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Azerbaijani soldiers used firearms on the border near the village of Verin Shorzha, and as a result, a 32-year-old contract soldier was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

In Dagestan, any show of transparent dresses is unacceptable, Instagram users point out after having watched a fragment of a video from the wedding fashion show organized by the “Discourse” contemporary art club. Some of Instagram users called for a ban on events violating the moral norms adopted in the republic.

A case on an attempt on the life of Igor Naniev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, in which Nikolai Tskhovrebov and Inal Djabiev, who died after an interrogation at a police station, are involved as defendants, has been sent to the Supreme Court (SC) of South Ossetia, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the republic reports today.

In Azerbaijan, at a protest held in front of the presidential administration building in Baku, residents of the village of Khoshbulag, Dashkesan District, have complained that the arable land and pastures of their village had been illegally transferred to other people for use.

In Tbilisi, protesters against the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have unblocked Rustaveli Avenue and threatened the authorities with large-scale actions if their demands were not met.

The ban on operations with cryptocurrency, announced by the Council of Alims of Ingushetia, was a controversial decision, since the attitude to cryptocurrencies in Islam is ambiguous, some social network users have suggested.

Opponents of the construction of the Namakhvan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) on the Rioni River have blocked Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi until May 26 and threatened more large-scale protests if their demands were not met.

On May 24, solo pickets in support of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, were held by Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" weekly, and by Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the edition.

A flash mob in social networks with the word "shaitan", dedicated to the head of Chechnya, speaks of public rejection of the practice of public apologies, says Svetlana Gannushkina, the chair of the "Civil Assistance"* Committee.

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.

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.