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To resolve the conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan should set up a commission to fix the border; Moscow is ready to act as a mediator, said Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister.

The rhetoric around the situation in the Syunik Region of Armenia will be followed by agreements, since the conflict escalation is out of the plans of either Yerevan or Baku, political analysts believe.

Dmanisi is a region with an unfavourable ethnic balance; while the conflict of Svans with Azerbaijanis was fuelled by external forces, said Andriy Djagmaidze, the spokesman for the Georgian Patriarchate. He was criticized by human rights defenders, who called on the Patriarchy not to incite ethnic hatred in the society.

On the International Museum Day, exhibitions and lectures were held in Nagorno-Karabakh on the cultural heritage. The Shushi State Museum of Fine Arts presented an exhibition of 90 paintings that Armenia managed to preserve after the last autumn war. The problem of preserving the cultural heritage is especially acute today, visitors of the exhibitions have stated.

On May 17-18, a total of 639 Russian citizens, who had to stay in Azerbaijan due to the pandemic, returned to their homeland through the customs checkpoint in Dagestan.

The author of the comment, who called Ramzan Kadyrov a "shaitan", can be identified by the content or data in social networks, experts in cyber security believe. Such statements by Kadyrov are quite serious; the commentator is in real danger, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, believes.

The Azerbaijani armed forces shelled the Tagavard village, which territory is split by the demarcation line after the war. This was reported by Sevak Khachatryan, the deputy head of the village. Residents of the Tagavard community tried to protest and block the road along which the Azerbaijani military convoys were moving.

A promise of Ramzan Kadyrov to destroy an author of the comment, who called him a “shaitan” (demon), is not appropriate for the person with the status of the leader of the region, Instagram users note. Their opponents argue that the reaction of the leader of Chechnya to the anonymous insult is understandable.

The French authorities banned Magomed Gadaev, a deported Chechen native, from returning to the country and explained their decision by his suspected connections with a radical movement. The Magomed Gadaev’s defence lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the fact that the French authorities ignored complaints about the threat to the Magomed Gadaev’s life.

Several groups of Azerbaijani soldiers left the territory of Armenia, but some of them remain in their new positions. The close deployment of the Azerbaijani troops alarmed residents of the Syunik Region, and they called on the local authorities to provide them with firearms.

Residents of the city of Dmanisi have reconciled and agreed not to admit continuation of riots. Despite the announcement about the end of conflict, reinforced police units are still on duty in the city.

Jake Sullivan, an assistant to the US President for national security, has called on Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliev to hold talks on Armenian-Azerbaijani border demarcation, and treated the movement of troops on the border as irresponsible.

One of Instagram commentators has called Ramzan Kadyrov a "shaitan". In response, the head of Chechnya promised to find the user who needed to write a will and threatened to liquidate him.

At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, demanded freedom to journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev. People passing by got interested in Gadjiev's fate; and drivers of the passing cars supported the action with signals, said the picketer.

Inal Djabiev entered a police station being already injured, and the criminal case against policemen should be closed, the defence has claimed following the results of the examination. One of the charges was dropped from the policemen, but the General Prosecutor’s Office did not inform relatives of Inal Djabiev about that, his widow points out.

Some of the 250 Azerbaijani soldiers remain in Armenia, and the crisis has not been overcome, announces Nikol Pashinyan, the acting Prime Minister of Armenia. He called on Baku to invite Russia to participate in the border demarcation process.

During the week of May 10-16, 2021, no killed or wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A young man from a Dagestan village has apologized for performing a Lezginka dance at a burial site in Derbent, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed. Some users treat the apologies as sincere, while others have noted that the burial site was marked insufficiently informatively.

Azerbaijan is updating the border with the Syunik Region of Armenia; there is no conflict there; and Yerevan's appeal to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is groundless, President Ilham Aliev has stated.

Fifteen oppositional parties in Georgia signed an agreement to combat discrimination and violence against the LGBT community and violations of the right of its members to peaceful assembly.