Vladimir Putin stated that relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were not in crisis, but merely faced a "crisis of emotions" caused by the AZAL plane crash. Commenting on the results of his visit to Tajikistan, he emphasized that Azerbaijan maintains close ties with Russia and noted the widespread use of the Russian language in the country.

In response to the transfer of Igor Kartavykh, executive director of the Kremlin-backed publication Sputnik Azerbaijan, from a pretrial detention center to house arrest, Russia released Mamedali Agayev, the former director of the Satire Theater in Moscow.

Bakhtiyar Radzhabov was sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in the Stavropol Territory for participating in an anti-Israeli pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. He was found guilty of participating in mass riots and violating transport security regulations.

Igor Kartavykh, director of the Russian media agency Sputnik Azerbaijan, has been released from pretrial detention in Baku. He is now under house arrest in Baku, according to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

By apologizing to Ilham Aliyev at a meeting in Dushanbe for the downing of a passenger plane in 2024, Vladimir Putin effectively capitulated to Azerbaijan, according to Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

In Stavropol, a 14-year-old schoolgirl was sentenced to 70 hours of community service on charges of vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) for writing "Navalny" on a bus stop. Her lawyer announced this.

The main topic of the first meeting in a long time between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia in Dushanbe was the investigation into the tragic crash of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL near Aktau.

Twenty-nine-year-old Russian artist and anti-war activist Lilia Manyukhina has been held in custody in Armenia for over a month. She was detained on August 30 in Yerevan at the request of Russian authorities. She is currently in a pretrial detention center, awaiting a decision by the migration service on her application for political asylum.

Moscow's Gagarinsky District Court upheld the Prosecutor General's Office's claim, forfeiting property associated with Magomed Kaitov, the former head of JSC MRSK North Caucasus.

The Kremlin is expressing optimism ahead of the meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia in Dushanbe.