Indebtedness on loans has sharply increased in the North Caucasus

Residents of the North Caucasus have taken loans, including mortgages, for 828 billion rubles. This is a record figure since 2010, according to the Central Bank.

Chechens must return 60.3 billion rubles to banks. In April last year, this figure was 49 billion rubles. 136 billion rubles - the total amount of loans in Dagestan (112 billion was in 2022). Residents of Ingushetia have to pay 12.2 billion rubles to the banks, and over the year the debt has grown by 2.2 billion rubles. In the KBR, the maximum debt of all time is 77 billion. In 2022, it amounted to 67 billion 57 billion rubles in the form of loans issued to residents of the KChR, over the year their debt increased by 9 billion rubles. In North Ossetia, the debt burden as of April amounted to 88 billion rubles. In 2022, as in other republics of the district, it was less - 74 billion rubles.

The debt of Russian residents to banks in April 2023 amounted to 28.2 trillion rubles, which is also the highest figure since 2010.

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