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The "Prosperous Armenia" oppositional parliamentary faction has filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court (CC), in which it challenged the earlier amendments to the Constitution, which provide for the dismissal of the CC head.

Anna Dargan, a Stavropol journalist and blogger, whose home was searched within the case of spreading fakes about the situation with coronavirus in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), did not write any opposition and human rights texts, the Union of Journalists has stated.

Ingushetia has opened a total of 137 polling stations to vote on constitutional amendments. The voting is held daily starting from June 25.

The ban on leaving the country for Intigam Aliev has to do with authorities' attempt to prevent criticism from reputable international podiums, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

Three participants in the conflict with shooting in North Ossetia were hospitalized; one of the wounded persons died on the spot. All the conflict participants have been detained, the police have informed.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the villages of the Prokhladnensky District lack drinking water and have problems of emergency houses, solo picketers assert. Officials from the district administration failed to go out to the protesters, Anastasia Emelyanova, a blogger, has stated.

Law enforcers have detained at least nine residents of the village of Psyzh in the Abazin District by planting weapons and extremist literature on them, their relatives assert. They could not achieve response from law enforcement bosses about the detainees' whereabouts.

The fourth neurosurgery to Ogtai Gyulyalyev, an Azerbaijani rights defender, in an Istanbul clinic was successful, but he is still in coma, his wife Firuza Gyulyalyeva has informed.

In Chechnya, homosexual women face risk not only of being placed to secret prisons or being subjected to alleged treatment with psychotropic substances, but also of falling victim to "honour killings," the British "Sky News" TV Channel reports in its material.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office of Karachay-Cherkessia has announced that a veteran of World War II died of COVID-19 because he had been discharged from a hospital instead of treatment. The question concerning an institution of criminal prosecution against doctors is under consideration.

In Sochi, a persistent campaign for the approval of amendments to the Constitution of Russia has been launched, while there are actually no control and monitoring of the voting procedure, claim residents of the city interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

After the self-isolation regime had been imposed in Georgia, LGBT people found themselves in distress: many of them lost their jobs, lost their housing, and fell victim to domestic violence, rights defenders claim.

Medical officers from the Karachayevsk Central District Hospital reported to Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist from Moscow, about the lack of medical personnel at the hospital, the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the absence of incentive payments. After the interview, the doctors were subjected to pressure.

His party colleagues have associated the detention of Firdovsi Amrakhov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), with his criticism of the authorities.

On the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims, human rights defenders have noted the invariably difficult situation in Northern Caucasus as regards the readiness of local authorities to combat torture.

The community of Russian-speaking Jews in France has condemned the country's Interior Minister for his hostile remarks about immigrants from Chechnya after the riots in Dijon.

At his meeting with the relatives of the deceased woman from Gudermes, Ramzan Kadyrov has urged women to withstand beatings by their husbands. Such a tolerant attitude to domestic violence is unacceptable and contradicts the public morality of Northern Caucasus, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Azerbaijani authorities began actively helping their citizens, who are waiting for their departure to homeland in the tent camp set up near the Dagestani village of Kullar. The living conditions, the nutrition and medical care in the camp have improved.

The June 24 sharp and short-term surge in the number of coronavirus survivors in Dagestani official statistics has to do with authorities' desire to present the parade and vote for amendments to the Constitution as justified, social network users have suggested.

The 700 residents of Abkhazia, who have returned from Georgia through the humanitarian corridor, were tested for coronavirus and sent to a two-week-long quarantine. Only those who have residence permits or 2016-model passports were allowed to return home.