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There are electricity and water supplies in Berdzor; shops are open, while issues of further restoration of infrastructure should be resolved after the status of the city becomes clear, the Mayor said.

The customers of the murder of the politician, Boris Nemtsov, have been found, but the case should be "given another brush," Russian President, Vladimir Putin, believes.

French law enforcers have released five persons detained under the murder case of teacher Samuel Paty, without charging them.

Another Ramzan Kadyrov's daughter has received a high post. Khadizhat Kadyrova has been appointed to head the Grozny City Department of Preschool Education.

Today, two explosive devices have been activated in the village of Uchkeken, and law enforcers were injured in the second explosion, investigators report.

Chechnya with 2894 coronavirus-infected patients came out on top in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) in terms of the number of active patients. The Stavropol Territory still leads among the NCFD regions both in terms of the daily increase in infections and in the number of new deaths from COVID-19.

An attack on law enforcers in Karachay-Cherkessia was preceded by a female suicide bomber attack on a checkpoint in Chechnya in November 2018.

Rashid Maisigov, sentenced for drug possession and accused of calling for separatism, is being prosecuted for political reasons, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has claimed today. The human rights defenders demand to release the Ingush journalist.

Six persons were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in the village of Uchkeken in Karachay-Cherkessia. The attacker was killed in the explosion.

Ramzan Kadyrov has treated the new sanctions imposed by the USA and United Kingdom in connection with human rights violations in Chechnya as absurd, and assured that these restrictions would not affect the situation in Chechnya.

The trilateral agreement on the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh has set up preconditions for the restoration of Armenian-Turkish diplomatic relations, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Power (electricity) outages in Stepanakert occur every day, the townspeople have complained. The power supply system in Nagorno-Karabakh works in the emergency mode, a source from a power company has explained.

Favourable terms of oil and gas supplies are the Turkey's main economic bonuses for supporting Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict. However, Turkey's political benefits are no less weighty than economic ones, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

British authorities have imposed sanctions on Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, two high-ranking officials of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the "Terek" special forces unit, whom London considers to be involved in the persecution of the LGBT community.

It will make sense to resume the work of schools and a kindergarten for the children of Berdzor, Agavno and Sus only after local residents' return to these dwelling settlements, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Education has stated.

The US authorities have included five individuals and six legal entities associated with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, into the Magnitsky list, namely, Vakhit Usmaev, the deputy chairman of the Chechen government, the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation and two sports clubs named "Akhmat".

Murtazali Gasanguseinov did not achieve in court the cancellation of the fourth investigators' refusal to prosecute the law enforcer, who reported about the killing of two Dagestani shepherds.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia has lifted the restrictions on the movement in the centre of Tskhinvali, where a protest action continues for the seventh day with the demand to punish the persons responsible for the death of detained Inal Djabiev.

Today, Ilham Aliev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have watched a parade to celebrate the victory in the Patriotic War, timed to coincide with the end of the military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish military personnel have also taken part in the victory parade. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which played an important role during the battles, and captured military equipment of the armies of Karabakh and Armenia have been demonstrated during the parade.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are experiencing problems because of the shortage of infrastructure facilities. Among other problems, the people are cut off from the electricity supply and Internet access. Internet users criticize the regional authorities for inaction amid the humanitarian crisis.