Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the criminal case against the mayor of Gyumri. She emphasized that "arguments in favor of cooperation with Russia cannot be qualified as a call to undermine sovereignty."

Chechnya's Mufti, Salah Mezhiyev, issued a statement in response to criticism from Russia's Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar. In it, he accused "atheists and Ukrainian Satanists" of misinterpreting his words, and the rabbi himself of making hasty statements without verifying the facts. This refers to Mezhiyev's comment on the program "Chechen History. War and Peace," in which he discussed atheism as a "movement born of the Jews."

At a meeting of the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly held in Yerevan, representatives of the ruling Civil Contract party rejected a proposal calling on Azerbaijan to guarantee the collective and safe return of Karabakh residents to their homes, backed by international guarantees.

In an interview on a Chechen television channel, the Mufti of Chechnya, Salah Mezhiyev, called Jews "enemies of Allah" and "the founders of atheism." The comment was made on the program "Chechen History. War and Peace," where Mezhiyev, who is also the head of the Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, discussed apostasy.

A Crimean Tatar delegation traveling from Crimea to Moscow to meet with the human rights ombudsman was detained for the third time in 24 hours. The delegation consisted of 16 people, including the parents of the arrested women, Esma Nimetulayeva, Elviza Aliyeva, Nasiba Saidova, and Fevziye Osmanova, lawyer Nazim Sheikhmambetov, and Crimean Tatar elders.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has declared the opposition movement Niyso an extremist organization and banned its activities in the Russian Federation. The ruling was based on a lawsuit filed by the regional prosecutor.

Russian authorities are preventing the parents of Crimean Tatar women from meeting with the ombudsman in Moscow. A delegation from Crimea traveling to meet with the human rights ombudsman was detained twice by police en route to the capital.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at the Paris Peace Forum that Yerevan and Ankara are close to establishing full diplomatic relations

Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, commented on the recent meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Around 30 human rights defenders and activists from the North Caucasus and Krasnodar Krai have demanded that the criminal prosecution of journalist Larisa Tuptsokova be dropped, declaring the absence of a crime.