Posters began to appear on the streets of Yerevan accusing the French Ambassador to Armenia Olivier Decottigny of corruption and calling on Paris to “leave the country.” According to the French publication Intelligence Online, this is being done by the Russian FSB, which is “trying to undermine Yerevan’s ties with the West.”

In Chechnya, as well as Tyva, the highest birth rate remains - 2.66 and 2.44 children per woman, respectively. In Altai, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Ingushetia, the birth rate varies between 1.8–2. This range no longer reproduces the population, according to Rosstat.

At a meeting with the leadership of security agencies and law enforcement agencies, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, instructed the security forces to be “in a state of constant combat readiness.”

A criminal case against two men has been transferred to the Southern District Military Court. They are accused of attacking military personnel in the Botlikh region in 1999 during the second Russian-Chechen war.

A court in Crimea approved the extension of the arrest until May 3 for those involved in the “second Dzhankoy” group, Ekrem Krosh, Aider Asanov, Leman Zekeryaev, Osman Abdurazakov and Refat Seidametov. Previously, Crimean Tatars were transferred from the Simferopol pre-trial detention center to the Rostov-on-Don detention center.

The US authorities want to put up for auction the yacht of Federation Council member from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov, worth over $300 million, confiscated as part of the sanctions.

In Pyatigorsk, the director of the department of socio-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) of the Ministry of Economic Development, Igor Khranovsky, was detained. A high-ranking official is suspected of embezzling budget funds.

The Nalchik City Court found local resident Rameta Lakunova guilty of discrediting the Russian armed forces and fined her 30 thousand rubles.

Armenia is looking forward to the start of negotiations on visa liberalization with the European Union within the framework of the Enhanced Partnership Agreement. This was announced by the speaker of the country's parliament Alen Simonyan.

An additional 29 tons of food were sent from Ingushetia to residents of the Gaza Strip. This was stated by the head of the region, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov.