President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan can meet in Washington in the second half of May, according to the preliminary agreement. The Armenian media is writing about it.

The State Duma of Russia approved amendments on new rules for conscription and delivery of summonses. Electronic summonses have been equated to paper ones, and for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office, a ban will be imposed on leaving the country, opening an individual entrepreneur and registering property.

On April 20, 21 and 22, Chechnya was declared non-working on the occasion of the celebration of Uraz Bayram (Id al-Fitr). The relevant decree was signed by the head of the region after the appeal of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the republic.

The head of Chechnya said that it was unacceptable to raise prices on the eve of the holiday. He compared unscrupulous entrepreneurs with drug dealers. Both, he said, justified themselves by trying to support their families.

In 2022, the head of Ingushetia Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov officially earned 3.4 million rubles (in 2021 - 2.6 million). At the same time, his wife declared almost 7 million (in 2021 - 9.4 million). Crisis and war did not prevent the pair to receive together more than 10 million rubles. 

In 2022, 3,300 Russians took Georgian citizenship. In addition, only in March this year, 421 Russian citizens received the relevant document. This was reported in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic.

The Soviet Court of Vladikavkaz found the local resident Svobon Bokhov guilty of "discrediting" the Russian army. According to the investigation, the man wrote several anti-war comments on social networks. In particular, that Russians are fighting for "golden toilet bowls of officials".

Vladimir Zelensky awarded the Azerbaijani Farhad Guliyev. He is an assistant member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and voluntarily participates in the war against Russia.

At least 25 ethnic Azerbaijanis died in the fighting in Ukraine, fighting on the side of the APU.

The authorities of Armenia released the Russian, previously detained at the request of the Russian Federation. At home, he is accused of desertion. The 23-year-old man was detained in Yerevan on April 7. It is unknown whether he is military or mobilized.

In the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor asked to appoint Crimean Tatar activist Ansar Osmanov 18 years in a strict regime colony. Like hundreds of other residents of Crimea, he is accused of participating in the Islamic organization «Hizb ut-Tahrir». It is prohibited in Russia, but it operates without restriction in many countries of the world and Europe.

Former serviceman, native of Dagestan Ashabali Alibekov (known in YouTube as «Wild Paratrooper») appeals against the verdict. Recently, the Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk sentenced him to one year and two months of the colony in a case about «discrediting» of the Russian army.