The police detained former and current employees of the Rosseti Northern Caucasus company on suspicion of theft of about 2.8 billion rubles. TASS reported this.

Closed hearings on the issue of border delimitation with Azerbaijan were held in the Armenian parliament. Speaker Alen Simonyan did not rule out the possibility of refusing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.

Answering a question about the impact of the law on foreign agents initiated by the Georgian authorities, EU Ambassador to Georgia Pavel Gerchinsky said that it is incompatible with European norms and values.

The Supreme Court of Crimea supported the decision of the court in Simferopol and approved a fine for Crimean Tatar journalist Lutfiya Zudieva in the amount of 2.5 thousand rubles under the article on abuse of freedom of speech. She plans to appeal to the cassation court.

In the suburbs of Nalchik, security forces shot and killed two people. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, those killed “were planning to commit sabotage and terrorist attacks.”

The international media protection organization Reporters Without Borders condemned the refusal of the Azerbaijani authorities to provide the founder of Toplum TV, Alasgar Mammadli, with access to medical care. He had previously been diagnosed with cancer.

Anatoly Shchetinin, detained by Russian military police in Armenian Gyumri, is still in Armenia. The country's authorities do not allow him to be deported to the Russian Federation, where he faces criminal charges for desertion and refusal of military service.

A criminal case was opened against a feminist, a native of the KBR, Zalina Marshenkulova, for “justifying terrorism.” According to investigators, she posted publications in the public channel of the Telegram messenger that justified the murder of the Russian “military correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky.

Previously put on the wanted list by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, former State Duma deputy from Dagestan Magomed Gadzhiev was found accused of having ordered the murder of the rector of the Makhachkala Institute of Theology and International Relations Maksud Sadikov in 2011. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported this.

Armenia does not want to argue with Russia, but relations with it are being transformed. Now there is a transition from relations between “historical Armenia” and Russia to relations between “real Armenia” and Russia. This is sometimes as painful as the internal transformation in Armenia itself. This statement was made in parliament in Yerevan by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.