The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on monitoring Azerbaijan during their visit to Baku met with representatives of independent media resources and human rights activists. Participants pointed to restrictions on freedom of the press and information.

The day before, the Polish authorities extradited, at the request of the Russian Federation, ex-employee of the Dagestan FSB Emran Navruzbekov. After that, the connection with him disappeared. This was reported by his wife, who received political asylum with her children in Poland.

In the context of the closure of European borders and the rise in price of foreign tourism, the republics of the North Caucasus are in the TOP-5 for booking rooms for the summer. This was reported by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

Azerbaijan and Armenia are on the threshold of peace for the first time since the restoration of their independence. This was announced by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, speaking in Austria at a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council.

On the morning of June 6, 2001, two armored personnel carriers arrived at the outskirts of the village of Mairtup, Kurchaloy district. At this time, a local resident, born in 1979, was grazing sheep a few hundred meters from the settlement. According to relatives, shortly before this, the Russian military captured and took away two of his brothers.

On the night of June 6, the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was broken. The dam is located upstream of Kherson along the Dnieper in the village of Novaya Kakhovka. The local population is being evacuated from flooded areas. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for what happened.

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has submitted documents to the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience of Ukraine to secure its legal status as a representative body of the Crimean Tatar people.

The Gudermes City Court of Chechnya found former members of the National Guard Aslan Dukaev and Bekhan Abdurashidov guilty of illegally detaining Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan. The security forces were sentenced to two years probation under the article on abuse of power, excluding the article on kidnapping from the charge.