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09:59, 17 May 2026
A university building in Azov was damaged after a drone attack.
The military shot down drones in Azov and three districts of the Rostov region. The attack damaged a building belonging to a technical university branch.
Pilgrims at the Al-Haram Mosque. Photo: Al Jazeera English https://ru.wikipedia.org
08:57, 17 May 2026
The first group of Azerbaijani pilgrims set off for the Hajj.
The first group of 180 pilgrims departed Baku for Saudi Arabia today. The number of those wishing to perform the Hajj exceeded Azerbaijan's allocated quota, despite the increased cost of the trip.
Roadworks in the mountains of Dagestan. Photo: Ministry of Transport of Dagestan https://t.me/mintransRD/13475
07:59, 17 May 2026
Access to a Dagestani village has been restored.
Workers cleared the road to the village of Fite in the Agulsky district, which was blocked after a landslide.
Former internally displaced persons. May 16, 2026. Photo: APA https://ru.apa.az/sotsium/gruppy-pereselencev-pribyli-v-ryad-sel-xodzalinskogo-raiona-foto-obnovleno-651473
07:01, 17 May 2026
More than 40 Azerbaijani families have returned to villages in the Khojaly region.
One hundred and seventy-nine members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict have returned to six villages in the Khojaly district. They were given keys to their homes.
05:59, 17 May 2026
A contract soldier from Kotovo was killed in a military operation.
Nineteen-year-old Konstantin Kharakhorkin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,783 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.
04:56, 17 May 2026
A Muscovite was detained in the Rostov region for attempting to join a terrorist organization.
In the Rostov region, security forces detained a Moscow resident who was planning to cross the border into Ukraine and join a terrorist organization there.
03:56, 17 May 2026
Two families returned to the Agdere region
Two families of internally displaced persons returned to the village of Ashagy Oratag and were given keys to their private homes.
02:56, 17 May 2026
Accomplices of Safarbiy Napso convicted in Sochi
A Sochi court sentenced former employees of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department, accomplices of the former director of Safarbiya Napso, to prison terms ranging from two to six and a half years. They were found guilty of fraud and abuse of power.
01:57, 17 May 2026
An Armenian man committed suicide after being arrested for damaging an election poster.
Armen Hovhannisyan was detained for tearing down an election poster and then sent to Nubarashen Psychiatric Hospital, where he committed suicide.
00:58, 17 May 2026
Drones were shot down over Kuban and Rostov Oblast.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, drones were shot down over ten regions of the country, including Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast.
An Akhmat fighter beats a woman. Still from Sapa Kavkaz, May 16, 2026, https://t.me/sapakavkaz/7165.
23:59, 16 May 2026
Chechnya reportedly expelled a participant in the beating of women from the Akhmat club.
MMA fighter Jihad Yunusov, who assaulted two female neighbors over a domestic dispute, has been expelled from the Akhmat club. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the investigation. The Chechen authorities have responded much more harshly to incidents of insulting women from Kadyrov's families and those close to him, the blogger noted.
Participants in the march in Tbilisi. Screenshot from Publika photo from May 16, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1759768858755990&set=pcb.1759768995422643 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia).
23:05, 16 May 2026
Participants in a march in Tbilisi called for the release of Paata Burchuladze.
On the 535th day of daily protests, marchers in Tbilisi demanded the release of convicted protesters, including opera singer Paata Burchuladze.
22:13, 16 May 2026
Ten Strong Armenia supporters have been detained in connection with obstructing the ruling party's campaign.
Strong Armenia supporters at a Civil Contract election rally began chanting Samvel Karapetyan's name. They were detained on suspicion of obstructing election campaigning.
21:21, 16 May 2026
442 residents of a village in Kabardino-Balkaria are trapped due to the destruction of a bridge.
A temporary bridge washed out in the village of Gerpegezh in Kabardino-Balkaria, leaving 100 homes without transportation. Authorities attributed the bridge's destruction to precipitation.
20:20, 16 May 2026
Three soldiers from Kabardino-Balkaria were killed in the SVO zone.
Akhmed Teuvazhukov, Ruslan Nagoyev, and Islam Sizhazhev were killed in the military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 395 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.
The oil spill receded from the Anapa coastline day after day. Screenshot from Scanex photo: https://www.scanex.ru/company/news/vtoroy-katastroficheskiy-razliv-nefteproduktov-v-kerchenskom-predprolive-i-ego-evolyutsiya-v-chernom/
19:24, 16 May 2026
A change in wind speed allowed Anapa to avoid a second major beach pollution incident.
The oil spill discovered in the Black Sea on April 11 was presumably the result of a drone attack on a tanker. It skirted the coastline near Anapa and only slightly affected the Russian coast.
18:24, 16 May 2026
Residents of Dagestan reported delays in payments after the flood.
Residents of flood-affected areas of Dagestan complained that a month after the flood, they are still waiting for payments for lost property and financial assistance; some have had to submit applications multiple times.
17:24, 16 May 2026
Activists in Yerevan demanded the release of Russian political prisoners.
At a picket outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan, those gathered demanded the release of political prisoners.
16:23, 16 May 2026
"Strong Armenia" called the talk of a single opposition prime minister candidate slanderous.
The Strong Armenia Party demanded that Public Television refute reports that the opposition's sole candidate for prime minister is former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan.
15:23, 16 May 2026
An ecologist complained about the chaotic nature of the Tuapse beach cleanup.
The scale of pollution on Tuapse's beaches is significant, yet authorities are doing insufficient to address the issue, despite planning a full resort season. Volunteers at only a few beaches receive government support, while others lack both cleanup and equipment, the ecologist noted. Some volunteers said they are awaiting permission to begin their work.
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The court refused to reduce the sentence of a Romanian citizen convicted in Kuban.

Officials have given permission to open 58 beaches in Anapa.

Communists from Sochi linked pressure on party veterans to agreements with the authorities.

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.