The former head of Nagorno-Karabakh, ex-citizen of the Russian Federation, billionaire Ruben Vardanyan went on a hunger strike in a Baku prison. He demanded his release, as well as the release of all Armenian political prisoners.

They want to tear Armenia away from the Russian Federation at an accelerated pace, but it receives the most benefits from the EAEU, 35% of its economy is tied to this. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this in an interview with Sputnik radio. According to him, the European Union and the United States are “shamelessly” separating Armenia from the Russian Federation.

Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin received the conclusion of a medical commission regarding the health of Zarema Musaeva. In the protocol, her diagnosis was changed - instead of type 2 diabetes with multiple complications diagnosed last year, diabetes without complications was indicated. It is not included in the list of diseases that allow convicts to be released for health reasons.

The head of the Meclis.info website, Imran Aliyev, was detained at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku. He intended to fly to Turkey for safety reasons.

The United States is disappointed by the Georgian parliament's decision to promote the Kremlin-inspired law on foreign agents. This was stated by US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

The TU-22M3 bomber plane crashed on the territory of the Krasnogvardeisky district of the Stavropol Territory. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the plane was returning from a combat mission.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on the Dagestan police officers, who the day before detained the Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Chechnya Alikhan Tsakaev, to be “expelled from the structures with a bang.”
According to him, the detention occurred without explanation. The minister did not have documents with him because he left on his day off.

An opponent of the law on foreign agents, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili spoke about the decision being discussed by parliament in an interview with CNN. According to her, the country's population will never allow a government that is clearly pro-Russian to remain its government, because it contradicts its basic existential choice.

In Urus-Martan, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB shot at a native of Chechnya and British citizen Magomed Abubakarov. He is seriously injured and hospitalized. The man was accused of using violence against a government official and illegal possession of weapons, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

Russia is waiting for a clear reaction and disavowal from Armenia after the leak of information about military-political agreements with the United States and the EU at a meeting in Brussels on April 5. This ultimatum was put forward to Yerevan by the Russian Foreign Ministry in the person of its representative Maria Zakharova.