The Armenian authorities allowed US citizen Eric Thomas Creamer to leave for his homeland. Russia demanded that Yerevan extradite him as a person accused of drug possession.

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov awarded film director and TV presenter Nikita Mikhalkov with the title of Honored Artist of Chechnya. In response, the latter gave Kadyrov 50 episodes of the Besogon TV program on a flash drive made in the shape of a pen.

Famous Israeli MMA fighter Haim Gozali has published an offensive post about Khabib Nurmagomedov's brother. On the social network X, he posted a photo in which he is holding a combat weapon with an obscene inscription about Usman Nurmagomedov. The photo is accompanied by a description in Hebrew. More details in our video.

It has been 10 years since Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, and for more than 900 days Russia has been waging its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine. With this speech, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili addressed the participants of the fourth Crimea Platform summit via video.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again expressed his support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine. He also voiced Turkey's position on Crimea, which was annexed by Russia.

The district police departments and district inspectorates in Crimea received the so-called "recruitment" standard - the number of detainees who must sign a contract with the Russian army in exchange for the removal of criminal liability for the act. This was reported by the human rights initiative "Tribunal. Crimean Episode", citing a source in the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A Baku court sentenced French citizen Clerk Theo Hugo to 3 years in prison for graffiti in the capital's metro. It is noteworthy that citizens of New Zealand and Austria - De-Saint Quentin Ismael and Khan Paul, respectively - were sentenced to fines for similar offenses. Lawyer Elchin Sadigov is going to appeal.

The active phase of the Collective Security Treaty Organization exercises has started at a training ground on Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. About 1,500 troops from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are involved, the SputnikARM Telegram channel reports.

Armenia sent a large number of Soviet-style air defense systems to Ukraine, as well as missiles for them. This information was shared by Russian blogger and former military pilot Ilya Tumanov. He claims that the systems transferred were S-300, Buk, Osa, and Tor.

Запущен переговорный процесс между Арменией и Европейским Союзом по вопросу либерализации визового режима. Вице-председатель Европейской комиссии Маргаритис Скинас назвал это историческим событием. О том, что стороны планируют начать такой диалог, стало известно из официального пресс-релиза, анонсирующего визит Схинаса в Ереван.