The International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed strong disapproval of the prison terms requested by the prosecutor for nine activists and journalists from Toplum TV, which range from 13 to 16 years. Gulnoza Said, CPJ program coordinator, emphasized that such harsh punishments demonstrate the Azerbaijani authorities' desire to respond to courageous reporting and sow a climate of fear.
Over the first five months of 2025, the commissioning of new housing in the North Caucasus Federal District decreased by 28.5% to 3.1 million square meters. The most pronounced negative dynamics are in Dagestan, where the figure fell almost threefold (to 624.9 thousand square meters).
In general, in the Russian Federation, the volume of housing commissioning in January-May 2025 increased by 2% compared to the same period last year. The leaders are the Moscow Region (5.7 million square meters, +29.9%), Krasnodar Krai (2.8 million square meters, +15.9%), Moscow (2.2 million square meters, +44.3%) and Tatarstan (2 million square meters, -10.4%).
At the same time, about 5.9 million square meters were commissioned in May across the country, the volume of commissioning decreased by 16.2%.