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04:55, 31 May 2026
Karapetyan filed a lawsuit against the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Simonyan.
Strong Armenia bloc leader Samvel Karapetyan filed a lawsuit against Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, who called him a foreign intelligence officer, demanding a retraction and compensation.
03:56, 31 May 2026
A mass poisoning occurred in Pyatigorsk.
Nine people were poisoned in Pyatigorsk after visiting a cafe and were hospitalized. An investigation is underway, and the cafe has been temporarily closed.
02:57, 31 May 2026
Human rights activists and friends praised the report about Mintsayeva on Chechen television.
A report about Belkisa Mintsayeva, shown on Grozny TV, claims that her family has been reunited. She says everything is fine. Human rights activists say the most important thing is that Mintsayeva is free and with her children, while her friends say she looks depressed in the video.
01:58, 31 May 2026
Two Georgian residents have been detained in connection with an espionage case.
The head of the NGO "Eurasia Institute" Gulbaat Rtskhiladze and journalist Irakli Chikhladze have been arrested in connection with the espionage case.
00:58, 31 May 2026
Gas supply has been restored in the Buinaksk district.
Gas supply has been restored to residents of five villages in Dagestan where gas was cut off due to a landslide.
A Civil Contract rally in Ijevan. Screenshot from the party's page, May 30, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1420390223458372&set=a.257854629711943 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia).
23:59, 30 May 2026
The topics of Karabakh and Azerbaijan have become key in the campaigning of Armenian politicians.
During his election campaign, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared that the end of Nagorno-Karabakh was inevitable, while his opponents blamed him for making concessions in negotiations with Azerbaijan.
Arman Dzhelmukanov. Screenshot of a photo from the Krasnoyarsk District Administration's Telegram channel, May 30, 2026, https://t.me/amo_kr_rayon/6163
23:00, 30 May 2026
A soldier from the Astrakhan region was killed in a military operation.
Arman Dzhelmukanov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 744 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.
A dam has been destroyed in the village of Akhty. Screenshot from a photo by the Akhty District Administration from May 30, 2026, https://t.me/pressa_akhty/24714.
22:00, 30 May 2026
Residents of a Dagestani village are at risk of flooding due to a dam erosion.
A dam in the village of Akhty washed away after heavy rains, leaving the road, gas pipeline, and homes at risk of flooding. The dam was built four years ago but never commissioned, authorities announced, promising to promptly restore the protective structure. Villagers were also left without water supply.
21:18, 30 May 2026
Participants in a march in Tbilisi spoke out against violence.
A march under the slogan "Together against violence and oppression" is taking place in Tbilisi on the 549th day of daily protests. Participants have called the beating of two Gori residents by security forces a sign of a systemic crisis in the police force.
20:00, 30 May 2026
The court rejected a lawsuit against the Krasnodar City Duma regarding a church on the embankment.
Activist Vitaly Cherkasov challenged the Krasnodar City Duma's decision regarding the embankment area where the church is planned to be built in the Krasnodar Regional Court, but the court rejected the claim. Cherkasov filed an appeal.
19:00, 30 May 2026
Satellite image shows plume near Tuapse seaport
Satellite images showed plumes extending seaward in the waters off Tuapse, near the port, Gizel-Dere, and Dederkoy, but this data cannot be used as 100% confirmation of oil pollution, according to the Transparent World project. Volunteers reported that the booms they installed were able to contain small emissions.
18:00, 30 May 2026
The PACE Committee proposed strengthening monitoring of Azerbaijan's compliance with human rights obligations.
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release all political prisoners, cease persecution of journalists, opposition figures, and human rights defenders, and expressed concern over Azerbaijan's failure to comply with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
17:00, 30 May 2026
Following farmers' protests, Armenian authorities have recommended selling tomatoes on the domestic market.
A representative of the Armenian Ministry of Economy met with farmers in the village of Arshaluys in the Armavir region, who had blocked the road the previous day due to the lack of a market for their tomatoes following Russia's import ban. He recommended that they sell their harvest at designated markets in Yerevan. The farmers countered that the journey was time-consuming, and prices were low due to tomato imports from Iran.
16:00, 30 May 2026
Armenia's Central Election Commission upheld the observer's accreditation.
The request by the leader of the Enlightened Armenia party to revoke the accreditation of Daniel Ioannisyan, a representative of the Independent Observer coalition and the Union of Informed Citizens public organization, for the elections was dismissed.
Video from Anapa beach, May 29, 2026, from the "Makovozovy" Telegram channel, https://t.me/makovozovy/61074
15:00, 30 May 2026
A video from an Anapa beach has alarmed social media users.
Clay ditches on a beach in Anapa were burned after rain, as seen on video. Some users expressed outrage at the quality of the imported sand, while others expressed hope that the sand dumped on the beaches would eventually wash out to sea.
14:00, 30 May 2026
Two defendants have been arrested in connection with the preparation of a terrorist attack in Tuapse.
An 18-year-old and a 17-year-old resident of Kuban, accused of preparing an explosion in an administrative building in Tuapse, have been taken into custody.
13:08, 30 May 2026
The emergency zone in Taganrog has been expanded following an air strike.
The state of emergency declared after the missile attack was expanded today due to new damage from the drone strike. Authorities received over 20 complaints from residents about broken windows in homes and buildings.
12:11, 30 May 2026
Fines imposed on Dagestan residents for social media logos have outraged Telegram users.
In May, at least six people in Dagestan were fined for displaying the Instagram* logo on signs and in posts. Telegram users considered the security forces' zeal excessive.
11:12, 30 May 2026
Gas supply to five Dagestani villages has been interrupted following a landslide.
A landslide damaged a gas pipeline in the Buinaksk region, leaving residents of five villages without gas.
A serviceman in a courtroom. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
10:13, 30 May 2026
A soldier was convicted in Nalchik for leaving his unit.
A court in Nalchik sentenced Valery Tyshchenko to a prison term, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization. A month earlier, the soldier had already been convicted on a similar charge.
News
Kuban authorities filed a lawsuit against the Taganrog aircraft plant.

Ablaev's defense appealed the verdict.

Three residents of Kuban were injured during a drone strike.

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.