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.
The official shortage of teaching staff in Dagestan is more than 1,500 people. In addition, 323 vacancies are open in Karachay-Cherkessia, 246 in Kabardino-Balkaria, and 205 in Stavropol. These data were announced by the Presidential Envoy to the SCFD, Yury Chaika.
"One of the main reasons for the shortage of teachers is the low level of their salary. Yes, growth is recorded in the district. However, we understand that the official figures are not always objective: when calculating the average salary, sometimes payments to the management staff are included, or allowances are not taken into account," explained the Deputy Prime Minister at a meeting with the country's Minister of Education, Sergey Kravtsov.
According to Chaika, in 2024, 31 billion rubles were spent on the implementation of the national project on education in the SCFD. He emphasized that in order to solve the problem of shortage of personnel, it is necessary to support talented youth. Kravtsov, in turn, noted that it is necessary to reduce the workload on teachers to 1.4 rates so that their number in the staff corresponds to the number of students.