On May 20, 2001, employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies (it is not known who exactly the Human Rights Center “Memorial”) took Khas-Magomed Tsugaev from his home in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Urus-Martan District.

In the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region, 5 people were wounded, including an 11-year-old child, as a result of Russian shelling from Grad multiple launch rocket systems.

In March of this year, overdue debts to banks from individual entrepreneurs increased from 43 to 70 million rubles.

On May 19, in Chechnya, security forces allegedly kidnapped two nephews of the head of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev. It is reported by "Caucasus. Realities”, referring to eyewitnesses of the incident.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia for the summit of the Arab League (LAS). He was accompanied by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev.

On May 19, 2001, at about 2 pm near the food market in the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny (not far from the crossroads of the road from the city center to the village of Staraya Sunzha), a white VAZ-2107 car was fired upon from a passing convoy of Russian military men.

On May 19, a judge of the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk removed his wife and public defender Aisha Mutaeva from the court hearing in the case of Apti Visaev, accused of preparing a terrorist attack. The woman is prohibited from attending the trial until the verdict. The reason was video recordings allegedly made by her in court and published on social networks.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, where the trial in the case of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, accused of financing terrorism, has announced a new expert opinion on the case. Nothing extremist was found again in Hajiyev's publications.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Ukraine has begun using British long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles capable of striking at a distance of up to 290 kilometers.

Today, in protest against the resumption of air traffic with the Russian Federation at the airport. Rustaveli gathered hundreds of people in Tbilisi. They expressed dissatisfaction with the passengers who arrived on the first direct flight from Moscow to Tbilisi in four years.