The mother of Akhmed Balkarov, who is serving a sentence in Correctional Colony No. 4 in the Penza Region, contacted the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center. She alleged that her son was subjected to ethnic and religious discrimination by the prison administration. He was repeatedly forbidden to practice Islam.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported a successful operation against personnel of the Russian "Akhmat" unit in the Sumy region from February to April 2026. As a result, according to the GUR website, the unit suffered its most significant losses since the beginning of the conflict: 41 people were killed and 87 were wounded. In addition, more than 100 members of the unit went missing.

On the occasion of International Labor Day, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the peace established between Azerbaijan and Armenia opens new prospects for investment, entrepreneurship, economics, and education.

On the night of May 1, a memorial plaque dedicated to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was stolen in Lviv. Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service reported this, citing Yevhen Boyko, head of the Lviv City Council executive committee.

Dagestan's head, Sergei Melikov, is moving to another position. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this during a meeting in the Kremlin with representatives of the republic's People's Assembly.

The Armenian newspaper Hraparak reported that Russia is developing new sanctions against Armenia in response to Yerevan's "anti-Russian actions." These actions include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's possible visit to the Yerevan summit on May 4-5.

The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Azerbaijan, Marianna Kujundzic, has been summoned to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In Baku, the ambassador was presented with a note of protest over the "anti-Azerbaijani" resolution adopted by the European Parliament on April 30.

Another lawsuit filed by former Senator Rauf Arashukov of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Black Dolphin prison colony, was dismissed by a court in the Orenburg region. The convict sought 100,000 rubles for moral damages related to incomplete food distribution.

As the second anniversary of the arrest of human rights activist Anar Mammadli approaches, Azadeh Rojan, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) General Rapporteur on political prisoners, called on Azerbaijan to release him. Rojan stated that the numerous charges, according to PACE, are retaliatory measures for Mammadli's civic activism, independent election monitoring, and cooperation with international organizations.

A large-scale investigation published by TRT in Russian lays bare the human cost of Russia's war in Ukraine for the Republic of North Ossetia—a small region with a population of approximately 700,000, where, according to figures presented at a meeting of an internal, interdepartmental, government commission, between 43,000 and 45,000 people took part in the fighting.