On April 7–8, 1995, during the first Russian-Chechen war, Russian troops, carrying out a cleansing operation in the village of Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan region, killed, according to various estimates, at least one hundred civilians.

To assess payment discipline in a regional context, the RIA Novosti agency conducted a study and compiled a rating of constituent entities of the Russian Federation by the share of overdue debt of the population based on data from the Central Bank. Ingushetia turned out to be an outsider in the rating. In the republic, 11.8% of loans are overdue.

A court in Baku sentenced activist of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) Elbeyi Karimli to 6 years in prison. He was found guilty of drug possession.

A court in the Stavropol Territory imposed six fines of 30 thousand rubles each on local resident Vitaly Fedorenko. He was found guilty of discrediting the Russian army.

The Narimanov District Court of Baku extended the arrest of Tofig Yagublu, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Musavat party, for two months.

The Russian Foreign Ministry assessed the US-EU-Armenia meeting as “another attempt by the “collective West” to drag the South Caucasus into a geopolitical confrontation.”

Dozens of residents of the village of Adigeni in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region in Georgia, together with Orthodox priests, gathered for a protest. They tried to prevent fellow Muslim villagers from holding Friday prayers.

A joint press conference was held in Brussels by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Since 2018, from the day of his arrest, due to a long stay in a pre-trial detention center and colony of the Tambov region No. 1, Server Mustafayev developed heart problems. The human rights organization Front Line Defenders sent a complaint to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation about the failure to provide medical care to the Crimean Tatar, after which he was prescribed a full heart examination.

The adoption of a law on foreign agents or foreign influence is an action against the strengthening of democratic institutions in Georgia. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated this at a press conference.