Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili proposed making changes to the state order and creating a bicameral parliament. The head of state noted that there is no “real self-government” in the country.

A secret witness under the pseudonym “Mustafayev” was unable to answer questions during interrogation in the case of the first Dzhankoy group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov spoke about this. He emphasized that the witness with a high degree of probability “is an agent of the special services” and there was no reason to classify him.

At about 10 p.m., in the village of Assinovskaya, masked soldiers attacked the house in which Natasha and her husband Said-Akhmed Khadzhimuradov lived.

On October 31, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld the decision of the lower court and remanded Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in custody until December 5. The woman has dual citizenship – Russian and American. She is charged under Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Evasion of duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents”) – for failing to register as a foreign agent.

On October 24, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the formation of a new Chechen battalion named after Sheikh Mansur, which will fight as part of the Russian Defense Ministry. On October 26, another new unit was announced – the Baysangur Benoevsky Rosgvardia battalion.

On October 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On the denunciation of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities." At the end of September, he submitted a corresponding bill to the State Duma. Thus, the Russian Federation withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

On October 13, the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk sentenced Chechen Apti Visaev to 17 years in a special regime penal colony for preparing a terrorist attack in Norilsk. The defendant did not admit guilt and stated that the criminal case against him was fabricated by the FSB.

On October 13, a terrorist attack occurred in the city of Arras in northern France: 20-year-old Mukhammad Mogushkov, a native of Russia, attacked the school where he had previously studied, killed a teacher with a knife and wounded three others. Before the attack, he shouted "Allahu Akbar." The tragedy at the school will most likely lead to the expulsion from the country of Caucasian Muslims who were unable to integrate into the European environment.

On October 13, the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny began the criminal trial of 19-year-old Volgograd student Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Koran and is now accused of hooliganism and insulting the feelings of believers.

On October 10, Director of the Russian FSB Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee that since 2022, two terrorist crimes have been committed and 37 have been prevented in the North Caucasus. According to the FSB, they were prepared by supporters of the international terrorist organization ISIS and "individuals recruited by Ukrainian special services and neo-Nazi organizations."