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The promises by Georgian authorities to open the country on July 1 have pleased the entrepreneurs working in the tourism industry. However, so far, many issues of the tourist sector amid the threat of coronavirus spread have not been resolved, the owners of hotels and hostels in Adjara interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

Elkhan Suleimanov, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Public Health (MPH), has urged residents of the republic to take quarantine measures even more rigorously amid the growth of coronavirus infection cases. There is the third month of self-isolation; people have no money even to buy foodstuffs, and local residents were indignant.

Eleven Azerbaijani citizens from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) in Dagestan, where they are waiting for the opening of the state border, were taken to the Derbent City Hospital. One of them was diagnosed as having coronavirus infection.

Residents of the village of Novy Chirkei in the Kizilyurt District said they have no need of high-speed Internet, and demanded to dismantle the 5G-communication tower.

After the appearance of the information about his departure to Moscow for medical treatment, the leader of Chechnya has declared that he stays in the republic and continues working.

Activists explain a decline in the protest activities regarding the voting on the amendments to the Russian Constitution by restrictions imposed because of the epidemic.

Ramzan Kadyrov and his attending physician flew to Moscow, journalist Elena Milashina reported in the evening on May 28. Users of social networks associated a new flight of the Chechen leader to the Russian capital with his illness.

In the city of Maykop, the capital of Adygea, entrepreneurs have complained of a difficult financial situation due to termination of trade and absence of authorities' support during the pandemic. In its turn, the republic's Ministry of Economic Development has explained that local officials cannot include traders from the clothing marketplace into the list of coronavirus victims, compiled by the federal government.

There are not enough places in the tent camp accommodating the citizens of Azerbaijan, who are waiting for the chance to get home across the border; besides, it is hot and impossible to take a shower, the forced guests are complaining.

By being among the first to lift the ban on weddings, Chechen authorities want to somehow compensate for the psychological fatigue of local residents from quarantine, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have suggested.

In the Gergebil District of Dagestan, the total number of patients with coronavirus and community-acquired pneumonia made 407 persons, but not all pneumonia patients have undergone a laboratory study on COVID-19, a district hospital employee has stated.

Investigators suggest that Vadim Cheldiev is responsible for riots in Vladikavkaz. The defendant has been charged with disorderly conduct.

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.

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.

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.