Former chairman of the board of FC Otkritie bank Dmitry Romaev has become a defendant in a criminal case of major embezzlement, RBC and TASS report citing sources in law enforcement agencies familiar with the investigation. According to them, the banker has been put on the federal and international wanted list. The Moscow Meshchansky Court authorized the arrest of Romaev in absentia. Details of the criminal case are not disclosed.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Armed Forces in the Kursk region moved from the onset of defense. Can the army of the Russian Federation completely supplant Ukrainian forces from there? We discuss with Dmitry Kuznets The Russian army is advancing throughout the front in the Kursk region. The Armed Forces went to defense even in the area of ​​the village of Glushkovo, where they attacked a week ago.

Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev was offered to become the new head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). His candidacy was nominated by the head of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpishchev, at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports, held in Ufa. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported this proposal.

US citizen, 72-year-old Stephen Hubbard, convicted by the Moscow City Court on charges of mercenary activity, was regularly subjected to ill-treatment and torture in custody. Hubbard's former cellmate Igor Chichko, a Ukrainian military man released in May 2024 as a result of a prisoner of war exchange between Moscow and Kiev, told AFP about this.

The ex-husband of Vladimir Putin’s daughter, Kirill Shamalov, has become the new chairman of the board of the Ozero dacha cooperative, writes “Important Stories”. Information about this appeared in the SPARK-Interfax database on October 15. The Ozero cooperative was founded in the 1990s by Vladimir Putin and his friends, including Nikolai Shamalov. The cooperative also included Vladimir Yakunin, Andrei and Sergei Fursenko, Vladimir Smirnov, Viktor Myachin and Yuri Kovalchuk.

The Kremlin considers Vladimir Zelensky’s “victory plan” “short-sighted” and “reckless,” said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The main ins and outs of the ‘plan’ is that he [Zelensky] wants to formalize NATO’s direct involvement in the conflict around Ukraine. This is the essence of what, at least, was stated, what reached the world community. That is, he says: yes, guys, you participated before, but sort of unofficially. Now let's make it official, let's NATO be here.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza. In an official statement, the IDF said that three Hamas terrorists were killed in one of the strikes the day before. Later, one of them was identified as Sinwar.

The State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin at a meeting of the parliament on October 17 assigned the responsibility for the collapse of the USSR to the film “Interdevochka”, the main character of which is a sex worker, dreaming of moving to the West. During this meeting, the State Duma in the first reading unanimously approved the bill on the ban on the “propaganda” of Childfri.

The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow arrested Vitaly Slobodyanik, who is suspected of blowing up the car of his business partner, the owner of the Coyote Ugly bar chain, Viktor Mishachev. According to investigators, Slobodyanik, based on a personal hostile relationship with Mishachev, committed an attempted murder in a generally dangerous way - he planted an explosive device on the hood of a business partner’s car.

The politician himself in absentia convicted in Russia under an article on fakes. He is abroad Sota Marina Egorova and Leonid Gozman In relation to the wife of the politician Leonid Goman, psychologist Marina Egorova, a criminal case was instituted on the smuggling of cultural values ​​as part of an organized group, the propaganda television channel RT said . Information about the case was later confirmed by the Russian BBC service lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.

Saudi Al-Nasr and Portugal national team striker Cristiano Ronaldo became the highest paid football player in the world in the 2024/25 season according to Forbes magazine. The publication estimated the income of the 39-year-old Portuguese athlete at a record for football at $285 million, of which $220 million came from the club and another $65 million from non-football activities.

And companies hope to minimize carbon emissions Google Data Center Google in Meys, Oklahoma Google has entered into an agreement with the American startup of Kairos Power on the purchase of energy produced by several small modular nuclear reactors . The first of them is planned to be launched in 2030. This transaction will allow Google to provide its offices with additional electricity, and most importantly, the data centers that consume a lot of energy.

This is a scheme of false imports. "Important Stories" told how it works Henrik Kettunen / Bloomberg / Getty images During 2023, during transit through the territory of Russia, sanctions goods were “disappeared” by five billion dollars that followed the European Union to the countries of Asia and the Caucasus.

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District Artem Zhoga has become a member of the board of trustees of the Yeltsin Center, according to the organization’s telegram channel. Zhoga entered the board of trustees automatically - the plenipotentiary representative in the Ural District is a member of the board of trustees according to the charter of the Yeltsin Center.

As the great “man-slope” of David Lynch-only in the tolerant (or indifferent) XXI century A24 In Russian cinemas there is a film by Aaron Shimberg “Another Man” - this is the story of Edward, a novice actor with a defect in a face who is trying to overcome complexes, make a career contrary to his invincide appearance, build relationships with a girl and accept himself.