On September 12, Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing the former head of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov, as the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Cyprus.

On September 21, the Supreme Court of Crimea in Simferopol sentenced the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, Nariman Dzhelyalov, and activists Asan and Aziz Akhtemov. They were sentenced to 17, 15 and 13 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony, respectively.

On September 26, the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” released a report “The Arithmetic of Torture: North Caucasus Federal District.”

On September 29, a regular hearing in the case of Zarema Musaeva took place in the Grozny court. The witnesses questioned in court - witnesses who were allegedly present during her identification in the pre-trial detention center - gave contradictory testimony.

On October 1, near the railway bridge near the village of Soldatskaya in the Prokhladnensky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, police officers and members of the National Guard shot two men.

On October 4, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the exiled Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in England. He is accused of organizing a terrorist community.

On October 5, the heads of the State Duma committees on defense, Andrei Kartapolov, and security and anti-corruption, Vasily Piskarev, sent a letter to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to sort out the problems arising in the supply of the rear.

On October 11, the International Monetary Fund, in its latest World Economic Outlook report, forecast that the Armenian economy will grow by 7% by the end of 2022.

On October 12, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution recognizing the Russian regime as “terrorist.” The document is called “Further escalation of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.” The Assembly also called on the Georgian authorities to release from arrest a citizen of Ukraine, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili.

On October 13, the European Court of Human Rights, having examined complaints from 11 Russians, recognized them as victims of torture by security forces and awarded compensation totaling 208,300 euros. One of the applicants is a resident of Dagestan, Sultankhan Ibragimov.

On October 14, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation issued an opinion on the draft federal budget 2023, in which it indicated that the state program “Health Development” is unlikely to achieve its stated goals in the field of demography.

On October 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the headquarters of Kadyrov’s “Nefteregiment” in a school building in the village of Kairy, Kherson region. At least 23 people were killed.

On October 25, the Armenian authorities announced that they consider the arrival of State Duma deputy, first deputy chairman for CIS affairs and relations with compatriots Konstantin Zatulin undesirable. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel, was subject to the same restrictions.

On October 26, the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people published the Declaration “On State Independence of the Republic of Kalmykia,” in which it announced the need for “the complete liberation of the Oirat-Kalmyk people from colonial dependence on Russia.” The Congress stated that it would seek the secession of Kalmykia from the Russian Federation, the proclamation and creation of a sovereign independent state.

On October 27, speaking at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, President Vladimir Putin accused the West of nurturing terrorists in Russia.

On October 28, a demonstration took place in front of the Romanian Embassy in Austria against the deportation of Chechen Amina Gerikhanova at the request of Russia. Previously, similar actions with the participation of representatives of human rights organizations and the Chechen diaspora took place in several European cities.

On October 29, Ukrainian politician, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, representative of Ukraine in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Alexey Goncharenko, announced the creation of a battalion of Dagestanis named after Imam Shamil as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The unit was headed by Magomet Seipulaev.

On September 1, Human Rights Watch released a report on the illegal deportation of Ukrainians by Russian authorities and filtration camps. 

On September 2, Russian troops continued shelling the Kharkov, Donetsk, and Nikolaev regions. There are dead and wounded.

On September 3, Russian troops began regrouping to resume the offensive in the Donbass.

On September 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to strike bridges and crossings across the Dnieper in the Kherson region in order to interrupt the supply of Russian troops.

On September 5, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that the losses of the Russian army during the Ukrainian campaign reached 25,000 people killed.

The number of Russian citizens entering Armenia is declining. Experts attribute this to a sharp deterioration in political relations between countries. If in the first two months of 2023 more than 207 thousand Russians entered Armenia, then this year there were about them. 171 thousand, which is 17% less.

On September 7, the Russian army continues to shell Ukrainian cities, including Kharkov and Krivoy Rog.

On September 8, Ukrainian authorities announced that British volunteer Paul Urie, whose body was handed over to the Ukrainian side, did not die in captivity from disease, but was a victim of torture.

On September 9, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied the city of Balakleya (Kharkiv region), which was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

On September 10, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their counter-offensive in the east of the country.

On September 11, Ukrainian troops took Kupyansk, Izyum and Liman.

On September 12, Russian troops left the town of Svatovo in the Lugansk region.

On September 13, the Russian military fired cluster munitions at Nikopol.

On September 14, reports appeared from residents of liberated villages and towns in the Kharkov region about torture and abuse of civilians by the Russian military.

On September 15, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that during the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region, 388 settlements were liberated.

On September 16, the center of Kherson came under rocket fire.

On September 17, in the deoccupied Kharkov region, the bodies of about 50 dead civilians and a mass grave that arose in March near Izyum, 445 graves, were discovered.

On September 18, in liberated Izyum, the exhumation of bodies from a mass grave began.

On September 19, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant.

On September 20, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ukraine and the Russian Federation had agreed on a new prisoner exchange. 200 people will be exchanged.

On September 21, partial mobilization was announced in Russia.

On September 23, referendums on joining Russia began in the “DPR” and “LPR,” as well as in the Russian-controlled Kherson region and part of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.

On September 24, Iranian Shahid-136 drones raided Odessa. Russia lost 4 combat aircraft and one helicopter in Ukraine in one day.

On September 25, more than 700 people were detained in Russia during protests against mobilization.

On September 26, Vladimir Zelensky reported that two more mass graves of the dead and dead had been found in Izyum, Kharkov region.

