65-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner and former music teacher Zekirya Muratov suffers from high blood pressure and heart failure. He is an invalid of the 3rd group and has gone through many operations.

The day before, in the capital of Austria, more than 20 people took part in a rally in support of the natives of Chechnya, who are fleeing Russian mobilization for the war with Ukraine. The participants asked the authorities of the country and representatives of the OSCE to provide asylum to emigrants.

The Georgian parliament intends to ban the sale of real estate to citizens of the Russian Federation until the end of 2024. The authorities believe that in connection with its acquisition by foreigners, housing prices are rising.

At night, Kyiv was subjected to a massive complex attack using drones and various missiles.

An opposition rally against the restoration of direct flights with Russia took place in Tbilisi near the parliament. The participants said that this issue should be considered in the same context as Moscow's aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of 20% of the territory of Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia).

May 15, 2001 in the village. Duba-Yurt, Shali district, unidentified men dressed in camouflage uniforms and masks broke into the house of the head of the local administration.

The administrative court of Paris partially satisfied the complaint of a Chechen refugee who challenged the decision of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs to deport him to Russia.

Six people were killed and three were wounded as a result of shelling of Kherson and the region. There are wounded in Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions.

On May 15, the RIA Rating agency published summary data on the socio-economic situation of Russian regions based on the results of 2022. Four republics of the North Caucasus - Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria - were in the bottom ten in this ranking.

On May 15, the International Day of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, activists from the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Austria held a picket demanding asylum for Chechens fleeing mobilization in their homeland.