May 18 has been declared the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide. On this day in 1944, a criminal operation began in the USSR to forcibly evict the Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland to Central Asia.

In different regions of Chechnya, security forces kidnapped several dozen residents. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

The FSB reported the liquidation of a Russian serviceman in Karachay-Cherkessia. According to the intelligence services, he was associated with ISIS (a banned terrorist organization) and was preparing terrorist attacks.

The Memorial human rights project recognized Abubakar Rizvanov, a native of Dagestan, and Kemal Tambiev from the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic as political prisoners. Their charitable activities in Dagestan were regarded as support for terrorism, and in September 2023 the men were sentenced to 18 and 17.5 years in a maximum security colony, respectively.

During long protests in Tbilisi against the government's adoption of a law on foreign agents, the police actively used violence not only against protesters, but also against journalists. This was stated by the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Elkhan Aliyev, a member of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, is holding a dry hunger strike in prison, demanding an end to his criminal prosecution. According to his wife, the man is receiving death threats on behalf of the prison management.

The Supreme Court of Crimea approved a fine of 100 thousand rubles to the independent Muslim community “Eski Kyrym” for storing literature in the Az-Zubeir mosque.

Yerevan did not ask Moscow to leave Russian border guards on the border with Turkey and Iran, as Russian officials previously stated. This was announced by the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan.

The court in Grozny refused to consider Mehidi Timerbulatov’s complaint about the inaction of the prosecutor’s office regarding the use of unauthorized methods of inquiry and investigation by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After the appeal, the complaint was returned for reconsideration for the 80th time.

The Azerbaijani government completely rejects another statement by French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin about alleged ties between Baku and the New Caledonian independence movement. This was stated by the representative of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Hajizade.