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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.

In the Dagestani village of Manas, local residents organized a gathering after the police had detained several villagers. In their comments left under a video of the detention disseminated on a social network, users criticized law enforcers who used force against an elderly man.

In the Stavropol Territory, the court extended the detention of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva until June 25. Meanwhile, human rights defenders, including Nikolai Rybakov, the leader of the "Yabloko" Party, Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Svetlana Gannushkina and Oleg Orlov, members of the "Memorial", requested the court to release Zarifa Sautieva.

Today, 130 Azerbaijani citizens, who were staying in Dagestan and expecting a permission to return to their homeland, have crossed the border. Their fellow countrymen, who still stay in a tent camp near the village of Kullar, have stopped the mass hunger strike.

The "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) has made public an interview with Shaa Turlaev, who was put on the federal wanted list on suspicion of involvement in resonant murders and assassination attempts.

Receiving money from the Kadyrov Foundation to buy out brides is quite an appropriate financial support – some local residents have supported the authorities' idea. However, their opponents assert that such help will put the newlyweds in an awkward position.

By their actions, the policemen, who have detained 11 Baku residents during raids against quarantine violators, only stir up hatred for the authorities, and the country risks becoming a police state, activists of the Azerbaijani opposition told the "Caucasian Knot".

Medical institutions of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have not enough beds for coronavirus infected patients; due to the shortage of beds in specialized hospitals, patients are hospitalized "through the back door," and medications are in short supply, medics have complained.

The citizens of Azerbaijani, who stay in Dagestan, have been waiting for the opportunity to return home for more than a month.

The acute conflict involving Chechens in Yugra will damage Kadyrov's positions and give arguments to his opponents, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The reason for initiating criminal cases against three residents of Dagestan was the spread by them in the WhatsApp of information about spraying coronavirus from the air in Dagestan, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has informed.

The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has spread footage with excuses of a man, who was detained after a resonant video about his ill-treatment of a Red Book eagle caught in a trap. Instagram users were outraged by the absence of detainee's apology.

Vadim Cheldiev, charged in a case on a rally in Vladikavkaz, left in custody until August 18 by the court's decision.

The Chechen authorities have promised to allocate more than 10 million roubles in total to bridegrooms who are short of money to pay a traditional ransom for a bride.