On September 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a bilateral meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek. The talks took place at the Ala-Archa state residence.

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.

Irakli Pavlenishvili, one of the leaders of the Georgian opposition party United National Movement, stated that the mass influx of Russian citizens poses a threat of Russification in Georgia. At a briefing at Tbilisi International Airport, he called the airport "another gateway to Mordor" and promised that after the change of power, the country would be protected from the "Russian threat."

The youth of Russia and Armenia can play an important role in developing relations between the two countries, stated Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. According to her, young people should be interested in peaceful coexistence and maintaining friendly ties.

On the night of September 1, the Rostov Region was subjected to a massive drone attack. According to authorities, approximately 40 UAVs were shot down over the region. Governor Yuri Slyusar claims there were no casualties.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met in Bishkek on August 31 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. During their talks, which lasted over an hour, the leaders discussed the further development of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, trade, border issues, and transportation projects.

Denis Kulanin, a Russian citizen pardoned by the Georgian president, will not be able to leave the country on September 1, despite having already purchased a ticket to a third country. This was reported by the public and volunteer platform APUS, citing his lawyer, Tsiala Ratiani.

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.