Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 7 October 2026. These are the top five things to expect from the CIS summit in Turkmenistan.
Iran's President makes debut
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to make his CIS debut, having been invited to an expanded session of the CIS Council of Heads of State. Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov called it a first in the bloc's history. The Iranian government said Pezeshkian will attend as a special guest. The visit gives Tehran a chance to strengthen ties with regional neighbours as tensions between the U.S. and Iran remain high.
The week opens with a foreign ministers' meeting on Wednesday, followed on Thursday by a consultative meeting between Central Asian leaders and Azerbaijan. On Friday, the Council of Heads of State meet in Turkmenistan’s eastern resort town of Avaza. Turkmenistan holds the CIS chairmanship in 2026.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Turkmenistan on Thursday. He is scheduled to meet Iranian President Pezeshkian on Friday to discuss the Middle East and bilateral cooperation. The two leaders last met in Bishkek in early September. Putin will also hold a one-on-one meeting with Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow on Thursday.
Russian Presidential Aide Ushakov said no separate meeting between Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is planned in Turkmenistan. Relations between the two countries have soured over Armenia’s European Union ambitions and pivot away from Moscow.
The Caspian Environmental Summit will be held on Friday, following talks in an expanded format. Leaders of all five countries bordering the Caspian Sea will take part. These are Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.The shrinking of the Caspian Sea will be discussed.
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Australian counterterrorism authorities are examining the links of the co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and attempting to take control of a flydubai flight bound for Israel. Authorities in New Zealand have also said they are investigating reports the suspect had spent time in that country.
Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted.
A large Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region has killed two people, damaged homes and sparked a major fire at a key fuel facility, according to Russian officials and military bloggers.
An Azerbaijani citizen died and another is missing after a cargo ship was attacked by a drone in the Black Sea, near the coast of Romania on Monday, 5 October, Baku's Foreign Ministry has said.
The German-Azerbaijani Connectivity Conference 2026 commenced on 6 October in Baku under the title “Mobilising Finance for Infrastructure, Transport, Logistics, Green Energy, and Digitalisation along the Middle Corridor.”
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance has said Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction to its nuclear enrichment capacity if the seven-month war between the two countries is to end.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will make his debut at an expanded meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Turkmenistan on Wednesday, the Kremlin has said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) project could become a cornerstone of economic transformation in Armenia and the wider region, while boosting investment and regional connectivty.
Central Asian countries are strengthening sanitary and quarantine controls amid the situation in Russia’s Irkutsk region. Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have introduced preventive measures following the death of an employee of a plague research institute in the city of Shelekhov.
Kazakhstan’s former navy chief, Kanat Niyazbekov, has been arrested after 14 servicemen died during military exercises in the Caspian Sea in September, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citing law enforcement authorities.
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