Arrested Azerbaijani opposition journalist Afgan Sadigov has been banned from making phone calls and communicating with his relatives. He is currently being held in a pretrial detention facility in the Kurdakhani village of Baku, his wife reported.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to a question about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had congratulated his party on its victory in the parliamentary elections.

A court in Stavropol Krai has sentenced Makhach Bashirov, who is accused of financing terrorism. The Southern District Military Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison. The defendant's family insists that shortly before his arrest, he transferred two thousand rubles to charity.

The Russian Ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, returned to Yerevan after consultations in Moscow and resumed his diplomatic duties.