OpenAI has launched parental controls for the ChatGPT chatbot, Reuters reports. The new feature will allow you to link the accounts of teenagers and their parents. To connect one of the parties must send a corresponding request. In this case, the function is activated only if the other party accepts this request.

Composer Yuri Chernavsky died at the age of 78, his family reported on Facebook. “For us, he will always remain the closest and dearest person, an example of strength, kindness and inspiration. His music will live in the hearts of people, and his memory will live in our family forever. The family deeply mourns and asks everyone who knew and appreciated him to keep bright memories,” says the appeal from Chernavsky’s family. Yuri Chernavsky was born in 1947 in Tambov.

US President Donald Trump has proposed a 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The points of the plan were first published by the social network account X RapidResponse47, which positions itself as the official rapid response channel of the Trump administration. The document was later published by the official White House account.

Video game publisher Electronic Arts announced it has reached a deal to sell the company for $55 billion to a group of investors. This was reported in a company press release. The buyer consortium included the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Fund (PIF), as well as private investment funds Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. The latter is owned by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump. In fact, they will pay $52.5 billion, writes RBC. PIF already holds a 9.9 percent stake in EA.

Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Vlasov was detained several hours after he announced that he was volunteering for war. 93.ru writes about this. Vlasov announced on the morning of September 29 that he was suspending his duties. “I decided to join our Kuban brigade to carry out combat missions of a special military operation,” Vlasov said. He did not specify what exactly this decision was related to. In the afternoon, security forces came to Vlasov with searches.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a telephone conversation with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al Thani, apologized for the violation of the country's sovereignty as a result of the Israeli airstrike in Doha, Channel 12 and Axios reported, citing sources. During the conversation, Netanyahu also expressed regret over the death of a Qatari security officer in the attack. The leaders of Israel and Qatar, according to publications, spoke in the presence of US President Donald Trump.

Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova dismissed Vladimir Kekhman, general director of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater. TASS writes about this with reference to the corresponding order of the minister. According to the order, Kekhman will leave the post of general director of the Moscow Art Theater on September 29. He will be paid three monthly salaries. At the beginning of July, searches were carried out at Kekhman and at the Moscow Art Theater.

The sale of gasoline has been restricted in Crimea. This was stated by the head of the administration of the annexed peninsula, Sergei Aksenov. According to the new rules, which will come into force immediately, it will be impossible to buy more than 30 liters of gasoline at a time. “I ask Crimeans not to buy gasoline for future use and to refuel their vehicles as usual,” Aksenov said. The authorities also introduced a ceiling on gasoline prices.

The Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a criminal case against Ksenia Luchenko, a journalist, religious scholar, and author of the telegram channel “Orthodoxy and Zombies.” She is suspected of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army based on political, ideological, national or religious hatred or enmity (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years).

The Russian President signed a law denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Treatment. The document was published on the official legal information portal. The State Duma approved the relevant law on September 17. Putin introduced the law for consideration on September 8. In addition, the protocols to the Convention, signed by Russia in February 1996 in Strasbourg and ratified in March 1998, were also denounced.

One thousand three hundred and fourteenth day. In Belgorod there is a blackout after the Ukrainian strike. Trump allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack targets in Russia Administration of Belgorod Fire at the Belgorod Thermal Power Plant, September 28, 2025 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war.

Pro-Russian opposition calls for protests Vadim Denisov / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA President of Moldova Maia Sandu at a polling station in Chisinau. September 28, 2025 Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on September 28. During the election campaign in the republic and abroad, they actively talked about Russian interference in the elections and called the vote “historic,” noting that the future of Moldova’s European integration largely depends on their results.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow sentenced 14-year-old Chechen teenager Muslim Murdiev, accused of hooliganism, to one year and 11 months in prison, Kommersant reports. The state prosecution demanded two years in prison for the defendant. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, Mansur Soltaev, asked that the teenager be given a non-custodial sentence. Other defendants in the case were given sentences of up to three and a half years in prison, the Investigative Committee reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the autumn conscription of Russian citizens for military service. The document was published on the official legal information portal. According to the decree, the conscription will take place from October 1 to December 31, 2025. 135 thousand people aged 18 to 30 will be drafted into the army.

The Tbilisi City Court ordered former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and former head of the Special State Security Service Teimuraz Janashia to reimburse the country's budget for almost nine million lari ($3.3 million). Georgia Online reports this. In March 2025, a court in Tbilisi sentenced Saakashvili to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzlement of budget funds on a large scale. The court found Janashia guilty of abuse of power and fined him 300 thousand lari.