Azerbaijani Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva visited the former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh in the pretrial detention center of the State Security Service. She received and listened to Ruben Vardanyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, David Babayan and other prisoners, who are called "Karabakh separatists" in Baku.

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the complaint of Novaya Gazeta and its employees, filed in connection with threats from the Chechen leadership. The ECHR awarded the corresponding compensation: 7,500 euros to the newspaper, 9,800 euros each to its directors Dmitry Muratov and Sergei Kozheurov, as well as journalist Elena Milashina.

Four men were killed during a counter-terrorist operation in Kaspiysk, Dagestan. According to security forces, they were planning an attack on a law enforcement facility. When attempting to detain them, the attackers opened fire on traffic police officers.

The parents of Kurban Dalgatov, who died as a result of torture in the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala, held single-person pickets. They expressed their disagreement with the lenient sentence for one of the defendants, former employee of the criminal investigation department of the district department of internal affairs Islam Atavov. He made a deal with the investigation and was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan denied reports about intensifying ties with the Russian Federation. And, according to him, Armenian government officials have never had problems with visits to Moscow.

The Irkutsk Regional Court issued 12 sentences in the case of the riot of prisoners in IK-15 in Angarsk. Among the defendants is Chechen Khumay Khaidayev, sentenced to 17 years. He and the others were found guilty under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mass riots) and Part 3 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code (disorganization of the activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society).

The Supreme Court of Crimea approved the detention of Crimean Tatars Emir Kurtnezirov, Abibulla Semedlyaev, Rustem Mustafayev, Bakhtiyar Ablaev and Myrzaali Tazhibaev. According to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, the judge "simply took and rewrote" the investigator's assumptions in the ruling.

The Russian authorities expressed condolences over the death of multiple world and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, Chechen Buvaisar Saitiev.

Amid mass protests in Georgia, which have been going on for 96 days, three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia – have expanded sanctions against the Georgian authorities. Several dozen officials and judges have been declared persona non grata.

Two servicemen from Chechnya, with the support of the SBU, defected to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They decided to serve in the Sheikh Mansur Battalion, which is fighting for Ukraine.