The MPs call on Azerbaijan to immediately open the Lachin Corridor. This is stated in a joint statement by the head of the European Parliament delegation for relations with the countries of the South Caucasus, Maria Kalyurand, Permanent Rapporteur for Armenia, Andrey Kovac, and Permanent Rapporteur for Azerbaijan, Zeljana Zovko. 

Civil journalist «Crimean Solidarity» Amet Suleymanov is detained in the special unit of Simferopol SIZOs-1, having selected the medicines he needs.

Azerbaijan has taken control of the Lachin corridor, the only link between Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia. The Russian side did not react, the peacekeepers were expelled.

On the fourth day, six refugees from Chechnya are on a hunger strike in the Jezevo migrant centre in Croatia. Neither the authorities nor human rights defenders had visited them during that period.
Isa Daduyev, spokesman for the "Assembly of Chechens of Europe", said that there was discrimination on ethnic and religious grounds against Chechens and Muslims. They were allegedly detained on suspicion of religious extremism, despite a lack of evidence.

In the village of Kurt in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, there was a mass fight and shooting between natives of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. 11 people were taken to hospital.
Two sustained gunshot wounds to the abdomen, while the others suffered gunshot wounds, fractures and contusions. 
In total, about 50 people - 30 Ingush from Kurt and 20 Ossetians from the village of Kambileevskoe - took part in the conflict tonight. The fight and subsequent shootings began with a fight.

Last week, Arsen Dzhepparov was released from prison - figure in the case «Hizb ut-Tahrir». In 2016, he and five other Crimean Tatars were detained in Yalta. Lawyers of the center «Memorial» filed a complaint to the European Court of Justice in the case of Jepparov and another figure Inver Bekirov. 
The «memorial» recognized all six people as political prisoners. When the legal remedies available in Russia were exhausted, two of them were appealed to the ECHR. 

During the year in the Russian regions the land has become more expensive in Dagestan, Tatarstan and Stavropol region. 
According to the results of the first quarter of 2023, the average cost of land in Dagestan was 1 million rubles, which is 53.8% more than a year earlier. This is stated in the study of the platform «Avito Realty».

As a result of Russian shelling of the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, 2 elderly women were wounded. 10 residential buildings were damaged.

Russian archaeologists have determined that the North Caucasus was inhabited by Neanderthals on both sides. One group of ancient people came here from Eastern Europe and the other from Southwest Asia. 

26-year-old Khamzat Kadyrov, nephew of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, was appointed to the post of assistant adviser on the force block. This was announced by Minister of National Policy, Foreign Relations and Information of Chechnya Akhmed Dudayev.