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The cassation instance has upheld the verdict passed to the former Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili, sentenced to three years in prison within the case of abuse of power when pardoning the convicts sentenced for killing a businessman.

The equestrian march held today in Nalchik attracted more than 170 horsemen, said Aslan Kudaev, the organizer of the march. A mass march of Circassians in national costumes with Adyg flags followed the horsemen's march, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Four protesters demanding resignation of Bako Saakyan, President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), who were detained by policemen on May 20, received verbal warnings. Activists insist that they did not violate the Law "On Freedom of Assembly".

Under the pretext of their concern about Aslan Bzhaniya's participation in the election, supporters of the opposition are seeking an early resignation of the President of Abkhazia, Raul Khadjimba has stated today in response to protest actions in the republic.

On May 20, Sandra Roelofs, a candidate for the post of Mayor of the city of Zugdidi, declared that she did not recognize the official outcomes of the election; while the opposition is launching protests all over Georgia.

A petition for conditional early relief (CER) of the Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev has been submitted to the Shali City Court, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed today.

Today, policemen blocked the centre of Nalchik, freeing the way for participants of the equestrian march commemorating the victims of the Caucasian War.

The call of Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Premier, to block courthouses is beyond the Armenian legislation, said Larisa Alaverdyan, a former Armenian Ombudsperson. The police failed to take actions to unblock courthouses, as they obey the Prime Minister, not the law, Avetik Ishkhanyan, a rights defender, believes.

Vera Deryabina, the mother of Abubakar Edelgeriev, now an advisor to President Vladimir Putin, the former teacher of Akhmat and Ramzan Kadyrov, has been buried in the Kadyrovs' ancestral village. Thousands of people, including the republic's leadership, arrived to commemorate the teacher.

A concert of old Adyg songs was held at the monument to the victims of the Caucasian War "The Tree of Life" in Nalchik; after which 101 candles were lit. The participants interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted that the tragedy of the Caucasian War will never be forgotten by Adygs (Circassians).

In Abkhazia supporters of the opposition have blocked the highway near the village of Tamysh and the bridge over the Bzyb River.

On May 20, law enforcers checked a report about the bomb allegedly planted in the building of the Dagestani Muftiate in Makhachkala. People from the building and around it were evacuated.

The armistice regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 21 times; the positions of Azerbaijani militaries stationed in two villages bordering on Armenia came under fire, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Magomed Daudov, the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament, has offered to rename the Kadyrovs' patrimonial village, Khosi-Yurt (Tsentaroi), in honour of Akhmat Kadyrov. The renaming idea will cause no objections, local residents assert.

Babek Gasanov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was subjected to inhuman treatment in the colony, his brother has stated today. In its turn, the country's Penitentiary Service treated the actions of the colony staff as legitimate.

Investigators believe that Daud Mamilov, a son of an Ingush MP, was involved in creating a terrorist unit and took oath to the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court. Law enforcers spent many hours searching the house and seized cell phones, a child's tablet and books in the Arabic language, said Daud's wife.

The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has thanked his supporters, who reacted to his call to block courthouses, and called on them to stop the action.

In the month of Ramadan, authorities of Grozny organized excursions of high school pupils to the graves of saints, the Chechen Ministry of Education has reported. Schoolchildren themselves told that during the excursions they heard lectures about Chechen saints and Ramzan Kadyrov's father.

This morning, supporters of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, gathered at the courthouses and prevented employees from starting work.

In Volgograd, four activists have held solo pickets demanding from Russian authorities to stop putting pressure on Ukraine.