The average salary for a kindergarten teacher in Russia in 2023, according to Rosstat, was 48.1 thousand rubles. The lowest figures are in Chechnya (25.4 thousand), Ingushetia (26.2 thousand), Karachay-Cherkessia (27.5 thousand) and Dagestan (28.5 thousand).

Among the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the regions of the Far East are recognized as the most responsible in terms of business repayment of bank loans. Payment discipline is worst developed in the republics of the North Caucasus, RIA Novosti reported.

Well-known human rights journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova was charged with justifying terrorism. Today she was detained and sent to the Moscow temporary detention center. Tomorrow they will choose a preventive measure.

While visiting his brother’s grave on Easter on the territory of the “self-proclaimed republic” of South Ossetia, Georgian citizen Ramaz Begeluri was kidnapped for the fifth time. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili commented on this event.

In Moscow, security forces searched the home of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova. She herself was taken to the investigative department of the Basmanny District.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will not attend the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan. The inauguration is scheduled for May 7.

Russia's plan to turn the Ochamchira port in Abkhazia into a military base aims to transfer the confrontation to the Black Sea, including into Georgian territorial waters. US Assistant Secretary of State and Sanctions Policy Coordinator Jim O’Brien recalled this.

The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, became the best Russian city in terms of quality of life in 2024. This is stated in a study by sociologists from a university under the government of the Russian Federation.

Responsibility for what is happening today or will happen tomorrow in Georgia lies with the government. The second initiation of the bill “on foreign agents” was a provocation. This was stated by the country's President Salome Zurabishvili during a meeting with ambassadors of EU member states.

Previously convicted, Ivan Kumov, who returned from the war in Ukraine, beat to death a veteran of the war in Chechnya, Alexei Khudyakov. This happened in Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region.