The Cherkessk City Court sentenced former head of the Stavropol Territory Traffic Police Alexey Safonov to 20 years in a strict regime penal colony. In addition, he was fined 100 million rubles and stripped of his rank of police colonel. The court also confiscated Safonov's property worth 21.8 million rubles.

Over the first four months of 2025, the number of serious and especially serious crimes in Chechnya and Ingushetia increased by 33% and 30%, respectively. The first region recorded 348 such incidents, ranking second in Russia in terms of growth rates.

Speaker of the Parliament and one of the leaders of the ruling party of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili named the reasons for the unprecedented crisis in relations between Tbilisi and Brussels at the conference of EU partners in Budapest. According to him, "relations have become hostage to the political context." Papuashvili explained that "some political groups in Europe had harmful expectations regarding Georgia."

On average in Russia, the salary of half of the working population may exceed 100 thousand rubles in less than five years. The worst dynamics are in Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Former head of Makhachkala Said Amirov, serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony in the Orenburg region, has filed dozens of lawsuits against the administration of the institution. He, being disabled, demands that the conditions of his detention be improved.

On May 11, the 165th day of protests, a rally in support of the controversial US bill – the MEGOBARI Act – took place in Tbilisi. Demonstrators reached the US Embassy, ​​from where they headed to Rustaveli Avenue, the traditional rally site in front of the parliament.

Police detained three residents of the city of Kamenskovo in the Vladimir Region, suspected of participating in a conflict with natives of Ingushetia. According to eyewitnesses and victims, the incident was accompanied by nationalist shouts and insults.

Law enforcement officers detained a suspect in the kidnapping of a 28-year-old guy in Magas. A petition for his arrest will be sent to the court. His accomplices have also been declared wanted.

In pretrial detention, Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu agreed to end his hunger strike on the 40th day at the request of his relatives. During this time, he lost more than 20 kg.

Baku has legitimate expectations from Yerevan. They are related to the exclusion of territorial claims against Azerbaijan from the Constitution of Armenia. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.