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The court refused to take into account the statements of five residents of the Agul District that their confessions were obtained under duress, the advocates have stated. The defence of the four convicts will appeal against the verdict, while the advocate of the acquitted Ali Aliev intends to achieve his rehabilitation.

Residents of neighbouring countries can come to Georgia for treatment and rest through the land borders that opened on June 1. Hotels are warning guests to comply with coronavirus restrictions.

In Yerevan, the police detained participant of a protest action held in front of the Armenian government building. The opposition demanded the termination of the powers of Nikol Pashinyan as the chair of the government.

The law enforcement bodies treat a young man from the Derbent District of Dagestan as an organizer of the financing of terrorism. According to investigators, the suspect is caught in plans to join militants in Syria.

Khabib Nurmagomedov belatedly and impartially reacted to the statement of Ramzan Kadyrov for fear of getting into conflict with the politician, some social media users suggest. Khabib Nurmagomedov is a good fighter, and he understands the difference between fighting in a ring and fighting in the political arena, other social media users argue in their comments.

According to the released information on income and property for 2020, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, has become the richest regional leader in Russia.

The Armenian Ministry of Public Health (MPH) will check the information that the bodies of soldiers killed in Nagorno-Karabakh were stored in bags in the basement of the forensic medical examination centre. This was reported by Anait Avanesyan, the acting head of the MPH, who apologized to casualties' relatives.

The Martuni Mayoralty has received, as humanitarian aid, some electrical equipment which made it possible to solve the problem of power outages; and medical first aid kits have been delivered to local schools and kindergartens, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has requested from Azerbaijani authorities to inform, by June 4, about the fate of six Armenian soldiers taken prisoner of war (POWs) in Gegarkunik Region.

Magomed-Bashir Ozdoev, a participant in a rally in Magas, has been sentenced to eight months in prison. With account of the time he spent at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the term of his house arrest, he should be back at large in 10 days.

The Southern District Military Court has received materials of the case of Turpal-Ali Dzeitov, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz"* and recruiting relatives into the ranks of militants.

Dagestani journalists have held three solo pickets in Makhachkala, condemning the practice of unjustified arrests and treating the persecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, as a part of a campaign to put pressure on the editorial policy of the independent edition.

Members of the Azerbaijani parliament have adopted in the third reading the bill “On the city of Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan”. The bill envisages the creation of a state city reserve in Shusha.

In Moscow, a court has refused to pronounce a sentence to Chechen native Said-Mukhammad Djumaev and resumed the investigation to clarify the circumstances of the case, the defence reports.

During the week of May 24-30, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus 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.

Today, members of the families of soldiers, missing in action during the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh, have blocked Geratsi Street in Yerevan. The protestors claim discrepancies in the official information concerning the number of the dead bodies found. The relatives of the missing soldiers were met by officers from the scientific and practical centre of forensic medicine, and after the meeting, the traffic along the street was restored.

The Investigating Committee for North Ossetia has once again refused to initiate a criminal case against the law enforcer, whom Rostislav Melnichenko, a resident of Mozdok, accuses of beating. Earlier, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia found a similar decision to be illegal.

Reports of an armed conflict on the border with Armenia have nothing to do with reality, the Azerbaijani State Frontier Service (ASFS) has stated.

Military incidents on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan; re-arrest of Ingush activist Akhmed Pogorov; FSB reports about the detention of suspected terrorists in the Stavropol Territory; deadline for accepting applications for participation in the parliamentary elections in Armenia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 24-30, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Almost 170 applications had submitted for participation in the ethno-contest "Goryanka of the Year" ("Goryanka" means a highlander woman, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"). The winner was Fatima Magomedova from the village of Ratlub, Shamil District. The organizers and participants have noted the value of such contests for preserving the traditions of Dagestani nations and the interest of young people in them.