Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister, said that the conclusion of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan would create a basis for improving relations between Yerevan and Ankara. Fidan thanked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for his contribution to this process and expressed hope for the signing of a final agreement in Washington in the first half of next year.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia has accused former Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze of abuse of office and money laundering. The agency is preparing to appeal to the court to demand that he be taken into custody.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia's contribution to the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan is difficult to overestimate, stressing that the current stage of this process began with the active participation of Russia and Vladimir Putin personally. Zakharova recalled the trilateral agreements reached in 2020-2022 with the participation of Moscow, which, according to her, stopped the bloodshed and defined the main directions of the peace process.

In Izberbash, where about 60 thousand people live, there was a water supply outage. There are also water outages in Buinaksk. The previous evening, dozens of villages in Dagestan were left without electricity. Against this background, elections to local government bodies have begun in the republic.

The Chechen movement NIYSO reported the death of 37-year-old Shovda Shamaeva, a preschool teacher, after being detained by security forces in Chechnya. The organization claims that the resident of the city of Sernovodskoye was tortured.

In Rostov-on-Don, a military court found a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, Akhmat Dzhanibekov, guilty of involvement in the activities of an organization recognized as terrorist and preparing a terrorist attack against the FSB department for Karachay-Cherkessia. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The State Security Service of Georgia (SSG) detained several well-known representatives of opposition parties at once.

Turkey and Armenia plan to discuss the opening of borders as part of the ongoing process of normalizing relations. Serdar Kilic, Turkey's special representative, said that he is working with his Armenian counterpart Ruben Rubinyan on a number of issues to bring the two countries closer together.

In an interview with RTVI, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan announced the transition from the "little brother" model to an equal partnership with Russia. He emphasized that Yerevan intends to continue fulfilling its obligations within the EAEU and develop cooperation with the EU, despite Moscow's warnings about the incompatibility of these two directions.

Two people detained in connection with the case of group violence during the rally near the election headquarters of Tbilisi mayoral candidate Kakha Kaladze on September 8-9 have been released. This was reported by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.