The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has denied the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party permission to hold a rally in Rike Park on October 1. Irakli Pavlenishvili, chairman of the party’s governing council, announced the decision.

Mansur Soltaev, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, has criticized the report by Mariana Katzarova, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia. The document focuses on the persecution of critics of the Russian leadership abroad and includes a specific section on the actions taken by Chechen authorities against the diaspora.

More than 150 human rights defenders, journalists, civil society and political figures, as well as civil society organisations, have called on the Kazakh authorities to halt the extradition to Russia of Mansur Movlaev and Yulia Yemelyanova. The joint statement was issued after both lost their appeals against court decisions denying them asylum in Kazakhstan.

Azerbaijani representative remained in the General Assembly hall during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, while dozens of delegations, including Türkiye’s, walked out. The move triggered a wave of criticism of Baku in Türkiye — ranging from accusations of insufficient solidarity with Ankara to outright accusations of “betrayal”. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, says “unfounded and biased claims” are being circulated against relations between the two countries.

Crimean political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev has once again been placed in a punitive confinement cell for 10 days. A hearing on his motion for release due to health reasons, originally scheduled for September 22, has been postponed to October 26. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center reported this, citing the prisoner's wife, Aliye Abdulgazieva.

At least 63 relatives of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov have flown abroad on business jets at least once. This conclusion was reached by the investigative outlet *Proekt* as part of its "Fellow Travelers" investigation. By comparison, the outlet identified 16 such passengers each in the families of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov.

The Russian airline Red Wings has applied to expand its route network in Georgia. The carrier has requested authorization from Russian aviation authorities to operate flights to Tbilisi and Batumi from several dozen cities.

Dagestan has emerged as one of the Russian regions facing the most difficult situation in the mortgage lending market. According to a study by RIA Rating, the republic ranked third on the list of Russian regions with the lowest mortgage affordability. Only Crimea and Sevastopol posted worse figures.

On the night of September 28, the Krasnodar Territory was among the regions targeted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+, residents reported multiple explosions and a fire. The independent Russian outlet ASTRA determined that the fire was at the Pavlovskaya oil depot—owned by the Krasnodar-based company "Edelweiss-95"—located in the stanitsa of Novotitarovskaya. The facility deals in the wholesale trade of petroleum products.

The Muftiate of Dagestan has called on the republic's residents to treat information reports with caution and to avoid participating in the dissemination of provocative materials.