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Everything is in order with Khalimat Taramova, says Russia’s Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova. She refers to the information from the Chechen Prosecutor’s Office and the administration of the leader of the republic.

Ilham Aliev associates multiple mine explosion casualties among civilians and military personnel after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh with the fact that Baku did not have maps of minefields. Without the maps, the process of demining may last 10 years, the President of Azerbaijan notes.

For the second year in a row, the authorities of Saudi Arabia restrict pilgrimages from other countries to Muslim shrines in Mecca and Medina in connection with the pandemic. According to religious leaders of Northern Caucasus, there are holy places in the republics of Northern Caucasus, for example, graves of prominent Islamic figures, and visiting those places are a good deed, but that will not replace a pilgrimage to Mecca, Medina, and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A hideout with artillery shells, mines and a grenade launcher has been liquidated in the vicinity of Grozny region.

By signing the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations, the heads of Azerbaijan and Turkey have fixed the results of the Karabakh war and formalized the legal basis for the countries' military alliance, analysts believe. The document guarantees the security of Azerbaijan and the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh under its control, Elkhan Shakhinoglu, the head of the "Atlas" Research Centre, has stated.

The Georgian authorities must take efficient action to release Zaza Gakheladze, convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, his relatives have stated, threatening otherwise to hold protests.

The Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan have signed the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations, which includes an agreement on mutual military help and stipulates the creation of the Zangezur transport corridor to Nakhichevan.

Ruslan Zakriev, a Chechen science fiction writer, went to court with a demand to recognize himself as a co-author of the film "Avatar". His legal representatives intent to attract the film director, James Cameron, to the case consideration and demand to recover 10 million roubles (USD 15,000) in Zakriev's favour as compensation for moral harm.

In Chechnya, there is a trend towards using media to suppress the resonance around high-profile cases of human rights violations, human rights defenders have stated in their comments on the story with Khalimat Taramova, who was abducted from the shelter in Dagestan.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found unlawful the Kabardino-Balkarian Supreme Court’s refusal to Madina Bapinaeva in giving out the body of her son, who was shot dead by law enforcers. However, the ECtHR did not oblige the Russian authorities to pay any compensation for moral damage.

A Georgian political party called on the authorities to ban the “March of Dignity” announced by the LGBT community and threatened its activists with contraction.

In Azerbaijan, lawyers have established a league for work with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to help low-income citizens bring their complaints to the Court. Residents of Azerbaijan need such an organization, especially after the abolition of the practice of representation of citizens in courts, human rights defender Elshan Khasanov emphasizes.

The Kremlin is aware of reports about Khalimat Taramova, who fled domestic violence, but does not attribute such cases to its competence, says Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for the Russian President.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found Russian authorities guilty in the case of kidnapping Aslanbek Saidakhmadov, a resident of Grozny, by law enforcers and ordered them to pay his mother compensation in the amount of 60,000 euros.

A Makhachkala court has sent for a new consideration the case against the activist, Diana Dibirova, who in April was detained before the action in support of Alexei Navalny and fined for petty hooliganism.

The member-countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have supported the Georgia's right to join the Alliance. The preconditions for this are national reforms and the enforcement of NATO's standards and principles.

At a medical institution, several serious illnesses were diagnosed in Elchin Gasanzade, an Azerbaijani journalist, who is serving his sentence.

In the spring of 2019, the police prevented a clash of law enforcers with protesters in Ingushetia, which would inevitably lead to bloodshed, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Magomed Shamilov, the chairman of the Dagestan police trade union, have noted.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg gave 10 days to Russian authorities to answer the questions on the case of Khalimat Taramova, a Chechen girl, who, according to human rights defenders, was forcibly taken to Chechnya from the Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence. The publicity helped to avoid a tragedy, but now the girl's fate is in her relatives' hands, human rights defenders believe.

The court has found the participants in the unsanctioned march on July 15, 2020, in Baku, including four members of the presidium of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), guilty of violating the public order, using force against policemen and causing minor bodily harm.