At a meeting with journalists in Yerevan, the head of the country's Foreign Ministry, Ararat Mirzoyan, said that if there is trust between Armenia and Turkey and there is an open border, local border guards will be able to protect it instead of the Russian ones. He also noted that the issue of withdrawing the 102nd Russian base from Armenia has not yet been resolved.

Armenia has sent proposals to Azerbaijan on two non-agreed points of the peace agreement and is ready to sign it in the event of a positive response. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan.

Vladimir Karasev, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, called the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, "offended" and a "scumbag". This happened after the head of state accused the Russian authorities of the crash of the Embraer passenger plane.

The head of the Cabinet of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, reacted to the decision of the Chairman of the OSCE PA, Pia Kauma, to postpone his visit to Tbilisi. He recalled that he had repeatedly spoken with Kaum about "liberal fascism", the manifestation of which, according to the prime minister, she experienced this time herself.

The President of the OSCE PA, Pia Kauma, announced her cancellation on the eve of her planned visit to Georgia.

On January 17, the first session of the Baku Military Court in the case of former Minister of State of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan will be held. He will be tried for mercenary, financing of terrorism, attempt to seize power, as well as other criminal articles. Vardanyan may face life imprisonment. He went on hunger strike twice in the pre-trial detention center.

On February 15, early presidential elections will be held in the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia. Five candidates submitted documents to the CEC: acting of President Badra Gunba, ex-Minister of Economy, leader of the Abkhaz People's Movement Adgur Ardzinba, former trade representative of Abkhazia in Moscow Oleg Bartsits, ex-head of the Control Chamber Robert Arshba and chairman of the board of the commercial bank "Black Sea Development Bank" Adgur Khurkhumal.

The coast of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan is filled with dead seals thrown from the sea. Their remains on the shore near the Novolak district hospital are in the stage of decomposition.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a long interview to the American podcaster of Ukrainian origin Lex Friedman. Commenting on Vladimir Putin's policy in Ukraine, Zelensky cited the war in Chechnya as an example. He metaphorically noted that the President of Russia was destroying Chechens "with love" - ​​"suffocating in his arms."

Investigators began an investigation into the incident in the village of Essentukskaya, Predgorny District, Stavropol Territory. At school No. 7, during the New Year's celebration, some students took out the flags of Armenia and Greece at the dance and started waving them. The teacher reacted to the situation by taking away the flags from the schoolchildren.