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Ramzan Kadyrov is healthy, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, said after reports of hospitalization of the head of the region with suspicion of COVID-19. However, Adam Delimkhanov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, said that he was praying for Kadyrov's recovery.

Five of the six alleged militants killed in Dagestan have been identified. The wounded participant in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) is in grave condition, the TASS has informed.

Azerbaijan has suffered losses in a shootout while attempting a diversionary invasion, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

Fuad Ismailov, an activist, has been arrested for 60 days in Azerbaijan. He is charged with drug use. This is his second arrest within the last three months on the same charge. NGOs believe that he is being persecuted for political reasons.

Residents of Grozny can get permits for shopping and moving around the city only for pre-determined hours; and every day they can go out for only two hours. Some Grozny residents have such permitted hours not coinciding with the working hours of trading enterprises; and on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr, there are long lines in stores, and people fail to buy groceries within the prescribed hours.

The banquet participants on the occasion of the inauguration of President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have violated the self-isolation regime and should be fined, the "Union of Informed Citizens" has stated.

The count of coronavirus infection cases in Southern Caucasus, including the unrecognized republics, reached 10,598. The number of COVID-19 deaths in the region has increased to 133 due to recent four deaths in Armenia and two in Azerbaijan.

The authorities have acted inconsistently by reducing the permissible number of meeting participants amid the weakening of quarantine, the Yerevan Press Club and the Helsinki Assembly of Armenia have noted. The authorities have no reason to fear large-scale protests, political analysts believe.

Six militants were killed in a special operation in the Khasavyurt District, when they rendered resistance while law enforcers tried to detain them, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

A special counterterrorist operation (CTO), during which four suspected militants were cordoned off in a private house in the Khasavyurt District, was preceded by a shootout in the Tabasaran District on April 16.

Akhmed Dudaev, the assistant to the leader of Chechnya, responded to reports about alleged hospitalization of Ramzan Kadyrov because of the suspected coronavirus infection. However, Akhmed Dudaev did not refute the rumours. Some social network users considered the above fact an alarming sign and demanded to make public the information about the health state of the Chechen leader.

In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies promised to enhance patrolling on the streets during the celebrations of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, and local residents decided to celebrate the holiday at home.

The international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) urged the Azerbaijani authorities to set free opposition politician Tofig Yagublu. The defence reported that the complaints about the arrest had been dismissed.

At the entrance to Grozny, policemen neglect the personal protective equipment against the coronavirus infection, although ordinary residents are obliged to wear masks, Instagram users express their indignation.

Believers may start paying obligatory donations in the context of the end of Ramadan and alms for the missed days of fasting, as part of the permissive control system in force in the republic due to the epidemic, the Mufti of Chechnya has stated.

Amid the epidemic, believers must observe the self-isolation regime, including on Muslim holidays, the North-Caucasian Muftis and influential Imams believe.

Zurab Makiev, a Russian Duma MP, has sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, in the interests of Georgy Guev, a native of North Ossetia, accused of financing terrorism. The MP asks the Prosecutor general to take the case under his personal control and facilitate its objective consideration. The "Beslan Mothers" Association has of made a similar appeal.

Circassian activists have held five actions in Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Khatai Province. Given the country's quarantine regime, Turkish authorities and organizers themselves limited the number of participants; and in some cities policemen obstructed activists.

During the inauguration of Araik Arutyunyan, the new President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), 19 oppositionists held a rally in Shushi expressing disagreement with the election outcomes.

The appeal of Arsen Kanokov, the Senator from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), on the eve of the Remembrance and Sorrow Day for the victims of the Caucasian War is conceptual, but it is unlikely to help in solving the "Circassian issue", since it has been ignored by federal authorities in recent years, historians believe.