Four residents of Dagestan are being held in a Rostov-on-Don pretrial detention center on terrorism charges. Investigators claim they planned to set fire to a military base in Makhachkala on behalf of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment (banned in Russia), but the defendants deny their guilt and call the case fabricated.

The Chechen Human Rights Commissioner, Mansur Soltayev, described an attempted fraud using his voice. He said he received a call from an unknown number, who began talking incoherently.

Following Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, on behalf of his Chechen colleagues in parliament, responded to criticism from General and deputy Vladimir Shamanov regarding the renaming of several cities in the republic.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, in an interview with the Polish television channel TVP World, stated that Yerevan does not share the preconditions for signing a peace treaty promoted by Azerbaijan.

A native of Kabardino-Balkaria, Circassian activist Martin Kochesokov was found guilty by the republic's Baksan District Court of violating the law on "foreign agents." A fine of 3,000 rubles was imposed for failing to submit reports to the Ministry of Justice, as required by law for "foreign agents."

Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, reacted strongly to criticism from State Duma deputy General Vladimir Shamanov of the initiative to rename the villages of Naurskaya and Shelkovskaya (now Nevre and Terek). He called Shamanov's claims of "erasing history" "lies and an insult to the people who live on this land."

The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has remanded Mikhail Nadezhin, head of the Main Directorate of the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Emergency Situations, in pretrial detention for two months. He is accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale.

Dagestani MMA fighter Erziman Bayramov has been charged with hooliganism following a conflict with a passerby in the city of Murino in the Leningrad Region.

On the sidelines of the 7th European Political Community Summit in Copenhagen, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met. The parties noted the significance of the Washington Agreements and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthening peace.

The German Foreign Ministry summoned Georgia's Chargé d'Affaires to protest aggressive statements directed at German Ambassador Peter Fischer. The ministry emphasized that such rhetoric from Georgian authorities is unacceptable and must cease.