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More than 30 people took part in a protest rally in the centre of Yerevan after a private company had attempted to demolish a historic building near the territory of the former "Firdusi" market.

According to Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, it was the Dagestani side who proposed to define the borders. Magomed Daudov associates the initiative with territorial claims of Dagestan against Chechnya.

108 names are included in the updated list of political prisoners, compiled by a working group consisting of Azerbaijani human rights defenders, activists of NGOs, and lawyers.

The coronavirus epidemic in Armenia led to drop of incomes, layoffs and closures of enterprises, residents of the republic have reported.

Elvin Mamedov and Arif Babaev, activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) have complained that employers forbade them to appear at work. The oppositionists believe that they were fired because of their political activities.

The Malokarachay District Hospital is facing deficit of medics; they are not paid their salaries and incentive bonuses; while local residents are denied medical care, free medicines and tests, said the authors of a collective appeal sent to the leadership of Russia and the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

Workers of the Dzidziguri and Mindeli Mines in the city of Tkibuli have demanded to repair the lifting equipment after some miners got stuck in the elevator. Bosses of the company that manages the mines have accused workers of violating safety requirements.

Azerbaijani authorities have promised to accept, on June 15, another group of their citizens from among those, who are waiting in Dagestan for crossing the border, but they failed to announce the particular list of people, the residents of tent camps have stated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has decided to extend by two months the custody of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, all accused of financing terrorism.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to pay the compensations to Batyr Pshibiev and Aslan Berov. Each complainant is to get 13,000 euros. Over 10 years of the investigation in the case on the attack on Nalchik, the defendants were not allowed to get a single long visit of their relatives.

A spontaneous gathering after a conflict in the village of Manas forced policemen to apologize, while a father of the Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers has been trying to draw the authorities' attention to the killing of his sons for more than three years. This conclusion was made by YouTube users who watched a video on the Ruslan Kurbanov's channel on YouTube.

Today, Giyas Ibragimov, a member of the movement "Nida", detained during a protest rally criticizing the police, has returned home after an administrative protocol was drawn up against him. The activist claims that law enforcers unreasonably accused him of disorderly conduct and stated that he allegedly attempted to commit suicide.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the repeated detentions of Zufar Achilov at protest actions in Gelendzhik as the violation of freedom of assembly and obliged the Russian authorities to pay the activist 12,700 euros in compensation, advocate Anita Soboleva has reported today.

In Baku, policemen have detained Giyas Ibragimov, an activist, who on June 9 held a protest action on the roof of his house against harsh detentions of quarantine violators. Law enforcers have prevented Ibragimov from committing suicide, the city police have explained.

The demarcation restart of the Chechen-Dagestani border may lead to conflicts in Northern Caucasus, the experts on the region interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have warned.

Adam Delimkhanov, a Russian State Duma MP, plans to meet Sergey Makhinya, the Mayor of the city of Lyantor, who had complained about a local businessman, said the representative of the head of Chechnya in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra.

The Baku residents detained after a protest against policemen's raids to detain quarantine violators have been exposed to administrative arrests. One of them claims that he was beaten up after detention.

Otar Margiev has been fired from the post of the head of the administration for the execution of sentences. The dismissal occurred amid inquiry into the incident in the Tskhinvali colony and the conflict in parliament.

Shaa Turlaev, the former security chief of Aslan Maskhadov, President of Ichkeria, who was wanted on suspicion of involvement in high-profile killings and attempts, claims to have contributed to the return of hundreds of participants in the Chechen War to their homeland.

The compliance with the sanitary standards in the opening mosques depends on the social responsibility of believers, note Islamic experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Imams will monitor the situation to ensure that believers wear masks and maintain social distancing, the Muftiate of Ingushetia reports.