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The National Assembly (Parliament) of Azerbaijan has adopted the Amnesty Act, dated to the Republic's Day, celebrated on May 28. The amnesty will cover over 10,000 people, including 3500 of them, who will be released from jails. Civil society activists state the imperfections of the amnesty, since it has not affected political prisoners.

The Solntsevo Court of Moscow has extended until August 20 the arrest of Patimat Gadjieva, a student from Dagestan, accused of public incitement to terrorism.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, which listened how the jury had pronounced the verdict of guilty against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, extended their detention in custody until August 27. Their defenders intend to challenge the decision and the oncoming verdict against their clients.

The families of the destroyed apartment house in Kosmonavtov Street have challenged at courts the refusal to provide them with a lump-sum material and financial help. The city bureaucrats by their actions had stripped the victims of help, Evgeny Oleinikov, the Director of the "Volgograd Anti-Corruption Committee" asserts.

To preserve the interethnic peace, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) should intensify efforts to educate young people in the history and culture of other nations, and pay due attention to solving the social and economic problems. This was stated at the conference, held on May 19, in Nalchik, in the office of the International Circassian Association (ICA).

The exhibition "Dagestan by Moscow artist Nikolai Lakov" is opened at the Museum of Moscow. The organizers hope that the exhibition will help to break down the Moscow residents' stereotypes concerning residents of Dagestan.

For the second time in a week, the Armenian air defence forces shot down its own unmanned airborne vehicle of type X-55. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

In Armenia, residents of the Kond District, who lost their houses nine years ago, held an action in front of the building of the Armenian government. The residents wanted to attract attention to their unresolved problem.

Petro Poroshenko has condemned the jury's verdict passed in Grozny to Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh and promised to struggle for their release. If Karpyuk gets a life sentence, it will complicate his transfer to Ukraine, said the advocate Mark Feigin, who had defended Nadezhda Savchenko.

The Presnya Court of Moscow has arrested Yuri Chabuev, who held the post of the director of the Khovanskoye cemetery, where a mass fight occurred. Lechi Yakhyaev, a native of the Astrakhan Region, was also arrested. He became the 14th person arrested in the criminal case opened on the fight.

The number of victims of the road accident involving a bus with Russian officers has reached 22 people. Of them, six were killed, and 16 others stay in hospitals. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Investigators are trying to initiate the Russia's first criminal case on wilful evasion of submitting documents for putting into the registry of foreign agents against Valentina Cherevatenko, the head of the Union "Don Women", said activists from the non-governmental sector.

The third international marathon run "From Heart to Heart" in Chechnya has attracted about 2,000 participants – significantly less than in previous years. Due to active participation of professional athletes in the marathon, it becomes less interesting for amateur runners.

Sochi will open its resort season in May 28 with a carnival procession. The Sochi City Tourism Office predicts that the entire hotel fund and the private sector will have enough tourists throughout the season.

The administration of the Krasnodar Territory has created a commission to consider complaints about misuse of apartment houses and cottage settlements, built in Sochi in preparation for the Olympic Games.

In Makhachkala, the National Library named after Rasul Gamzatov has presented the book about Gaidar Bammat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mountainous Republic the Union of United Mountain Peoples of Northern Caucasus and Dagestan.

On May 15, at the exit of a mosque in the Tsumada District of Dagestan, unidentified people attempted to kidnap Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi, who had filed a complaint to the Russian President. This was reported by eyewitnesses.

Participants of the "roundtable" held at the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute of Humanitarian Studies (known as KBIGI) did not come to a consensus regarding the monument to Joseph Stalin erected in the village of Ozrek.

The family of the Circassian activist Adnan Khuade has received a notification from the Investigating Department (ID) Adygea of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about a start of inquiry into the criminal case.

The Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko can be returned to Ukraine within six months, said her advocates. Russian authorities will take the right decision by returning Savchenko, a political prisoner, to Ukraine, said Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".