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Protesters found the resignation of Irakli Kobakhidze, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament that followed after the dispersal of the June 2 action, to be inadequate. The protesters' demands to dismiss the Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhariya, change in the parliamentary electoral system, release all the detained activists and punish the involved law enforcers remain unfulfilled.

Armenian activists have joined the international solidarity action in support of Khachaturyan sisters, accused of killing their father. The public should not remain indifferent to manifestations of domestic violence, the participants of the action in Yerevan have stated.

The incident in Grozny and the shootout in Dagestan are not directly interrelated, but evidence to some militants' revitalization in Northern Caucasus, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In Tbilisi, the protesters demanding resignation of Giorgi Gakhariya, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), formed a live chain around the building of the parliament.

Residents of Ingushetia have welcomed the news of the possible resignation of the head of the republic with fireworks and car horns.

Martin Kochesoko, an activist, has stated at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) that law enforcers beat him up and planted drugs on him, forcing him to confess to drug dealing in the presence of witnesses.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov has asked President Putin to dismiss him from his post of the head of Ingushetia before term.

Alkhazur Barzaev, a resident of Chechnya, has publicly repudiated his son, who was killed in the attack on policemen in Grozny. The casualty's relatives have also damned him on the air of the Chechen television.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party, has announced the initiative to switchover to the proportional system of parliamentary elections in 2020.

A criminal case has been instituted on abuse of power during the dispersal of the rally in front of the parliament building, and the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has promised to punish policemen even for minor offenses.

Two law enforcers were injured in an attack on the police in the Leninsky District of Grozny, the police reported. The "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, claimed that a local resident killed in a shootout was its militant.

Today, in Tbilisi, several activists have set up tents in Rustaveli Avenue and announced the beginning of their hunger strike.

Today, the mothers of the detained Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov began a protest rally in Derbent, demanding to release their sons, a Kurbanov's female relative has informed.

During the week from June 17 to June 23, 2019, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, at least five people died, whereas no information was received about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The tourists from Moscow interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" told that they felt safe in Georgia and mourned about aggravated Russian-Georgian relations.

On June 23, 3900 people took part in the rally "Society Demands Justice", held in Moscow as part of the All-Russian action. The rally declared support for the arrested Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and the Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko.

The attack on a DPS (road-and-patrol service) unit, committed in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in which one policeman and two attackers were killed, was the second since the start of 2019 in the republic.

Films with translation into Russian have been stopped in Georgian movie theatres; all films are screened in Georgian or English, the Tbilisi Cinema Association has announced. The restart of screening films in Russian is still open.

Two supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State (IS), banned in Russia by the court, were killed in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) has reported.