Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze responded to a statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, which condemned the use of images of destroyed Ukrainian cities in the election campaign of the ruling Georgian Dream party. Posters comparing Ukrainian cities destroyed by Russia to Georgian cities were published on the party's social networks and also appeared on the streets of Tbilisi.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced former military man Sergei Lintsov to four years in a general regime colony in the case of distributing “fakes” about the army (clause “e” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), reports the joint press service of the courts.

The Israel Defense Forces attacked Hezbollah's central headquarters, which is located in the southern suburb of Dahiya in the Lebanese capital Beirut, the IDF said in a statement. According to IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari, the headquarters was located under residential buildings. According to the Israeli portal Ynet, the target of the attack was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Khagari did not specify whether the army managed to achieve its goal.

Service audience in the Russian Federation - 40 million people Primakov / Shutterstock.com Roskomnadzor blocked the Discord messenger in Russia. Earlier, the department made five decisions on violation of Russian legislation in relation to this service. As a result of blocking the messenger, several tens of millions of people will lose another convenient means of communication. Medusa tells what Discord is and why it interfered with the Russian authorities.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump met at Trump Tower in New York, reports the Ukrainian publication European Pravda. The meeting lasted about an hour. “I think we have a common view that the war in Ukraine must be stopped, and Putin cannot win. Ukraine must win. And I want to discuss with you the details of the “victory plan,” Zelensky said at the beginning of the meeting.

An explosion occurred at a gas station near Makhachkala, emergency services told Interfax. Allegedly, at about 17:30, a gas station exploded at the turn from the federal highway R-217 (Caucasus) to the village of Novy Khushet. The explosion killed four people, including a child, the disaster medicine center told RIA Novosti. According to telegram channels, from four to eight people were injured.

According to Medusa, three months before the release of the FBK investigation, he contacted the employee of Peter Aven on the sale of Blinov’s correspondence with Nevzlin Navalny team / AP / Scanpix / Leta The alleged organizer of the attack on Leonid Volkov Anatoly Blinov, detained in Poland, had an assistant in Riga named Dmitry Chelebius, found out the Latvian newspaper Diena.

The bot is advertised in the public PMC Wagner, and Russian special services may be involved in its creation, OCCRP writes Residents of European countries with pro-Russian views are recruited for espionage, arson, sabotage and even murders in their countries through the Privet Bot telegram account, the OCCRP journalists and European publications Delfi, Paper Trail Media, ZDF, and Der Standard said .

The Russian Ministry of Justice declared the Dossier Center, an investigative project of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a “foreign agent”. The agency claims that investigators disseminated materials from “foreign agents” and “fake news” about the decisions of the Russian authorities, and also opposed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A court has sentenced two Just Stop Oil activists to prison for pouring tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, BBC News reports. 23-year-old Phoebe Plummer was sentenced to two years in prison, 22-year-old Anna Holland - 20 months. In July, a jury found the activists guilty of unlawful damage.

British actress Maggie Smith died at the age of 89, BBC News reports citing a statement by her sons Toby Stevens and Chris Larkin. According to them, Smith spent the last days of her life surrounded by relatives in the London Hospital Chelsea and Westminster. John Phillips / Getty images Maggie Smith is a lady-commander of the Order of the British Empire, she has two Oscars, seven BAFTA prizes, four Emmy, three Golden Globes, five US Awards Awards.

The security forces associated with deputies from Chechnya and Ingushetia participated in the conflict Anton Plaznanin / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / PROFIMEDIA police officer who suffered from shooting at Wildberries office Shooting on the afternoon of September 18 at the Romanov Dvor Moscow Business Center, where the main Wildberries office is located, provoked the actions of the representative of the “Power Support Group”, the husband of the founder of Marketplais Vladislav Bakalchuk, who began to

Google said it is aware of problems with account registration that some users have encountered in Russia and is trying to fix them. “We know that some users in Russia have problems using Google accounts, and we are working to resolve these problems,” Google’s press service told the Agency. The company emphasized that it is still trying to keep Google's free services available to users from Russia.

The Moscow prosecutor's office asked the investigative authorities to initiate a criminal case against blogger Ilya Varlamov under the article on evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). This is stated in a statement from the department on September 27.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How does the study of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein help better understand Putinism and other regimes in aggressors? We discuss with Maxim Samorukov Why did the dictator, who miraculously got out of one unsuccessful and expensive aggression, immediately get involved in the next, even more risky? And what does this lead to?