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The "Roskomnadzor" has specified to which sections of the article by Elena Milashina in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper on the situation with the coronavirus in Chechnya access should be restricted, thus, giving the right to open most of the material for readers.

Residents of South Ossetia are not using the name "Stalinir" to denote Tskhinvali; and the decree on the temporary renaming of the city is populist and designed for Stalin's supporters, journalists and a political analyst assert.

A court has extended until June 12 the arrest of Giorgi Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who was accused of financing terrorism.

Chechen women take advantage of the fact that local law enforcers do not detain them for violation of the quarantine regime, and now men from their families will be responsible for their quarantine violations, states Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) granted a complaint filed by journalist Khadija Ismayilova against the Azerbaijani authorities. The ECtHR obliged Azerbaijan to pay the journalist 6000 euros of compensation.

Authorities should provide the doctors who treat coronavirus patients with protective garments, Salim Khalitov, a former head of the radiation diagnostics ward at the orthopaedic and trauma centre, has declared at a protest action in Makhachkala.

Zaur Ganbarov, a correspondent of the Azerbaijani news website, has stated that he was beaten up by two people, including an employee of the social protection fund.

Some communities in Ingushetia are practicing the prohibited practice of female genital mutilation, while the authorities are not serious enough about this problem, human rights defenders have stated. The mutilating women's surgeries are inadmissible, residents of the republic believe.

Ramzan Kadyrov has threatened to send authors of video clips about detentions of quarantine violators in Chechnya to public works, because he fears protests in his republic, said Ruslan Kutaev, a researcher of the Caucasus.

The Iftar (de-fasting), held by Ramzan Kadyrov with doctors, has demonstrated that the head of Chechnya is unwilling to change his lifestyle because of the restrictions imposed because of coronavirus, human rights defenders believe. A lawyer did not rule out the presence of an administrative offense in Kadyrov's actions.

In Chechnya, gas services have demanded from local residents to pay their bills on time, despite the strict quarantine regime. In their turn, locals who are forced to stay out of work because of coronavirus, complain about absence of incomes.

Residents of Dagestan, who found themselves short of money because of the forced self-isolation, most often ask to help them with food and housing, members of Dagestani charitable foundations report.

Khikmet Agaev, an activist of the movement "Muslim Unity", filed an appeal against his arrest. During the consideration of his appeal, the activist denied the accusations of violating the quarantine regime and disobeying the police. Khikmet Agaev also claimed being tortured. However, the court dismissed his appeal.

In Chechnya, Magomed Daudov, the head of the local operational headquarters, has announced imposing a mandatory "mask regime." He has threatened to fine violators. Earlier, the Chechen Minister for Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced that masks do not protect people from the coronavirus infection, Instagram users and residents of the republic recall.

A family from the Nadterechny District should not have asked for help, since they could have killed their poultry, claims Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

Within the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for about 25 times, including from machine guns and sniper rifles, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

A Grozny resident and a resident of the Sernovodsk District of Chechnya left for Syria, where they joined the "Islamic State" (IS) a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, and participated in hostilities, investigators assert.

The Minnesota State Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Minnesota is the tenth US state to recognize the NKR independence.

The Azerbaijanis who have arrived at the border in the Derbent District had to live in the street for several days, said one of the citizens of Azerbaijan who is waiting to return to his homeland. Dagestani officials and sponsors have incurred the cost of accommodating about 600 Azerbaijanis in hotels and resorts until the border is reopened.

The authorities of the Russian Federation have put forward claims against the article by Elena Milashina published in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper on the situation with the coronavirus in Chechnya, stating that the information therein about the closure of hospitals was false. Elena has received an award in Berlin for reporting on the situation with coronavirus in Chechnya and intends to prove her rightness.