The smallest share of workers with salaries above the national average are in Ingushetia and Chechnya

The smallest share of workers with salaries above the national average is recorded in the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District. This follows from the rating published by RIA Novosti.

The last places – from 85th to 83rd – are occupied by Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria, respectively, where the share of workers with salaries above the national average does not exceed 6.6%, 6.7% and 8.6%. At the same time, in all three regions, the share of those who receive more than two national average salaries is the same – 1.6%.

The situation is slightly better in Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia, which took 81st and 80th places. In Dagestan, 9.7% of employees with salaries above the national average were recorded, while only 1.8% receive twice as much. In the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, these figures are 10.2% and 2%, respectively.

North Ossetia is in 74th place in the rating, where 13.1% receive salaries above the Russian average, twice as much – 2.1%. In Stavropol Krai, which took 73rd place, the figures are slightly higher – 13.6% and 3.2%, respectively.

The leaders in the share of employees with high salaries among Russian regions were Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (65.8%), Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (54.2%) and Magadan Oblast (53.3%).

Последние новости
Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus Federal District are among the worst regions in terms of personal income
Economy
Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus Federal District are among the worst regions in terms of personal income
15 December 2025

Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus have the lowest personal income levels in Russia. In the RIA Novosti rating, Ingushetia ranked 85th, with a per capita income to cost ratio of 1.20 and a per capita income of 26,800 rubles per month, the lowest in the country.

A political prisoner who wrote
Human rights
A political prisoner who wrote "Stalin" on a monument to Heydar Aliyev has died in an Azerbaijani prison
15 December 2025

Elbai Karimli, a 23-year-old activist for the opposition Popular Front Party, has died in an Azerbaijani prison. He was previously recognized as a political prisoner and sentenced to five years for writing "Stalin" on a monument to Heydar Aliyev, the former president and father of current President Ilham Aliyev.

The court upheld the sentences of those convicted in the murder of a Dagestani journalist
Human rights
The court upheld the sentences of those convicted in the murder of a Dagestani journalist
15 December 2025

On December 15, 2011, Khadzhimurad Kamalov, the founder of the Chernovik newspaper, was murdered in Makhachkala. Fourteen years after the tragedy, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentences of those found guilty of the murder.

Armenia has asked the European Union for support in resisting Moscow's election interference
Politics
Armenia has asked the European Union for support in resisting Moscow's election interference
15 December 2025

Armenia has requested EU assistance in protecting itself from possible interference in its elections, fearing destabilizing actions by Russia. This was stated by the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas.