A new criminal case was opened against the former Minister for Open Government, Mikhail Abyzov, who was sentenced in 2023 to 12 years in prison. He was accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), two sources in law enforcement agencies told RBC. The publication does not report the essence of the case. The day before, Abyzov, according to RBC, was transferred from the colony to Moscow for investigative actions.

Employees of the Russian Guard beat up the doctor and founder of the Charity Hospital, Sergei Ievkov, and also damaged his official car. Об этом сообщили сам проект и издание «Бумага» . Ievkov was beaten during a visit to homeless people whom the Charity Hospital helps. He sought hospitalization of a homeless patient at the Leningrad Regional Narcological Dispensary. Сотрудники учреждения не хотели забирать пациента и вызвали росгвардейцев.

Russian serviceman Yevgeny Kovtkov, the husband of the coordinator of the Our Way Out movement Irina Krynina, returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange with Ukraine on October 2, the organization reported in a telegram. The activist herself confirmed the information about her husband’s return to Russia in an interview with blogger Rostislav Murzagulov . “On the one hand, I’m happy for him, because he really wanted to return to his homeland, to his parents. I'm glad he's going home.

Deliveries to the Armed Forces of Ukraine of American Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles will mean a new stage in the escalation of the conflict, including between Russia and the United States, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tomahawk missiles are “not exactly modern,” but “powerful” and “threatening” weapons, Putin noted. However, the supply of these missiles to Ukraine, according to the Russian President, “will not change at all” the balance of forces on the battlefield.

In Nizhny Novgorod, police detained Margarita Murakhtaeva, the daughter of journalist Irina Slavina, who committed suicide near the building of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, for attempting to lay flowers at the site of her mother’s death, Mediazona reports. October 2 is the fifth anniversary of Slavina’s death.

The officers are at a loss as to why this congress was needed, Politico writes. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Senior US Army officers at a meeting in Quantico. September 30, 2025 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on September 30 gathered almost all American generals and admirals at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, near Washington. Many military personnel came from military bases around the world - from Europe, from the Middle East, from Australia.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, demanded that State Duma deputy, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov , who publicly criticized the authorities’ plans to rename cities in Chechnya, be sent to the front. On September 25, the State Duma adopted a bill in the first reading, according to which the three Chechen cities of Sernovodskoye, Shelkovskaya and Naurskaya will be renamed Sernovodsk, Terek and Nerve, respectively. At the meeting, Shamanov spoke out against the initiative.

The Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow placed under arrest until November 29 the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, Maxim Kruglov, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, Mediazona reports. Kruglov was detained on October 1 in St. Petersburg and taken for interrogation to Moscow. The politician's apartment was searched. The reason for the criminal prosecution, according to Mediazona, were two posts in the politician’s telegram about Ukraine.

Updated . The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced Anna Mongait, journalist of the Dozhd TV channel, in absentia to five years in prison in the case of military “fakes,” writes Mediazona.

Four Russian senators and one State Duma deputy introduced a bill “On Amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation” for consideration by the lower house of parliament.

Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze announced that Russian actor Stanislav Sadalsky was included in the list of “undesirable persons for Latvia.” She reported this on the social network X. Sadalsky is banned from entering Latvia for an indefinite period. The minister did not specify what exactly was the reason for the ban on Sadalsky’s entry into the country. Delfi writes that Sadalsky supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

He is “the husband of the opposition leader,” and Belarusians are not ready, at his call, to donate money for a “powerful blow to Lukashism” Czarek Sokolowski / AP / Scanpix / LETA Sergei Tikhanovsky and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya at a meeting with Belarusians in Warsaw.

One thousand three hundred and seventeenth day. Most EU countries supported the plan to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine Sofiia Gatilova / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Fire after a Russian attack on a market in Kharkov. October 1, 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. How do you feel about the ongoing war?

Russian military intelligence (GRU) may have been preparing attacks in Poland, Lithuania and Germany using drones and corn cans containing explosives. This is stated in the material of the Polish newspaper Wyborcza, which retells RMF 24. The newspaper in its material refers to the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the country's prosecutor's office. According to Polish intelligence services, one of the caches with banks was discovered in a cemetery in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on October 2. Russia transferred 185 military personnel to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine - 185 Russian military personnel. In addition, the Russian side noted, 20 civilians returned to Russia. The Ukrainian side did not comment on the information about the exchange at the time of publication. Update.