The Taliban movement, which rules Afghanistan, is buying weapons and drones from Belarus with Russia’s consent, while India is acting as an intermediary in the deals, Afghanistan International reports, citing five former senior Afghan officials. According to them, contacts between Minsk and the Taliban intensified after the visit to Moscow by the movement’s defense minister Mohammad Yaqoob in late May and early June, when an agreement on military-technical cooperation was signed.

#Afghanistan #Belarus #India #Pakistan #Russia #Taliban

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Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Saturday accused Russia after, according to Moldovan authorities, three missiles and two drones entered the country’s airspace. Their debris was later found on the republic’s territory.

#Causeni #MaijaSandu #Moldova #Russia #Ukraine #Hincesti

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The Federal Notary Chamber sent a letter on September 15 to regional notary chambers, which says that «temporary measures» may be used to ensure the appearance of military registrants at the military commissariat in response to a summons. The document was obtained by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, and this week human rights activists reported refusals to issue powers of attorney to conscripts in Moscow and the Samara region.

#militaryregistrationandenlistmentoffice #militaryregistration #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #mobilization #Notaries #call #registerofsummonses #Russia

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In Russian cinemas, the highest-grossing film of September was Twilight from 2008. The re-release of the first part of the vampire film saga grossed 340 million rubles and outperformed new releases.

#movie #KristenStjuart #Lifestyle #entertainment #RobertPattinson #Russia #dusk

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122 members of the European Parliament proposed reopening the discussion on using Russian assets frozen in Europe to finance Ukraine. According to the French newspaper Les Échos, this concerns about 210 billion euros, which they want to transfer into a pan-European mechanism under the control of the European Commission.

#Euroclear #Belgium #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Russia #Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters that Kyiv will intensify strikes on Russian oil refineries. He also said that the long-range ballistic missile FP-9, developed by the Ukrainian company Fire Point, will be ready as early as this fall and will be able to reach Moscow.

#FirePoint #reuters #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #Moscow #Russia #Ukraine

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The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that Vladimir Putin’s claims about the September advance of Russian troops in Ukraine do not match the situation on the front line. According to the institute’s assessment, instead of the claimed 1,301 sq. km, Russian forces suffered net territorial losses of 80.81 sq. km over the month.

#ISW #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Donbass #Russia #Ukraine

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On October 1, Anthropic began blocking Claude accounts for users from Russia and Hong Kong. In its letters, the company explains this by «suspicious signals» and offers to file an appeal.

#Anthropic #Claude #DeepSeek #HongKong #Russia #Yandex

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Steel demand in Russia fell by 16% year on year over the first eight months of 2026, and by 31% since the start of 2024. Severstal links this to the high key interest rate and weakening business activity.

#DmitryMaximov #mechanicalengineering #metallurgy #Russia #Severstal #steel

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Canadian Arend Feenstra, who moved with his family to the Nizhny Novgorod region in early 2024 under a program for citizens of «unfriendly» countries who share «traditional family values», said that to switch from temporary residence to permanent residence he needs to sign a contract for military service with the Russian Ministry of Defense. He referred to the presidential decree of November 5, 2025, «On the Temporary Procedure for Admission to Russian Citizenship and Issuance of a Residence Permit in the Russian Federation».

#ArendFeynstra #Canada #defenseministry #NizhnyNovgorodRegion #rvp #Russia

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Western diplomats in Kyiv are privately discussing contingency plans in case the situation sharply worsens because of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in the capital, including a possible relocation of embassies to Lviv or eastern Poland. According to two senior diplomats, such a scenario is being considered in case Russia begins deliberately attacking foreign missions.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #Kiev #USCongress #Russia #Ukraine

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The general meeting of participants of LLC «Giperglobus» appointed former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as a member of the supervisory board, the company told RBC. Schröder will take part in overall management, the strategic development of the chain, and long-term planning for operations in the Russian market.

#Globus #business #Germany #GerhardSchroeder #Russia

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At Astana Airport, the capital of Kazakhstan, Ukrainian citizen Lyubov Rozhanskaya was detained at Russia’s request after arriving from Istanbul, Turkey, to pick up her grandson. She is now being held in pretrial detention in Astana, and a court hearing on extradition is expected within three days.

#Arrests #Astana #Kazakhstan #Russia #Ukraine #FSB

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Russian Minister of Economic Development Maksim Reshetnikov said that the G20 countries took Russia’s proposals into account at the trade meeting. According to him, the discussion concerned wording on food supplies and condemning the use of food trade as an instrument for political objectives.

#g20 #MaximReshetnikov #MinistryofEconomicDevelopmentoftheRussianFederation #Russia #foodtrade

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Several members of the Finnish Parliament have complained about intrusions into their homes and apartments while the owners were away. There have already been more than 10 such cases, and the Helsinki police and the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation have launched a preliminary investigation.

#ParlamentFinljandii #PetteriOrpo #Russia #Ukraine #Finland #JussiHallaAho

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In Latvia, two citizens of the country were arrested on suspicion of spying on the Ādaži military base, where a NATO brigade is stationed, in favor of Russian military intelligence. The case involves a married couple detained at the end of June; both were charged under Article 85 of Latvia’s Criminal Law.

#Gru #Latvia #NATO #Riga #Russia #espionage

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A survey by Active Group for the Future Research Foundation showed that 51.7% of Ukrainians allow a territorial compromise to end the war with Russia. 41.3% of respondents opposed this option.

#ActiveGroup #DonaldTrump #InterfaxUkraine #peacenegotiations #Russia #Ukraine

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The head of the analytical company «ProZerno», Vladimir Petrichenko, said that if the shutdown of the ports of the Azov and Black Seas continues, Russia will be able to export only 39 million tons of grain instead of 59 million. In his estimate, up to 20 million tons will remain without buyers and may sit in storage for at least until next year.

#bloomberg #SeaofAzov #MinistryofAgriculture #ProZerno #Russia #BlackSea

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In the appendices to the draft federal budget for 2027–2029, 74.96 billion rubles were allocated to the federal project «We Are Together». The funds are distributed among Rosmolodezh, «Movement of the First», the Ministry of Education, and other recipients as part of three state programs.

#BudgetoftheRussianFederation #MovementoftheFirst #InstituteforInternetDevelopment #Wearetogether #propaganda #youth #Russia

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The government submitted to the State Duma a bill that roughly doubles the lower and upper limits of fines for violations of public order and safety. The amendments will affect, among other things, the rules for holding rallies, discrediting the army, and a number of other articles of the Administrative Offenses Code.

#TheStateDuma #Discreditingthearmy #coap #MinistryofInternalAffairsoftheRussianFederation #Rallies #RFgovernment #Russia #Fines

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