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The forced abduction of a girl from the crisis apartment in Makhachkala can undermine confidence of domestic violence victims in safety of shelters, Nailya Birarova, a social psychologist, is afraid.

Khalimat Taramova, a resident of Chechnya, refused to leave the apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala with her father; and then she and her girl friend were persuaded to get into a car, promising to take them to a safe place. However, both residents of the shelter were brought to the building of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), where Taramova was given to her relatives, the journalist, Svetlana Anokhina, has informed.

Several former pupils of the Saint Nino boarding school in Ninotsminda have reported that after they gave testimonies to investigators, they received threats and were forced to leave their educational establishments.

The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala has found no violations of the law in the actions of volunteers of the "Marem" project. The aim of the special operation of attacking the shelter was Khalimat Taramova, said Olga Gnezdilova, a lawyer of the "Legal Initiative"* project said.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the arrest and long custody in Volgograd of the activist, Igor Nagavkin, to be illegal. Russian authorities should pay him a compensation of 2700 euros.

Khalimat Taramova, a daughter of one of the Ramzan Kadyrov’s close associates, had to flee Chechnya to save herself from domestic violence to which she was subjected because of her sexual orientation. In Chechnya, the young woman faces murder for “washing dirty linen of the family in public,” an activist from the “Russian LGBT Network” suggests.

Armenian soldiers opened fire from small arms at positions in the Kelbadjar District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Lawyer Patimat Nuradinova reported about filing complaints to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about beating by the police of the people detained at a shelter apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala and the illegal keeping of the detainees at a law enforcement body.

During a search, the police did not find any illegal items in a house of Adam Maloroev, the imam of the Sredniye Achaluki village. Law enforcers also questioned imam’s relatives, their fellow villagers said.

Chechen native Khalimat Taramova and her female friend from Perm were kidnapped and taken to Chechnya after a police raid to a Makhachkala apartment for victims of domestic violence, the “Russian LGBT Network” reported.

A minor resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has asked Ramzan Kadyrov to forgive him for the video with insults, says the post in the Chechen Instagram public.

Near the cities of Varanda and Djrakan (Djebrail), Karabakh rescuers have found remains of four soldiers, thus, bringing the total number of bodies and remains found to 1567, the Nagorno-Karabakh emergency service has informed.

Among the inhabitants of the crisis apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala, whom law enforcers took to the police division in Makhachkala, there was no Chechen woman, Khalimat Taramova, who ran away from her relatives because of beatings; her fate remains unknown.

The Volgograd Regional Court has refused to satisfy the complaint lodged by the activist, Timofei Andronov, who asked to cancel his fine of 20,000 roubles imposed for his participation in the action in support of Alexei Navalny on April 21, 2021.

Azerbaijani positions came under fire on the Armenian border, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated. Armenian militaries were forced to open fire after being shelled while trying to stop engineering works at the border section in Gegarkunik Region, the Armenian MoD has stated in its turn.

Inspectors of the traffic police (known as the GIBDD) of Chechnya have not only chastised the offenders of traffic rules, but also spread a video of the "prophylactic briefing" in social networks, thus, humiliating them, Instagram users have pointed out.

A preliminary inquiry is over in relation to 26 figurants of the criminal case against Azerbaijani militaries and civilians, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) reported on June 10 in a joint statement with the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan.

The dispute around the border between Chechnya and Dagestan will be won by the side supported by the federal centre, and any full-fledged negotiations will unlikely take place between the republics. This opinion was voiced by Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, and political analyst Ali Magomadov.

Medical officers diagnosed journalist Andrei Afanasiev with a broken nose. He was beaten in the Amur Region after launching an investigation with regard to managers of the local branch of the “Akhmat” fight club. Andrei Afanasiev said that attackers explained their actions as revenge for his activities.

Magomed Gadaev, who was deported from France, is sentenced to a short term of imprisonment, but unfairly, and the actual conditions in a penal colony-settlement on the territory of Chechnya may turn out to be worse than in a high-security penal colony, human rights defenders note.