Azeri MP Azer Badamov was denied entry to the Russian Federation. The incident occurred at the Moscow airport, where Badamov was detained and not allowed on a flight to Astrakhan. He was later returned to Baku.

The Tbilisi City Court has remanded 11 people detained at the protests in custody: Andro Chichinadze, Onise Tskhadadze, Guram Mirtskhulava, Jano Archaya, Luka Jabua, Ruslan Sivakov, Revaz Kiknadze, Giorgi Terashvili, Valery Tetrashvili, Sergei Kukharchuk and Irakli Kerashvili. The case has entered the merits stage.

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.

The outgoing third president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, commented on the work of the parliamentary commission created by the ruling party to investigate alleged crimes committed by the authorities during the period of "National Movement" rule.

The cyber attack on a number of Azerbaijani media resources, which occurred on February 20, was organized from the Russian Federation. This was stated by the chairman of the commission of the Parliament of Azerbaijan on countering external interference and hybrid threats, Ramid Namazov. According to him, the cyberespionage group APT29 ("Cozy Bear", also known as "Midnight Blizzard" and "The Dukes"), which is connected to Russian structures, is behind the attack.

Against the backdrop of the abrupt termination of American support for independent media in Europe and Central Asia and the strengthening of Russian propaganda, the international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RBG) published its annual press freedom rating. It is based on five indicators: political context, legal basis, economic environment for mass media, socio-cultural context and security.

On May 2, Ukrainian drones attacked military unit No. 33443 in the village of Moskovskoe, Stavropol Territory. It is part of the Russian system of space radio-electronic intelligence and reports to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).

Security forces detained a 29-year-old woman in Khasavyurt, Dagestan. She was accused of allegedly preparing to detonate the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on May 9.

Суд в Тбилиси обязал экс-финансиста Бидзины Иванишвили, бывшего главу фонда соинвестирования Георгия Бачиашвили выплатить основателю «Грузинской мечты» до 9000 биткоинов. На сегодняшний день это эквивалентно более чем 850 млн долларов. По решению суда стоимость биткоинов будет взыскана из арестованных активов Бачиашвили в Грузии. 

Dzatte Mamitov, mobilized from North Ossetia, who was sent to the assault brigade without an arm, with a festering leg and one eye, went missing.