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The medics of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), infected with COVID-19, have to seek their colleagues' attention and a chance to undergo examination; treatment is expensive; and they have to buy medicines for their own money.

Collective Friday namazes (prayers) in Chechnya were held with a small number of believers; the number of them in mosques was limited due to the safe distance rule. Law enforcers monitored the observance of sanitary standards by believers, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

Policemen have detained four lawyers and rights defenders, who demanded from the Armenian Parliament to consider cancellation of the ban on mass protests. 31 other activists were detained at the police station, where the earlier protesters had been taken.

Today, instead of mass celebrations, the regions of Southern Russia have hosted a number of actions dedicated to doctors and volunteers who helped fight the coronavirus infection.

Muslim countries have no widespread practice of helping needy bridegrooms with the purchase of ransom for a bride used in Chechnya, note Caucasus experts.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan called the decision to build a highway between the southern regions of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh a violation of international law.

The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan called on the international community not to issue visas to officials of the country involved in human rights violations and use of violence against citizens. In Berlin, Azerbaijani political emigrants conducted a rally with the same demand in front of the residence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Instagram users claim there is no extremism in the actions of Aitakhadji Khalimov, a resident of Kaliningrad, who posted videos about the war in Chechnya. Users of the social network note that the state-run TV Channel also showed similar videos.

At their session, MPs have demanded to sort out the situation with the incident in the Tskhinvali colony, since this is the second emergency there within ten months; instead they used physical force and insults, MPs have stated.

The monitoring conducted by activists in districts and cities of Dagestan has shown that the situation with coronavirus infection and community-acquired pneumonia has stabilized.

Doctors have confirmed coronavirus in a resident of Stepanakert after he had attended a funeral in the Artashen community of the Hadrut District. After that, the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) decided to close four district communities on quarantine and introduce restrictions on funerals.

The court of the Swedish city of Gävle has arrested in absentia another person whom investigators treat as participant in the attack on the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

The coronavirus death toll in Armenia has reached 245, while the number of cases has reached 14,669. The rapid COVID-19 spread is caused by the negligent attitude of local residents to the observance of anti-epidemiological rules, Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, and Suren Papikyan, the Minister of Territorial Management, have stated.

Yusup Kutaev, a native of Chechnya, has been kept in a Moscow police station for 24 hours, where advocates are not allowed to visit him and another detainee, the advocates have reported. According to their version, law enforcers failed to register the men's presence at the station and refused to explain the reasons for the detention.

In the near future, two new hospitals with 300 beds for coronavirus patients will soon be launched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). Instagram users treat the fact as an indication of the worsened epidemiological situation.

A court imposed a fine on a resident of the Gudermes District, who posted on his social network page a song of well-known bard Timur Mutsuraev. The fined resident of Chechnya claimed that he was not aware of the inclusion of the bard's song in the list of extremist materials.

The "Roszdravnadzor" (Federal Public Health Supervisory Agency) has declined to answer the question of whether female circumcision is acceptable, claims the Centre for the Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence. The NGO demands to close a clinic in Ingushetia after complaints that a nine-year-old girl had been subjected to female genital mutilation surgery.

More than 30 people took part in a protest rally in the centre of Yerevan after a private company had attempted to demolish a historic building near the territory of the former "Firdusi" market.

According to Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, it was the Dagestani side who proposed to define the borders. Magomed Daudov associates the initiative with territorial claims of Dagestan against Chechnya.

108 names are included in the updated list of political prisoners, compiled by a working group consisting of Azerbaijani human rights defenders, activists of NGOs, and lawyers.