Arrested Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan has been hospitalized due to a sharp deterioration in his health. According to his lawyer, Zaruhi Postanjyan, Ghukasyan fell ill in pretrial detention and was taken to the Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center. According to preliminary reports, he has been diagnosed with diabetes. There were earlier reports of nutritional problems following his arrest.

For the first time since the 1990s, Russian Railways sent a shipment of wheat to Armenia via Azerbaijan. The Russian Ministry of Transport reported that the shipment of over 1,000 tons of wheat from Dimitrovgrad station (Ulyanovsk Oblast) to Armenia was made possible by the resumption of freight transit.

The opening of new transport routes between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey poses a serious threat to Georgia's logistics industry. According to expert estimates, the country risks losing a significant portion of its transit cargo flow, amounting to 2 million tons, or 15-20% of the Middle Corridor's volume.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, currently in China, commented on the report on European Union enlargement. He stated that the injustice and distortion of facts by European bureaucracy have led to a gradual decline in Georgia's trust in the European Union and the EU as a whole.

The head of Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office reported.

On National Unity Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky to Archbishop Yezras, head of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Representatives of other major religious denominations in Russia also received awards.

On November 3, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made several statements that did not go unnoticed by the Armenian side. Specifically, he said that Azerbaijanis "must return to their historical lands" [referring to the territory of modern-day Armenia], "not in tanks, but in cars." He emphasized that this prospect "should not frighten the people or the state of Armenia."

The Constitutional Court of Georgia has begun hearing a lawsuit filed by the country's parliament to ban three opposition groups. The document, supported by 88 MPs from the ruling Georgian Dream party, challenges the legality of the United National Movement, Coalition for Change, and Strong Georgia – Lelo parties.

Speaking at the International Forum "Building Peace and Multilateral Cooperation" in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the potential return of Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh could pose a threat to the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He emphasized that this issue could lead to the original parameters of the conflict.

Armenian-Georgian relations have been jeopardized by the Euronest resolution, which expressed concern about the state of democracy in Georgia. Armenian parliamentarians who supported the resolution faced harsh criticism from Tbilisi.