Royal Navy sailor Teddy Young went on trial in Britain on Thursday accused of preparing to spy, allegedly for Russia. According to the BBC Russian Service , Young became the first member of the British armed forces to be charged under the new National Security Act of 2023. The hearing took place at Westminster Magistrates' Court. Teddy Young is charged with preparing to transmit classified information for the benefit of a foreign state.

The European Parliament refused to recognize the Russian State Duma of the ninth convocation, which was formed following the elections of September 18-20, 2026, as a legitimate government body. This is stated in the resolution approved by European MPs on Thursday. The document received 482 votes for, 41 against, 39 deputies abstained.

10/09/2026 The Scottish publishing house Evertype, which specializes in translations of Lewis Carroll, has published the Russian-language book “Through the Looking Glass and What Anya Found There.” Ukrainian poet and translator Igor Prikhozhay (Sirin), who died a year ago in the war in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, translated into Russian the second fairy tale about Alice (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871) in the style of Vladimir Nabokov.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced renewed US efforts to strengthen security in the Arctic. He warned that America's adversaries and competitors are already active in the region, whose strategic importance is constantly growing. Iceland is the first leg of Rubio's tour of three NATO countries. Speaking at a meeting with Iceland's Foreign Minister Thorgerour Katrin Gunnarsdottir, Rubio described the northern country as a key link in the defense system of North America and Europe.

Russia imported more than 176 thousand tons of petroleum products from South Korean ports in July and August 2026, which allowed Moscow to mitigate the consequences of the fuel crisis caused by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries. Ukrainian official Vladislav Vlasyuk, the Ukrainian Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, announced this on Tuesday in a Facebook post. Vlasyuk writes that in August, supplies from South Korea accounted for 31% of Russian fuel imports.

10/07/2026 October 7 marks three years since the attack by the Hamas group, recognized as terrorist in many countries, on the southern regions of Israel. The Hamas attack triggered a protracted and destructive war in the Gaza Strip. Although international mediation resulted in a temporary ceasefire in October 2025 and the return of surviving Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, the conflict remains in a deep political and military stalemate.

10/07/2026 The annual Nobel week began on October 5 . At the end, on October 9, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will name the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The names of the nominees in this case are traditionally not disclosed. Officially, the committee only reported that 208 individuals and 79 organizations were nominated for the award. But we know from those who nominated candidates that US President Donald Trump is again on the list.

In Brazil, the first round of presidential elections took place : Senator Flavio Bolsonaro - the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro - received 47 percent of the vote, overtaking current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who received 45 percent. A total of 12 candidates took part in the elections: to win it was necessary to gain more than 50 percent of the votes. The country's highest electoral court announced that a second round will take place on October 25.

10/05/2026 As geopolitical tensions increasingly lead to local and regional wars, how close is the world to a much larger conflict? In other words, is it likely that in the near future we will find ourselves on the threshold of World War III or a war similar in scale?

10/04/2026 Russia warned NATO this week that it is prepared to use its entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if the Western alliance tries to cut off the Kaliningrad region, Russia's heavily militarized Baltic exclave sandwiched between NATO members Poland and Lithuania. Kaliningrad and nuclear threats In a diplomatic note distributed to NATO member countries, Moscow said it had information that the alliance was allegedly preparing an “air and sea blockade” of this territory.

03.10.2026 As armies around the world rush to find ways to counter the threat of fiber-optic drones, a barrier designed to cut fiber optics has already been deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine, says the developer of this still-new technology. Ukraine's Chagarnik (Bush) system, announced in September, is an active defense system designed to physically sever the fiber optic cables that operators use to control FPV drones. These UAVs are invulnerable to electronic countermeasures.

03.10.2026 The Arctic is increasingly becoming the focus of international attention. Ice that has hampered shipping and limited access to resources for decades is rapidly receding due to climate change. Along with it, the political map of the region is changing: new routes and mining opportunities are turning the Arctic into an area of ​​growing strategic rivalry. In 2024, military cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic became more noticeable.

02.10.2026 There is a special NILI unit in Israel, the purpose of which is to destroy or capture the organizers and participants in the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 , primarily militants of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas (recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States and the European Union) and the Islamic Jihad group (also recognized as terrorist). They are targets of NILI whether they are in Gaza, the West Bank or other countries.

10/01/2026 The United States has new powers to increase economic pressure on Russia, but their effectiveness will depend on whether the Trump administration can use them consistently and clearly outline what it expects from Moscow and other governments. Radio Liberty's interlocutors, American legislators and diplomacy experts, talk about this. “Conflicting Signals” “The administration needs to stop sending mixed signals,” veteran former American diplomat Daniel Fried tells Radio Liberty.

10/01/2026 In Russian you can say “war” or “SVO”, “liberator” or “occupier”, “mobilization” or “mobilization”. Russian is spoken by many defenders of Ukraine, and participants in the anti-war movement, and witnesses, and victims, and aggressors. How does language change in wartime and how does language change war? Doctor of Philology Alexey Tikhonov , an employee of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Zurich, professionally deals with these issues.