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Azerbaijani authorities are using the restrictions imposed due to the pandemic in order to prosecute their opponents, the Amnesty International (AI) stated on May 27, demanding to release the arrested activists.

On June 1, 2020, Sochi is launching the planned resort season, Mikael Nersesyan, the press service head of the Sochi city administration, has announced. The Sochi residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have strongly opposed the start of the resort season.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has invited Russian experts to come and make sure that no hazardous infections are being developed in the Richard Lugar Laboratory.

The Chechen TV has posted a video with a local resident's gratitude to Kadyrov Foundation. Social network users doubt the scale of the Foundation's charity and complained about the deficit of livelihood.

The COVID-19 tests of the participants in the funeral of a woman from the Dagestani village of Shushanovka, who died from coronavirus, turned out to be negative; however, 30 villagers are sick with pneumonia here, the village head has informed. Many villagers live only on incomes from their agriculture and cannot sell their crops because of the quarantine, he has explained.

Speaking live on air, Ramzan Kadyrov showed that he had no catheter fixed and stated that he was healthy, but was undergoing a pre-planned medical examination in a Moscow hospital.

The court sentenced Ragim Yarmetov to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a case on a militant grouping in Kaspiysk. Ragim Yarmetov pleaded not guilty.

The Georgian authorities allowed the restaurants and cafes with outdoor venues to resume their operation starting from June 1. Owners of indoor restaurants and cafes requested the authorities to allocate them land plots for summer cafes.

Today, the South-Ossetian Minister of Foreign Affairs has announced that requests from the USA to allow monitoring flights near the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are unfounded. The Minister of South Ossetia agreed with the refusal of the Russian side.

The authorities of Chechnya had to reconsider their attitude to the coronavirus infection, Ramzan Kadyrov admitted during his first public speech after a pause. On the video, users of the social network noticed an object similar to a medical catheter on an arm of the Chechen leader.

Law enforcers should identify and hold accountable the social network user, who threatens to kill an employee of the Krasnoyarsk TV company (TVK) for her reposting an article about authorities' claims to the work of journalists, the association of editions named "Syndicate-100" has stated today in its open appeal.

Russian experts need access to all the buildings of the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia to verify the version of the works of US militaries on deadly disease agents, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stated on May 26.

Both the doctor who performed the surgery and the clinic's bosses may respond for circumcising the girl in Ingushetia, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In Chechnya, people are waiting for lifting the ban on leaving home to be able to earn money; many have no money for holding weddings, local residents and Instagram users said in their comments to the statement of the Chechen Mufti about the permit to hold weddings according to the Sharia.

By pardoning Ramil Safarov, found guilty of killing Gurgen Margaryan, an officer of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Azerbaijani authorities have violated the articles on the right to life and the prohibition of discrimination, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

On May 25, several official Chechen mass media outlets published an open letter by relatives of former militants, who demanded to remove the article on adaptation problems of families of former militants by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya from the website of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan blamed the population for the aggravating situation with the spread of the coronavirus infection. The country's health system will fail in the nearest future, virologist Ovakim Zakaryan warns.

Five days after reports about his illness, the leader of Chechnya appeared at a meeting of the operational headquarters to combat the coronavirus infection. The last time Ramzan Kadyrov appeared in public 11 days ago, on May 15, also at a meeting of the operational headquarters.

The people's reaction to an incident in the Samashki village proves that residents of Chechnya express dissatisfaction with the violation of their rights, despite the threat of coercion to public apologies, experts believe.

In Adygea, the head of the rural settlement in the Krasnogvardeisky District allowed a funeral ceremony with participation of crowds of people, and that fact provoked the outbreak of COVID-19. This follows from a version of investigators announced on May 25. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on negligence.