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For the refusal of self-isolation, the Chechen law enforcement bodies threaten dozens of quarantine violators with detention or car seizure. Local residents note that by placing dozens of violators together, law enforcers themselves violated the quarantine regime.

Breaking their own imposed bans is a usual practice for Chechen authorities, Ruslan Kutaev and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya have noted in their comment on the solemn opening of the Palace of Arts in Grozny amid the restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus.

In Abkhazia, the state of emergency has forced the owners of trading outlets to curtail operations; while hotel owners have cancelled reservations, entrepreneurs inform.

The catalogue named "Quarantinum" has collected links to more than 150 resources and projects that will help to fruitfully and with pleasure spend time, despite the restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus, and also to help people at risk to receive the required psychological and legal support.

82 volunteers are bring foodstuffs and medicines, and help in paying utility bills to older residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who have to stay at home because of coronavirus infection threat.

By not closing mosques during the coronavirus epidemic, the Ingush Muslim clergy endanger their believers, Facebook users have stated. They advise local residents not to attend services.

At the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala, law enforcers stopped parishioners and copied their personal data. Believers pointed to a reduction in the number of participants in the Friday prayer, linking it with the threat of coronavirus spread.

The demand for Hajj pilgrimage among North-Caucasian Muslims has dropped because of the spread of coronavirus and rouble depreciation, tour operators report. Saudi Arabia may cancel the Hajj; and operators will have to return the money to unfortunate pilgrims, said the office of Ilyas Umakhanov, the Hajj Commissioner under the Russian government.

After the Mufti's call to people at risk not to visit mosques for coronavirus threat, the collective namaz (prayer) in Grozny on Friday was less crowded.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has demanded that quarantine violators be imprisoned, deprived of food and buried in pits. The threats may well come true, residents of the republic believe.

On March 26, the Chechen TV Channel showed a story about the opening ceremony at the Palace of Arts in Grozny. The authorities of Chechnya organized a solemn ceremony despite their own calls to cancel all mass events. Users of social networks and residents of Chechnya criticized the inconsistent actions of the republic's authorities.

Two districts of the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli became a hotbed of risk for the spread of the coronavirus infection, and a strict quarantine is introduced in those districts. The region is compactly populated by Azerbaijani natives, many of whom do not know the Georgian language. What the authorities are doing, what local residents are afraid of, why students are not able to attend distance lectures, and how the language barrier prevents people from maintaining social distancing, – read about these and other problems described for the "Caucasian Knot" by Alexander Kvakhadze, a researcher of the "Rondeli Foundation".