Russian authorities are preventing the parents of Crimean Tatar women from meeting with the ombudsman in Moscow. A delegation from Crimea traveling to meet with the human rights ombudsman was detained twice by police en route to the capital.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at the Paris Peace Forum that Yerevan and Ankara are close to establishing full diplomatic relations

Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, commented on the recent meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Around 30 human rights defenders and activists from the North Caucasus and Krasnodar Krai have demanded that the criminal prosecution of journalist Larisa Tuptsokova be dropped, declaring the absence of a crime.

Alan Khokhoev, a former police officer from North Ossetia, sentenced to 10 years in a maximum-security prison colony for torture resulting in death, died in the war with Ukraine.

Nika Gvaramia, the imprisoned leader of the Coalition for Change, commented on the ruling Georgian Dream party's lawsuit to ban some opposition parties.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court found Alim Shkakhov, a serviceman from Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

The youth wing of the Republican Party of Armenia held a protest in front of the parliament building in Yerevan under the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners!" According to the organizers, the picket was aimed against political oppression and persecution in the country.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has upheld the decision to extend the arrest of Ingushneft executive director Umar Balayev, who is accused of illegal oil production and other crimes. Balayev will remain in custody until November 20, bringing his total time in pretrial detention to more than eight months.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a 45-year-old man in Stavropol Krai on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. According to RIA Novosti, the detainee was planning to blow up a transportation facility.