On October 1, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced to the chargé d’affaires of Hungary the expulsion of employees of the Hungarian embassy in Moscow and the consulates general in Saint Petersburg and Kazan. The decision was made in response to the September expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats from Hungary, for which Budapest allotted two weeks.

#Hungary #Kazan #RFMFA #Moscow #RussiaandEurope #StPetersburg

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The 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow remanded the head of the logistics and training base directorate of the Main Directorate for Combat Training of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Sergei Nikitushkin, in custody. The motion from the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia was considered on the evening of September 30; the defense requested a more lenient measure, while investigators have not yet disclosed the exact charges.

#Arrests #WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Moscow #ParkPatriot

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The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that CIA Director John Ratcliffe unexpectedly arrived in Moscow at the end of August and delivered a grim warning to the Russian leadership about the state of the economy. According to the publication, he argued to the Kremlin that Russia would not be able to win the war in Ukraine economically and risked repeating the collapse of the USSR because of military spending.

#JohnRatcliffe #Moscow #Russia #Ukraine #FrankfurterAllgemeineZeitung #cia

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Moscow’s Nikulinsky Court sentenced 20-year-old Elizaveta Mazurova to 12.5 years in a penal colony in the case of the attack on 59-year-old Galina Tikhomirova on the instructions of scammers. The prosecutor requested 10 years in a penal colony for her, and the court also ordered compulsory treatment and outpatient psychiatric supervision.

#foreignagents #Mediazona #Moscow #court #Telephonescammers

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In August 2026, for the first time since 2020, apartment rents fell in Russian million-plus cities, CIAN lead analyst Elena Bobrovskaya told Kommersant. One-bedroom apartments in the 16 largest cities became cheaper by an average of 3% year on year, and two-bedroom apartments — by 6%.

#mortgage #Lifestyle #Moscow #theproperty #Russia #StPetersburg #cyanogen

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Activist Varvara Kosheleva and her husband were beaten in Moscow near their own home. According to Kosheleva, the attackers identified themselves as participants in the «SMO»; after the attack, she went to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with bruises of the soft tissues of the head, swelling of the nasal tissues, and multiple bruises on her face.

#WarinUkraine #Moscow #Russia #ParticipantsoftheSVO #Apple

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Jazz saxophonist Alexey Kozlov has died in Moscow at the age of 90. His death was announced by Kozlov’s Jazz Club in a Telegram channel.

#AlexeyKozlov #arsenal #CarnegieHall #Moscow #Sovietjazzrock

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A bear attacked a group of tourists from Moscow in Tuva, and one of the men died. The injured man, about 60 years old, was taken to a hospital in Kyzyl, but could not be saved.

#Interfax #Kyzyl #bear #Moscow #MES #Tuva

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The Russian Ministry of Finance has changed the terms of the «Family Mortgage» program: from October 1, the interest rate and maximum loan amount will depend on the number of children in the family and the region of residence.

#MinistryofFinanceoftheRussianFederation #Moscow #Russia #StPetersburg #Familymortgage

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The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that CEC head Ella Pamfilova received a 237 m² apartment in central Moscow free of charge from the state, after which the property was registered in the name of her 24-year-old granddaughter, Irina Kezina.

#Moscow #FBK #FSB #fso #cyc #EllaPamfilova

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The FSB announced the detention of a man born in 1993, who is suspected of preparing a terrorist attack against a high-ranking Russian official. According to the security service, the detainee was sent to a pretrial detention center.

#Moscow #Moscowregion #RIANews #SK #terrorism #FSB

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Moscow and Kabul’s talks on bringing labor migrants from Afghanistan to Russia have reached an impasse, said Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president’s special representative for Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s ambassador Hassan Gul Hassan also did not name a date for the arrival of Afghan workers and said the process is still ongoing.

#Afghanistan #ZamirKabulov #mintrud #Moscow #Russia #Taliban

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The travel service «Tutu» reported that Russians who travel abroad earn an average of 75.6 thousand rubles per month per person. For those who travel within Russia, the average income was 60.2 thousand rubles.

#Moscow #Russia #StPetersburg #tass #Tutu

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In Moscow’s Meshchansky Court, the deputy director for development of the Efko group of companies, Ekaterina Kustova, accused of especially large-scale fraud and embezzlement, was vouched for by Vladimir Alekseev, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, and Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat special forces. The defense intends to ask that detention in a pretrial detention center be replaced with personal surety, and on Wednesday the court will consider the issue of extending the arrests of Efko executives.

#ValeryKustov #EkaterinaKustova #MeshchanskyCourt #Moscow #Transportofthefuture #Efko

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In Moscow, on the sidelines of the II World Public Assembly at the World Trade Center, the first ambassadors of the World of Traditional Values were elected. They were representatives of France, Benin, Cyprus, Turkmenistan, Malaysia, and Tajikistan.

#AssemblyofthePeoplesoftheWorld #MariaZakharova #Theworldoftraditionalvalues #Moscow #Telltheworldaboutyourhomeland

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The Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow fined an engineer from Skoltech 500,000 rubles for transferring 300 rubles to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). The court also ordered the confiscation of the transfer amount in favor of the state.

#AlexeiNavalny #Moscow #SavelovskyCourt #Skoltech #FBK

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Metropolitan Hilarion (Grigory Alfeyev) filed a lawsuit in the Ostankino District Court of Moscow against the TV channel «Dozhd» for the protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation. The claim was filed with the court on September 9.

#Rain #MetropolitanHilarion #Moscow #OstankinoDistrictCourt #RussianOrthodoxChurch

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The family of the new manager of «Auchan», «Nestle», and «Leman PRO», Interior Ministry General Andrey Krayushkin, was linked at once to two development groups — the structures of God Nisanov and the circle of Gagik Adibekyan. The connection can be traced through OSAGO policies, an entry in a phone book, and corporate data on the work of his wife Lyudmila Krayushkina and Alexey Evseev.

#Auchan #GagikAdibekyan #YearsofNisan #ZarakhIliev #Moscow #Nestle

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The number of anomalous votes for «United Russia» in the current campaign may exceed 14 million, according to an analysis by electoral analysts. In their assessment, the party’s real result remained roughly at the 2021 level, while the official one increased.

#BorisOvchinnikov #TheStateDuma #DEG #UnitedRussia #Moscow #SergeyShpilkin

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In Moscow, at the intersection of Bolshoy Sukharevsky Lane and Sretenka Street, a monument to former mayor Yuri Luzhkov was unveiled. The bronze monument was timed to the day he would have turned 90.

#DmitryMedvedev #ElenaBaturina #Inteko #Moscow #SalavatShcherbakov #YuriLuzhkov

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