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%.  

On April 28, searches were carried out at the office of the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” in Nizhny Novgorod and at the home addresses of three of its employees. The reason was a criminal case initiated in North Ossetia, which was handled by CPT lawyers.

On April 28, in the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny, where the trial of the mother of oppositionists Yangulbaevs, Zarema Musaeva, was underway, her defenders demanded that the results of one of the examinations be excluded from the evidence in the case. We were talking about the study of nail sections on which the blood of a police officer who was injured by Musaeva’s attack was allegedly found.

Access to pre-school education for children up to the age of seven is 100 per cent in the Chechen Republic. This was announced by the head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Misostin in Moscow.