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The restrictions imposed in Chechnya because of the coronavirus pandemic led to a decline in sales volumes and provoked financial difficulties, entrepreneurs complain.

Law enforcers called pickets of advocates in support of their colleagues from Kabardino-Balkaria a "hidden form of a mass event." Protesters insist that they held solo pickets. They intend to challenge the accusations up to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

After a severe hurricane in Chechnya, 23 people received traumas; the roofs of 33 houses were damaged; of them, 26 have already been repaired, the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has informed.

Over the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia were shelled for 25 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

A court in Baku has upheld the arrest of Niyameddin Akhmedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), within the case of financing terrorism. Akhmedov declared his innocence; and his father has stated that he is not allowed to visit and call his son, contained in jail.

In recent years, North-Caucasian regions have faced great political and civil activeness, but in Russia it is followed by criminal prosecutions, human rights defenders believe. Apart from Moscow, scaled protests were observed only in Northern Caucasus, the "Amnesty International" (AI) has noted.

From June 6 to the morning of June 8, residents of Baku and other large cities will be banned from leaving their homes, the Azerbaijani government has announced.

By marking borders in the Gumbetovsky District, Chechnya is trying to push Dagestani authorities to finalize the demarcation works, journalists believe. It is time for Dagestani authorities to clarify the territorial issue in order to avoid provocations, they assert.

Dagestan law enforcers have unreasonably used weapons to detain a teenager, and forced him to apologize, Instagram users have suggested. The detainee had to apologize for publicly insulting law enforcers, other commentators have objected.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in the Karabakh conflict zone and at the border with Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation sent 30 tons of food products to one of the richest countries in the Middle East, while there are many people in need in Chechnya, users of the social network note. This is a response gesture to the humanitarian aid with personal protective equipment and tests for coronavirus sent to Chechnya and Dagestan, the Chechen authorities explain.

While commenting on the statement of Ramzan Kadyrov about the unprecedented support of the quarantine measures by residents of Chechnya, Denis Volkov has emphasized that a poll conducted in social networks cannot be considered relevant. The population is loyal to the measures of self-isolation, but 98 percent support is out of the question, experts claim.

The Armenian authorities forbade local residents to leave their homes without medical masks because of the spread of the coronavirus infection.

Law enforcers' reports about frequented counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Ingushetia reflect the real situation, and the growth of militants' activeness has to do with the spread of the ideology of radicalism in Russia, experts have suggested.

The inaction of the commissions, which should complete the demarcation of the Chechen-Dagestani border, increases the risk of republics' conflicts, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has stated. Instagram users have supported his proposal to close the border issue.

Doctors have again extended the treatment period of Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), in a psychiatric clinic. His defence has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the persecution of the activist.

The authorities of Dagestan have lifted the restriction on car traffic between Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, and within the capital. Apologizing videos can educate the people, who aggressively express their anger about restrictions, the police assert.

Six billion roubles donated to the Kadyrov Foundation is a colossal amount; the investment thereof into the republic's economy should have an obvious result, Orientalists have noted. In his turn, Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, has suggested that the amount of donations was increased artificially in order to ascribe a number of charity actions to the Foundation.

Doctors diagnosed with cancer Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger and oppositionist, and almost 76,800 US dollars are to be raised for his medical treatment, his brother reports. Human rights defenders supported the announced fundraising. They associated the Mekhman Guseinov's health state with his arrests and imprisonment.

The court sentenced a defendant accused of killing a same-sex couple of pensioners to 12 years of imprisonment. According to the court, the crime was provoked by a domestic conflict. Fellow villagers of the killed pensioners believe that homophobia was the motive of the crime, and the "Russian LGBT Network" emphasized that Russian courts did not take into account such versions.