On September 27, the Russian army destroyed the airport in Krivoy Rog with a missile attack.

On September 28, those mobilized complained about poor living conditions in the barracks and lack of preparation before being sent to Ukraine.

On September 29, the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 396 children died.

On September 30, Vladimir Putin signed agreements on the entry of new territories into Russia.

On October 1, Ukrainian troops completed the encirclement of the city of Liman, Donetsk region. 

On October 2, Ukrainian troops entered Liman.

On October 3, the Constitutional Court of Russia approved documents on the admission of the DPR, LPR, and parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the country.

On October 4, Ukrainian troops entered the village of Torskoye in the Donetsk region and are fighting for the village of Kremennaya in the Lugansk region.

On October 6, Putin ordered the transfer of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant under Russian control as federal property.

On October 8, an explosion occurred on the Crimean Bridge, which connects the Krasnodar region of Russia with the annexed Ukrainian peninsula.

On October 10, Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered massive long-range strikes.

On October 11, the Russian army launched missile attacks on the Kyiv region and Krivoy Rog.

On October 12, the former commander of the Chechen detachment “Ajnad al-Caucasus” that fought in Syria, Rustam Azhiev, arrived in Ukraine.

On October 13, at least 7 people were killed and 8 were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian troops of Avdeevka.

On October 15, Kharkov and Nikolaev again found themselves under rocket fire.

On October 16, at a military training ground in the Belgorod region, three Russian servicemen opened fire on their colleagues. 22 people were killed, 16 were injured.

On October 17, Russian kamikaze drones raided Kyiv. At least three explosions were reported, including near a railway station in Kyiv and a multi-storey residential building.

On October 18, the cities of Kyiv, Dnepr, Krivoy Rog, and Nikolaev were subjected to missile attacks and strikes by Iranian kamikaze drones.

On October 19, Russian strikes on Kyiv killed three people. Russia has been shelling Ukrainian cities on a massive scale since October 10. 

On October 20, restrictions on the supply of electricity were introduced throughout Ukraine, which will also affect residential buildings.

On October 21, the National Police of Ukraine announced the completion of the exhumation of bodies at the site of the largest mass grave in Liman, Donetsk region. The bodies of 111 civilians and 35 military personnel were found there.

On October 22, a number of regions of Ukraine were subjected to new Russian missile attacks. The main target was civil infrastructure, mainly energy facilities.

On October 23, Mediazona and the Air Force identified the names of 7,822 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.

On October 27, an exchange of prisoners took place between Russia and Ukraine.

On October 28, after new shelling, the Ukrainian authorities tightened the energy saving regime.

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had assured several times before that there would be no mobilization in the country, issued a decree “On announcing partial mobilization in the Russian Federation

In the Caucasus, Chechen women were the first to come to the rally. Calls to go to the square appeared in messengers the day before. 

Loud and massive protests against mobilization took place in Dagestan, and not only in the cities. On September 22, in the Babayurt district of Dagestan, protesters blocked the federal highway.

Against the backdrop of these pacifist speeches, the appeal of the wife and adviser to the Mufti of Dagestan, Aina Gamzatova, to Putin with a request to delay the mobilization in Dagestan in order to “train real warriors” sounded dissonant.

On September 22, the former mufti of Ukraine Said Ismagilov, who resigned as a clergyman after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and volunteered to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine, addressed the Muslims of Russia in connection with the “grave” announced by the Kremlin

On September 30, representatives of the Dagestani diaspora in Turkey addressed their compatriots and all the peoples of the North Caucasus.

The head of the government of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, who was in Ukraine at the time, addressed his compatriots in Chechen in connection with the mobilization, calling on everyone who could potentially be affected by it to leave the country if possible, or even prefer prison to participating in the war against Ukraine as part of Russian army, because, in his opinion, “this is the only way you can protect yourself and your families.”

According to official data, partial mobilization was supposed to cover 300 thousand people. However, regional human rights organizations and activists note that the mobilization disproportionately affected ethnic minorities. Thus, according to State Duma deputy from Yakutia Sardana Avksentyeva, if in the Kursk region 0.9% of men of military age were mobilized, in the Novosibirsk region - 0.27%, then in Kalmykia - 1.41%, in Yakutia - 1.66%.

On October 18, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution in which it declared the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria a territory “temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation” and condemned “the commission of genocide of the Chechen people.” 287 deputies voted for the adoption of the document.

Human rights activists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

On the night of September 13, the situation on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia deteriorated again.

International experts have no doubt that Azerbaijan started the military operation on the territory of Armenia.

The actions of the Azerbaijani military were condemned not only in the USA, Tehran and Europe, but also in Azerbaijan itself. We are talking about opposition politicians, journalists, and activists.

However, neither the violation of Armenian borders nor the persecution of civil activists prevented the European Union from again declaring that Baku is a “reliable partner” for it in supplying gas to Europe.

Russia's behavior during the escalation of the conflict drew criticism from Yerevan.

It is difficult to say what other mediators can offer, but both the Americans and the Europeans are doing their best to strengthen their influence in the South Caucasus by offering their platforms for negotiations.

On October 31, negotiations between the heads of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh took place in Sochi. First, Putin held bilateral meetings with Aliyev and Pashinyan, then everyone met in a trilateral format.
As experts note, the Sochi meetings did not add anything new to the negotiation process.

Caucasian experts also speak about the ineffectiveness of the Sochi summit.