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A group of Armenian militaries tried to penetrate the territory of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani State Frontier Service (SFS) has claimed. The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has refuted this statement.

A torchlight procession and the opening of a documentary photo exhibition were held in Nagorno-Karabakh in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire. All countries must condemn the Armenian Genocide and recognize it as a crime against humanity, the participants of the action held in Stepanakert have stated.

A torchlight procession was held in Yerevan in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The marchers burned down the flags of Turkey and Azerbaijan and demanded from Armenian authorities to abandon the policy of territorial concessions.

On the occasion of the Easter, the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, has signed a decree on pardoning eight convicts.

In Baku, four masked men have attacked Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an activist, and kidnapped him. By using violence they demanded from him to delete his critical posts about the head of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the activist asserts.

Beibala Nasibov, who has blown himself up by anti-personnel mine in the village of Teimur Myuskanly in the Gubadli District of Azerbaijan, had his leg amputated.

The Russia's special operation in Ukraine has completely changed the security map of the world; therefore, the NATO member-countries have decided to support Georgia more strongly, a NATO source has stated.

In the opinion of political analysts, the Armenian society has a great demand for changing the state power. However, in their opinion, the opposition lacks the due resources to oppose Nikol Pashinyan's power.

The natives of Azerbaijan, who left Ukraine after the start of the special operation and returned to their historical homeland, have complained about the insufficient authorities' attention to their problems. According to their stories, they have to look for housing and livelihoods on their own.

The case of Samir Ashurov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has to do with his civil position, his wife believes. His case is in many ways similar to the persecution of other critics of the authorities, human rights defenders have pointed out.

In front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and offices of human rights organizations located in Berlin, the Azerbaijani political emigrants living in Germany have held protest actions, demanding to release the activists who had been expelled from Germany and arrested in Baku.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has informed about sending another detachment of volunteers to participate in the Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

The Hajj quota for Russian Muslims, a significant part of which are pilgrims from Dagestan, has become twice as small as it was before the pandemic. A total of 11,318 Muslims from Russia will be able to make the pilgrimage to Mecca this year.

On the fifth day of their hunger strike held in Yerevan, two activists have gathered over 1400 signatures against the attempts to change the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. The collection of signatures makes it possible to estimate the number of supporters of the action, Arthur Avagyan, one of the hunger-strikers, has stated.

Nver Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan, who had gone on a hunger strike in order to draw Armenians' attention to the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh status, have stopped their action. They intend to continue their struggle by other methods.

Zaurbek Zhambekov is suspected of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after a policewoman complained that Zaurbek's daughter had torn off a sticker in the shape of the letter Z from her car.

Senior sailor Isa Khalimbekov perished in Ukraine, and his family received the Order of Courage for him, the administration of the Sergokala District of Dagestan reported.

Junior Sergeant Dmitry Podoprigora perished in Ukraine, and a memorial plaque was installed on the school building in the village of Kazgulak, where he studied, the administration of the Turkmen municipal district reported.

The Ombudsperson of the Ulyanovsk Region has announced that 22 convicts in the Dimitrovgrad prison wrote declarations about going on a hunger strike, and 38 more people participate in the protest action unofficially.

Azerbaijani human rights defender Rufat Safarov was not allowed to attend the trial in a case against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party. Rufat Safarov had a quarrel with law enforcers in a yard of the Baku court, as he tried to argue against the refusal in access to the court building.