Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the CSTO mission does not operate on the territory of the country, since the organization does not fix the limits of the border of the republic.

In Chechnya, for the period from January to April 2023, 497 thousand square meters were put into operation. m of housing. This is half as much as in the same period last year. This was reported by Severo-Kavkazstat.

On May 22, the Central District Court of Volgograd chose a preventive measure for 19-year-old student Nikita Zhuravel, who admitted that he had burned the Koran. The investigation of the criminal case and the person under investigation was transferred to Chechnya.

On May 21, 2001, the Russian military seized the shepherds: Avala Dakaev, born in 1941, and his 27-year-old son Musa Avaluevich Dakaev, who lived at 3 Rostovskaya Street in the village of Goity, Urus-Martan District.

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

On the afternoon of May 20, the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the complete capture of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

19-year-old Yasin Khalidov is kept in the Omsk police department. A native of Chechnya was detained while trying to leave Russia. He can be taken to Chechnya, where he is in danger. This was reported by columnist Elena Milashina.

On the territory of Ukraine, outside the Crimea, most of the Crimean Tatars live in the Kyiv region. This was announced by the commander of the special unit "Crimea" of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Nariman Bilyalov.

Relatives of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov canceled a wedding celebration in Georgia due to public protests. This is the victory of the people of Georgia, as President of the Republic Salome Zurabishvili stated.

On May 20, 2001, employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies (it is not known who exactly the Human Rights Center “Memorial”) took Khas-Magomed Tsugaev from his home in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Urus-Martan District.