The World Athletics Council has decided to update the rules for the admission of transgender and DSD athletes , the organization's press service reported. The association banned transgender people from competing in major women's events if they transitioned after male puberty. Previously, transgender athletes were allowed to compete in women's events if they maintained blood testosterone levels below 2.5 nanomoles per liter for two years.

On Thursday, the Save Ukraine charity facilitated the return of 17 Ukrainian children taken from the Kherson and Kharkiv regions and relocated to Russian and occupied territories. A press release from the foundation says Russia refused to return the children to their parents after Ukraine liberated the Russian-occupied territories from which they had been removed.

The European Union came out in support of Memorial in connection with the searches and criminal cases "unfairly initiated against its representatives." This is stated in the telegram channel of the EU Delegation to Russia. Memorial plays an invaluable role in Russia in the defense of human rights and in the fight against attempts to manipulate the historical memory of political repressions in Russia in the 20th century.

The Moscow City Disinfection Center held a meeting with employees, at which the leaders “gave a lecture on how it is profitable to volunteer” for the war in Ukraine, one of the participants in the meeting told Mediazone. Among other things, according to him, at the meeting they talked about cash payments to “volunteers” of 200,000 rubles one-time from the organization and 50,000 rubles from the city every month, as well as support for families in case of injury or death.

"Mediazona" told how the courts force them to choose between prison and war Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / DDP Images / Vida Press mobilized in Moscow. October 4, 2022 During the full -scale war with Ukraine, hundreds of Russian soldiers refused to participate in hostilities.

The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (World Athletics) decided to restore the membership of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) in the organization. ARAF has met all the requirements of the plan to restore membership, which was confirmed by an independent audit, according to a World Athletics press release. In its further activities, the ARAF must comply with 35 points of "special conditions".

The human rights center “Memorial” told how searches were carried out in the case of “rehabilitation of Nazism” in the offices and apartments of the organization’s employees, as well as where and how they were looking for “tools and means of committing a crime and objects on which there are traces of a crime.” .

Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Uganda parliament approved a bill against LGBTK-human, some provisions of which allow punishment in the form of a death penalty or imprisonment for up to 20 years. The very fact of identification of oneself as a LGBTK-persons will become a crime, they write CNN and BBC . This is one of the most stringent laws against LGBTK+ in Africa. In Uganda, as in more than 30 African countries, same -sex relations were already considered illegal.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has labeled Ilya Varlamov, a blogger, and Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group, Agora, “foreign agents.” Varlamov and Chikov disseminated “inaccurate information about decisions made and policies adopted by the public authorities,” according to the ministry’s website.

Hungarian authorities will not arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) if he comes to the country, said Gergely Gulyas, head of the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. According to him, Hungary has no legal basis for this, although the country has signed and ratified the Rome Statute , on the basis of which the ICC operates. Gulyas referred to the fact that the Statute is not integrated into the Hungarian legal system.

The founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, intends to wind down the activities of his "private army" in Ukraine and focus again on Africa. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing sources "familiar with the matter." Bloomberg writes that the security forces and the political establishment view Prigozhin as a "growing threat." He is now "struggling" with a shortage of manpower and ammunition after he was "prohibited" from recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, the publication notes.

Journalists with the publications Skhemi (from Radio Liberty) and Scanner Project have discovered two new Russian oil extraction companies linked to the family of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Between December 2022 and January 2023, Alexander Dontsov, director of the oil company NZNP Trade, headed two Russian oil extraction companies, INGT and KNK. Oksana Marchenko, Medvedchuk’s wife, controls NZNP Trade. Both INGT and KNK are new companies, according to the journalists’ investigation.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has declared blogger Ilya Varlamov and head of the international human rights group Agora Pavel Chikov “foreign agents.” Varlamov and Chikov disseminated “false information about decisions made by public authorities and the policies they pursue,” the agency’s website claims.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the working group of the Military-Industrial Commission read the telegram of Joseph Stalin dated September 17, 1941 to the heads of enterprises. The video from the meeting was published on Medvedev's telegram channel. Medvedev said that he "cannot help paying attention" to how "such work" was assessed in a "similar situation" during the Great Patriotic War.

17 children returned to Ukraine from the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, who were taken deep into the occupied territories or to Russia during the Russian occupation, the Save Ukraine Charitable Foundation reports. A press release from the foundation says that after the liberation of the territories occupied by the Russian Federation, the Russians refused to return the children to their parents.