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Oppositional MPs were not invited to the conference on judicial reform to avoid discussing undesirable issues, including the issue of political prisoners, protesters in Yerevan have stated.

A video of a fight in a Makhachkala shopping centre caused disputes on Telegram. Some users supported the man who reproached a guy for a public kiss, while others considered the reaction to the behaviour of the young couple to be too harsh.

When commenting on the demand of Azerbaijani activist Talekh Bagirzade to hold law enforcers accountable for offensive remarks insulting God, lawyers have said it is unlikely to result in a serious punishment for law enforcers.

Today, Georgian Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya has stated that Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili should use her right to pardon Nika Gvaramiya, the former general director of the “Rustavi-2” TV Channel, as the court made an unreasonable decision.

A female guide was dismissed from a museum-reserve in Derbent after a public apology for the unceremonious mention of an archaeologist to tourists. The museum administration and State Duma member Khizri Abakarov also apologized to the archaeologist. Khizri Abakarov demanded a stricter punishment for the female guide.

The Azerbaijani state-owned media refrain from interviewing persons whose activities are treated as separatist in Russia; however, the RIA "Novosti" has posted an interview with Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister, Artak Beglaryan, while the Karabakh territory is treated by Azeri authorities as illegally occupied, the Azerbaijani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

The Kirov District Court of Irkutsk has found legitimate the refusal to initiate a torture case of Khumaid Khaidaev, a native of Chechnya, who was tortured in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) after a prisoners' riot in a local colony. This court refusal will be appealed against, human rights defenders have stated.

The video that was examined at the trial failed to show the face of the man who threw chairs at the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) fighters; moreover, he did it with his right hand, which contradicts the indictment, Bagaudin Myakiev, an activist, has stated.

The opposition in Armenia has no revolutionary potential, and due to its links with the previous and current authorities, it failed to achieve broad public support, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On June 7, Salekh Magamadov was convoyed from Grozny to the city of Vladimir, where he will serve his sentence; and Ismail Isaev was sent to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar, the "SK SOS" Crisis Group has informed.

Ali Aliev, the convicted leader of the Azeri oppositional "Party of Citizens and Development" (PCD), has gone on a hunger strike in protest against his indictment.

Since March 4, a total of 112 administrative cases have been opened in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) on discrediting the Russian Army. Chechnya is among the three regions where not a single protocol was drawn up under this article; it follows from the data of the "OVD-Info"* human rights project.

In the morning, the police came to search a house of the parents of Ingush journalist Isabella Evloeva, suspected of disseminating fakes about the Russian armed forces. After the search, the journalist could not contact her parents, as they do not answer calls to their mobile phones, Isabella Evloeva says.

The Baku Court on Grave Crimes sentenced religious activist Fagan Mamedov to six years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. Fagan Mamedov called the criminal case fabricated. His advocate stated that the activist’s guilt had not been proven.

The State Duma’s Commission on Regulations has released a draft resolution on the appointment of Chechen MP Adam Delimkhanov as the first deputy of the State Duma’s Committee on Security and Combating Corruption.

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.