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During three days, the Armenian military personnel were shelling the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces in the Kelbadjar and Gadabay District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

The demonstration of a transparent dress at a fashion show in Makhachkala provoked am outburst of indignation on Instagram. Organizers of the fashion show disseminated a video message, in which they called the incident “an unfortunate mistake.”

Residents of Chechnya are massively refusing to get vaccinated against coronavirus and spread conspiracy theories in social networks; such people should be the last to receive medical care, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

A Krasnodar court has upheld the termination of the criminal case on the torture of Anapa residents, Artyom Ponomarchuk, Aram Arustamyan, Karen and Erik Engoyan, detained in 2015, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed. Defence intends to appeal against this decision.

The Azerbaijani militaries have occupied strategic heights in Armenia in order to take control over all the roads leading to Karvachar, the military analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The employees of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) interrogated at the Essentuki City Court have stated that they did not know the defendants  and refuse to be treated as the suffered party under the case of the protest action in Magas, Magomed Bekov, an advocate, has informed.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has denied reports about the shelling by Azerbaijani militaries of Armenian Army's positions on the border near the village of Verin Shorzha and stated that the Armenian soldier's death was an accident.

The practice of public repentances for the words unpleasant to Ramzan Kadyrov has its limits, which was demonstrated by the fair response of Artyom Dzyuba, a "Zenit" FC striker, to the demand to apologize for his opinion about the hard atmosphere of matches in the "Akhmat Arena" Stadium, experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Azerbaijani armed forces have advanced deep into the territory of the Syunik and Gegarkunik Regions of Armenia, where a soldier has been killed today, the heads of the Armenian border communities report. Vage Akopyan, the leader of the “Reviving Armenia” Party, announced the presence of 1000 Azerbaijani soldiers in the Armenian territory.

In the Stavropol Territory, a supporter of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”), who was plotting a terror act in Norilsk, was detained, the FSB reports. The detainee has an earlier criminal record for terrorism and spent 15 years in prisons, sources reported.

Azerbaijani soldiers used firearms on the border near the village of Verin Shorzha, and as a result, a 32-year-old contract soldier was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

In Dagestan, any show of transparent dresses is unacceptable, Instagram users point out after having watched a fragment of a video from the wedding fashion show organized by the “Discourse” contemporary art club. Some of Instagram users called for a ban on events violating the moral norms adopted in the republic.

A case on an attempt on the life of Igor Naniev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, in which Nikolai Tskhovrebov and Inal Djabiev, who died after an interrogation at a police station, are involved as defendants, has been sent to the Supreme Court (SC) of South Ossetia, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the republic reports today.

In Azerbaijan, at a protest held in front of the presidential administration building in Baku, residents of the village of Khoshbulag, Dashkesan District, have complained that the arable land and pastures of their village had been illegally transferred to other people for use.

In Tbilisi, protesters against the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have unblocked Rustaveli Avenue and threatened the authorities with large-scale actions if their demands were not met.

The ban on operations with cryptocurrency, announced by the Council of Alims of Ingushetia, was a controversial decision, since the attitude to cryptocurrencies in Islam is ambiguous, some social network users have suggested.

Opponents of the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) on the Rioni River have blocked Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi until May 26 and threatened more large-scale protests if their demands were not met.

On May 24, solo pickets in support of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, were held by Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" weekly, and by Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the edition.

A flash mob in social networks with the word "shaitan", dedicated to the head of Chechnya, speaks of public rejection of the practice of public apologies, says Svetlana Gannushkina, the chair of the "Civil Assistance"* Committee.

Artyom Russkikh, a resident of Saint Petersburg, has returned from his vacation in Abkhazia with fractured ribs and haematomas. Local law enforcers, suspecting him of links with drug dealers, beat him up, threatened to rape him, hung him up from a tree and drowned him in a mountain river, the "Mediazona" reports.