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In Krasnodar, a court fined activist Marina Zakharchenko 15,000 roubles, considering her pacifist post on a social media outlet to be discrediting the Russian armed forces.

Several dozen parents of the military servicemen who perished in the autumn war of 2020 gathered near the building of the Investigating Committee of Armenia and demanded to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the country's Prime Minister.

Senior Sergeant Denis Ulbrekht has perished in Ukraine, the administration of the Kamyshin District has reported.

Authorities have several times made public the death toll of Armenian soldiers in the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh in an attempt to hide the true number of casualties, the participants in a rally in Yerevan have stated, adding that Nikol Pashinyan should be held responsible for deaths of Armenian military servicemen.

Georgia has been invited to a meeting of NATO defence ministers; and at the upcoming summit, according to the head of the NATO office in Tbilisi, the issue of Georgia's accession will be discussed.

A criminal case on a false denunciation has been opened against Alexei Vlasenko, a Sochi resident, who had accused law enforcers of torturing him; a decision was made to detain him, the "Gulagu.net" project has reported.

Kristine Grigoryan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated that protesters in Yerevan are increasingly injured due to the use of unlawful force by the police. In his turn, a deputy head of the police reported six hospitalized law enforcers.

The holding a "Dignity March" in Tbilisi may be unsafe for its participants, the "Tbilisi Pride" has explained and refused to hold the march this year.

Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, spokespersons of regional authorities have reported the information about at least 250 natives of Northern Caucasus and 100 residents of the Southern Federal District in Ukraine. Most of the dead were natives of Dagestan, the authorities confirmed the information about at least 129 perished natives of the republic.

Abedin Magomedov and Roman Nurov, who perished during the special military operation in Ukraine, were posthumously awarded the Orders of Courage, the administration of the city of Dagestanskiye Ogni reported.

At a protest action near the German Embassy in Baku, relatives of those who were deported to Azerbaijan and later arrested called on the German government not to remain indifferent to the fate of those people. The police pushed the protesters away from the diplomatic mission building.

A criminal case on organizing mass riots was instituted after the opposition held a protest action in front of the government building in Yerevan. Eight protestors were arrested, the Investigating Committee of Armenia reported.

Candidates for participation in the special military operation in Ukraine should not suffer from overweight and hemorrhoids, media report. It is not clear how the information provided by volunteer candidates is being checked, Instagram* users note.

The Prime Minister of Georgia promised not to impose sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, a branch of VTB Bank has stopped its operation in Georgia, and problems arise with transportation of goods at customs, although no laws restricting the transportation of sanctioned goods to Russia have been adopted till present.

Razi Alyshov, a member of the Ganja city branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was accused of drug dealing. The court has arrested him for two months. His party colleagues are convinced that he is being persecuted for political reasons.

In Yerevan, the Armenian opposition has resumed protest marches demanding resignation of the government. The protest leaders have put forward a number of demands to the authorities, including the inadmissibility of Nagorno-Karabakh's entry into Azerbaijan, and the issue of demarcation and delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Persecution of participants in pacifist actions in Southern Russia; protests in Armenia demanding the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan; decisions of courts in Nalchik and Vladikavkaz on the lawsuits filed by fighters of the National Guard of Russia dismissed from service; pardoning of prisoners in Azerbaijan; adoption of the Russian law on dual citizenship with South Ossetia; creation of border delimitation commissions in Armenia and Azerbaijan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 23-29, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Pashinyan's power relies only on law enforcers, who have provoked a conflict at the protest action, oppositionists have stated. The protest movement is on another surge; while the opposition's actions have become more targeted, Naira Airumyan, an observer, has noted.

Gasanbek Agabekov, a resident of the village of Aglobi in the Derbent District, has perished in Ukraine, the head of the Derbent District has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 128 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed there.

On May 30, Armenian militaries shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani Army deployed in the Kelbadjar District, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.