Rosatom has proposed building a second power unit at the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) featuring a VVER-1000 reactor. This was announced by Alexey Likhachev, the head of the state corporation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Abkhazian leader Badra Gunba on Victory and Independence Day.

Memet Belyalov, a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and activist with the "Crimean Solidarity" human rights movement, has once again been transferred to a strict-regime barracks at Penal Colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk. Prior to this, he had spent three months in a cell-type unit (PKT). This was reported by *Suspilne Krym*, citing Belyalov's relatives.

Lana Estemirova—daughter of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was murdered in 2009—presented the Russian edition of her book, *Please, Live!*, in Prague. In an interview with DW, she discussed the situation in Chechnya, the plight of its residents, and the possibility of a change in power.

A video from School No. 6 in Sumgait showing several schoolgirls leaving the building was widely circulated on social media on 29 September. The footage shows girls wearing headscarves in accordance with Muslim religious practice, some of them crying. Azerbaijani media reported that the girls were prevented from attending classes because they were wearing headscarves.

Dagestan has secured fifth place in the ranking of Russian destinations most frequently chosen for trips with children during the autumn school break. According to data from the travel aggregator Sletat.ru, the republic accounts for approximately 4% of all family tour sales within Russia.

Yerevan has appealed to the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) to review restrictions imposed by Moscow on the supply of Armenian products to EAEU countries. This was announced by Armenian Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan.

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.