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None of the residents of the Chechen village of Samashki, who were beaten up for quarantine violations, appeared in the video circulated by pro-government publics, showing refutations of the beatings. After the incident, officials came from Grozny to Samashki and pressed the participants of the video with apologies, said the villagers.

Law enforcers are checking permits in stores and at bus stops, copy violators' personal data and threaten to fine them, Grozny residents inform.

There are not enough places in the tent camp accommodating the citizens of Azerbaijan, who are waiting for the chance to get home across the border; besides, it is hot and impossible to take a shower, the forced guests are complaining.

By being among the first to lift the ban on weddings, Chechen authorities want to somehow compensate for the psychological fatigue of local residents from quarantine, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.

In the Gergebil District of Dagestan, the total number of patients with coronavirus and community-acquired pneumonia made 407 persons, but not all pneumonia patients have undergone a laboratory study on COVID-19, a district hospital employee has stated.

Investigators suggest that Vadim Cheldiev is responsible for riots in Vladikavkaz. The defendant has been charged with disorderly conduct.

Today, the court has sentenced Liliya Saidova to five years of imprisonment for transferring money to his brother in Turkey. Liliya Saidova pleads not guilty of financing terrorism, and the court's decision will be challenged, the defence has announced.

The leader of Chechnya has announced his willingness to forgive opponents who left Russia if they recognize the fallacy of their views. The Ramzan Kadyrov's call was voiced after a series of resonant killings of critics of the Chechen leader in Europe.

Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that former militants and their relatives are not oppressed in Chechnya. As an example, he has mentioned some of his subordinates.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

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.