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On June 6, Abbas Guseinov and Djabbar Djabbarov, members of the “Muslim Unity” movement, and journalist Polad Aslanov, who are imprisoned in Azerbaijan, have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with Talekh Bagirzade.

In Yerevan, the opposition is holding protest marches to the building of the EU representative office. Activists have called on the authorities of the EU countries to respond to the use of excessive force by the Armenian police against protestors.

In Armenia, public organizations are helping refugees from Ukraine to receive basic necessities, find housing and employment. According to activists of these organizations, state and international structures are rendering insufficient assistance to the forced migrants or internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Passers-by were actively interested in pickets in support of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev; they asked the picketers about his fate, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, has informed.

The Georgian government will become a co-owner of the "Borjomi" Company, after which the problems of company's employees will be solved, Irakli Garibashvili, the country's Prime Minister, has announced.

Talekh Bagirzade, the convicted leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM), has gone on a hunger strike, demanding to punish the law enforcers, who, according to supporters of the movement, had blasphemed while torturing believers. Law enforcement bodies reject the allegations of torture and blasphemy.

Opposition leaders have urged the audience of the rally held in France Square in Yerevan to go to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and demand that police officers who used violence against activists at the recent protests be held accountable.

A group of volunteers who came to Chechnya from different Russian regions have been sent to Ukraine to take part in the special military operation, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed, adding that the fighters have been equipped at the expense of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund.

The Union "For Freedom of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners" has compiled an updated list of 100 activists persecuted by the authorities. President Aliev's decision to pardon 213 prisoners has failed to solve the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders have stated.

Russian Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova supported the adoption of a draft law proposed by the Chechen parliament to ban the mention in the media and the Internet of information about the nationality and religion of people involved in crimes.

Amid the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Ingushetia, local residents have pointed out that problems with housing for forced migrants, unemployment, and restoration of enterprises have remained unresolved in the republic since the 1990s.

Two men attacked Khatuna Samnidze, the leader of the Republican Party, in the centre of Tbilisi. The police detained suspects.

During the week of May 30-June 5, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

About 200 people held a protest action in Rustavi, where they demanded from enterprises to reduce the amount of harmful emissions into the atmosphere and complained about the deterioration in the health of local residents because of polluted air.

Persecution of pacifists in Southern Russia; protests in Armenia with a large number of victims; suspension of preparations for a referendum on the integration of South Ossetia with Russia; strike of employees at the “Borjomi” plants in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 30-June 5, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Volunteer Alan Dudaev, who perished in Ukraine, was buried in South Ossetia. Together with him, Oleg Alborov has perished, with whom Dudaev had taken part in hostilities as members of a volunteer detachment since 2014.

A military court in Chechnya has sentenced Ali Musaev, an employee of the military commandant's office, to ten days of arrest because of his refusal to go on a business trip "to the area where special missions are being performed."

Today, about 400 striking workers of the "Borjomi" mineral water bottling factories have blocked all the entrances to and exits from the factories, after which their work stopped.

On June 5, in Tbilisi, in Republic Square, an action was held under the motto "Together to Europe". The aim of the rally was to confirm the irreversible desire of the Georgian society for the European Union (EU), the organizers of the rally have explained.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) asserts that the conscript serviceman has committed suicide.