A criminal case was opened against 14-year-old Sofia from Samara, who became the youngest member of the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists,” because of a telegram channel. The Post- project reports this with reference to the girl’s mother. Rosfinmonitoring included the schoolgirl on the list of “terrorists and extremists” on October 7. Analyst Ivan Shukshin, who monitors registry updates, noticed that she became the youngest member of the list: the girl turned 14 this summer.

The Kenyan authorities asked Ukraine to recognize five citizens of the country who were captured during the fighting on the side of the Russian army as “victims of international human trafficking.” Bloomberg writes about this. According to Kenyan Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi, the Kenyans were recruited under the false pretense of employment. President William Ruto discussed their return over the phone with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The youngest of the prisoners is 23 years old.

The company OpenAI , which develops the ChatGPT neural network, has published a report on the Russian influence operation “ Dark Clark”. “On a scale of reaching beyond the original audience⁠, which ranks influence operations from 1 (minimum) to 6 (maximum), we would classify the Russian operation as a Category 5. This is the first Category 5 operation that we have disrupted since we began publishing our reports,” the analysts concluded.

Judge of the Leninsky Court of Yekaterinburg Liana Kuzmina fined the editor-in-chief of the Nakanune publication Sergei Khurbatov 60 thousand rubles under the article on the dissemination of fakes that “created a threat to public order and public safety” (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona became aware of this.

Montenegro police detained the creator of the pro-war telegram channel and media project “Rybar”, Mikhail Zvinchuk, and several of his employees. This was reported by Vijesti , citing sources in the security services. According to Pobjeda , a total of five people were detained in the city of Risan: Mikhail and Valeria Zvinchuk, as well as three more alleged Rybar employees.

In the Saratov region, the Balakovo District Court fined Vladislav Silaev 40 thousand rubles under a protocol for “discrediting” the army due to posts on VKontakte. The published text of the decision dated September 30 drew attention to “Caution, News.” Silaev was fined for posts four years ago. He published two of them on September 21, 2022 - a picture with the inscription “No mobilization” and a post with the text “Do not participate in the deeds of darkness! Don't follow the Devil!

Ukrainian citizen Lyubov Rozhanskaya, who was detained on October 1 at the airport at the request of Russia, was released from the detention center in Astana. As reported by “That’s So” with reference to Rozhanskaya’s lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov, Rozhanskaya has already left Kazakhstan. According to the defense lawyer, the period of detention has expired. Since no preventive measure was chosen, the woman was released.

The 2nd Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing on the premises of the Voronezh Regional Court, sentenced 23-year-old Nikita Plyusnin, accused of arson of infrastructure on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence, to 20 years in prison. This was reported by the press service of the court. The young man must spend the first three years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced former military man Sergei Zaitsev, accused of high treason, to 14 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 400 thousand rubles. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. The man was also deprived of the military rank of “reserve major”, sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom and ordered to confiscate 443 thousand rubles from him.

The governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, said that the region had completed a “set of preventive measures” due to the illness and death of an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. According to the official, the girl was vaccinated, she had immunity to the dangerous infections with which she worked, and the institute itself did not find “emergency situations when working with pathogenic microorganisms.” Kobzev said that she died due to community-acquired pneumonia.

Igor Sharnev. Photo: VK The trial of the failed terrorist attack on the railway in the Orenburg region continues in the 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow. According to the FSB, eight supporters of the banned “Artpodgotovka” were planning to drop a bomb from a bridge on a passing military train in 2024. Today the court interrogated one of them, 59-year-old driver Igor Sharnev from Velikiye Luki. Mediazona briefly retells his testimony.

In Latvia, the Riga City Court sentenced Polina Kamleva, a pro-Russian activist from the city of Rezekne, to six years in prison because of her transfer to a training camp for the Russian military. Delfi reports this. Kamleva, who works in a garment factory, is a member of the Russian Union of Latvia party, from which she ran for the Rezekne Duma in 2017.

The Southern District Military Court has received a criminal case against two Russian soldiers accused of murdering a Ukrainian family in occupied Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Mediazona has learned. This was confirmed by the mother and sister of one of the defendants, Alexey Agafonov from Kyakhta.

52-year-old Igor Yakovenko, convicted of correspondence about joining the “Freedom of Russia” legion, died in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar. This was reported by the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial". According to human rights activists, in prison in the city of Yelets, Yakovenko “began to have attacks of high blood pressure and severe headaches” and his vision began to deteriorate.

In correctional colony No. 10 in the Samara region, disabled saxophonist Andrei Shabanov was beaten twice after refusing to clean. Novaya Gazeta writes about this with reference to the musician’s mother Olga Medvedeva. As the woman said, in the colony Shabanova, despite his disability group II, is forced to clean sinks and toilets, and due to health problems he is contraindicated from doing such work.