Armenia officially notified the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that it refrains from signing the decision "On the CSTO budget for 2024" and, accordingly, from participating in the financing of the bloc's activities. This was reported by the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova could neither confirm nor deny rumors that Georgian Dream-elected President Mikhail Kavelashvili has been invited to Moscow to celebrate Victory Day. SOVA reports on this.

A large-scale rally involving refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh took place in the capital of Armenia on March 29. Protesters pitched a tent on Freedom Square where their headquarters will be located, Novaya Gazeta Evropa reports. Some demonstrators held portraits of Russian businessman, former state minister of the unrecognized republic Ruben Vardanyan, who has been in a Baku prison since September 2023.

Information about which companies Medni Kadyrova, the official wife of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, is related to as a founder or co-owner has disappeared from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE). This observation was shared by the publication "Verstka".

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his entourage have been holding talks with representatives of Middle Eastern monarchies in recent months. They are unofficial and not coordinated with the Kremlin. Because of this, Kadyrov's relations with Putin have worsened, Vazhnye Istorii reports.

Russia will have to review the entire range of economic relations with Armenia if the republic joins the EU. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk.

A critical resolution on Georgia was adopted at the 48th session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, supported by 101 votes.

The Temporary Investigative Commission of the Parliament of Georgia to investigate the management of the "United National Movement" appealed to the prosecutor's office in connection with the failure of the leader of the opposition coalition "Strong Georgia" and the "Lelo" party Mamuka Khazaradze to appear at the meeting at the invitation of the deputies. It should be noted that refusing to testify to the commission is a criminal offense and provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to a year (Article 349 of the Criminal Code).

The Armenian Parliament has adopted in the second and final reading a bill on the beginning of the process of the country's accession to the European Union. The document states that Armenia "expresses the will of the Armenian people, setting itself the task of making the republic a safe, secure, developed and prosperous country."

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan said that his country's purchase of weapons from outside the CSTO bloc is a "diplomatic victory."