KBR resident Khusen Gukov received a suspended sentence of one and a half years. He was found guilty in a criminal case for discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

Former FSB officer Emran Navruzbekov was sentenced to a year and three months in a penal colony. He was found guilty of slandering his colleagues because of an interview about fabricating cases of “terrorism” in Dagestan.

Armenian border troops should serve at Yerevan airport. Armenia sent an official letter to Moscow to stop the activities of its Russian colleagues. This was stated by Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized one of its founders, 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, as a political prisoner. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of “re-discrediting” the army. The human rights activist was tried for an anti-war article in which he called the Putin regime fascist.

The Chechen authorities are buying captured Ukrainian soldiers from Russian units for their subsequent exchange for their colleagues. Petr Yatsenko, a representative of the Ukrainian coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, told the English edition of The Times about this.

Journalists in Azerbaijan are subject to criminal prosecution and arrest for their professional activities. 16 of them were imprisoned. This was reported in the report of the Platform for the Protection and Security of Media Representatives of the Council of Europe.

A court in Crimea arrested until May 4 Crimean Tatar activists Memet Lyumanov, Aziz Azizov and Mustafa Abduramanov in the case of a terrorist organization. A little earlier, journalist Rustem Osmanov was placed in a pre-trial detention center.

The chief physician of the treatment and rehabilitation center in Cherkessk, Borisli Temrezov, received the highest award in Chechnya - the Order named after Kadyrov. He is the father of the head of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Rashid Temrezov.

Armenia will send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this at a meeting with Egyptian leader Al-Sisi in Cairo.

46% of the Armenian population surveyed believes that the most suitable country for purchasing weapons is France. India is in second place in this regard (23.2%), and the Russian Federation is in third (21.9%). These are data from the research company Gallup.