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Four former prime ministers of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh requested the release of Robert Kocharyan from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) because of the threat of the coronavirus infection.

In Chechnya, public officers reprimanded almost two dozen men detained without permits and masks, reports a video posted on Instagram. Social network users claim it is a problem in Chechnya to get a permit to leave home.

Chechen women take advantage of the fact that local law enforcers do not detain them for violation of the quarantine regime, and now men from their families will be responsible for their quarantine violations, states Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament.

Authorities should provide the doctors who treat coronavirus patients with protective garments, Salim Khalitov, a former head of the radiation diagnostics ward at the orthopaedic and trauma centre, has declared at a protest action in Makhachkala.

The Iftar (de-fasting), held by Ramzan Kadyrov with doctors, has demonstrated that the head of Chechnya is unwilling to change his lifestyle because of the restrictions imposed because of coronavirus, human rights defenders believe. A lawyer did not rule out the presence of an administrative offense in Kadyrov's actions.

In Chechnya, gas services have demanded from local residents to pay their bills on time, despite the strict quarantine regime. In their turn, locals who are forced to stay out of work because of coronavirus, complain about absence of incomes.

Residents of Dagestan, who found themselves short of money because of the forced self-isolation, most often ask to help them with food and housing, members of Dagestani charitable foundations report.

In Chechnya, Magomed Daudov, the head of the local operational headquarters, has announced imposing a mandatory "mask regime." He has threatened to fine violators. Earlier, the Chechen Minister for Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced that masks do not protect people from the coronavirus infection, Instagram users and residents of the republic recall.

A family from the Nadterechny District should not have asked for help, since they could have killed their poultry, claims Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

The Azerbaijanis who have arrived at the border in the Derbent District had to live in the street for several days, said one of the citizens of Azerbaijan who is waiting to return to his homeland. Dagestani officials and sponsors have incurred the cost of accommodating about 600 Azerbaijanis in hotels and resorts until the border is reopened.

The authorities of the Russian Federation have put forward claims against the article by Elena Milashina published in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper on the situation with the coronavirus in Chechnya, stating that the information therein about the closure of hospitals was false. Elena has received an award in Berlin for reporting on the situation with coronavirus in Chechnya and intends to prove her rightness.

In Azerbaijan, the spread of the coronavirus infection has accelerated, and that fact may lead to toughening of the quarantine regime, announces Yagut Garaeva, the spokesperson for the Azerbaijani operational headquarters. Azerbaijan has detected 2060 cases of the coronavirus infection, and 26 people died.