Russia and five CIS countries agreed on the prompt exchange of data on extremist charges, including cases involving «rehabilitation of Nazism». The agreement was signed by the prosecutors general of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan at the 36th meeting of the Coordinating Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS member states.

#AlexandrGucan #ImmortalBarracks #rehabilitationofNazism #Russia #Cng #TamaraEidelman

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Moscow sent NATO a diplomatic note warning of its readiness to use nuclear weapons if the alliance tries to isolate the Kaliningrad region from the rest of Russia. Reuters saw the document; in it, the Russian side also accused NATO of a «dangerous and reckless course» and of risking a direct armed conflict.

#DmitryPeskov #KaliningradOblast #KjastutisBudris #NATO #Russia #Ukraine

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The main buyer of Russian grain was Iran, and in the first three months of the new agricultural season, which began on July 1, Russia will export 8–8.5 million tons of grain abroad, including 5.6–7 million tons of wheat. A year earlier, exports for the same period amounted to 14 million tons, while the average figure for this period is 15–20 million tons.

#VladimirPetrichenko #Iran #Prozerno #Russia #Turkey

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that Europe should reconsider the balance of military, economic, and diplomatic tools and give priority to diplomacy in relations with Russia. Otherwise, he said, the situation could lead to a Russian nuclear strike.

#Bulgaria #europe #Russia #RumenRadev #SergeyLavrov #Ukraine

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According to Alfa-Bank analysts, in 2027 non-interest, non-defense spending of Russia’s federal budget will fall to about 9% of GDP — the lowest level since 2005. At the same time, spending under the «national defense» item will rise to 35% of all expenditures, while key civilian sectors face cuts.

#AlfaBank #BudgetoftheRussianFederation #WarinUkraine #publicdebt #Russia #finance #Economy

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CEV has allowed the Russian men’s and women’s national teams to compete under its auspices. The decision applies to indoor and beach volleyball tournaments, the All-Russian Volleyball Federation said, citing the confederation’s Administrative Council.

#Volleyball #AdmissionofRussianathletes #Russia #sport

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In the Omsk region, a court sentenced a 71-year-old man to eight years in a high-security penal colony for the murder of his 68-year-old wife. According to the regional prosecutor’s office, the conflict began during a drinking gathering: the man did not like how his wife sliced the lard.

#OmskOblast #thatone #Russiancourts #Russia #Siberia #murder

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The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale against Igor Shemetov, an employee of the housing and utilities service of a military town in the Irkutsk region. According to the agency, he placed cryptocurrency mining equipment at work, causing damage to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

#Irkutskregion #Cryptocurrency #Mining #MinistryofDefenseoftheRussianFederation #Russia #Siberia #InvestigativeCommitteeoftheRussianFederation

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Russia sent NATO a diplomatic note in which it threatened to use nuclear weapons if alliance countries try to isolate the Kaliningrad Region from the rest of the country. In response, NATO said it remains a defensive alliance and does not consider its exercises or other activities a threat to Russia.

#Thelikelihoodofamajorwar #europe #KaliningradOblast #RFMFA #NATO #Russia

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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is not discussing with the US authorities easing sanctions against Russia in exchange for the release of political prisoners. He said that Moscow categorically denies the existence of political prisoners.

#DmitryPeskov #DonaldTrump #Kremlin #memorial #Russia #USA

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The Russian government has extended, through October 31, 2026, the ban on exports of diesel and marine fuel, as well as gasoils, shipped directly by producers. The decision was made to maintain a stable situation in the domestic fuel market amid increased demand for motor fuel during the harvest campaign.

#Russia #fuelcrisis #fuelexport

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In Vienna and the German city of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, raids were carried out on two entrepreneurs suspected of supplying cars to Russia in circumvention of European Union sanctions. This was reported by the Kaiserslautern prosecutor’s office; the court seized assets worth about 7 million euros.

#Austria #Belgium #Germany #EuropeandRussia #EU #Russia #sanctions

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El Mundo reported that U.S. authorities uncovered a network of Russian intelligence services in mid-September, and that in recent months Garry Kasparov, Ilya Ponomarev, and Ivan Tyutrin received warnings about planned assassination attempts. According to the newspaper, possible targets of this network also included Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ruslan Gabbasov.

#Russianemigration #Russia #specialservices #USA #FreeRussiaForum

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The European Union has begun to discuss in detail tightening the rules for issuing tourist and short-term visas to Russian citizens. This concerns possible legislative changes that would make it possible to restrict visa issuance to certain categories of applicants.

#VisaCode #Germany #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Leipzig #Russia

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Ukraine returned 14 children from the part of Kherson region controlled by the Russian army, said the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. Among them were four boys and 10 girls aged six to 17.

#VladimirPutin #InternationalCriminalCourt #UN #Russia #Ukraine #Khersonregion

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On Monday, the book by American journalist Evan Gershkovich, This Cursed Beautiful Land, appeared in U.S. bookstores. In it, the former Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal рассказывает how, as a result of a provocation, he ended up as a hostage of the FSB, was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges, and was released only thanks to an international prisoner exchange. The circumstances of this story are strikingly reminiscent of a Russian-American spy scandal from 40 years ago, which was resolved thanks to the intervention of Gorbachev and Reagan.

#documentaryprose #journalists #historyoftheSovietspecialservices #KGBoftheUSSR #Putin #repressions #Russia #securityforces #USA #FSB #cia #EvanGershkovich

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At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev again called for freezing hostilities in Ukraine in order to move to negotiations. He also called Vladimir Putin «the most acceptable political figure» for Europe and the world.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #Germany #Kazakhstan #KassymJomartTokayev #Russia #FriedrichMerz

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A senior Reuters source in the Russian government said that the transfer of Russian assets of Western companies into temporary management should make European countries think about sanctions. When asked about the Russian units of UniCredit and Raiffeisen, he replied: «Let them be afraid».

#raiffeisen #reuters #UniCredit #Interimmanagement #Russia #Economy

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155 activists, public figures, and human rights defenders signed an appeal to the authorities of Kazakhstan asking them to immediately stop the extradition to Russia of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev and former staff member of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters Yulia Emelyanova. The authors of the letter claim that if they are returned to Russia, they face long imprisonment and torture.

#AlexeyNavalnyi #Civicactivism #Kazakhstan #MansurMovlaev #Russia #Chechnya #Extradition #JuliaEmeljanova

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Donald Trump approved the idea of easing American sanctions against Russia in exchange for the release of some Russian political prisoners, The Atlantic пишет. The initiative is at an early stage: the specific individuals involved and the list of possible sanctions concessions have not yet been disclosed.

#AlexandrLukashenko #VladimirZelensky #DonaldTrump #politicalprisoners #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine

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