On May 19, 2001, at about 2 pm near the food market in the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny (not far from the crossroads of the road from the city center to the village of Staraya Sunzha), a white VAZ-2107 car was fired upon from a passing convoy of Russian military men.

On May 19, a judge of the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk removed his wife and public defender Aisha Mutaeva from the court hearing in the case of Apti Visaev, accused of preparing a terrorist attack. The woman is prohibited from attending the trial until the verdict. The reason was video recordings allegedly made by her in court and published on social networks.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, where the trial in the case of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, accused of financing terrorism, has announced a new expert opinion on the case. Nothing extremist was found again in Hajiyev's publications.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Ukraine has begun using British long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles capable of striking at a distance of up to 290 kilometers.

Today, in protest against the resumption of air traffic with the Russian Federation at the airport. Rustaveli gathered hundreds of people in Tbilisi. They expressed dissatisfaction with the passengers who arrived on the first direct flight from Moscow to Tbilisi in four years.

According to Rosstat, 11% of the Russian population receive incomes below the subsistence level.

Russia and Georgia from Friday, May 19, resume flights between the countries, interrupted in 2019. Flights to Tbilisi will be operated daily on Russian SSJ100 aircraft from Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

On May 18, 2001, at 0500, Russian units cordoned off the entire perimeter of the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district. Armored vehicles were posted near each intersection in the village. Having finished the preparations, the military began to enter in advance, apparently, the planned houses and grab their tenants. At the same time, weapons were used at least once.

On May 18, the human rights project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized as political prisoners the Ossetian Covid-dissidents Vadim Cheldiev, Ramis Chirkinov and Arsen Besolov, convicted in the case of the rally on April 20, 2020 in Vladikavkaz.

A former soldier, a native of Dagestan, Askhabali Alibekov (known on YouTube as the blogger "Wild Paratrooper") was beaten by the staff of the pre-trial detention center. This was reported by his wife.