Jens Stoltenberg told how in 1991 he tried to recruit a Soviet agent Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Jens Stoltenberg in 2000 Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke in an interview with Financial Times, published on October 4, which in his youth regularly met with an employee of the KGB, who worked in Norway. Stoltenberg contacted the KGB in Oslo in the 1980s, when he headed the league of working youth-the youth organization of the Norway Workers' Party. “It was very strange.

Relatives of those killed in a fire at the Winter Cherry shopping and entertainment center in Kemerovo filed 12 claims with the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow. The press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction reported this on October 4. Claims were filed against the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and OJSC Kemerovo Confectionery Plant . Relatives of the victims are demanding compensation for moral damages. The amount of compensation in question is not specified.

Alexander Lukashenko said that Russian and Ukrainian drones used during the war enter Belarusian airspace due to electronic warfare. Lukashenko said this on October 4 during a conversation with residents of the agricultural town of Parokhonsk in the Brest region of Belarus. A video from the meeting was published by the Belarusian state agency Belta. “Now these drones have begun to be riveted en masse. Ukraine plans to receive almost five million drones, produce and purchase them.

The Minsk City Court issued a verdict in the case of explosions at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk in February 2023, as a result of which a Russian A-50 reconnaissance aircraft was damaged. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus on October 4. Four defendants - Nikolai Shvets, Alexander Azarov, Vitaly Yakutik and Mikhail Demin - were found guilty under articles of an act of terrorism and deliberately rendering an aircraft unusable.

An employee of the investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Georgy Alburov, asked journalists not to publish “fragmentary documents on the poisoning” of Alexei Navalny in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).

The administration of the Telegram messenger reported that recent disruptions in the service were caused by military operations in the Middle East. This is stated in a company statement issued on October 4. “Due to recent events in the Middle East, in particular in Israel, Lebanon and Iran, Telegram is experiencing unprecedented stress. Over the past few days, some users may have experienced temporary connection issues and difficulties accessing media,” the company said.

In VK - mass reduction, hundreds of employees are dismissed. Officially the company denies this Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images Entrance to the VK office in Moscow. January 19, 2022 There are reductions in VK, Medusa and The Bell told more than 10 acting and former holding employees. Sources in the company say that hundreds of people have already been dismissed, and in total several thousand can fall under the reduction.

Update. The Troitsky District Court of Moscow also ordered house arrest in this case for blogger Valeria Chekalina. In addition, the third person involved in the case, Roman Vishnyak, co-founder of Artem Chekalin’s company Leitik Makeup LLC, was placed under house arrest, RIA Novosti reports.

YouTube video hosting site mistakenly blocked hundreds of accounts for spam and fraud. Users from Russia and other countries around the world began reporting problems with their YouTube accounts on the evening of October 3 on social networks, including on the Reddit website. Google, which owns YouTube, almost immediately admitted that it had accidentally blocked some accounts and said it was working to resolve the issue.

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has information that the Russian military killed almost 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war on the battlefield. Yuri Belousov, who heads the “department of war” in the office of the Prosecutor General, the department for combating crimes committed in armed conflict, announced this on October 4 during a Ukrainian telethon.

More than 200 people died. Hundreds were missing. Part of the Northern Carolina "Erased from the Card" Erik S. Lesser / EPA / Scanpix / Leta consequences of HELEN Hurricane in the city of Swonnanoa. North Carolina, October 3, 2024 Hurricane “Helen”, which passed through the southeast of the United States at the end of September, became the most deadly at the mainland of the United States after the hurricane “Katrina” in 2005, writes The Washington Post.

Starting from the new academic year, the management of Moscow State University (MSU) obliged employees of the Faculty of Philology to submit for review all prepared monographs, articles, dissertations and abstracts, as well as summaries of reports at upcoming conferences.

And will this stop the growth of the car market? Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Since October 1, a new scales of utilization fee have been operating in Russia. On one day, the passenger car was increased by 70–85%. The authorities also provided for annual indexation by 10–20% until 2030. "Medusa" studied why the state needed to tax the market with additional fees, who benefits from this decision and - most importantly - what will happen to the prices.

The Russian government stated in the draft federal budget for 2025-2027 that 90 billion rubles will be allocated for one-time payments for concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense - 30 billion annually, Important Stories reported on October 4. According to the publication, if the size of the payment, set at 400 thousand rubles on July 31, does not change , then 90 billion rubles will be enough to conclude 225 thousand new contracts in three years.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan has no information about the release of Alexei Navalny’s ally, Liliya Chanysheva, or about the termination of her criminal prosecution in Russia. This is stated in the certificate of presence/absence of a criminal record that Chanysheva received. She published a screenshot of the certificate on her Telegram channel.