The buyer of the French chain of stores Auchan, which has “entered the final stage of negotiations” on the sale of its Russian business, may become Gazprombank, writes Le Monde newspaper, citing sources. Other details of the possible transaction have not been disclosed. However, as Le Monde notes, in September 2023, Gazprombank bought 14 Mega shopping centers from the Swedish Ingka Centers, which was part of the same holding company as the Ikea chain.

In the Solomensky district of Kyiv, a Russian drone hit a 25-story residential building. A fire started, according to preliminary information, one person died and four more were injured, said the mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko. As a result of the attack, apartments on the 17th, 18th and 19th floors were partially damaged, the State Emergency Service reported. A fire started on the 16th and 17th floors.

Over the past two years, satellite images have recorded an unusual expansion of construction at a closed site near the military town of Sergiev Posad-6, where an old Soviet biological laboratory was located, The Washington Post writes . Journalists studied images provided by Google Earth, as well as commercial companies Maxar and Planet Labs. Unusual activity at the facility in question began around May 2022, several months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, WP notes.

The Pacific Fleet Military Court sentenced 18-year-old Vladivostok resident Bogdan Davydenko to five and a half years in a general regime colony on charges of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office, Kommersant writes . Davydenko was arrested in September 2023, charged with the article on training for the purpose of terrorist activities (205.3 of the Criminal Code).

A second group of North Korean military personnel will soon leave for Russia to participate in the war, Bloomberg writes, citing South Korean intelligence data. According to intelligence data reviewed by Bloomberg, about 10 thousand North Korean soldiers are planned to arrive in Russia. The first group of 1,500 special forces soldiers is already undergoing training in the Far East, the publication writes. South Korea is set to present some of its intelligence at a NATO meeting on Oct.

The court arrested until December 24 a 58-year-old resident of Korkino who fired into the crowd during the riots, the regional Investigative Committee reported. The name of the arrested person has not been released. He is accused of attempted murder of two persons (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code).

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza promised to transfer the monetary part of the Pulitzer Prize, which he was awarded for a series of columns for The Washington Post from a Russian colony, to the October 30 Fund. This organization was founded by a politician to help Russian political prisoners and their families. It was specified on the award website that Kara-Murza will transfer 15 thousand dollars to the fund.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) did not blacklist Russia, as Ukraine had previously requested. This follows from the group’s press release following the plenary meeting on October 23–25. It only states that Russia's membership, suspended after the outbreak of war in February 2022, remains in the same status. Reuters also writes that Ukraine’s request to include Russia on the blacklist remained unsatisfied.

In the Vladimir region, a court arrested a deputy of the Council of People's Deputies of the Sobinsky Municipal District in a case of fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and the use of slave labor (part 3 of article 127.2 of the Criminal Code), reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. FBK answer to the investigation of Maxim Katz. Main The Corruption Foundation issued a detailed response to an investigation of a blogger and the policy of Maxim Katz. He accused the FBC of cooperation and “laundering” of the reputation of the former owners of Probeseskanbank Alexander Zheleznyak and Sergey Leontyev.

The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court sentenced four members of the REvil hacker group to real terms on charges of illegal circulation of payment means (part 2 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code), writes Kommersant, citing its correspondent in the courtroom. Artem Zayets and Alexey Malozemov received four and a half and five years in a general regime colony, respectively.

The ruling (and pro -Russian) party "Georgian Dream" believes that it is she who carries the world, and not a pro -Western opposition David Mdzinarihvili / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The Georgian Dream Party Party in Tbilisi, October 23, 2024 In Georgia, on October 26, the parliamentary elections will be held. The ruling party "Georgian Dream" and its main rivals from the opposition call the upcoming vote by a popular referendum, on which voters will have to determine the political course of Georgia.

Update. The Naro-Fominsk City Court of the Moscow Region chose a preventive measure for rapper Guf (Alexey Dolmatov) in the form of a ban on certain actions in a robbery case, RIA Novosti reports. The second person involved in the case, Gevork Sarukhanyan, was assigned a similar preventive measure.

Former chairman of the board of Probusinessbank Alexander Zheleznyak announced that he is leaving the post of treasurer of the international Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF). He wrote about this on Facebook on October 25.

The first episode "Censorship and Power" can be seen now Radio Dolin and Votvot platform launched a joint project “Forbidden Cinema”-a series of cinema history, a movie history series. In it, Anton Dolin will talk about the complex relations of the great directors - Soviet, Russian and foreign - with censorship. While she was breaking some, others managed to play along - and at the same time deftly embody her unique ideas.