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A top-ranking Armenian officer was collecting information about the armies of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and passing it on to Azerbaijan through the Embassy in Georgia. The officer is under arrest now.

The statements voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are not the Russia’s official position, states Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for the President of Russia. Salakh Mezhiev, Mufti of Chechnya, accused the Israeli authorities of terror against Palestinians.

The Martakert-Madagiz village highway and the outskirts of the village have been cleared of explosive items; 15 shells and mines were found and destroyed, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Residents of the Agdam District tried to enter non-demined territories' policemen have detained them, the Azerbaijan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

The police found a yellow-green substance during a search of pockets of Sevada Gukasyan, a resident of the Tavush Region, who was detained while trying to lead a donkey to the building of the Armenian parliament.

Investigators have sent to court a case on an attack on journalist Ruslan Totrov in North Ossetia, who was beaten for posting critical articles.

The production facilities of the "Georgian Manganese" Company cause huge damage to the houses of residents of the Georgian village of Shukruti, it has become life-threatening to live in them, the protesters have noted. In their turn, the company officials treat the action as engaged one and reminded that villagers are being paid compensations.

Mothers of Chechen girls who left for Syria in the mid-2010s are still hoping to bring their daughters home. Finding themselves in the territory controlled by militants of the "Islamic State"*, some of these girls went missing, while others were sentenced to long prison terms, up to life-long ones.

In the village of Gutatli in the Tsuntinsky District of Dagestan, teachers of a secondary school are continuing a protest rally with the demand to dismiss the principal, who has recently been reinstated at job through the court.

A court pronounced a decision to place under a two-month arrest two relatives of Magomed Kodzoev, a resident of the Kantyshevo village, who was killed in a shootout with law enforcers: explosive devices and weapons were found at home of one of the arrested relatives, sources reported.

In Yerevan, a court dismissed a request filed by the defence of the second President of Armenia to postpone court hearings for the period while Robert Kocharyan was preparing for the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 20. A judge scheduled the next court hearing in the criminal case against Robert Kocharyan for May 25.

A resident of the Tavush Region, detained in front of the Armenian parliament at a protest action against Nikol Pashinyan, was released after a protocol on an administrative violation had been drawn up against him, the Yerevan Police reports today.

During the celebrations of Eid al-Fitr (Uraza-Bairam), the access control regime will be introduced at entrances to Chechnya; and raids are planned to detect illegal transportation of passengers, the republic's authorities have announced. The novelty has worried Instagram users, who called for presenting the details of the planned restrictions.

The inclusion of painters, Aslan Goisum from Chechnya and Vova Perkin from Adygea, into the top 10 young painters of the Russian Forbes Magazine is natural, because their works are in demand by the public, the art critics interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The "Terter case" was investigated back in 2017; judgments were made on the criminal offenses related thereto; and the public was informed of all its details, the Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan has stated.

Members of the Council of Teips (Family Clans) of Ingushetia have addressed Sergey Shoigu, the Russia's Defence Minister with a request not to place a military training ground in the territory of the republic.

At his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev stated that Baku had returned to Armenia all the prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, as well as about 1600 bodies of dead Armenian military servicemen.

Almost 29,000 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been vaccinated against coronavirus, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has reported. Instagram users have reported that vaccination is not always voluntary; some have to get vaccinated under threat of dismissal.

A woman is in grave condition after a road accident with an escort car from the motorcade of the head of the Armenian Government (Prime Minister), Nikol Pashinyan. A man, the second victim refused hospitalization, a source from a Yerevan hospital said.

A resident of Ijevan brought a donkey to the Armenian parliament and announced that he would use the animal to return Nikol Pashinyan to his hometown. The police did not allow the activist to approach the parliament building and took him to a police station