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Shootouts involving Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers take place away from the Heydarabad town, and people go about their daily activities and gather crops without fear of being hit by shelling attacks, local residents says.

The President of Armenia signed a decree on the appointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, whose candidacy was proposed by the “Civil Contract” faction on the first day of the work of the new parliament.

In the Vedeno District, police found the people who had left inscriptions on the bumpers on the highway in Kezenoi-Am and forced them to paint the inscriptions over, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Tourism has announced, treating it as "public works."

Tonight, Armenian servicemen shelled the Azeri positions located near the dwelling settlement of Heydarabad of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). Azerbaijani militaries opened fire back, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Three residents of Dagestan have been detained on suspicion of organizing a kidnapping and killing a citizen of Tajikistan; a resident of the Moscow Region has been detained with them. According to investigators, blood feud was the motive for committing the crime.

In response to the protest note put forward by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which treated Vladimir Zhirinovsky's statements about Ilham Aliev as offensive, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) has reminded officials about the freedom of speech, called the Azerbaijani President a wise leader and admitted that his party was against the deployment of Russian troops in Southern Caucasus.

Ayub Vakhaevich, a native of Chechnya, has posted the first video clip after his disappearance, in which he assures that he is at large and everything is OK with him. Commentators have treated the video as staged one and doubted that the blogger was really at large.

Ivan Yakovlev managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan twice; at first he worked at a brick factory, then on a farm as a shepherd, the "Alternativa" anti-slavery movement has reported. Commentators are outraged by the widespread use of forced labour in Dagestan.

The forced migrants have not yet returned to the border villages of the Kelbadjar District, which came under Azerbaijan's control after the 2020 war; therefore, the hostilities there are no threat for civilians. This was stated by Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, and Bakhruz Bairamov, a member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association.

The presence of Russian border guards can ensure stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, but Moscow has to account for Baku's opinion, Boris Navasardyan, the head of the Yerevan Press Club and Kirill Krivosheev, a journalist, believe.

The defence of Eldar Gasanov, the former Public General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan, has appealed to authorities in connection with his grave health condition. They ask for help in changing his freedom restraint measure so that Gasanov could receive high quality medical care.

In North Ossetia, the use of strong alcohol is unacceptable, one should not show one's feelings in public and smoke, says the memo for tourists. The booklet also prescribes the dress code for visiting mountain sanctuaries.

The Azerbaijani MoD has launched an inquiry into the death of Private Shamil Aslanov. According to the preliminary version, the soldier died because of violating the rules for handling firearms.

Azerbaijani militaries have opened fire on Armenian positions in the Ararat Region and damaged a military logistics service vehicle, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The court has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Agil Magerramov, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence has treated the judgement as unfair and intends to appeal against it.

Court marshals arrived at the house of Magomed Tseretilov in Buynaksk to enforce the court decision on the transfer of children to their mother, but the procedure was disrupted because of marshals' inaction, Nina Tseretilova has complained. In his turn, Shamil Khadulaev, Magomed Tseretilov's advocate, insists that the children themselves refused to leave with their mother.

Timurlan Abakarov, a resident of Makhachkala, whose relatives had announced his kidnapping, was found in the SIZO (pre-trial prison). He is suspected of illegal arms possession, his advocate has informed.

The Azerbaijan's aggression is accompanied by territorial claims, threats of war and hate speech based on ethnicity, the Armenia's UN permanent representative has stated in a letter addressed to the UN Security Council.

The court in Baku refused to allow Tofig Yagublu, an oppositionist, to travel to Georgia to take part in his mother's funeral. His defence intends to appeal against the ban.

Intensive shootouts in the direction of Gegarkunik on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border are caused by weak fortification of this area; while those in the direction of Eraskh are caused by Azerbaijan's desire to take control over the strategic road to Iran, Armenian analysts have suggested.