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May 28, 2020 11:16

• Sochi residents alarmed by decision to open resort season amid pandemic

  On June 1, 2020, Sochi is launching the planned resort season, Mikael Nersesyan, the press service head of the Sochi city administration, has announced. The Sochi residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have strongly opposed the start of the resort season.

May 28, 2020 11:05

• Georgia invites Russian experts to Lugar Lab

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has invited Russian experts to come and make sure that no hazardous infections are being developed in the Richard Lugar Laboratory.

May 28, 2020 10:48

• Advertising of authorities' help during epidemic taken sceptically in Chechnya

  The Chechen TV has posted a video with a local resident's gratitude to Kadyrov Foundation. Social network users doubt the scale of the Foundation's charity and complained about the deficit of livelihood.

May 28, 2020 08:30

• Shushanovka residents complain about losses due to quarantine

  The COVID-19 tests of the participants in the funeral of a woman from the Dagestani village of Shushanovka, who died from coronavirus, turned out to be negative; however, 30 villagers are sick with pneumonia here, the village head has informed. Many villagers live only on incomes from their agriculture and cannot sell their crops because of the quarantine, he has explained.

May 28, 2020 08:18

• Kadyrov explains his absence by pre-scheduled health survey

  Speaking live on air, Ramzan Kadyrov showed that he had no catheter fixed and stated that he was healthy, but was undergoing a pre-planned medical examination in a Moscow hospital.

May 27, 2020 21:25

• Dagestani resident sentenced for participation in militant grouping

  The court sentenced Ragim Yarmetov to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a case on a militant grouping in Kaspiysk. Ragim Yarmetov pleaded not guilty.

May 27, 2020 21:10

• Georgian businessmen request authorities to help open cafes and restaurants

  The Georgian authorities allowed the restaurants and cafes with outdoor venues to resume their operation starting from June 1. Owners of indoor restaurants and cafes requested the authorities to allocate them land plots for summer cafes.

May 27, 2020 19:33

• Russia does not let US fly over South Ossetia and Abkhazia

  Today, the South-Ossetian Minister of Foreign Affairs has announced that requests from the USA to allow monitoring flights near the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are unfounded. The Minister of South Ossetia agreed with the refusal of the Russian side.

May 27, 2020 19:15

• Video with Ramzan Kadyrov, first within 11 days, proves version of his illness

  The authorities of Chechnya had to reconsider their attitude to the coronavirus infection, Ramzan Kadyrov admitted during his first public speech after a pause. On the video, users of the social network noticed an object similar to a medical catheter on an arm of the Chechen leader.

May 27, 2020 14:42

• "Syndicate-100" demands to find author of threats to journalist

  Law enforcers should identify and hold accountable the social network user, who threatens to kill an employee of the Krasnoyarsk TV company (TVK) for her reposting an article about authorities' claims to the work of journalists, the association of editions named "Syndicate-100" has stated today in its open appeal.

May 27, 2020 14:17

• Russia demands access of its experts to Lugar Georgian laboratory

  Russian experts need access to all the buildings of the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia to verify the version of the works of US militaries on deadly disease agents, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stated on May 26.

May 27, 2020 11:45

• Lawyers find it possible to punish the bosses of Magas clinic for circumcising girl

  Both the doctor who performed the surgery and the clinic's bosses may respond for circumcising the girl in Ingushetia, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

May 27, 2020 11:23

• Residents of Chechnya surprised at lifting ban on weddings amid preservation of remaining bans

  In Chechnya, people are waiting for lifting the ban on leaving home to be able to earn money; many have no money for holding weddings, local residents and Instagram users said in their comments to the statement of the Chechen Mufti about the permit to hold weddings according to the Sharia.

May 27, 2020 11:11

• ECtHR treats Ramil Safarov's release in Azerbaijan as illegal

  By pardoning Ramil Safarov, found guilty of killing Gurgen Margaryan, an officer of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Azerbaijani authorities have violated the articles on the right to life and the prohibition of discrimination, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

May 27, 2020 08:25

• Chechen mass media disseminate call to remove article on militants' widows from "Novaya Gazeta"

  On May 25, several official Chechen mass media outlets published an open letter by relatives of former militants, who demanded to remove the article on adaptation problems of families of former militants by Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya from the website of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

May 26, 2020 22:55

• Armenian healthcare system reaches verge of crisis because of COVID-19

  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan blamed the population for the aggravating situation with the spread of the coronavirus infection. The country's health system will fail in the nearest future, virologist Ovakim Zakaryan warns.

May 26, 2020 22:33

• After his long absence, Ramzan Kadyrov holds a meeting in Grozny

  Five days after reports about his illness, the leader of Chechnya appeared at a meeting of the operational headquarters to combat the coronavirus infection. The last time Ramzan Kadyrov appeared in public 11 days ago, on May 15, also at a meeting of the operational headquarters.

May 26, 2020 22:20

• Psychological quarantine fatigue enhances protest moods in Chechnya

  The people's reaction to an incident in the Samashki village proves that residents of Chechnya express dissatisfaction with the violation of their rights, despite the threat of coercion to public apologies, experts believe.

May 26, 2020 18:32

• In Adygea, coronavirus outbreak triggers a criminal case

  In Adygea, the head of the rural settlement in the Krasnogvardeisky District allowed a funeral ceremony with participation of crowds of people, and that fact provoked the outbreak of COVID-19. This follows from a version of investigators announced on May 25. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on negligence.

May 26, 2020 18:07

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling attack on border village

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone and in a village on the border with Armenia were shelled 26 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.