France on Tuesday conducted the first successful launch of the latest-generation M51.3 ballistic missile from a submarine. The test took place off the coast of Brittany from the modernized submarine Le Vigilant; according to Reuters, citing the French Ministry of Defense, the missile is capable of traveling about 10,000 km and theoretically covering all of Russia, including the Far East.

#ArianeGroup #LeVigilant #VladimirPutin #France #EmmanuelMacron

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On October 5, Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), as the commissioner for entrepreneurs’ rights. At the same time, he signed a decree creating the ANO «Platform for Working with Entrepreneurs’ Appeals», which will support the ombudsman’s work.

#AlexandrShohin #VladimirPutin #DmitryPeskov #PublicChamber #RSPP

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Late in the evening of October 4, Kharkiv was attacked by «Banderol» jet drones: one person was killed in the Industrial District, and eight more were injured. Three drones struck near residential buildings, blew out windows in five of them, and damaged roofs.

#VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #StateEmergencyServiceofUkraine #IgorTerehov #OlegSinegubov #Kharkov

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Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters that Kyiv will intensify strikes on Russian oil refineries in response to attacks on Ukrainian civilian facilities. He also said that the Ukrainian long-range ballistic missile FP-9 will be ready this fall.

#FirePoint #FP7 #FP9 #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #oilrefinery

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Russia lost about 190 sq. km of territory in Ukraine in September, which the Finnish OSINT project Black Bird Group considers to be under Russian control. This is the largest net monthly loss since June 2023, according to the project’s data.

#BlackBirdGroup #DeepState #VladimirPutin #Donetskregion #InstitutefortheStudyofWar #Liman

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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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In 2026, the richest Russians transferred 471 billion rubles to Russia’s budget, or more than 5.6 billion dollars, in the form of so-called wartime «gratuitous contributions». According to Reuters calculations, this amount covered more than 1% of all government spending.

#reuters #business #VladimirPutin #OlegDeripaska #Rosneft #SuleymanKerimov #finance #Economy

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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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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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According to the «Movement of Conscientious Objectors», 27-year-old Petrozavodsk resident Nikita Sergeev, who has fitness category «D», was forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and taken to military unit No. 61424. In the morning, he was supposed to be sent to the front.

#VladimirPutin #ConscientiousObjectorsMovement #EvgenyPoddubnyi #defenseministry #NikitaSergeev #Petrozavodsk

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Gennady Zyuganov said at a plenary session of the State Duma that Russia is on the brink of a major war, and called 2029–2030 the time of the European countries’ «hot offensive». He made this statement during deputies’ speeches on current issues.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #zyuganov #CommunistParty #NATO #NurembergTrials

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In 2027, maintaining Vladimir Putin and the presidential administration will cost nearly 37 billion rubles, according to the published draft budget. That is 12% more than in 2026 and 49% more than in 2024.

#PresidentialAdministration #BjudzhetRossii #Layout #VladimirPutin #NovayaGazetaEvropa #PravitelstvoRossii

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The Russian border guard service detained the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship Västerbotten in the Gulf of Finland, which was heading to the Estonian port of Sillamäe. The vessel was held at anchor for several hours for inspection, then allowed to continue its journey, but it is still in the gulf.

#VladimirPutin #EuropeanUnion #Russianborderguards #Sillamäe #GulfofFinland #Sweden

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Great Britain expanded the sanctions list by including 23 individuals and legal entities, as well as vessels of the Russian «shadow fleet». This was reported by the UK Foreign Office.

#AdmiralKasatonov #ArcticLNG2 #UnitedKingdom #VladimirPutin #Novatek #shadowfleet

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The «Travel Companions» study showed that from 2014 to 2023, Vladimir Putin’s family made at least 180 trips abroad on business jets. According to the authors’ calculations, such trips cost more than $5 million, and 24 flights were carried out on planes belonging to 10 wealthy Russians.

#AlinaKabaeva #business #VladimirPutin #corruption #oligarchs #investigation #rfp

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Problems with transporting agricultural products via the Black Sea have so far not led to a food crisis on the scale of spring 2022, but they have already caused the fastest price increase since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rose by 13.1% in Q3 and reached its highest level since Q1 2022, when it gained 19.5%.

#bloomberg #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #graindeal #acrisis #UN #food #statistics #Turkey #BlackSeaFleet

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Gazprom has extended the agreement on supplying Russian gas to Serbia for another three months — until the end of 2026. This was reported by the director of the state company Srbijagas, Dušan Bajatović; the terms remain unchanged, and this is already the third three-month extension since the beginning of the year.

#AlexanderVucic #VladimirPutin #Gazprom #EuropeanCommission #Serbia #Serbiagas

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The Russian government submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the federal budget for 2027 and the planning period of 2028–2029; the order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In 2027, spending is planned at 48.8 trillion rubles, revenues at 43.3 trillion, and the deficit will amount to 5.5 trillion.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #mole #NationalDefense #nationalprojects #federalbudget

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According to a study by «Proekt», Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva were abroad at the same time at least once — in Kazakhstan in February 2017. They flew there separately, and the publication links the timing coincidence to Putin’s informal meetings with Nursultan Nazarbayev near Almaty.

#AlinaKabaeva #VladimirPutin #Kazakhstan #NursultanNazarbaev #uzbekistan #Shymbulak

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In the book by The Wall Street Journal American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a family acquaintance of the Putins called Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin «a heavy drinker». In January 2024, Vladimir Putin said that he had never seen his father drunk.

#TheWallStreetJournal #VladimirPutin #LeningradSchoolNo193 #EvanGershkovich

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