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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.

Three women from the Georgian village of Shukruti sewed their mouths up and joined a hunger strike. The protestors demand from the “Georgian Manganese” Company to pay compensation for damage to villagers’ houses. On the fourteenth day of the hunger strike, eight persons are participating in it.

The Chechen authorities are not interested in escalating the conflict with Artyom Dziuba, and the initiative of a former coach of the “Akhmat” club to demand apologies from the football player for his words about Chechnya hardly came from Ramzan Kadyrov, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggest.

Today, in his message to the people and parliament, the leader of South Ossetia has declared that those guilty must be punished for the crime against Inal Djabiev.

The ongoing border conflict in the Syunik Region; Ramzan Kadyrov’s threats against a social media user and the subsequent apologies; new strikes and the interethnic conflict in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 17-23, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Activists protesting against the construction of the Namakhvani hydroelectric power plant (HPP) will march through the streets of Tbilisi if the government does not meet their demands, the leader of the movement “Defenders of the Rioni River Gorge” has reported today after the prime minister urged activists to abandon their ultimatum.

After a 20-day break, the State Service for Emergencies of Nagorno-Karabakh resumed searching for the bodies of the dead soldiers and those missing in action in the territories that came under the control of Azerbaijan.

During the week from May 17 to May 23, 2021, no information about the dead or injured persons during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The criminal case of the Armenian military servicemen, Ludvig Mkrtchyan and Alyosha Khosrovyan, accused of torturing captured soldiers and civilians during the 1992-1994 Karabakh war, has been sent to the Baku Military Court.

Ann Linde, the head Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has requested information from Russia about the involvement of Chechen authorities in the assassination attempt on the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, which was committed last February.

The Perm blogger, who had offered to dismiss the head of Chechnya after forcing the relatives of a Dagestani teenager to repentance for his comment, has recorded a video message in which he apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov.

Some protesters against the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) spent the night in Republic Square in Tbilisi, waiting for the government's response to their ultimatum.

When describing the atmosphere in Chechnya, footballer Artyom Dzyuba shared his personal perception thereof; and this is not a subject for an apology, social network users have pointed out after the former coach of the "Akhmat" FC demanded an apology from Dzyuba.

For the fourth day in a row, a search for a conscript is underway who disappeared from his military unit deployed near the contact line with Azerbaijani units, the Armenia General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has reported. The private left his unit without permit, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has suggested.

There were no large-scale incidents on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border; but the conflict is acutely perceived in Armenia due to the unstable political situation, Igor Korotchenko, a political analyst, believes.

The apologies of the parents of a Dagestani teenager to the camera are humiliating; and Ramzan Kadyrov has reacted excessively harshly to the teen's comment in social network, Magomed Magomedov, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, believes.

The wife of Salman Tepsurkaev, the moderator of the oppositional "1Adat" Telegram channel, has filed a complaint with the Gelendjik Court against the investigator's refusal to treat her as a victim in the case of her husband's kidnapping. According to the advocate, the law assumes the possibility of recognizing a wife with whom only a religious marriage was concluded as a suffered party.

During the border demarcation, Armenia and Azerbaijan will pursue their own goals; and the participation of a third party can lead to a "two versus one" format, some political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. However, their opponents think that in the course of demarcation, Russia's mediation is a must, since the ceasefire regime testifies to the efficiency of such mediation.

In their appeal to the USA, Great Britain and France, activists of the National Democratic Pole asked for help in protecting Armenian borders. The signing of an agreement on the border demarcation and delimitation with Azerbaijan should not be admitted, they stated at a protest action in Yerevan.

The number of participants in the commemoration events in Sochi on the Remembrance Day of the Caucasian War victims was small, while those present observed the required safety measures. It is not high-profile events that are important, but real help to those Circassians who have returned to their historical homeland, said Asker Sokht, the chairman of the NGO "Adyge Khase" of the Krasnodar Territory.