Ramiz Mehdiyev, the former head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, has been placed under house arrest for four months. He is accused of attempting to seize state power, treason, and laundering criminally acquired property.

Since the beginning of May, more than 13,500 people have been accepted for military service under contract. человек, which is 3.1 times higher than the April indicator. This was reported by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Pankov. According to him, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia were among the best regions in terms of implementation of the recruitment plan for contract service.
In May, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that since the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, more than 26 thousand people from the republic had been sent to the combat zone. According to him, 12,000 of them are volunteers.
According to experts, a significant part of these 13.5 thousand new contract workers - not newly called up, but already mobilized in the troops.