On October 8, the Chechen Parliament agreed on the candidacy of Magomed Daudov for the post of Chairman of the Government of the Republic. The meeting was held with the participation of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. Daudov, who is described as Kadyrov's closest ally, headed the Chechen parliament for almost nine years. He took up this post in July 2015, and on May 15, 2024, resigned early. Ten days later, Daudov was appointed to the post of chairman of the government of the republic.

Armenia plans to select a model for a new nuclear power plant in the first half of 2027. The Russian proposal remains among the options being considered, said Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure David Khudatyan in an interview with the Public Television of Armenia. According to him, Yerevan is studying projects from Russia, the USA, China, South Korea and France.

A political prisoner from Crimea, Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, in a letter from a Russian prison, spoke about how the lives of families of Crimean Tatars sentenced to long imprisonment are changing. The message was published on Facebook by his wife Amina Seytumerova. Seitumerov wrote that it is especially difficult for children who grow up without fathers for years.

In Moscow, near the house on Lesnaya Street, where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was killed, a spontaneous memorial that appeared yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of her murder, was destroyed. On October 7, Muscovites brought flowers to the house and installed several memorial plaques. Today they have disappeared. For some time, only a bouquet and a piece of paper with the inscription “Love is stronger than fear” remained on the wall, but later they were also removed.

On October 8, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the attempts of the ruling party of Georgia to achieve a ban on opposition parties in the country. 445 deputies voted for the document, 37 voted against. The resolution was prepared after a debate on the situation in Georgia that took place the day before. The initiator of the document was the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), which was previously a political ally of the Georgian Dream.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, commenting on recent statements by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev that Armenia could turn into a “new Ukraine,” said: “What does it mean that Armenia will face such a threat?

On the night of October 8, Kuban was among the southern regions of Russia that were attacked by drones. In Krasnodar, fragments of a UAV fell onto the territory of one of the enterprises, damaged the building and caused a fire. The fire was quickly extinguished, there were no casualties, the regional operational headquarters reported. The authorities did not disclose the name of the enterprise.