The Investigative Committee and the FSB reported cases against teenagers and young people whom, according to the security services, Ukrainian intelligence agencies recruited through the dating bot «Leonardo Daivinchik» for sabotage in Russia. According to the FSB, 56 people have been detained in such cases since last summer, and the Investigative Committee’s statement mentions four cases in the Leningrad Region, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok.

#Telegram #Leningradregion #PavelDurov #StPetersburg #InvestigativeCommittee #FSB

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Roskomnadzor included Apple and Microsoft in the registry of information dissemination organizers. The companies were added to the list on October 2; this obliges them to store information about users and correspondence and transfer it to authorized authorities.

#apple #microsoft #Roskomnadzor #FSB

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The Ministry of Justice sent submissions to the Moscow Bar Association to revoke the status of six lawyers whom the FSB considers to have left Russia more than a year ago. The names of five of them are not disclosed, and among those named is Nikolai Polozov.

#MoscowBarAssociation #VladimirPutin #ministryofjustice #NikolaiPolozov #PussyRiot #FSB

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The Japanese government is discussing two scenarios for the release of Yuki Imai, a journalist for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun, who was detained in Russia on suspicion of espionage. According to Daily Shincho, he may be included either in a multilateral exchange involving the United States or in a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine.

#Russia #UnitedStates #Ukraine #FSB #JukiImai #Japan

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The Russian Ministry of Justice demanded that the legal status of six members of the Moscow Bar Association, who have been abroad for more than a year, be terminated. Among them is Nikolai Polozov, who in different years represented the interests of Pussy Riot members, Nadezhda Savchenko, Sergei Udaltsov, and Crimean Tatar activists.

#MoscowBarAssociation #advocacy #EvgenySmirnov #MinjustRossii #NikolaiPolozov #FSB

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Exactly 70 years ago, in October 1956, the USSR and Japan adopted a Joint Declaration under which the countries announced the end of the war, restored diplomatic relations, and officially recorded the USSR’s agreement to transfer the Habomai and Shikotan islands to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty. But the treaty was never signed. Now Russia and Japan have reached a critical peak in relations between the countries that, over all these years, were if not allies, then not enemies either — economic cooperation between them only grew. Even after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Japan remained one of the largest importers of Russian LNG.

#diplomacy #hostages #China #Russia #sanctions #specialservices #FSB #spyscandal #Japan

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Political scientist Alexander Kynev has declared a hunger strike in SIZO-4 «Medved» in Moscow because he cannot properly use the toilet. This was reported by his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.

#AlexandrKynev #hungerstrike #Moscow #drugs #SIZO4Medved #FSB

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In Russia, a criminal case on justifying terrorism has been opened against the editor-in-chief of the Belgorod publication Ash, Nikita Parmyonov. This was reported by Fonar and BelPressa, citing the regional FSB directorate.

#Belgorod #LegionSvobodaRossii #NikitaParmenov #ashes #Russkydobrovolcheskykorpus #FSB

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Daria Bagina said that Izhevsk activist and history master’s student Dmitry Morozov was tortured during his arrest. He is being prosecuted in a drug possession case and is in pretrial detention.

#DarjaBagina #DmitryMorozov #Izhevsk #CommunistParty #pretrialdetentioncenter #FSB

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The Russian Ministry of Justice published an open registry of citizens who are abroad and, according to the authorities, are evading punishment. The list of «persons subject to temporary restrictive measures» includes 12 people, among them Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Leonid Gozman, Ekaterina Schulmann, Michael Naki, Boris Zimin, and Vladimir Milov.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #FederalLawNo284FZ #InteriorMinistry #MinistryofJusticeoftheRussianFederation #FSB

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The series «Reportage-2035» has been released on Premier, «Ivi» and VK Video — part of a multimedia project about the near future, funded by the Internet Development Institute. The project was conceived by employees of Lenta.ru and Gazeta.Ru: in its world, the United States has fallen apart, and Elon Musk has moved to Moscow.

#Gru #elonmask #IRI #MSU #Report2035 #FSB

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The Russian Ministry of Justice will prepare a public register of citizens who are abroad and evading the execution of the punishment imposed in the Russian Federation. Restrictions will be предусмотрены for those included in the list, including the blocking of bank accounts and property.

#ProsecutorGeneralsOffice #InteriorMinistry #MinjustRossii #OlegSviridenko #registerofforeignagents #FSB

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«Mediazona» reported that over the past year the FSB initiated at least three criminal cases against employees of scientific institutes and university lecturers in Moscow and the Moscow region under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In spring 2026, at least six similar cases related to transfers to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) reached Moscow courts.

#AlexeyNavalnyi #hce #RussianAcademyofSciences #FBK #FSB

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The FSB claims it has detained a German citizen whom it considers a deserter from the Ukrainian army. According to the agency, he served in Ukraine as a sniper, and in 2025 he returned to the country and signed a new contract with the army.

#ArmedForcesofUkraine #Germany #Kiev #memorial #FSB

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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament held hearings on the situation in Russia. MPs and experts discussed what could happen after Vladimir Putin’s death and whether a new mutiny modeled on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising is possible.

#UnitedKingdom #VladimirPutin #evgenyprigozhin #sanctions #FSB #ChVKVagnera

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«Mediazona» reported that in Russia, scientists and university professors are increasingly appearing in cases involving financing «extremism» because of donations to FBK. Over the past six months, according to the publication’s count, more than ten such cases have been filed in Moscow courts.

#hce #skolteh #SofjaRozenfeld #FBK #FSB #CentrE

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«Memorial» analyzed FSB videos of detentions, searches, and suspects’ confessions and said that some of the recordings show signs of staging. Human rights activists also calculated that the share of reports about the FSB with video in the Telegram channels of TASS and RIA Novosti rose from 23% in 2021 to 40% in the first half of 2026.

#TheInsider #Abkhazia #memorial #Ukraine #FSB #Herson

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) writes that August Hanning, the former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), who was arrested on October 6 in Germany on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason, maintained regular contact with Nikolai Patrushev after retiring in 2009. The newspaper links this to several meetings between them and Hanning’s trips to Russia.

#BND #AvgustHanning #Germany #Crimea #NikolaiPatrushev #FSB

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The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a 16-year-old teenager to pretrial detention in a case on aiding terrorism. According to investigators, Vladimir believed he was corresponding with representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps, but in fact his interlocutors were officers of Russia’s FSB.

#Russkydobrovolcheskykorpus #StPetersburg #pretrialdetentioncenter #terrorism #FSB

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The publication «Vot Tak» reported that 27-year-old Muscovite Semyon Krasotkin, a mathematician and journalist, was arrested on charges of treason. According to the publication’s source, the case involves Telegram «stars» totaling 2,200 rubles.

#Telegram #gosizmena #Domodedovo #PavelDurov #SemenKrasotkin #FSB

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