The Armenian authorities released Russian Yaroslav Inozemtsev, previously detained at the request of the Russian Federation. At home, he was declared wanted and accused of preparing to shoot at the school. The young man himself said that he was being persecuted for an anti-war position.

On May 3, the press service of the Russian president reported that the Kremlin was attacked by two drones. After this, regional leaders, one after another, began to introduce bans on the use of drones. Legislative and technological measures have been added to administrative measures, but UAVs continue to fly over Russian territory.

In the first quarter of the year Armenia took the fifth place in the ranking of the most popular destinations of foreign travel of Russians. 

At night, 26 Iranian drones attacked Kyiv, Dnieper and Zaporozhye. Most were shot down, no casualties.
As a result of the shelling of the Kherson region, 21 people were killed. 48 civilians were injured.

The subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District are allowed to write off (restructure) 38 billion rubles of public debt this year.

The highest percentage of the poor is found in Ingushetia, accounting for 30.5 per cent of the population of the Republic, which is 1.2 per cent higher than in 2021. 

The international non-governmental organization «Reporters without Borders» has released an annual world rating of freedom of speech. In it, Russia took the 164th place out of 180 possible, having dropped to 9 positions at once.

Crimean Tatar Uzeyir Abdullayev left the SHIZO colony in Salavat (Bashkortostan), where he spent 10 days. In total, the political prisoner spent more than 50 days in the punishment cell and suffers from an acquired heart defect.

A preparatory session was held at the Garadagh District Court in Baku on the case of Zamin Salaev, the head of the district organization of the Azerbaijan People’s Front Party. He stated that the criminal case against him was a political order, and in protest he went on hunger strike for 85 days.

The Day of the Return of the Karachay People to Their Homeland is celebrated every year on May 3. Sixty-six years ago, the first line arrived at the Erken-Shahara railway station with the deportees returning to their homeland. Today, at the Memorial to the victims of repression in Karachayevsk, local residents and authorities paid tribute to the memory of people who died on the way and during the years of exile in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.