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The Georgian authorities must take efficient action to release Zaza Gakheladze, convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, his relatives have stated, threatening otherwise to hold protests.

The Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan have signed the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations, which includes an agreement on mutual military help and stipulates the creation of the Zangezur transport corridor to Nakhichevan.

Ruslan Zakriev, a Chechen science fiction writer, went to court with a demand to recognize himself as a co-author of the film "Avatar". His legal representatives intent to attract the film director, James Cameron, to the case consideration and demand to recover 10 million roubles (USD 15,000) in Zakriev's favour as compensation for moral harm.

In Chechnya, there is a trend towards using media to suppress the resonance around high-profile cases of human rights violations, human rights defenders have stated in their comments on the story with Khalimat Taramova, who was abducted from the shelter in Dagestan.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found unlawful the Kabardino-Balkarian Supreme Court’s refusal to Madina Bapinaeva in giving out the body of her son, who was shot dead by law enforcers. However, the ECtHR did not oblige the Russian authorities to pay any compensation for moral damage.

A Georgian political party called on the authorities to ban the “March of Dignity” announced by the LGBT community and threatened its activists with contraction.

In Azerbaijan, lawyers have established a league for work with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to help low-income citizens bring their complaints to the Court. Residents of Azerbaijan need such an organization, especially after the abolition of the practice of representation of citizens in courts, human rights defender Elshan Khasanov emphasizes.

The Kremlin is aware of reports about Khalimat Taramova, who fled domestic violence, but does not attribute such cases to its competence, says Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for the Russian President.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found Russian authorities guilty in the case of kidnapping Aslanbek Saidakhmadov, a resident of Grozny, by law enforcers and ordered them to pay his mother compensation in the amount of 60,000 euros.

A Makhachkala court has sent for a new consideration the case against the activist, Diana Dibirova, who in April was detained before the action in support of Alexei Navalny and fined for petty hooliganism.

The member-countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have supported the Georgia's right to join the Alliance. The preconditions for this are national reforms and the enforcement of NATO's standards and principles.

At a medical institution, several serious illnesses were diagnosed in Elchin Gasanzade, an Azerbaijani journalist, who is serving his sentence.

In the spring of 2019, the police prevented a clash of law enforcers with protesters in Ingushetia, which would inevitably lead to bloodshed, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Magomed Shamilov, the chairman of the Dagestan police trade union, have noted.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg gave 10 days to Russian authorities to answer the questions on the case of Khalimat Taramova, a Chechen girl, who, according to human rights defenders, was forcibly taken to Chechnya from the Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence. The publicity helped to avoid a tragedy, but now the girl's fate is in her relatives' hands, human rights defenders believe.

The court has found the participants in the unsanctioned march on July 15, 2020, in Baku, including four members of the presidium of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), guilty of violating the public order, using force against policemen and causing minor bodily harm.

In their comments under a video report released by the “Grozny” TV Channel, social media users noted that Khalimat Taramova behaved unnaturally during the video and could hardly answer the questions sincerely. Internet users doubt the young woman’s statement about the observance of her rights in Chechnya.

The Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch holds the position of the director of the orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda after human rights defenders had criticized Bishop Spiridon Abuladze. The orphan boarding school still accommodates 23 children, and the institution will not close for at least another year, the Georgia’s Patriarchate announces.

In Makhachkala, activists held solo pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an observer of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft). The Dagestani journalist’s arrest lasts for two years already.

During the week of June 7-13, 2021, at least one person was injured in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No killed 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.

During the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2904 people were killed from the Azerbaijani side, and 10 soldiers are listed as missing in action, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.