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June 13, 2020 17:17

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of village in conflict zone

  During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 21 times, including from machine guns and sniper rifles, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

June 13, 2020 12:42

• Azerbaijani resident detained in Armenian border village

  In the village of Areguni in the Gegarkunik District, employees of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia detained an Azerbaijani, who claimed that he worked as a shepherd in the border region of Azerbaijan and decided to leave the country, the village head has reported.

June 13, 2020 12:25

• Residents of Chechnya complain about forced subbotniks amid epidemic

  In Chechnya, employees of budgetary organizations are forced to participate in subbotniks organized by the authorities despite the self-isolation regime. Local report that they are forced to work at 35-degree heat, in medical masks and gloves.

June 13, 2020 12:14

• KChR doctors infected with COVID-19 remain without help

  The medics of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), infected with COVID-19, have to seek their colleagues' attention and a chance to undergo examination; treatment is expensive; and they have to buy medicines for their own money.

June 13, 2020 08:41

• Friday namazes held in Chechnya under law enforcers' control

  Collective Friday namazes (prayers) in Chechnya were held with a small number of believers; the number of them in mosques was limited due to the safe distance rule. Law enforcers monitored the observance of sanitary standards by believers, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

June 13, 2020 08:28

• 35 opponents of ban on protests detained in Yerevan

  Policemen have detained four lawyers and rights defenders, who demanded from the Armenian Parliament to consider cancellation of the ban on mass protests. 31 other activists were detained at the police station, where the earlier protesters had been taken.

June 12, 2020 23:36

• Caucasus hosts actions in honour of doctors instead of celebrations on Day of Russia

  Today, instead of mass celebrations, the regions of Southern Russia have hosted a number of actions dedicated to doctors and volunteers who helped fight the coronavirus infection.

June 12, 2020 23:19

• Caucasus experts treat Chechen practice of help to pay ransoms for brides as unique

  Muslim countries have no widespread practice of helping needy bridegrooms with the purchase of ransom for a bride used in Chechnya, note Caucasus experts.

June 12, 2020 23:01

• EP Rapporteurs condemn construction of road between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan called the decision to build a highway between the southern regions of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh a violation of international law.

June 12, 2020 18:09

• Azerbaijani opposition calls on West to impose sanctions against country's officials

  The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan called on the international community not to issue visas to officials of the country involved in human rights violations and use of violence against citizens. In Berlin, Azerbaijani political emigrants conducted a rally with the same demand in front of the residence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

June 12, 2020 17:53

• Instagram users support man sentenced for reposting videos about battles in Chechnya

  Instagram users claim there is no extremism in the actions of Aitakhadji Khalimov, a resident of Kaliningrad, who posted videos about the war in Chechnya. Users of the social network note that the state-run TV Channel also showed similar videos.

June 12, 2020 13:39

• MPs voice their version of conflict in South-Ossetian Parliament

  At their session, MPs have demanded to sort out the situation with the incident in the Tskhinvali colony, since this is the second emergency there within ten months; instead they used physical force and insults, MPs have stated.

June 12, 2020 13:22

• Dagestani activists point to break in epidemic situation

  The monitoring conducted by activists in districts and cities of Dagestan has shown that the situation with coronavirus infection and community-acquired pneumonia has stabilized.

June 12, 2020 11:21

• Four NKR communities isolated due to coronavirus

  Doctors have confirmed coronavirus in a resident of Stepanakert after he had attended a funeral in the Artashen community of the Hadrut District. After that, the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) decided to close four district communities on quarantine and introduce restrictions on funerals.

June 12, 2020 11:09

• Third suspect of attempt on Tumso arrested in absentia

  The court of the Swedish city of Gävle has arrested in absentia another person whom investigators treat as participant in the attack on the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

June 12, 2020 10:57

• Armenian authorities blame citizens for coronavirus spread

  The coronavirus death toll in Armenia has reached 245, while the number of cases has reached 14,669. The rapid COVID-19 spread is caused by the negligent attitude of local residents to the observance of anti-epidemiological rules, Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, and Suren Papikyan, the Minister of Territorial Management, have stated.

June 12, 2020 08:31

• Advocates claim no-admission to Chechen native detained in Moscow

  Yusup Kutaev, a native of Chechnya, has been kept in a Moscow police station for 24 hours, where advocates are not allowed to visit him and another detainee, the advocates have reported. According to their version, law enforcers failed to register the men's presence at the station and refused to explain the reasons for the detention.

June 12, 2020 08:18

• Social network users worry about opening new hospitals in KBR

  In the near future, two new hospitals with 300 beds for coronavirus patients will soon be launched in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). Instagram users treat the fact as an indication of the worsened epidemiological situation.

June 11, 2020 21:14

• Chechen resident fined for disseminating Timur Mutsuraev's song

  A court imposed a fine on a resident of the Gudermes District, who posted on his social network page a song of well-known bard Timur Mutsuraev. The fined resident of Chechnya claimed that he was not aware of the inclusion of the bard's song in the list of extremist materials.

June 11, 2020 21:00

• Human rights defenders criticize formality in response of "Roszdravnadzor" on female circumcision in Ingushetia

  The "Roszdravnadzor" (Federal Public Health Supervisory Agency) has declined to answer the question of whether female circumcision is acceptable, claims the Centre for the Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence. The NGO demands to close a clinic in Ingushetia after complaints that a nine-year-old girl had been subjected to female genital mutilation surgery.