Three suspects have been detained in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia over the killing of a 52-year-old man who was shot dead in his home in the town of Sunzha. According to media reports citing sources, the attack may have been motivated by one suspect's belief that the victim had cast a curse on his brother.

Rauf Arashukov, a former senator from Russia's Karachay-Cherkessia republic who is serving a life sentence, has announced a hunger strike at the Black Dolphin maximum-security penal colony in Russia's Orenburg region.

Armenia's parliament has elected Ruben Rubinyan, a senior member of the ruling Civil Contract party, a longtime ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Yerevan's special envoy in talks with Turkey, as the new speaker of the National Assembly.

Состояние четырех крымскотатарских политзаключенных из семьи Сейтумеровых, которые находятся в российских местах лишения свободы, продолжает ухудшаться. Несмотря на серьезные проблемы со здоровьем, они, как утверждают в Представительстве президента Украины в Автономной Республике Крым, не получают необходимой медицинской помощи.