The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are ready for long-term peace in the region. This was stated by EU President Charles Michel after trilateral talks in Brussels.

May 14, 2001 in Tsa-Vedeno, Vedeno district, Russian soldiers shot and killed a young local resident. His funeral was witnessed by employees of the Danish Refugee Council, who were distributing humanitarian aid in this locality.

The Coordinating Council of Adyghe public associations was refused by the KBR government to hold days of memory of the victims of the Caucasian War. They were supposed to be held on May 20 and 21.

Islam Mambetov, an accountant from the village of Zalucokoje, was detained in Kabardino-Balkaria. In his publications in social networks, he called Russia a «bastard state», and posts in Instagram were marked with the Ukrainian flag.

May 13, 2001

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In the Chechen regional center of Vedeno, during the “cleansing” operation, the Russian military took away four local residents in an unknown direction. Their further fate is unknown.

As part of an official visit to the Italian Republic and the Vatican, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky met with Pope Francis.

Six opposition parties in Georgia issued a joint statement under the slogan "Let's do everything so that the country irreversibly embarks on the path to the European Union and NATO."

A "Wall of Remembrance" was opened in Baku for Azerbaijanis who died in the battles for Ukraine. This was announced by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Azerbaijan.

May 12, 2001

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At 4.30 in the village of Geldagana (New Life) of the Kurchaloevsky district, the Russian military surrounded the house of Khamdi Khumadievich Gerikhanov, born in 1954, and then broke into it and killed his son, Umar, born in 1982.

Slavyansk, Konstantinovka and Zaporozhye were subjected to Russian rocket attacks, there were dead and wounded.