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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.

Dagestani believers have expressed the opinion that the ban introduced in the region on worshiping with the presence of people is unjustified, since most of the residents have had coronavirus, while another part has been vaccinated.

On June 23, in the village of Ergneti, oppositionists, activists and relatives of Zaza Gakheladze, who was convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, held a protest action demanding from Georgian authorities to take efficient actions to release him.

The Armenian party discussed the deployment of Russian peacemakers on the border with Azerbaijan even before the parliamentary elections in Armenia, but the main negotiations on this issue are underway between Moscow and Baku, analysts in Yerevan believe.

In the village of Bobokvati, protesters set up a tent and organized round-the-clock on duty post in the land plot, which authorities plan to sell to investors through an auction. These lands were illegally confiscated from local residents, activists assert.

The conditional prison terms awarded to 12 members of the last group that took part in the rally in support of the army, held in July 2020 in Baku, have to do with the systematic persecution of the opposition, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has stated.

The carte blanche issued by Putin to Kadyrov for taking part in the upcoming September elections has confirmed that Kadyrov's May statement about his readiness not to run for a new term was nothing more than ritual, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

One man was killed, and two others wounded in an Ingush village in a shootout that followed after a land dispute, said an informed source.

Vladimir Putin voiced a proposal to Ramzan Kadyrov to participate in the autumn election in order to continue to lead Chechnya. Earlier, the Ramzan Kadyrov has declared he is not willing to be elected for a new term as the leader of Chechnya if even “a few percent of the population” are against his candidacy.

A video posted on a social media site depicted how two cyclists were attacked by Cossacks on a pedestrian street in Stavropol, and one of them tried to throw a bicycle at a teenager.

A complaint has been filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of 70 relatives of those killed in a plane crash near Sochi. The affected people consider the closure of the criminal case and the refusal to pay compensation unreasonable, a plaintiffs’ lawyer reports today.

The Patriarchate of Georgia appealed to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a request to help in the release of Zaza Gakheladze and asked the convict’s father not to visit the territory of South Ossetia.

Armenian authorities have offered to place Russian peacemakers on the problem border sections in the Gegarkunik Region, Artak Davtyan, the Chief of the Armenian General Staff, has reported about negotiations.

The softening of anti-covid restrictions will not save catering establishments, since people have almost stopped visiting restaurants due to financial problems; and there is no hope for tourists, professionals of Georgia's restaurant business believe.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has failed to award compensation to relatives of Radik Bapinaev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was shot dead by law enforcers, which reduces the significance of its decision, human rights defenders assert.

The court in Essentuki has extended the detention term of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, for other three months, despite the arguments of the defence about his poor health and his father's old age.

None of the defendants entered into physical confrontation with "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) agents, a prosecution witness in the case of Ingush activists has declared.

Elizaveta, Salman Tepsurkaev's wife, has received the third refusal to recognize her as a victim. The decision of Chechen investigators will be appealed against in court, said Leisan Mannapova, a lawyer with the Committee against Torture (CaT).

Chechnya is not among the regions with mandatory coronavirus vaccination, because local authorities prefer various forms of pressure on residents, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, believe.

According to a complaint sent to the European Court, the threats that Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*, and his colleagues received in 2019, resulted from the Ramzan Kadyrov’s call to punish authors of gossips about Chechnya.