On May 29, FSB officers detained Akhmed Abusupyanov, chairman of the Main Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Rostov Region. He is suspected of collaborating with the At-Takfir wal-Hijra religious organization, which is banned in Russia. A year ago, Abusupyanov negotiated with prisoners in Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don who had taken two Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) employees hostage.

On May 24, Adam Maloroyev, a native of Ingushetia living abroad and wanted by the federal government for "failure to report a crime," released a video message via Telegram channels in which he stated that FSB officers tortured him into incriminating himself and two Dagestanis convicted of terrorism.

On May 23, a mentally ill woman attacked passengers waiting on the platform at Hamburg Central Station. She managed to injure 18 people before Abu-Bakar-Siddik Agayev, a Chechen national, knocked the knife out of her hands.

On May 21, the Adyge-Khabl District Court of Karachay-Cherkessia began a trial for a cell of the At-Takfir wal-Hijra religious organization, banned in Russia. Six people are in the dock, all facing charges under Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code for participating in the activities of an extremist organization.

On May 19, the press services of the FSB and the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) released a statement announcing that a series of terrorist attacks had been thwarted in Stavropol Krai and that nine residents of the Andropovsky District had been detained for planning attacks on police officers during the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. Seven of those detained are minors; all face up to 20 years in prison.

On May 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the Admission of Citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia to the Citizenship of the Russian Federation." The document regulates a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the self-proclaimed republics, which most countries recognize as part of Georgia.

On May 14, mass arrests of suspected members of a terrorist cell began in Kabardino-Balkaria. During a two-day operation in Nalchik and Nartan, security forces detained 48 people. Their relatives claim that during the searches, officers planted SIM cards in the suspects' homes to fabricate charges.

On May 13, Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya and activist with the opposition movement 1ADAT (designated extremist and banned in Russia), was detained in Almaty after escaping from the Shali District Police Department. At the request of Chechen police, he was placed on an international wanted list as a suspect in attempted extortion. A court in Kazakhstan ordered his arrest for 40 days, though his defense insisted on the arrest, fearing Kadyrov's men would kidnap him if released.

On May 12, the RIA Rating agency published a ranking of Russian regions based on salary trends. Using statistical data, researchers calculated how many years it would take for each region to earn half its workers 100,000 rubles per month. Seven regions of the North Caucasus were in the bottom ten.

On May 7, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov announced that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev would not attend the May 9 parade on Red Square. The cancellation of the visit is further evidence of rising tensions between the countries.