Detentions of suspects in the attack of Basaev’s and Khattab's militants on Russian militaries in 1999 and 2000 were conducted in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Astrakhan Region and Stavropol Territory. The suspects – Radjab Khasaev, Arsen Koldasov, Batyr Arsanov and Rasul Takhtamirov – have been arrested.

The State Security Service of Georgia has reported the detention at the border of Giorgi Bachiashvili, a former head of the co-investment fund, who was sentenced to 11 years in jail within the case of embezzling bitcoins belonging to Bidzina Ivanishvili. His advocates have stated that Giorgi’s prosecution was politically motivated.

Ulker Gashimova, a native of the city of Derbent, declared as political prisoner by human rights defenders, has been sent to a colony near Kostroma to serve her term awarded within the case of calls for terrorism and extremism.

The authorities of Austria have extradited to Russia two natives of Chechnya who requested asylum and complained about forced mobilization.

On Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Salome Zurabishvili, the fifth President of Georgia, has congratulated on Independence Day the participants of the daily action in support of the country’s European integration.

In their appeal, residents of Astrakhan have demanded from the city police to identify the persons responsible for damaging the monument to victims of political repressions and find out whether the damage was inflicted as a result of act of vandalism or whether it resulted from poor-quality repairs to the monument by a contractor. The Astrakhan residents call on government officials to ensure the restoration of the pedestal.

In central Tbilisi, activists have held marches to mark the 107th anniversary of the Georgia's declaration of independence. Participants in one of the marches have called on the authorities to release those detained during protests.

Asker Sokht, an Adyg activist, has reported in his Facebook* page that in Maykop (the capital of Adygea), on the 161st anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War, the participants in an unofficial memorial event were detained.

Mark Serov, an activist from the city of Kazan, who lives in Georgia, was detained at the Armenian-Georgian border. After that, he was released under the recognizance not to leave the place; he cannot leave Armenia; in Russia, he is wanted within a case of vandalism motivated by political hatred.

Members of the family, to which the man kidnapped in the village of Yandare belongs, abused a guy from another family and extorted money from him. In Ingushetia, people often not address the law enforcement bodies to resolve similar problems, and that is why the relationship between the two families reached the point of kidnapping.

In Anapa, the local beaches were filled with vacationers during the day on May 25. People were swimming in the sea and sunbathing right next to the protective ramparts, despite the fact that all the beaches in Anapa are officially closed, and works on cleaning up fuel oil are still underway on some of them.

When explaining the appearance of the Orthodox cross on the flag of the “Akhmat” special forces, Apti Alaudinov has emphasized that initially, the unit consisted only of Chechen. However, at present, natives of Chechnya make up only 25% of the personnel in the “Akhmat” units, while 50% of the fighters are Russians, and the rest are of other nationalities.

As part of the second phase of exchange of prisoners of war (POWs), agreement on which were reached at Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul, 307 Russian POWs returned to their homeland.

A request in connection with the information about the closure of the Ingush cemetery in the village of Ir in the Prigorodny District and the ban on burials was sent to the authorities of North Ossetia.

The opposition coalition "Lelo-Strong Georgia" has demanded from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to investigate the beating up of Grigol Gegeliya and punish the attacker.

Some Karabakh residents cannot obtain social assistance because they had left for Armenia before the mass exodus of refugees, the Council for the Protection of the Rights of Citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported. Most refugees are worried about the possibility of being left homeless after the payments are cancelled.

Lebanese Armenian Vigen Euldjekyan, arrested by Azerbaijani militaries in Nagorno-Karabakh and sentenced in Baku to twenty years of imprisonment, held a hunger strike in prison and was hospitalized.

During the march in Nalchik organized to mark the anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War, at least eight persons were detained. At least two of them were arrested under the administrative article on participation in an unsanctioned action and obstructing traffic.

Italian actress Monica Bellucci starred in the “Butterfly Jam” film directed by Kantemir Balagov from Kabardino-Balkaria. The film reports about the life of the Circassian community in the United States.