In an interview with Dozhd TV, Alen Simonyan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, commented on claims of an alleged confrontation between the authorities and the Armenian Apostolic Church. He stated that the conflict is not with the Church as an institution, but with specific members of the clergy.

Russian authorities have responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's claims of targeted strikes on the Azerbaijani embassy in Kyiv. The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed "bewilderment" over Aliyev's remarks, made at the Munich Security Conference.

The Cherkessk City Court of Karachay-Cherkessia has begun a hearing in the case of the theft of 519 million rubles from the Russian Pension Fund by an organized crime group. Among the 29 defendants are former heads of the Ingush postal service, Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov (brother of the republic's head, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov) and Kambulat Sukiyev. Both of them, like the other 27 defendants, have pleaded not guilty.

The Armenian Prosecutor's Office has launched a criminal investigation against Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. Lawyer Ara Zohrabyan reported that his client has been banned from leaving the country. He believes this is being done to disrupt the Bishops' Council planned for Austria.