Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova could neither confirm nor deny rumors that Georgian Dream-elected President Mikhail Kavelashvili has been invited to Moscow to celebrate Victory Day. SOVA reports on this.

Today, Muslims of the North Caucasus, together with their fellow believers from other Russian regions and around the world, celebrate Eid al-Fitr. This is one of the most ancient Muslim holidays, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, during which believers fasted, abstaining from food, drink and worldly pleasures from sunrise to sunset.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak held a meeting on improving the investment climate in the North Caucasus Federal District. He noted that in 2023-2024, the district achieved very good results in terms of investment growth rates - almost plus 20%.

A large-scale rally involving refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh took place in the capital of Armenia on March 29. Protesters pitched a tent on Freedom Square where their headquarters will be located, Novaya Gazeta Evropa reports. Some demonstrators held portraits of Russian businessman, former state minister of the unrecognized republic Ruben Vardanyan, who has been in a Baku prison since September 2023.

At the request of the Russian authorities, a native of Ingushetia was extradited from Egypt. The man is accused of committing terrorist crimes.

The defense and prosecution did not exercise their right to challenge the verdict of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova. On March 12, she was fined 600 thousand rubles in a case of justifying terrorism. The journalist spent almost a year in a pretrial detention center.

Information about which companies Medni Kadyrova, the official wife of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, is related to as a founder or co-owner has disappeared from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE). This observation was shared by the publication "Verstka".

In May, on the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, veterans will receive one-time regional payments. In particular, the head of Karachay-Cherkessia Rashid Temrezov announced the amount of 300 thousand rubles - this is in addition to the federal payments initiated by the President of the Russian Federation. Home front workers and widows of deceased war participants will receive a payment of 10 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put former Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria Murat Efendiev on the wanted list. He has been abroad since last year.