Thursday, 3 September 2026
Regional * During the upcoming Russian parliamentary elections, scheduled for 20 September, 35 polling stations will open in Abkhazia and 11 in South Ossetia. * Yesterday, President Ilham Aliyev spoke at the fourth International Mine Action Conference, emphasising that more than 13% of Azerbaijan’s territory ‘is affected by mines and unexploded ordnance’, according to ‘preliminary estimates’. ‘In total, more than 3,500 of our citizens have been affected by mines since the beginning of Armenia