Every year on May 28, Azerbaijan officially celebrates the Republic Day. Since October 15, 2021, this date is called "Independence Day".

68 years ago, the first train with Karachays who returned to their native land from deportation arrived at the railway station of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region.

On April 21, 1996, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed by a Russian rocket on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu in the Urus-Martanovsky district.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria recognized the "crimes of the German fascist invaders committed on the territory of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous SSR during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people." The Investigative Committee of the republic reported that during the occupation, more than four thousand civilians and prisoners of war were killed, and also died of hunger and disease.

On April 21, 1996, on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan District, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed by a Russian missile.

On April 7–8, 1995, during the first Russian-Chechen war, Russian troops, carrying out a cleansing operation in the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan region, killed, according to various estimates, at least one hundred civilians.

On February 5, 2000, during the second Russian-Chechen war, federal troops carried out a massacre of residents in the village. New Aldy of Grozny.

On November 2, 1943, one of the most tragic pages in the history of Karachay-Cherkessia began - the deportation of the Karachay people. On this day, tens of thousands of men, women, children and the elderly were forcibly transported to Kazakhstan and Central Asia for 14 long years.