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The court has sentenced Ruslan Amirov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was accused of violating the public order and causing harm to the health of a state official, to four years of conditional imprisonment with a three-year probationary period. Amirov has treated the verdict as politically motivated.

Law enforcers used force to enter the shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala, where Khalimat Taramova was hiding; it follows from the video posted on the Telegram.

Law enforcers broke into an apartment shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala in civilian clothes, without presenting any warrants, the human rights group “Marem” claims.

The condition for the appearance of a Turkish army base in Azerbaijan is the consultations of Ilham Aliev with Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan notes.

Lasha Khereteli was handed over to the Georgian side after serving a year in a Tskhinvali prison in a border violation case.

The administration of an orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda will monitor the situation in the institution next week together with Georgia’s Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe, the director of the orphan boarding school, announces.

In total, during the autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, 275 people are listed as missing from the Armenian side, the Investigating Committee of Armenia reports.

Chechen authorities will have to impose severe restrictions related to coronavirus in case the republic shows low vaccination rates, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

The body of Djasarat Khatemkhanov, who went missing on June 7, was found on June 16 in the Agdam District. He died after triggering an anti-personnel mine.

The exchange of 15 prisoners of war (POWs) for minefield maps has hardly brought Nikol Pashinyan any political benefits ahead of the elections, as it has weakened Armenia's negotiating positions, analysts in Yerevan believe. The minefield maps of the territories now under the control of Baku are no longer needed by Armenia, but the safety of local residents depends on them, said Telman Abilov, an Azerbaijani expert.

The boarding school for orphans named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda will be transformed into three small boarding facilities, which will keep children who do not want to leave the institution, said the manager of the boarding school, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe. Authorities refuse to take decisive measures in relation to the boarding house, as wouldn't like to spoil relations with the church, which during election campaigns supports the ruling party, analysts believe.

Of the 40 educators, 19 will go on working at the boarding school, Bishop Yakov, the new head of the boarding school for orphans in Ninotsminda, has explained. He is ready to meet the Ombudsperson, but refused to let inspectors into the boarding school, explaining this by the children's potential psychological trauma.

A head of the region should pay no attention to adolescents' offensive posts that appear in social networks, the readers of the Chechen Instagram have pointed out in connection with another public apology to Ramzan Kadyrov. Their opponents, including the plenipotentiary of the head of Chechnya, have called for punishing Kadyrov's offenders with community works.

The declaration, signed by Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan in Shusha, demonstrates the increased role of Turkey in the region, while there are no benefits for Yerevan from the corridor suggested by Aliev and Erdogan, Armenian experts believe.

Marat Shiraev, a resident of Makhachkala, who has been checked by policemen for several years, was only able to get a written response through the court from the police division that he was not under the so-called "prophylactic registration".

Akhmed Barakhoev and Barakh Chemurziev did not call for violence at the rally in Magas and tried to calm the protesters down, Kureish Sapraliev, the head of the Public Security Department of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has stated.

Everything is in order with Khalimat Taramova, says Russia’s Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova. She refers to the information from the Chechen Prosecutor’s Office and the administration of the leader of the republic.

Ilham Aliev associates multiple mine explosion casualties among civilians and military personnel after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh with the fact that Baku did not have maps of minefields. Without the maps, the process of demining may last 10 years, the President of Azerbaijan notes.

For the second year in a row, the authorities of Saudi Arabia restrict pilgrimages from other countries to Muslim shrines in Mecca and Medina in connection with the pandemic. According to religious leaders of Northern Caucasus, there are holy places in the republics of Northern Caucasus, for example, graves of prominent Islamic figures, and visiting those places are a good deed, but that will not replace a pilgrimage to Mecca, Medina, and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A hideout with artillery shells, mines and a grenade launcher has been liquidated in the vicinity of Grozny region.