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Oksana Sotieva, Inal Djabiev's widow, has asked Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, to help in achieving punishment of those responsible for her husband's death; she relies on Medvedev's great authority in South Ossetia.

The ban on leaving Azerbaijan for journalist Shakhveled Chobanoglu, which had been in effect since 2015, has been lifted. The General Prosecutor's Office did not inform the journalist about the possibility for him to leave the country until a month passed after the ban had been lifted, while there was a need for medical treatment abroad during that very month, Shakhveled Chobanoglu claims.

Vazgen Manukyan, whom the opposition wants to see as the Prime Minister of Armenia, has got the experience of heading the government and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) during the crisis. He is a suitable candidate to become the Prime Minister, participants of the protest actions in Yerevan claim.

After a special operation in Grozny, law enforcers kidnapped at least seven persons, but their relatives did not file any complaints to the police, authors of the 1Adat Telegram Channel stated. In Chechnya, people are afraid to file complaints to the police and seek legal aid, which only harm their relatives and friends, say human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, 60 civilians of the unrecognized republic were killed, and 163 others were injured, Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan reports. During the combat actions, about 45,000 residents of the region were left homeless, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh report.

Manvel Paramazyan, Mayor of Kajaran, was summoned for questioning to the Investigating Committee of Armenia after he had demanded the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Residents of Syunik gathered for a support rally in front of the building, and most of them came from Kajaran.

Garnik Isagulyan, the head of the "National Security" Party, has been criminally prosecuted for his words about a reward for the assassination of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan; he is also suspected of defamation for his allegations of sponsoring the "Velvet Revolution" from Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Several dozen protesters stay in Republic Square in central Yerevan, the capital of Armenia; activists spent the night in tents and are waiting for the start of the rally in the afternoon.

A court in Moscow has found the refusal to pay compensations to relatives of those who perished in December 2016 in the Tu-154 crash near Sochi to be legitimate; the claimants' representative has announced. The defence intends to appeal against the refusal.

Over the past 24 hours, employees of the Karabakh Emergency Service removed the bodies of 14 Armenian military servicemen from the conflict zone; in total, 1061 dead have been found after the ceasefire.

An equestrian march to the grave of Abdullakh Anzorov, who had beheaded a Paris teacher, has shown that some residents of Chechnya treat his crime as a battle for faith in the modern interpretation, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Mariam Alieva, whose Instagram blog was blocked by the social network after her post about a paedophilia suspect, is taking measures to restore her account. Alieva has many ill-wishers, as her posts cover the problems usually hushed up in the Caucasus, Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, believes.

About ten residents of Ingushetia came to the building of the Essentuki City Court to support the leaders of the Ingush protest. Among them were activists who had already served their sentences in the case on the rally in Magas.

In Yerevan, a mass clash took place on Republic Square between the police and the protestors who demanded the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The protesters tried to set up a tent camp. They announced the beginning of an indefinite protest action in front of the government building.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Aslan Daudov, a resident of Chechnya, guilty of hostage-taking, terrorism, and premeditated killing during the 1995 attack by Shamil Basaev's grouping on Budyonnovsk. The defendant was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

Today, residents of Armenia, who demand the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan, have blocked the motorways from Vanadzor to Yerevan, from Ijevan to Yerevan, and from Vanadzor to Dilijan. In Yerevan, opposition supporters held a rally in front of the government building. The opposition called on residents of the country to take part in the nationwide strike.

The Southern District Military Court found Imanat Razokhanova, a 25-year-old native of Dagestan, guilty of aiding and abetting in terrorist activities and sentenced her to 3 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

The killing by law enforcers of Kazbek Baidulaev, who had already been declared killed earlier, could be an imitation, representatives of the 1Adat Telegram Channel suggest. The photo from the place of the special operation released by the law enforcement bodies gives reason to doubt the version of the Kazbek Baidulaev's death, a criminal law expert confirms.

The Farniev family council has accused the journalist, Zaur Farniev, of violating the principles of agdau – the Ossetians' unwritten set of ethical rules – for publishing the news about an accident involving the brother of the head of North Ossetia. The Ossetians had no such a tradition of condemnation, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

International organizations should follow the progress of the investigation of war crimes committed in the Karabakh conflict zone by all parties, the Azerbaijani human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.