The Latvian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow demanded that the authorities of one of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) detain a Latvian citizen. This request, as reported by the department, was of a “political nature” and was not formalized. At the same time, the Latvian Foreign Ministry did not explain which country we were talking about, but noted that the citizen returned to Latvia.

Moldova will no longer purchase gas from Russia's Gazprom. As RIA Novosti reports, this was stated by the Minister of Energy of the Republic, Viktor Parlikov, speaking at the Euro-Atlantic Sustainability Forum. According to Parlicov, Moldova refused to purchase Russian gas in favor of alternative suppliers from Europe. “Moreover, we were able to do this at a lower price than the formula that we prescribed in the contract with Gazprom,” he added.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested until November 9 a 47-year-old resident of the Moscow region, Mikhail Darius, on charges of recruitment into the Ukrainian Azov regiment. As TASS reports , a criminal case was opened against him for public calls for terrorist activities using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, Darius, as a member of Azov, tried to recruit 12 people in Moscow from May 19, 2022 to September 9, 2023.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó from Hungary and Drew Weissman from the United States for research that led to the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. This is stated in the official press release of the Nobel Committee. The concept of using mRNA for vaccination was first proposed more than 30 years ago.

Now the random passerby can be detained several times in a row, open a criminal and send to prison for 20 years Russian law enforcement officers are looking for new ways to combat opponents of the war and the Putin regime. With the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, the security forces began to use carousel arrests more often - that is, several administrative detentions of one person, which, as a rule, end with a harsh criminal article.

The Kazakh authorities maintain a list of foreigners who speak negatively about the republic. Persons present may be denied entry into the country. According to the Kazakh publication Zakon, this was announced by the representative of the country’s Foreign Ministry, Aibek Smadiyarov. “Naturally, we keep this list. But this is a working list, and we will not disclose it. I can’t name the number either. The borders are closing, and this person will not be able to enter,” he said.

Russian authorities are laying a new highway from Rostov-on-Don to the annexed Ukrainian Mariupol. This, as Radio Liberty writes, is evidenced by satellite images from the Planet.com service. Footage taken in October 2022 and October 2023 shows that the road is being laid parallel to the current highway, but away from populated areas. According to the publication, the authorities could have taken such a step because of certain difficulties that may arise when expanding the existing road.

On October 2, a ban on the entry into Bulgaria of cars with Russian license plates will come into force. The head of the Bulgarian border police, Anton Zlatanov, reported this, as reported by the local publication 24 Hours. “We worked very actively from Thursday until yesterday. I am sure that by the end of the day (Monday) a ban on the entry of Russian cars will come into force in Bulgaria,” Zlatanov said on national television. He clarified that the ban would apply to both cars and trucks.

in Ankara took place A terrorist attack On the morning of October 1, an explosion occurred in the center of the Turkish capital near the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ali Yerlikaya, two suicide bombers took part in the attack. One managed to blow himself up, the second was shot before he could do it. Two police officers were slightly injured as a result of the explosion.

The largest private clinics in Moscow have stopped vaccinating against coronavirus due to the lack of Sputnik V and Sputnik Light drugs, RBC writes . The publication writes that there are no vaccines in JSC Medicine, Mother and Child, Invitro, Poliklinika.ru and EMC. It is unknown when supplies of drugs will resume.

On the sites of regional administrations, addresses of regime objects were published. Even the FSB and the Ministry of Defense On the websites of the administrations of Russian regions, documents of special consumers of electricity are published, where you can find the addresses of the FSO, FSB, Ministry of Defense, intelligence and other departments, the Center “Dossye” found out.

In Ulyanovsk, an abnormal fire alarm at a local school led to the hospitalization of three students. this in his telegram channel The mayor of the city, Alexander Boldakin, announced . According to him, three fifth-grade students “succumbed to panic” and jumped out of the second floor windows. “As a result, the girl had a broken leg, one boy had bruises, and the second had a suspected broken heel,” Boldakin wrote.

In the Tver region, the relatives of a mobilized man who died in the war in Ukraine were not given his body. about this . writes The local publication “Close Tver Behind Me” The funeral of Mikhail Smirnov, who died in Ukraine, was supposed to take place in Rzhev on October 2. a corresponding announcement on its VKontakte page on The administration of the Rzhev Municipal District published September 29. there On October 1, a new message appeared .

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of murder against a 31-year-old resident of Lipetsk, who is accused of killing his four-year-old stepdaughter. This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, on October 1, the man quarreled with his wife, beat her, and then attacked her four-year-old daughter, causing her fatal injuries. He was detained, the investigation will petition for his arrest.

Russian special services received orders to kill pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who fled to Ukraine along with his Mi-8 helicopter. This is stated in the story aired on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, to which drew attention . the Agency The author of the story is VGTRK military correspondent Sergei Zenin.