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Law enforcers knew in advance the potential places of unrests during the LGBT action held in Tbilisi on July 5, but they wouldn’t prevent them. Georgian authorities used radicals to deal with their opponents; and the attacks themselves were organized to disrupt Euro-Atlantic integration, the Georgian politicians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the shelling delivered by Armenian units in the responsibility zone of the Russian peacemakers in Nagorno-Karabakh. A soldier of the Azerbaijani Army was wounded.

On July 6, actions were held in central Tbilisi in support of victims of the July 5 unrests, and of LGBT opponents. A police cordon was set up between them, but radicals attacked the participants in a silent rally in support of the suffered journalists. Several people were injured.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensation to a resident of Grozny, Rizvan Abdulkhanov, who became disabled due to the wounds received during law enforcers’ special operation.

An Armenian soldier and two Azerbaijani soldiers were wounded as a result of a shootout at the border in the Gegarkunik District, the spokesperson for the Armenian General Headquarters reported. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan denied the information about the incident.

Ramzan Kadyrov submitted documents to participate in the September election for the leader of Chechnya, the Chechen Election Commission reports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced a decision that the Russian authorities ineffectively investigated the killing of Aslan Yemkuzhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, by law enforcers and the version that he was tortured before his death. The Strasbourg Court obliged the Russian authorities to pay 70,000 euros of compensation to a mother of the killed resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.

A shootout took place at the border with Iran, when five violators tried to enter the territory of Azerbaijan. One of them, a citizen of Azerbaijan, was wounded and died on the way to hospital, while four others fled back to Iran.

Azerbaijani investigators accused Armenian citizens Gevorg Sudjyan and David Davtyan of espionage, and the criminal case was transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Makharbi Tosuev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of an armed riot, acts of banditry, an attempt on policemen, and a murder, and increased his term of imprisonment to 25 years.

Thirteen Georgian oppositional parties have issued a joint appeal, in which they criticized the Georgian authorities, reproaching them for encouraging mass violence during the riots in Tbilisi; they have also stated the intentional police’s inaction.

After the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, sappers have demined 3326 hectares and defused almost 22,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, as well as unexploded ordnances, the Azerbaijani National Anti-Mine Agency (ANAMA) has informed.

Neither local residents nor tourists wear medical masks; they fail to observe social distance and behave as if there is no pandemic, vacationers from Russia told the "Caucasian Knot".

In central Tbilisi, at the action held by opponents of the “March of Dignity”, 55 persons suffered, including 53 journalists, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed. Human rights defenders have accused the police of inaction.

Oksana Pushkina, a Russian State Duma MP, who has expressed a desire to meet Khalimat Taramova, who had been abducted from the Makhachkala shelter, should talk to the girl in private, since she will not tell about her true situation in the presence of her relatives, activists of the “Marem” initiative group assert.

The alleged militant from the Astrakhan Region shot dead by law enforcers had planned to commit attacks with firearms and cold weapons, while the five persons liquidated in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Kabardino-Balkaria had prepared to blow up Muslim buildings, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) has informed.

Following the broadcasts of Georgian TV Channels, attacks on journalists who were covering the action of opponents of the “March of Dignity” in the centre of Tbilisi were broadcast live, but the police did not detain the attackers.

Human rights defenders interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” note that there are examples in different regions of Northern Caucasus, when law enforcers kidnapped people and then reported their killing during detention and those examples speak in favour of the version of a staged special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria.

The inaction of the police and the Georgian government amid the aggression of the opponents to the “March of Dignity” forced the LGBT community to abandon the action scheduled for today, its organizers report.

In Tbilisi, at least five journalists and cameramen were injured during attacks of activists protesting against the gay pride parade.