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A court in Tbilisi has released on bail 23-year-old Megi Diasamidze, accused of damaging a Georgian Dream election banner during a protest. The money for her bail was raised by protesters

Turkish foreign minister Fidan: "As soon as the final signatures are put on the Armenia-Azerbaijan agreement, we will also rapidly proceed with normalization with Armenia." Anakara expects the peace treaty to be signed in the first half of 2026, he said

Georgia’s Interior Ministry opened a probe into “damage or destruction of property” after protesters defaced Mayor Kakha Kaladze’s campaign posters in Tbilisi with the words “Russian Dream.”

In Novorossiysk, an attack by unmanned boats is being repelled; a siren is sounding along the coastline, the mayor of the city reported.

A court in Tbilisi sentenced Rusudan and Nutsu Maghradze to fines, finding them guilty of disobeying security forces and hooliganism at the site of a protest on September 2

Massive nationwide protests continue in Georgia. In response to yesterday’s violence by Kakha Kaladze’s paid supporters against peaceful protesters, journalists, and women outside his campaign office on Rustaveli, massive crowds turned out today

In front of the Georgian Dream party office, their supporters beat pro-European protesters. Among them, they assaulted and took the phones of two journalists from @Publika_ge including @AnortherAlex

GD supporters and members are throwing heavy objects at protesters on Melikishvili Avenue, in front of the Tbilisi mayor’s campaign HQ

On the 284th day of pro-European protests, activists blocked traffic on Rustaveli Avenue near the Georgian Parliament. Despite the downpour, the activists remained in place

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the start of paying insurance compensation for the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane that crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau as a result of gunfire in Russian airspace

Luka Devdariani, administratively detained on Sept 2 Georgia Protests, says police shoved him into a car, beat him with a frozen bottle, pinched him and hid it from public view. Officers threatened to “take him to the basement and beat him badly.”

Tension on Melikishvili Ave as Georgia Protests gathered near the opening of GD’s mayoral HQ - just hours after 12 political prisoners were sentenced. GD MEP Beka Odisharia confronted protesters, hurling insults & swearing as they called him “Russia’s slave”

Dozens gathered at the Tbilisi City Court to hear the final speeches of 11 individuals arrested during the Georgia Protests

Part of protesters blocked Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue near Rustaveli Theater, some 300 meters from parliament, usual rally place, after police detained at least 16 during protests earlier today.

Police reported detaining 16 on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue, as activists gathered outside parliament on a tense day marked by protest-related guilty verdicts and the reconvening of Georgian Dream’s one-party legislature for its fall plenary session

Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili sentenced all 8 prisoners of conscience to imprisonment.The qualifications of charges have been changed from original ones

Russian citizen Anton Chechin who was arrested in connection with the Georgia Protests was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison

Georgia Dream-controlled Prosecutor General’s Office announced that several heads of non-governmental organizations have been summoned for questioning as witnesses in an ongoing criminal investigation. According to the statement, prosecutors are investigating cases of ‘sabotage, attempted sabotage under aggravating circumstances, assistance to foreign or foreign-controlled organizations in hostile activities, and the mobilization of funds aimed against Georgia’s constitutional order and national security.’

The OSCE will close the Minsk process and related structures as of September 1, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported. The statement noted that all decisions previously adopted within the OSCE regarding the former Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict are invalid and do not apply

India blocked Azerbaijan's accession to the SCO, and Pakistan blocked Armenia's accession.

Pashinyan and Aliyev meet in China

Putin at Russian security council discussed relations with CIS countries

The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Netanyahu's statements about recognizing the Armenian genocide, calling it an attempt to cover up the bloodshed in Gaza.

Georgia’s right-libertarian party Girchi has nominated its leader, Iago Khvichia, as a candidate for Tbilisi mayor in the October 4 local elections, which many opposition parties are boycotting in protest

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first head of an Israeli government to recognize the Ottoman Empire's mass killings of Armenians that happened 110 years ago as a genocide, the Times of Israel reported

The Tbilisi City Court has granted the Prosecutor’s Office’s motion to freeze the bank accounts of 7 CSOs as part of a sabotage investigation. Authorities allege the groups bought gas masks, goggles, respirators, masks and pepper spray for protesters

Ilham Aliyev: The Organization of Turkic States currently has great potential. Azerbaijan has always been committed to strengthening this organization. It began its activities as a kind of advisory group, council, group of countries, and then transformed. It has great potential.

Ilham Aliyev: We have supported and continue to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine from the first days of Russia's intervention in Ukraine.

Ilham Aliyev: There have been many rumors in some media outlets and on some websites about Azerbaijan's plans to occupy Zangezur and cut the border between Iran and Armenia. This is completely false. We have no such intention. In any case, if we wanted to do it, we would have done it. It was very easy to do it in November 2020. It was very easy to do it over the past five years. It's only 40 kilometers, it wouldn't take much time from a military point of view. You just come and take it from both sides - from Nakhchivan and from this side of Azerbaijan.

Ilham Aliyev: After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established. It was the first democratic republic in the Muslim world, established in May 1918. However, it existed only until April 1920 - at that time the Russian army entered Azerbaijan and occupied it. The Bolsheviks who made the revolution in 1917 made false promises to the people. There were slogans: "factories for workers, land for peasants, freedom for the people". We established our own state, but the Bolsheviks took this state from us. In April 1920, the Russian army entered Azerbaijan and occupied it. Just a few months later - in November of that year, the government of Soviet Russia decided to take Zangezur - the territory we call "Western Zangezur" - from Azerbaijan and give it to Armenia. Thus, Azerbaijan was divided into two parts: the main part and Nakhchivan.