The son of the head of Chechnya, 18-year-old Adam Kadyrov, has received the title of Hero of the Republic for the second time. He was first awarded in October 2023 after the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in the Koran arson case, in a pretrial detention center.

The Strong Armenia party, affiliated with Russian oligarch Samvel Karapetyan, sent a request to the Central Electoral Commission demanding the annulment of the Armenian parliamentary election results.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to a question about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had congratulated his party on its victory in the parliamentary elections.

The Russian Ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, returned to Yerevan after consultations in Moscow and resumed his diplomatic duties.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused the European Union of attempting to directly control the election campaign in Armenia. 

Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, announced that the European Union is making the imposition of sanctions against Russia a condition for maintaining the country's visa-free status. According to him, Brussels is insisting that Tbilisi join the anti-Russian sanctions.

Journalists from the independent Georgian investigative platform iFact published a report stating that a cargo of petroleum products linked to a tanker under international sanctions arrived at the port of Kulevi.

A criminal case has been opened against billionaire Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia party. He is accused of large-scale tax evasion. He has been placed under a travel ban from Armenia.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated that the European Union's decisions regarding various countries are dictated by political considerations, not by a commitment to democratic principles and human rights. He noted that European institutions ignored serious violations in Georgia under previous governments and are now applying similar tactics to other countries, granting them candidate status or opening EU membership negotiations.

The opposition party "For Georgia" has declared that Russia has begun a new phase in its quest to incorporate Georgian territory into the Russian Federation. This refers to the Tskhinvali Region, or the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia.