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The Georgian Ministry of Justice has offered to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former country's president, to a local clinic for examination. However, Saakashvili refused to move there because of the pre-appointed meeting with his family.

The court has sentenced Nikita Botberg, a Sochi resident, to five days of administrative arrest for disobeying policemen. A protocol was also drawn up against him on discrediting the Russian Army during the "Immortal Regiment" march.

In Yerevan, opposition supporters were detained for failure to obey lawful demands of the police, the Armenian police reported.

In Chechnya, the authorities awarded fighters of the National Guard of Russia, who participated in the special military operation in Ukraine. According to the report prepared by the “Grozny” ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company), during the ceremony, awards were also handed over to relatives of those who perished in Ukraine, but their names were not disclosed.

Four marches demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has taken place in Yerevan today. The police reported about the detention of 35 protesters.

On May 9, participants of regular actions in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), moved the picket location to another district of Makhachkala because of the celebration of Victory Day. However, the district police disrupted a solo picket, as they mistook a solidarity action for a protest rally, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev believe.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence has stated today that Armenian military servicemen shelled, from the border area of the Vardenis District, the positions of Azerbaijani soldiers located in the Kelbadjar District. In turn, the Armenian MoD has refuted the information.

During the farewell ceremony, relatives of Tamerlan Ilyasov, a military serviceman from the Akhty District of Dagestan, who perished in the special operation in Ukraine, criticized the district administration that failed to ensure the delivery of Tamerlan's body to his native village, and not a single district official appeared at the funeral of the perished officer.

The attack on the Azerbaijani journalist, Aiten Mamedova, is a heinous act of intimidation, Teresa Ribeiro, the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Representative on Freedom of the Media, has stated, calling for a prompt inquiry into the incident.

The participants of the action held on the Victory Day (May 9) in the city of Gori, carried a red flag. They refused to remove it at police's demand; and policemen detained three protesters.

At a rally held in Yerevan, the opposition has suggested to set up an interim government after Nikol Pashinyan's power is overthrown.

Shooting on holidays is part of the traditions of Caucasian Muslim nations that have nothing to do with Islam, the Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have commented on the detention of a Grozny resident who had celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday with shooting in the air.

In the village of Bryukhovetskaya in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), law enforcers have detained Kirill Yolkin and Zakhar Gaevoy, the activists, who came to the "Immortal Regiment" action with Komsomol flags. A marcher with a pacifist slogan was detained in Sochi.

The police detained a resident of Grozny, who celebrated the onset of the holiday of Eid al-Fitr by shooting into the air with a gun, the police reported after checking a posted video of the incident.

Magdi Kamalov, a founder of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), had to interrupt his solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev at a request of a policeman and follow him to a police department. This was reported by Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the “Chernovik”.

The preliminary data from the Central Election Committee (CEC) on the victory of Alan Gagloev in the presidential election in South Ossetia inspire confidence amid the admission of defeat by Anatoly Bibilov, South Ossetian activists say.

The presidential election in South Ossetia has no legal force and violate the Georgia’s sovereignty, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced today.

Arrival of refugees in Southern Russia; deaths in Ukraine of military personnel from southern regions of Russia, and persecution of pacifists; celebration of Eid al-Fitr in Southern Russia; protests in Armenia demanding the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 2-8, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A man who attacked freelance journalist Aiten Mamedova with a knife voiced threats against her and her daughter, the victim said. She associates the attack with her coverage of a case on the murder of a child which provoked a wide public outcry.

During the week of May 2-8, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.