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It is expected that over 1000 foreign visitors will attend the CONIFA Football Cup to be hosted by Nagorno-Karabakh. Over 60 families voiced the desire to host guests of the event.

Over the past 24 hours, the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia was violated 21 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), is arrested. The defence decided to appeal against the decision on his arrest.

The accusations to the participants of the conflict in Tbilisi, during which Vitaly Safarov, an employee of the "Centre for Inclusion and Development" was killed, were reclassified to more grave ones. Avtandil Kandelakishvili and Giorgi Sokhadze are now accused of murder based on national discord.

In Abkhazia, potential presidential candidates are not in a hurry to announce their nomination. The incumbent head of state has strong positions, but his victory is not guaranteed; and many voters assess the past five years as years lost for the development of the country, journalists have stated.

Saida Khalikova, convicted for sponsoring militants, was on a hunger strike for six days in her colony in the Volgograd Region. She complains about the ban to pray at night, said a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC), who visited her.

Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has criticized the Ingush opposition and urged the former head of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, to tell about the demarcation of territories. Daudov's statement was the first loud statement by the Chechen authorities since the start of a new wave of protests in Ingushetia.

The preconditions for signing a new partnership agreement of Azerbaijan with the European Union (EU) should be the absence of political prisoners in the country and the respect for human rights, the opposition has stated. The agreement with the EU is ready by 90%, the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

Investigators have failed to reveal any information about the detained chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips, Malsag Uzhakhov, Djabrail Kuriev, Uzhakhov's advocate, has informed. Before his detention Malsag was going to voluntarily appear at the police, said his son, Ruslan Uzhakhov.

On April 18, members of Ingush Diasporas in France and Belgium took part in a rally demanding the release their fellow countrymen detained in their homeland and to dismiss the head of Ingushetia.

Today, Malsag Uzhakhov, the Chairman of the Council of Teips (family clans) of Ingushetia, was taken away today by people, who came to his house in cars, said Khasan Katsiev, an activist.

A photo exhibition in Stepanakert presents images of 15 castles found in Nagorno-Karabakh over the past eight years. Local authorities hope that the new monuments will be interesting for tourists.

The Armenian authorities allocated about 257,000 US dollars for the celebration of the Citizen's Day. The money should have been spent on solving urgent problems, the residents of Armenia interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

A consul from the Russian diplomatic mission in Cairo could not visit the arrested Ingushes – the Egyptian law enforcers refused to let the consul to prison and to a court session.

The restoration of monument to Joseph Stalin in his homeland in Gori will increase the number of tourists, Ketevan Yardalashvili, the head of the local tourism information centre, has explained her idea.

The "Georgian Dream" Party decided to take into account, in the draft law on the appointment of judges, only two recommendations of the Venice Commission, treated the rest of them to be political. This displeased the opposition, whose activists held a protest march during the sitting of the parliament.

Four Ingush students have stopped their hunger strike in a Cairo prison, because they have brought themselves to exhaustion, Khadishat Pugoeva, the wife of one of them, has stated.

The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to satisfy the complaint lodged against the sentence of Djakhangir Gadjiev, a former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, sentenced to 15 years in prison for a large theft.

Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov published at least 20 messages received from residents of the republic. Employees of Chechen organizations complain of being forced to work at subbotniks (voluntary cleaning works) and attend rallies and sports events. They also complain of deductions from their salaries.

In the Stavropol Territory, the court of Mineralnye Vody sentenced local residents to 2-5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony for extorting money from LGBT people under the threat to disclose their sexual orientation.