Armenia is pursuing a balanced foreign policy, developing relations with the European Union and Russia within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with Turkish media.

There will be no fireworks in Stavropol on May 9 to celebrate Victory Day. Governor Vladimir Vladimirov cited a popular vote he held on social media – allegedly the majority of “voters” voted against it.

Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said that the new sentence, like the previous ones, was handed down to him on the personal order of the founder of the country's ruling party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

A fatal accident involving an armored personnel carrier and a Lada Priora occurred in the capital of Dagestan. As Baza reports, citing eyewitnesses, near house No. 57 on Karabudakhkentskoye Highway, a military vehicle crashed into a car driven by a man. The driver of the Lada died before the ambulance arrived.

The name of three-time Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling Buvaisar Saitiev will be given to one of the streets in the Akhmatovsky district of Grozny. Recently, the ethnic Chechen was buried in Dagestan.

60-year-old Rustem Virati died in a prison in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region. This was reported from Ukraine by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov.

The EU Monitoring Mission in Armenia is in fact an EU intelligence mission. This was stated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the opening ceremony of the 12th Global Baku Forum.

Crimean Tatar human rights activist Riza Izetov is constantly placed in the punishment cell of IK-1 in Yakutia. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Yerevan is ready for a full settlement of diplomatic relations with Ankara without preconditions, as well as for the opening of the land border. This was stated by the Special Representative of Armenia for the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations Ruben Rubinyan.

A criminal case against three employees of the private sanatorium "Medis" in Nalchik has been sent to court. In the dock are the director of the institution Ruslan Ozrokov, neurologist Mukhadin Uzdenov and nurse Marianna Aloyeva. They are accused of violating sanitary standards, which led to the mass infection of people.