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23:33, 5 May 2026
The Armenian opposition and Russian propaganda shared their indignation at Armenia's rapprochement with the EU.
The first Armenia-EU summit, which concluded in Yerevan, gave Armenian opposition political forces a pretext to accuse Nikol Pashinyan of election manipulation, and Moscow media outlets of "betrayal" and an anti-Russian stance.
A still of a man detained in Tbilisi on suspicion of espionage. Photo: TV Pirveli / https://tvpirveli.ge/ka/siaxleebi/kriminali/126948-jashushobis-braldebit-magalchinosani-daakaves
23:02, 5 May 2026
A high-ranking government official has been detained in Georgia in connection with an espionage case.
Giorgi Udzilauri, who until recently headed the public relations department of the Georgian Ministry of Finance's investigative service, has been arrested on espionage charges. He previously worked for Bidzina Ivanishvili's Cartu Group.
22:33, 5 May 2026
A Chechen native has been convicted of texting an ISIS member.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a 21-year-old native of Gudermes to a lengthy prison term, finding him a member of the Islamic State* terrorist organization based on a text message.
22:01, 5 May 2026
A Dagestani soldier was killed in Ukraine.
Aidyn Khaibatov from Derbent was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,917 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.
Rustam Nogmov. Photo: https://t.me/gazetayuga/9548
21:19, 5 May 2026
The killer of an elderly Nalchik woman avoided prison.
Rustam Nogmov, a former participant in the military operations in Ukraine and convicted of the murder of pensioner Nina Selezneva in Nalchik, has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and returned to the front.
20:37, 5 May 2026
Alexei Safonov's 20-year sentence was upheld on appeal.
After reconsidering the defense's appeal, the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia upheld the prison sentence of Alexei Safonov, former head of the Stavropol Krai traffic police department. He was sentenced in May 2025 to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony for creating a criminal organization and accepting bribes.
19:50, 5 May 2026
Oil spills near Tuapse did not affect plans for the holiday season.
The consequences of the drone attacks on Tuapse, including oil pollution of the sea and beaches, have not affected resorts near the city, a tourism industry representative stated. Authorities reported cleaning up "localized emissions" on the coast.
19:20, 5 May 2026
A South Ossetian soldier was killed in Ukraine.
The funeral of Roman Gigolaev, killed in the war zone, took place in Tskhinvali. More than 50 combatants from South Ossetia were killed in the fighting in Ukraine.
18:31, 5 May 2026
Rescuers in Karachay-Cherkessia are searching for missing tourists from Astrakhan.
At least 15 rescuers are searching in Karachay-Cherkessia for two young women from Astrakhan who never returned from a mountain hiking trip. Their parents asked them to find them; contact with the hikers has been lost.
17:53, 5 May 2026
A resident of Ingushetia is suspected of rehabilitating Nazism.
A resident of the village of Dolakovo, whose social media comment attracted the attention of Center E operatives, is under investigation for “justifying the activities of Nazis.”
16:58, 5 May 2026
A Tuapse resident was fined for assessing losses at the front.
A court in Tuapse fined local resident Andrei Kuzmenko under the article on “discrediting the army” for saying that Russians “are not killed enough.”
16:02, 5 May 2026
A Georgian activist was fined for a social media post.
Activist Ia Melitauri was fined in Tbilisi for a post that mentioned a person's last name. Interior Ministry officials convinced the court that Melitauri insulted a police officer in her post.
Mudflow in the Kodori Gorge. Photo: https://uks-ra.ru/novosti/item/77-v-kodorskom-ushchele-soshel-sel-dvizhenie-ogranicheno
15:05, 5 May 2026
Access to the Kodori Gorge is restricted after a mudslide.
Abkhaz authorities have urged drivers to avoid traveling toward the Kodori Gorge, where traffic has been restricted following a mudslide.
14:08, 5 May 2026
A contract soldier from the Volgograd region was killed in a military operation.
Dmitry Vikhlyantsev from the Novoanninsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,771 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.
13:10, 5 May 2026
Three suspects with links to terrorists were detained in Anapa.
Three Central Asians, whom security forces believe are recruiters for a terrorist organization in Syria, have been detained in Anapa.
12:12, 5 May 2026
Hürriyet's editor-in-chief denied extortion charges in court
Vugar Mamedov, editor-in-chief of the Hürriyet newspaper, told a Baku court that he was accused of extorting companies that advertised with the newspaper several years ago. The lawyer argued that the legal entities were wrongfully recognized as victims, but the court refused to dismiss the criminal case.
11:14, 5 May 2026
A report on the removal of petroleum products from the coast of Tuapse has raised questions for authorities.
Authorities reported that more than 18,500 cubic meters of oil-contaminated soil have been removed from the coast of Tuapse. Telegram users inquired about where the collected soil is being taken.
Screenshot of a post on the "Dub Khranitel UMR" Telegram channel: https://t.me/dub_UMR/1279
10:16, 5 May 2026
Residents of Krasnodar reported new cases of tree destruction on the embankment.
Several more oak trees planted by opponents of green space development have been destroyed on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment in Krasnodar's Yubileiny District. Telegram users have sharply criticized those destroying the trees.
09:19, 5 May 2026
A fighter from the Astrakhan region was killed in Ukraine.
Muslim Zhumakhaev from the Kamyzyak district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 735 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.
08:21, 5 May 2026
Transport links to a mountain village in Dagestan have been restored.
Workers cleared the road to the village of Zhazhada in the Tlyaratinsky District, which had been blocked by a rockfall. There are no more blockaded settlements in Dagestan.
News
Russian soldiers. Still from a Russian Defense Ministry video: https://t.me/mod_russia/57396 The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 9,100.

Murat Khokonov in December 2023. Photo by a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The court sided with Professor Khokonov in a dispute over his dismissal from the university.

Social media users condemned Nogmov's release.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.