Soon Russia will celebrate May 9 and hang Georgian ribbons on its chest. This military symbol has nothing to do with the Great Patriotic War, but it symbolizes the victory of the Tsarist army over the Highlanders in the Caucasian War. Such an explanation was given by the historian and political scientist Mairbek Vachagaev.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala ordered the arrest of a fourth policeman suspected of torture and murder of a local resident in the police department. Criminal proceedings were instituted against him for abuse of authority.

Apartments on the secondary market of Russia for the year rose by 8%, according to Rosstat. The cost of 1 square meter. meter on average for the country was 91 thousand rubles. 
The most expensive «meter» - in Moscow (304 thousand rubles), Krasnodar region (177 thousand rubles) and Saint Petersburg (174 thousand). The cheapest «secondary» - in Ingushetia (45 thousand rubles), Kurgan region (52 thousand) and Kabardino-Balkaria (54 thousand).

In 2022, the number of residents with mental disorders in Chechnya increased from 13 to 14,000. In Dagestan their number increased from 3,500 to 4,500. This is stated in the report of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan congratulated the people on Citizen’s Day. He noted that there are no political prisoners in the country, all information is available to the public through television, media, social networks, and public and economic activities are completely free. According to Pashinyan, the reason for all the failures, including the war with Azerbaijan, is that for many years the country lacked democracy, law and taboos.

Representatives of «Team against Torture» claimed that the evidence was falsified in one of the expert examinations in the case of Zarema Musayeva, accused of causing harm to the health of a police officer. 

Russia attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region and Uman with cruise missiles. In Uman, a rocket hit a residential high-rise building, killing at least 20 people.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay more than 129 million euros in compensation to Georgian citizens for violations of their rights during the 2008 war. Thus, compensation of 3.2 million euros is provided for the killing of at least 50 civilians (there were 116 applications), 2.7 million euros for 116 civilian victims of arbitrary detention and inhuman treatment, 640,000 euros - 16 Georgian prisoners of war tortured.

The Armenian newspaper "Graparak" writes that the US is exerting pressure on Armenia to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan as soon as possible. The preliminary version of the document should be signed by the end of May. It is mentioned that US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Olson, who recently visited Yerevan and Baku, brought with her a draft version. 

According to the North-Caucasian Statistics, in January-March 2023 Karachaevo-Cherkessia leads the CSFR in the growth of industrial production. The dynamics was 12.5%.