It's been a year and eight months since there have been any fatalities on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a result of gunfire. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reiterated this.

Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation, announced Russia's readiness to fully resume humanitarian cooperation with Azerbaijan.

Germany deported to Georgia 12 relatives of former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was killed in Berlin by an FSB officer. On October 23, police broke down the door to Zelimkhan's brother's apartment in Wünsdorf, Brandenburg. That same day, he and his family were taken to Berlin Airport. Learn more in our video.

Vardan Ghukasyan, the mayor of Gyumri, Armenia's second-largest city by population, has been charged with new statements regarding his comments on a possible union with other states. Investigators have characterized these statements as "public calls to renounce the country's sovereignty" (Article 422, Part 2 of the Armenian Criminal Code). The defense claims the charges are politically motivated, citing international norms.

As a result of mutual agreements between Moscow and Baku, a detainee exchange took place. Russia released Yusif Khalilov, the leader of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Voronezh, in response to Azerbaijan's release of Yevgeny Belousov, editor-in-chief of Sputnik Azerbaijan.

German authorities deported 48 people to Georgia, including the brother and other relatives of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen field commander and Georgian native killed in 2019.

Prominent Azerbaijani opposition blogger, human rights activist, and former political prisoner Mehman Huseynov published a video with the caption: "The thief Ilham Aliyev and his family are agents of Russia. The Aliyev family has occupied our country."

Russia has added Ruslan Suleymanov, an Azerbaijani orientalist and employee of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) and the CBC-Azerbaijan television channel, to its list of foreign agents.

Political prisoner Darya Polyudova, serving her sentence in Correctional Colony No. 8 in Kostroma, has declared a hunger strike. She is drinking only water. This decision is due to the pressure she is facing in the prison colony.

The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported the arrest of three Gyumri mayor's office employees. They are accused of coercing citizens into participating in a protest in support of the arrested mayor, Vardan Ghukasyan.