A preparatory session was held at the Garadagh District Court in Baku on the case of Zamin Salaev, the head of the district organization of the Azerbaijan People’s Front Party. He stated that the criminal case against him was a political order, and in protest he went on hunger strike for 85 days.

The Day of the Return of the Karachay People to Their Homeland is celebrated every year on May 3. Sixty-six years ago, the first line arrived at the Erken-Shahara railway station with the deportees returning to their homeland. Today, at the Memorial to the victims of repression in Karachayevsk, local residents and authorities paid tribute to the memory of people who died on the way and during the years of exile in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. 

On May 2, the administration of the Shamilsky district published a video with an apology from a woman who had previously published a video about the sale of stewed meat in the regional center, allegedly stolen from the military.

The overwhelming majority of Georgian citizens consider Russia the greatest political threat to their country. Eighty-seven per cent of the respondents to the International Republican Institute survey hold this view. 

The Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation published the results of the annual assessment of the regions of the country by the level of budgetary openness.

Only in North Ossetia was the housing ratio slightly higher than the Russian one, at 28.2 sq. m per person. This is reported by Rosstat. In other regions of the district the situation is unsatisfactory. Chechnya and Ingushetia - in outsiders with indicators of 20.8 and 16.1 sq. m, respectively

Nalchik City Court ordered the former employees of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs - Azamat Akkaev, Beisultan Kertov and Timur Ketov - to pay 450 thousand rubles to the victims in compensation of moral damage. In favor of Valery Levdik and Alexander Knyazev, 300 thousand. and 150 thousand. rubles respectively were charged. 

The American White House said that Russia lost 20 thousand soldiers killed in the battles for Bakhmut.
In the Bryansk region, a freight train derailed due to the undermining of tracks.

At night, Russian aviation fired 18 cruise missiles into Ukraine. 4 people died. In Pavlograd, 40 people were injured, including three children, and 19 high-rise buildings were damaged.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces received another package of military assistance from Germany: the IRIS-T anti-aircraft complex, eight Zetros trucks and two forklifts.

Armenia, as well as China, Kazakhstan, and Brazil, voted for a UN resolution that named Russia as the aggressor in the war against Ukraine. Thus, the countries that Moscow considers to be its formal allies (Armenia is also a member of the CSTO) have spoken out against it.