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POLITICSOct 9Russian prosecutors cancel criminal case against investigator over missing jewelry seized from influencer Valeria ChekalinaSome of the jewelry seized during a search of blogger Valeria Chekalina’s home has gone missing, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said on Telegram. Authorities opened a criminal investigation into one of the investigators in the case against Chekalina, who is known as Lerchek.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Montenegro expels founder of Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, citing ‘potentially dangerous’ activitiesMontenegro is expelling Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, from the country. News of his detention emerged on the morning of October 9.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Nikolai Rybakov, chairman of Russian opposition party Yabloko, fined 1,000 rubles for writing ‘For Peace’ on his ballotA St. Petersburg court fined Nikolai Rybakov, chairman of Yabloko, 1,000 rubles on an administrative charge of petty hooliganism.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Arrested German spy chief lashed out at his old agency over allegations he spied for RussiaPolitico Europe
POLITICSOct 9Ukrainian woman detained at Russia's request leaves Kazakhstan and is now in EU – lawyerUkrainian national Liubov Rozhanska, who was detained in Kazakhstan at Russia's request on suspicion of abducting a child, has managed to leave Kazakhstan and travel to an EU country.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 9EU paid €7.9bn for Russian Arctic LNG amid record importsEuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 9Head Of Russian Pro-War Blog Detained In MontenegroThe head of a leading Russian pro-war blog linked to the country’s Defense Ministry has been detained in Montenegro, along with several other people who work for the blog.RFE/RL
POLITICSOct 9Putin offers help to end Iran war while Russia continues its own in UkraineThe Russian president met Pezeshkian in Turkmenistan and pledged to do “everything in our power” to end the ongoing war between the US and Iran, despite Russia not being among the official mediators.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 9Montenegro Detains Co-Founders of Pro-Russian Telegram ChannelPolice arrest Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk and four associates from pro-Russian Rybar channel suspected of trying to exert malicious influence on Montenegrin politics.Balkan Insight
POLITICSOct 9Montenegro detains founder of Rybar, one of Russia’s most popular pro-war Telegram channels. Here’s what we know.Montenegrin authorities detained the creator of the Telegram channel Rybar. Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife, and three other Rybar staffers were detained in the town of Risan on the morning of October 9. According to reporting by the local outlet Vijesti, they found “sophisticated digital equipment,” drones, and “electronic devices” on them. Montenegrin security services had been monitoring Zvinchuk and his team for several days. Media reports said the operation was aimed at “suppressing the hybrid activity” of the Rybar network of channels.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Suspected plague case highlights Russia’s inherited Soviet-era culture of secrecyThe suspicious death last week of a worker at a research lab in Siberia that has fueled global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague is just the latest example of how Russia manages the official narrative. The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents – from industrial disasters to health emergencies, as FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.France 24 [en]
POLITICSOct 9Intense diplomatic manoeuvring in Athens over first Russian team in European tournamentThe Kazan club was the first Russian club to play an official European club match in Greece, after discreet pressure to keep Russian symbols out of the Serafio pool.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 9Montenegro detains Russian pro-war blogger behind Rybar, a Telegram channel with 1.5 million subscribersMontenegrin authorities detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, creator of the Z channel Rybar, local outlets Vijesti and Pobjeda reported.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Ukrainian grandmother released after Russia had her arrested in Kazakhstan on kidnapping charges. She’d traveled there to retrieve her grandson.Liubov Rozhanska, a Ukrainian citizen detained in Kazakhstan at Russia’s request, has been released, her lawyer, Alexei Pryanishnikov, told Vot Tak.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Russia requests ICC leaders' extradition, drawing Japan protestJapan Today
POLITICSOct 9Japan angry after Russia seeks extradition of ICC chief targeted by USA senior Japanese government spokesperson said it was regrettable that the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office had requested that Dutch authorities extradite International Criminal Court president Tomoko Akane and eight other officials. “Time and again we have conveyed to the Russian side that measures targeting individuals connected to the ICC are unfair and unacceptable. We find it regrettable that the Russian side has nevertheless requested various nations to extradite these individuals,”...South China Morning Post
POLITICSOct 9Russia slashes cancer care as defence spending hits post-Soviet recordEuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 8Putin pledges Russia’s support to end US-led war on IranThe Russian and Iranian presidents met in Turkmenistan ahead of regional summit.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICSOct 8Russia’s censorship agency bans two dystopian novels by Olga Ptitseva about an alternate Russia ruled by the ‘Party of Cold’Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has banned Olga Ptitseva’s novels “Dvesti trety den zimy” (“The 203rd Day of Winter”) and “Vesna vody” (“Spring of Water”). A notice appeared on the God Literatury portal on October 7, Vyorstka reported.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 8‘A complete sham’: European Parliament condemns Russia’s September elections and refuses to recognize its new lower house as legitimateThe European Parliament adopted a resolution rejecting the results of Russia’s State Duma elections. It says the vote was a “sham” held in an atmosphere of fear amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 8Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev spent years fighting EU sanctions over Belarus. He finally won (but remains sanctioned over Russia’s war in Ukraine).EU ambassadors removed Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev from the bloc’s Belarus sanctions list on October 7, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 8America’s Best Answer to the China-Russia AllianceWashington can exploit friction, strengthen allies, and make the axis harder to sustain.Foreign Policy
POLITICSOct 8Zelensky, Costa discuss Russian strikes, EU aid, opening of negotiating clustersPresident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and European Council President António Costa discussed the schedule for opening the next negotiating clusters on Ukraine’s accession to the EU, as well as an energy package for the winter and further financial support.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 8Russian dissident Kara-Murza warns France is sending 'dangerous signal' to PutinIn an interview with RFI, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza has accused France of sending a “very dangerous” signal that the West is ready to return to “business as usual” with Vladimir Putin, after the French government pushed for European Union sanctions against Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be lifted – a move Kara-Murza called “shameful”.RFI [en]
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