Monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ claim that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the Samara oil pumping station in the Samara region for the second time this week. According to Exilenova+, after the attack a large fire broke out on the facility’s premises, and roads in the nearby settlement were blocked.

#uav #WarinUkraine #oil #Russia #Samara #SamaraRegion #DefenseForcesofUkraine #StrikesagainstRussia

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Japan extradited to Germany the 28-year-old Russian Vladimir K., whom German investigators consider one of the key members of the hacker group Qilin. On October 2, he was flown from Tokyo to Frankfurt, and he is now in custody.

#Germany #cybercrime #Russia #hackers #Japan

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Representatives of 32 countries called on Russia to hold all those responsible for Anna Politkovskaya’s murder accountable and to stop persecuting journalists. The statement by the Coalition for Media Freedom is timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the murder of the Novaya Gazeta journalist.

#AnnaPolitkovskaja #EU #NovayaGazeta #ReportersWithoutBorders #Russia #massmedia

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The Baltic Fleet Military Court in Russia sentenced 68-year-old Igor Odintsov to six years in a high-security penal colony in a case involving justification of terrorism. This was reported by the Kaliningrad portal «Russian West».

#JustificationofTerrorism #WarinUkraine #EuropeandRussia #Kaliningrad #Lithuania #repressions #Russiancourts #Russia

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The FSB has prepared a draft order that would allow members of the agency’s board to fly first class at state expense not only on official business, but also on vacation and for medical treatment. Currently, in such cases they are paid for business class.

#aviation #NovayaGazetaEvropa #Russia #FSB

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The British magazine The Economist reported that former U.S. National Security Council official Thomas Graham, who returned from Moscow after meetings with senior Russians, said that peace in Ukraine «will not be fair». According to his forecast, Russia will retain part of Ukrainian territory, and Vladimir Putin will not stand trial in The Hague for war crimes.

#TheEconomist #WarinUkraine #Theendofthewar #Russia #TomasGrem

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The human rights project «Memorial», in a report on politically motivated criminal cases in Russia, said that the decline in prosecutions for statements has barely affected the articles under the jurisdiction of the FSB. In the first nine months of 2026, the number of new defendants under two of the three such articles increased, while under the third it fell by only 1%.

#AlexeyNavalnyi #Artillerypreparation #memorial #repressions #Russia #SvideteliIegovy #FBK #FSB

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Elena Blinovskaya, sentenced to 4.5 years for legalization and illegal circulation of payment instruments, did not admit guilt during the cassation review of the sentence. On July 29, the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction left unchanged the sentence in the tax evasion case, although the defense asked to overturn it, citing the statute of limitations.

#bloggers #ElenaBlinovskaja #Moscow #Russiancourts #Russia

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The U.S. Embassy in Russia advised American citizens not to travel to the country and to leave it immediately if they are already there. The warning is linked to reports of the spread of pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast and a quarantine after a person's death.

#disease #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor #Russia #USA #plague #Shelekhov

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State Duma deputy, retired Major General Leonid Ivlev called NATO’s «Theory of Victory» plan on the eastern flank preparation for aggression against Russia and an attempt to push the alliance’s partners to increase defense spending. He also claims that NATO’s new strategy draws on the experience of the war in Ukraine and combines conventional weapons with drones and artificial intelligence.

#Belarus #ArtificialIntelligence #LeonidIvlev #NATO #Poland #Russia

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The Polish government will adopt on October 6 a draft resolution approving the population protection and civil defense program for 2027–2031. It allocates 102.4 billion zlotys, or about $26 billion.

#VladislavKosinyakKamysh #DonaldTusk #NATO #Poland #Russia #CouncilofMinisters

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The German Embassy in Moscow said it continues to issue student visas to Russian citizens and has not changed the rules for processing them. The reason was the refusal of a visa to a graduate of the Higher School of Economics, which the embassy linked to a «security threat».

#Germany #GermanForeignMinistry #NationalResearchUniversityHigherSchoolofEconomics #EmbassyofGermanyinMoscow #Russia #studentvisas

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About 20 Finnish MPs reported cases of intrusions into their homes and apartments, The Telegraph reported. In one episode, a politician found feces left in the toilet, and parliament speaker Jussi Halla-aho said no signs of forced entry were found.

#NATO #Russia #Finland #FSB #Estonia #JussiHallaaho

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The British newspaper The Guardian reported that more than 176,000 tons of fuel, mostly diesel, were sent from South Korean ports to Russia in the summer. According to the publication, in July and August seven tankers made 14 voyages, and three of them were under sanctions from the UK and the EU.

#CREA #TheGuardian #LiChzheMen #Rosneft #Russia #Southside

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Lukoil's Volgograd oil refinery completely halted oil processing on October 2 after equipment was damaged in a drone attack. Reuters was told this by two industry sources.

#Volgogradregion #VolgogradOilRefinery #Lukoil #PermOilRefinery #Russia #Ukraine

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«The authorities lie» has already become such a deeply rooted belief that only television can persuade people otherwise. The authorities themselves, however, quite readily confirm this opinion. This, of course, seriously hinders an objective assessment of reality at any level — from consumer behavior to the behavior of economic agents. But there is an even more important question: do the authorities lie to themselves?

#Analytics #budget #ValentinaMatvienko #WarinUkraine #state #RussianFinanceMinisterAntonSiluanov #aftertheUSSR #Russia #finance

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In Kharkiv, Russian guided aerial bombs hit a five-story residential building in the Slobidskyi district. Three people were killed, and 39 more were injured.

#IgorTerehov #OlegSinegubov #Russia #Slobodskoydistrict #Ukraine #Kharkov

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19-year-old Anna Victoria Politkovskaya, the granddaughter of the murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, spoke at a meeting of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights. She called for a pan-European mechanism for the emergency issuance of humanitarian visas for people who cannot safely remain in Russia.

#AnnaViktoriaPolitkovskaja #EuropeanParliament #LGBTcommunity #repressionsinRussia #Russia #NorthCaucasus

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In Russia, a court sentenced Perm businessman and activist Leonid Melekhin to six years in prison in a case involving the justification of terrorism. The trigger was an internet comment of unknown content and a Telegram post with a photo of a poster bearing an inscription about Vladimir Putin.

#LeonidMelehin #justificationofterrorism #Permian #Russia #USA

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian attack on a corn ship in the Black Sea led to the captain’s death. According to him, another sailor is missing, and 11 crew members were rescued.

#Azerbaijan #VladimirZelensky #RussianMinistryofDefense #Russia #Romania #BlackSea

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