On May 21, in honor of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Caucasian War, Circassian activists held a traditional march to the Tree of Life monument in Nalchik. This year, the event was spontaneous – the authorities refused to sanction the place and time of the march under a formal pretext.

On May 2, the Shamilsky District administration published a video with an apology from a woman who had previously made public a video about the sale of stewed meat in the district center, allegedly stolen from the military.

On May 19, a judge of the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk removed Apti Visaev's wife and public defender Aisha Mutaeva from the trial of Apti Visaev, who is accused of preparing a terrorist attack. The woman was banned from attending the trial until the verdict. The reason was video recordings allegedly made by her in court and published on social networks.

The share of regional roads (excluding federal highways) that meet the standards in Ingushetia last year is 81.7%.

Islamic banking will attract $11-14 billion in investments to Russia, especially from Iran and Turkey. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial market Anatoly Aksakov.

Early in the morning, units of the federal forces began a "cleansing operation" in the village of Sernovodsk. According to the official version, its purpose was "to detain the militants who had staged an explosion of a UAZ car, as a result of which five policemen from Kemerovo were killed."

In the occupied part of the Zaporozhye Oblast of Ukraine, about 50 servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces from Dagestan refused to continue participating in hostilities. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the German newspaper Bild.

The government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile is considering the possibility of creating in the future a tribunal against the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his extremist unit Akhmat.

At the beginning of July 2001, Memorial Human Rights Center received an “Appeal to the State Duma of the Russian Federation by forced migrants from Chechnya who are in Ingushetia”

A request has been sent to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, with a request to take measures to establish the whereabouts of 19-year-old police officer from Chechnya, Yasin Khalidov.