On May 19, the press services of the FSB and the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) released a statement announcing that a series of terrorist attacks had been thwarted in Stavropol Krai and that nine residents of the Andropovsky District had been detained for planning attacks on police officers during the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. Seven of those detained are minors; all face up to 20 years in prison.

On May 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the Admission of Citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia to the Citizenship of the Russian Federation." The document regulates a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the self-proclaimed republics, which most countries recognize as part of Georgia.

On May 14, mass arrests of suspected members of a terrorist cell began in Kabardino-Balkaria. During a two-day operation in Nalchik and Nartan, security forces detained 48 people. Their relatives claim that during the searches, officers planted SIM cards in the suspects' homes to fabricate charges.

On May 13, Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya and activist with the opposition movement 1ADAT (designated extremist and banned in Russia), was detained in Almaty after escaping from the Shali District Police Department. At the request of Chechen police, he was placed on an international wanted list as a suspect in attempted extortion. A court in Kazakhstan ordered his arrest for 40 days, though his defense insisted on the arrest, fearing Kadyrov's men would kidnap him if released.

On May 12, the RIA Rating agency published a ranking of Russian regions based on salary trends. Using statistical data, researchers calculated how many years it would take for each region to earn half its workers 100,000 rubles per month. Seven regions of the North Caucasus were in the bottom ten.

On May 7, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov announced that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev would not attend the May 9 parade on Red Square. The cancellation of the visit is further evidence of rising tensions between the countries.

On May 5, Islam Seynaroyev, the former head of the Ingush branch of the Russian Pension Fund, was detained in Turkey at the request of Russian authorities. He is suspected of organizing a criminal group and embezzling pensions on an especially large scale. Investigators believe that one of his accomplices is Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov, the brother of the head of the republic, who is currently in custody.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced 21-year-old medical student and civil activist Giorgi Mindadze to 5 years in prison. He was found guilty of "assaulting a police officer" (Article 353 of the Criminal Code). The article provides for 4 to 7 years in prison.

On May 6, North Ossetian leader Sergei Menyailo appointed Yuriy Abayev, a former Russian army officer and veteran of the war in Ukraine, as the republic's Minister of Labor and Social Protection. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense considers him a war criminal due to his soldiers' involvement in the execution of Ukrainian soldiers.

On the afternoon of May 5, a traffic police patrol was attacked in Makhachkala. Two police officers and one of the attackers were killed. Five people, including bystanders, were wounded. Investigators later reported that the militants' actions were coordinated from abroad.