Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivered a speech in Armenian at the expanded summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek. The Kremlin described this as a "signal" regarding Armenia's sovereignty but admitted it "did not understand" why the statement could not have been made in Russian.
The Investigative Committee refused to open criminal proceedings against a serviceman from Nalchik, Dmitry Akhmaev. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities". According to the decision of the Nalchik garrison military court, the man was injured in an explosion on the territory of the military unit. At the same time, there were no reports from the Ministry of Defense and the Investigative Committee about the explosion.
The documents received by the 316th military investigative department do not contain information about what exactly exploded in the unit, what damage Akhmaev received, and on what basis he was denied initiating a case.
Upon repeated appeal to the investigator, already with the requirement to qualify what happened as an attempted murder, the victim again received a refusal.