A Baku court has placed Sputnik Azerbaijan editor-in-chief Yevgeniy Belousov under house arrest, transferring him from a pre-trial detention center. His colleague, Igor Kartavykh, was released earlier in October and has since returned to Moscow.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has announced the closure of the Rossiya Segodnya (Sputnik) office in the country, according to ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada.