A conference dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Mountainous Republic is being held in Kyiv.

On May 28, Azerbaijan celebrates Independence Day. On this day, 105 years ago, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) or the Azerbaijan People's Republic (APR) was proclaimed.

On May 26, Georgia celebrates the main state holiday under the slogan "With love for freedom!". The celebrations began with the ceremony of taking the oath by the servicemen.

On May 18, 1944, a criminal operation began in the USSR to forcibly deport Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland to Central Asia. In the first years of deportation, from 20% to 46% of the settlers died from hunger and disease.

105 years ago, on May 11, the independence of the North Caucasus was proclaimed - the Mountain Republic appeared.

The Day of the Return of the Karachay People to Their Homeland is celebrated every year on May 3. Sixty-six years ago, the first line arrived at the Erken-Shahara railway station with the deportees returning to their homeland. Today, at the Memorial to the victims of repression in Karachayevsk, local residents and authorities paid tribute to the memory of people who died on the way and during the years of exile in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. 

On 7-8 April 1995, during the first Russian-Chechen war, Russian troops, conducting a sweep of the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martanovsky district, killed, according to various estimates, at least 100 civilians. This number was reported by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The International Committee of the Red Cross announced the death of 250 civilians. 

Every year on March 28, Kabardino-Balkaria celebrates the Day of the return of the Balkar people to their homeland and the restoration of national statehood. The holiday was officially established in 1994. Today in Nalchik there are no large-scale official events for political reasons. 

On March 8, 2005, President of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov died in the village of Tolstoy-yurt.  During the special operation, he was killed by officers of the Russian Federal Security Service.

Today, the Balkar people recall the 79-year-old Stalin deportation. On March 8, 1944, 37,000 people, mostly elderly people, women and children, were deported to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In March 1, 1944, Kazakhstan and Central Asia were expelled. Almost 40 per cent of them did not return home after rehabilitation.