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Six large families of internally displaced persons (IDPs, or forced migrants) have moved into new houses built in the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh; they were provided with furniture, cows and poultry. In total, over 1000 families received housing. They plan to cultivate the land and raise livestock.

During the time that Nikol Pashinyan is in power in Armenia, the issue of international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's independence has disappeared from the country's political agenda; the living standards have gone down; and corruption is flourishing, the members of the oppositional "Resistance" movement have stated.

Alexander Nemov, an advocate, was again denied a visit to his client, Salekh Magamadov, a native of Chechnya, convicted of assisting a militant. The advocate was told that Magamadov was not in the colony.

The information that Armenian militaries shelled the positions of their Azeri counterparts' positions stationed in the Kelbadjar District is untrue, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Russian officials have offered to include Vadim Krasikov, convicted in Germany for assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former Chechen field commander, in negotiations with Americans on prisoners' exchange.

Georgian authorities have shifted the responsibility for the fate Kristine Takalandze, who was arrested in Abkhazia for espionage, to special services, without trying to use any political mechanisms, human rights defenders have stated.

The leadership of Abkhazia has ignored the people's gathering announced in Sukhumi against the transfer of the Pitsunda state dacha to Russia. In this regard, the hunger strikers put forward a demand for the resignation of the government and announced the refusal to drink water.

Azerbaijani militaries have shelled a border village located in the Martuni District of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In Baku, a court sentenced a defendant accused of murdering Avaz Shikhmamedov (Khafizli), a reporter and public figure, to 9.5 years of imprisonment.

Human rights activists believe that the verdict to activist Pyunkhan Kerimli, who was expelled from Germany, is intended to punish him for criticizing the authorities of Azerbaijan and is aimed at intimidating other political migrants abroad.

Samir Ashurov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), needed the help of medical officers in an IVS (temporary detention facility), where he had been transferred from a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In Chechnya, the police detained a Grozny man who confessed to being homosexual, human rights defender Igor Kochetkov reported and called on the Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an investigation.

The natives of Chechnya who discredit the Chechen nation by their behaviour will be returned to the republic and forced to mop floors. This was stated by Ramzan Kadyrov after the incident with Arthur Ilyaskhanov, who made insulting remarks on behalf of Chechens in a Nizhnevartovsk store.

Georgian authorities should prevent the transfer by Abkhazia of the state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, and also make more efforts to return the republic into the country, oppositionists stated at their protest held in Tbilisi.

All the legal possibilities to achieve the rehabilitation of Vali Bagautdinov, who was killed by law enforcers in November 2014, have been exhausted in Russia; the only hope is for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Gulnara Bagautdinova, the casualty's mother, has stated.

The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has held the so-called "prophylactic" conversations with several Azerbaijani journalists, who disseminated information prior to it was released by the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 552 fighters from Southern Russia have been officially confirmed as perished, including 378 natives of the North-Caucasian and 174 natives of the Southern Federal District (SFD and NCFD).

After four months of calmness, shelling of the Karabakh village of Krasny Bazar resumed; the house of a local resident was damaged, the villagers have reported.

Agvan Ovsepyan, who was arrested on charges of bribery and money laundering, has been taken to hospital in Armenia, his secretary has informed. The health condition of the former Public Prosecutor General (PPG) is grave.

A native of a Chechen village was repeatedly sent to Ukraine against his will, without signing his letter of resignation, and a man earlier convicted for involvement in the armed underground was offered by law enforcers to whitewash himself in their eyes by participating in the special military operation, relatives of contract soldiers say.