesmen confirm their readiness to comply with sanitary requirements. Entrepreneurs claim they lost their income in the absence of support from the local authorities.

On June 21, eight out of fifty Russian doctors sent to help their colleagues in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic arrived in Armenia. Over the day, 320 cases of the coronavirus infection were detected in the country. 13 coronavirus-infected patients died.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 26 times within 24 hours, including from machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; Azerbaijani people's protest action in the Dagestani village of Kullar; resonance after the death of a Chechen woman, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 15-21, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of June 15-21, 2020, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no casualties or victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On the anniversary of the Tbilisi events in June 2019, Sergey Gavrilov, a Russian State Duma MP, has claimed apologies from Georgian authorities. The Gavrilov's claim is aimed primarily at the domestic Russian users, by means of this statement, he tries to save his face, the Georgian politicians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In his comment to the article by Dagestani journalists about the disputed land plots on the Dagestani-Chechen border, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, expressed his willingness to prove the incorrectness of the data presented in the article.