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After the introduction of new requirements for checking in hotels, sanatoriums and boarding houses of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), tourists have cancelled about 30 percent of reservations for July and more than 70 percent for August, the Association of Russian Tour Operators has informed.

More than 500 medical workers have signed a letter demanding to change the freedom restraint measure of Professor Armen Charchyan, the director of the "Izmirlyan" Medical Centre, who is accused of pressing voters before the early parliamentary elections in Armenia. Charchyan himself treats his criminal case as political persecution, said his advocate.

Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia have taken the last places in the vaccinating rating against coronavirus by regions of Russia published on June 25. In these republics, less than 5% of the population has been vaccinated.

Giorgi Gakhariya, a Former Prime Minister of Georgia, has topped the rating of politicians' popularity according to the poll conducted by the "Edison Research". Mr Gakhariya has won the popularity among voters thanks to his reputation as a good crisis manager, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Friends of a man detained for an administrative offense came to a police station in the Georgian village of Ureki. They insulted and attacked policemen. The offenders face up to seven years of imprisonment for attacking law enforcers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia reports today.

In North Ossetia, tourists should be handed booklets with a story about local customs and bans, and in case of violations, a public apology must be sought, Instagram users note while commenting on a video with an affectionate dance in mountains of the republic.

Residents of the Makhachkala village of Leninkent are provided with regular supply of water, the district administration reports. The water supply has been interrupted because of a failure of a pump, which will be replaced in the coming days, officials report.

In the European countries, the police break into houses of Chechen refugees at night, take them away to some unknown destination, deprive them of medical aid, and ignore court decisions. Thus, the police actions echo the methods used by the Russian special services in Northern Caucasus, human rights defenders claim.

In a village of Western Georgia, two residents were detained in a case on a rape of a minor. Villagers set on fire the house of the suspects, despite attempts by the police to prevent the arson.

Kutaisi city authorities have reduced the duration of stay in the local shelter built for socially vulnerable residents down to two years. Tenants of the shelter have stated that this period is not enough for them to improve their social status, and complained about the eviction threat.

There is no water supply in the dwelling settlement of Leninkent in Dagestan for about ten days due to a pump breakdown, local residents said during their gathering held on June 24. The participants threatened authorities to hold a protest action if the problem is not resolved in a short time.

The assessment criteria that the High Council of Justice has applied in the selection of Supreme Court Judges are incomprehensible and raise questions, while the discussion of candidates was not public, the Coalition of Human Rights NGOs of Georgia has pointed out.

On June 24, 115 people departed home from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) deployed in the Kaitag District in the territory of the "Ogonyok" children's camp for those Azerbaijanis who are waiting for the chance to leave for their homeland. The procedure for compiling lists for the departure is unknown, the camp residents have noted.

Since morning on July 5, opponents of the gay parade in Tbilisi intend to take control over Rustaveli Avenue in order to prevent the "March of Dignity" from being held. The organizers of the action have called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to react to violence threats.

The events like the World Congress of Chechen Nations are usually held at the expense of the state budget and for the sake of a specific leader, said Ruslan Kutaev, President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations. Ali Bazhaev spoke at the congress on behalf of Chechens of France, but Chechens in Europe know neither him nor the organization he represents, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has pointed out.

Dagestani law enforcers forced a not-guilty person to confess to selling drugs and demanded a million roubles from him, investigators suggest. A criminal case has been sent to court.

In the town of Dagestanskie Ogni, local residents complain about experiencing regular electricity and water supply cuts. In connection with the problems with housing and communal services, a group of activists sent a notification to the authorities about a next protest action.

Today, the administration of the Grozny’s “Akhmat” football club (FC) has announced that it has filed a complaint against Google to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and to the United Nations for blocking the “Akhmat” FC YouTube channel due to US sanctions.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has cancelled the decision of a lower instance court that upheld the investigators’ refusal to institute a criminal case on a complaint about torture filed by Grozny theatre actor Timur Debishev. The transfer of the case for reconsideration does not allow appealing to a court of cassation outside the republic and to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), notes a lawyer of the “Committee against Torture” (CaT).

The Azerbaijan’s authorities did not recognize the problem with political prisoners, described in the PACE resolution in January 2020, and the problem remains unresolved, the PACE declares in its new report.