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.