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Participants of an action near the building of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) dated their protest to a visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The protestors demand a meeting with the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The MFA should activate diplomatic processes so that residents of Gadrut could return home, forced migrants note.

Regular soldier Artyom Melkonyan was killed at a combat position by a shot from his colleague, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. Investigation into a criminal case on the careless handling of firearms is underway.

Total corruption in Chechen maternity hospitals and other hospitals is a well-known fact, but officials fail to fight the problem, Instagram users note. In their comments, some users fear they will be forced to apologize for voicing criticism.

On May 4, at their protest action held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, near the parliament building, relatives of those convicted under the so-called "Ganja case" demanded to release the convicts. Prior to parliamentary elections, candidates for MPs had promised to help the prisoners, but after the voting they forgot about them, activists assert.

Turkish police have found in the sea the body of Bairam Mamedov, who had been persecuted in Azerbaijan for graffiti on the monument to Geidar Aliev, his friends have informed.

Restoration is underway in the Church of the Holy Christ the All-Saviour in Shusha in order to restore its historical appearance, the Azerbaijani authorities have claimed. The MPs from the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia had treated the dome dismantling as an attempt to eradicate the Armenian appearance of the city.

In North-Caucasian republics, certain residents are honouring Joseph Stalin, because they mistakenly associate him with the notion of "social justice", which they have despaired to obtain from the current authorities, historians have noted.

On May 4, three Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) kept by Azerbaijan were taken by plane from Baku to Yerevan and sent to the hospital for examination.

Because of a resolution about state protection, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, arrested in Chechnya, have been transferred to another block of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), in which video recording is made in the corridors, while because of the threat of an "honour killing" investigators have prohibited their relatives to visit them.

The parliamentary opposition gave no reason to doubt its compliance with the agreements with the Armenian authorities; and the acting Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, fully controls the situation in the country, political analysts believe.

In a video posted in the social network, young men have asked to forgive them for attacking, in the Tersky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), two men who were drinking alcohol.

Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, and Adam Delimkhanov, a member of the State Duma, declared a blood feud after a video criticizing the Chechen authorities for their harsh reaction to the terror act in Grozny, Ingush activist Magomed Khazbiev reports today.

More than 100 political prisoners remain in Azerbaijani prisons, announces the human rights organization “Line of Defence”. The NGO urges President Ilham Aliev to time the pardoning of political prisoners to the holy month of Ramadan. Other human rights defenders supported the call.

On May 3, in Makhachkala, two solo pickets demanding freedom for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, were held by his colleagues Magomed Magomedov and Magdi Kamalov. During the pickets, Magomedramazan Abdulkerimov, a Dagestani MP, called on the head of Dagestan to pay attention to the emergency state of rural schools.

The film "Quiet Voice" about the fate of a homosexual from Chechnya has won the Grand Prix of the "Artdocfest" documentary film festival. In Russia, the screening of the film, the premiere show of which was disrupted, never took place, the organizers of the festival have reported today.

In the city of Shusha that came under Azerbaijan's control after the last autumn Karabakh conflict aggravation, the domes of the Surb Kazanchetsots Church were dismantled. The city may lose its Armenian appearance, residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are concerned.

In Azerbaijan, university students have held an action against the new exam system, which, in their opinion, has aggravated the students' situation. Five protesters were detained.

Colonel-General Movses Akopyan, the former head of the military control service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD), who had criticized the authorities in connection with the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, is under recognizance not to leave on charges of divulging state secrets.

On the Revival Day of Karachai People, residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) are using the Instagram for posting stories about their relatives who had survived the 14-year-long exile. Family stories about those who returned to their homeland after deportation are posted under the hashtag #we'erback.

Complaints have been sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the killings of 19 Armenian citizens who had been captured by Azerbaijan. Among them, seven were military and other 12 were civilians, reports Artak Zeinalyan, who represents the interests of Armenian citizens at the Strasbourg Court.