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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.

At the documentary Diaspora Film Festival in South Korea, it is planned to screen the "Quiet Voice" film about the life of Khavadj, a MMA fighter from Chechnya, who had to flee to Belgium after his relatives learned about his non-traditional sexual orientation.

Under threat with weapons, militaries prohibit grazing livestock on border pastures and approaching the water reservoir, residents of the Syunik and Gegarkunik Regions of Armenia have stated. The authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan have resumed negotiations on the settlement of the conflict on the border.

On the eve of the trial of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, scheduled for May 17, his relatives have urged Instagram users to support him and expressed their hope for an early sentencing.

Six athletes from Adjara are not guilty of clashes with the police during the protests against the construction of the Namakhvani hydroelectric power plant (HPP) and they are being prosecuted for political reasons, protesters in Batumi claim.

At a meeting with the participation of the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, delegates of Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to solve the border conflict. The Azerbaijani armed forces stay at the positions they took, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

Guram Palavandishvili, the leader of the “Georgian Idea” movement, broke an installation erected by LGBT activists in a Tbilisi park. He is detained, and a criminal case on harassment is instituted.

The Armenian authorities will accept the proposal of the French President to submit the conflict in Syunik to the UN Security Council only if the situation gets out of control, but they fear the Russia's reaction, the Armenian analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Four military columns of Azerbaijani Army accompanied by peacemakers drove along the Lachin Corridor and one - along the Shusha-Kadjar route and back, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The class teachers at a Sochi school, with reference to the instruction of the city authorities, have been charged with monitoring the "suspicious" content on the pages in the social networks of their pupils starting from the 7th form, one of the teachers said. Olga Medvedeva, the head of the education and science department of the Sochi Mayoralty, said that no instructions on monitoring pupils' pages had been sent to schools.

Those who suffered from law enforcers' actions during the harsh dispersal of the rally in Tbilisi in June 2019, have asked, in their appeals to the Embassies of the European Union (EU) and the United States, not to allow applying amnesty to those responsible for the use of violence on the so-called "Gavrilov's Night".

The maps created in the USSR fail to unambiguously fix the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Black Lake area in the Syunik Region, the experts on the Caucasus interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.