A series of rallies took place in Tbilisi against the resumption of air communication with Russia and the abolition of visas between the countries. The day before, the head of the opposition United National Movement party, Khabeishvili, called on people to come out to the building of the country's Foreign Ministry.

The proportion of the population of Georgia who believes that one should be proud of Joseph Stalin (Dzhugaashvili) has decreased to 37%. 

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order pardoning 801 people. It is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of former President Heydar Aliyev.

To buy a two-room apartment in a new building, the average resident of Chechnya and HRC will have to save 14.6 and 15.2 years, respectively.

For the first time since 1991, the resident population of Armenia fell below 3 million people. 

In the channel of movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars «Atesh» there was a record, which says that the Kremlin propagandist and TV presenter Zakhar Prilepinym hunted since the beginning of the year. 

In the first quarter of 2023, Russians transferred $1.2 billion to Armenia. This is five times more than in the same period of 2022, according to the Central Bank of Armenia.

About 50 per cent of the graduates of general education schools in the North Caucasus leave their regions and go to megacities. The same applies to 20% of graduates of the SFD. This was reported by the rector of the North Caucasus University Dmitry Bespalov during the Caucasus Investment Exhibition. 

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. 

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.