In Dagestan and Chechnya, nearly 263,000 people (234,000 in the former and over 29,000 in the latter) applied for social benefits following the recent floods. Documentation issues remain the main obstacle to receiving assistance. Some victims registered their land plots but did not complete the necessary paperwork to build their homes.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze spoke harshly about his country's position compared to countries that have already received candidate status for negotiations with the European Union. According to him, Georgia is ahead of Ukraine and Moldova in virtually every key area—at least "head and shoulders, even ten."

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to the possible assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hill Hotel in Washington, D.C. He emphasized that "violence has no place in our democratic societies."

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office accused the opposition television channel TV Pirveli of spreading "further disinformation" after airing a report about Tamar Bezhuashvili, the prosecutor in the case of the attempted storming of the presidential palace. The office stated that this is the second time in the past six weeks that the channel has produced material related to the business activities of the prosecutor's father and is "completely unfoundedly" attempting to link it to her professional work.

Yakub Belkhoroev, 69, a former United Russia MP and former head of the Ingush Social Insurance Fund, was sentenced by Moscow's Presnensky Court to 10 years in prison. He was found guilty of embezzling nearly 14 million rubles.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's statement, calling it provocative and a distortion of historical facts. Speaking on the anniversary of the 1915 events, Mamdani linked the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to modern-day events, accusing Azerbaijan and Turkey of attacking Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 and "expelling" more than 100,000 people in 2023.

During a visit to Azerbaijan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his readiness to host trilateral talks with the US and Russia. He announced this on April 25 following a meeting with President Ilham Aliyev in Gabala—his first since 2019.

Yulia Volkova, a professor at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, found herself at the center of a scandal over offensive remarks directed at an Azerbaijani child. After photos of her former student Rashad Agayev's family were published, she called his daughter "ugly" and made derogatory remarks about the appearance of children in Azerbaijani families.

The Prosecutor's Office has requested a 12-year prison sentence in a general regime penal colony for Yakub Belkhoroev, the former head of the Ingush Social Insurance Fund, in Moscow's Presnensky Court. He is accused of embezzling nearly 14 million rubles in budget funds, distributed among close associates under the guise of insurance payments for fictitious industrial accidents.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry condemned the burning of the Turkish flag that took place on April 23 in Yerevan during a torchlight procession. The ministry stated that the Armenian authorities should have prevented the procession in a timely manner, calling it "an expression of deep-rooted ethnic hatred."