Встреча Владимира Путина и Никола Пашиняна в Бишкеке, как и ожидалось, не сняла главного противоречия в отношениях Москвы и Еревана — вопроса о том, готова ли Армения сделать окончательный выбор между евразийской и европейской интеграцией. При этом, как считает ведущий научный сотрудник Института международных исследований МГИМО Сергей Маркедонов, Москва и Ереван занимают принципиально разные позиции по вопросу о проведении референдума, на котором Армения могла бы определиться с выбором своего дальнейшего внешнеполитического курса. В Telegram-канале «Донской Казак» Маркедонов обращает внимание на то, что Москва заинтересована в том, чтобы Ереван как можно скорее определился между двумя интеграционными векторами. Руководство Армении, напротив, явно не торопится выносить этот вопрос на общенациональное голосование.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced a 42-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is on the international wanted list, in absentia. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison on terrorism charges.

A three-day vigil in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on School No. 1 ended in Beslan on Wednesday. The commemorations began on September 1, the anniversary of the school siege, and concluded on September 3, marking the anniversary of the operation to free the hostages. The main events were held at the former school building and at the City of Angels memorial cemetery. At 1:05 p.m. — the time when the first explosions tore through the school’s gymnasium 22 years ago — a minute of silence was observed.

In the Untsukulsky District of Dagestan, the search for a young man who drowned while paddleboarding on the Irganai Reservoir has been ongoing for over a week.

On October 1, the Sol-Iletsk District Court of the Orenburg Region will hear the administrative claims of former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov against the administration of the Black Dolphin prison colony, where he is serving a life sentence. Arashukov is demanding that the decision to place him in solitary confinement be declared unlawful.

Chechnya has maintained its status as Russia's least drinking region. According to Russian Ministry of Health data for July 2026, the republic's per capita alcohol consumption was only 0.02 liters—the lowest in the country.

On August 31, 1996, in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, near the border with Chechnya, Russian Security Council Secretary General Alexander Lebed and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria General Aslan Maskhadov signed an agreement that brought the first Russian-Chechen war to an end. The accords were reached with the mediation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), represented by Tim Guldimann, a Swiss diplomat and head of the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya.

Over the past five years, the number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has tripled, while average sentences in political cases have roughly doubled. This is the conclusion reached by the BBC after analyzing lists compiled by human rights defenders. In February 2023, the lists included 93 people, while by December of the same year the figure had risen to 254. Since June 2024, the figure has not fallen below 300, and in May 2026, the Institute for Peace and Democracy listed 328 people as political prisoners. At the same time, the average sentence in political cases, which ranged from four to six years in 2022–2025, approached 12 years this year.