President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that in Russia, due to long-range strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a significant shortage of gasoline has arisen. He said this in his address on October 8. “According to our data, the fuel shortage in Russia is already approaching 20% ​​- this applies to gasoline. They are already using reserves of diesel fuel, which they kept for a rainy day,” Zelensky said. Putin was offered many times to end the war or at least cease fire.

Rapper Vacio (Nikolai Vasiliev), who gained fame after Nastya Ivleeva’s “naked party,” is hospitalized in Paris, his friend, blogger Bimbaclaat , reported on October 8 on Instagram. According to her, the rapper “fell through the glass roof from about three floors down.” He is in intensive care in serious condition and with serious injuries. The blogger said it happened “last night.” Other sources did not confirm this information. Bimbaclaat published photos and videos taken after the incident.

The German Bundestag (parliament) at a meeting on October 8 voted for amendments to the migration legislation of Germany, abolishing the right to obtain German citizenship under an accelerated procedure within three years. According to Deutsche Welle, in order to cancel accelerated naturalization, amendments to migration legislation must be adopted by the Bundesrat, the representative office of the federal states of Germany.

A court in Yaroslavl sentenced to 21 years in prison a 37-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who for 10 years maintained the server infrastructure of Hydra, formerly the world's largest darknet marketplace for the sale of narcotic substances. As the prosecutor's office of the Yaroslavl region reported on October 8, the defendant was part of a criminal community engaged in the illegal sale of narcotic substances through a “hidden trading platform” on the Internet.

29-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Rinderknecht has been detained on suspicion of deliberate arson that led to a major fire in Los Angeles in January, the US Department of Justice reported on October 8. According to investigators, Rinderknecht, who worked as an Uber driver, started a fire on a hiking trail in Pacific Palisades in north Los Angeles on January 1. Initially, the area of ​​the fire was relatively small, but due to strong winds the spread of the fire intensified.

Theater expert Alexei Bartoshevich died at the age of 85, RBC reported, citing the rector of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts, Grigory Zaslavsky. Mikhail Pochuev / TASS / Profimedia Bartoshevich is a theater scholar, theater historian and specialist in the works of Shakespeare. For many years, until 2020, he was the head of the Shakespeare Commission at the Council on World Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences - he is called one of the largest and most prominent Shakespeare scholars.

In the center of Moscow, four members of the party “The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov” were detained, who were protesting against the policies of the Central Bank, telegram channels “National Human Rights Protection” and “Caution, News” report. In the published videos, one of the young people stands on the parapet of the fence of the Central Bank building, handcuffed to the fence.

The Almaly District Court in Almaty sentenced Kazakh citizen Timur Praliev, who fought in Ukraine as part of the Wagner PMC, to five years in prison, writes the Kazakh publication “Orda” with reference to court documents. The court found Praliev guilty of participating in foreign armed conflicts (Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan). According to Horde journalists, Praliev decided to join Wagner PMC in the fall of 2022.

Now you can’t write that working hard is pointless and having children is economically unprofitable Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In late September, China's Cyberspace Administration announced a two-month campaign to purge social media of content that "overly exaggerates negative and pessimistic sentiments" and promotes "defeatist narratives," such as ideas like "working hard is pointless." The New York Times reports on the campaign.

Роскомнадзор потребовал от берлинского интернет-магазина литературы на русском языке «Муравей» убрать из продажи книгу американского журналиста Саймона Шустера «Шоумен: Владимир Зеленский и война в Украине», выпущенную издательством «Медузы». Требование было направлено 24 мая 2025 года. РКН просил изъять книгу в течение суток, поскольку она якобы распространяется «Муравьем» «с нарушением закона об информации», рассказали «Медузе» представители магазина.

Visa and MasterCard cards will continue to work in Russia, said Alla Bakina, director of the national payment system department of the Central Bank, writes TASS. According to Bakina, there will be no “sharp steps” to disable cards in Russia. TASS does not provide any other details.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced nuclear physicist Ruslan Shadiev to 18 years in prison on charges of treason (275 of the Criminal Code) and financing terrorism (part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code), Kommersant reports. Shadiev, as Mediazona notes, is 49 years old. He worked as a research engineer of the 1st category at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in the city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against Boris Grebenshchikov for violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code, punishable by a fine of 30 to 50 thousand rubles). The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg has scheduled “a hearing in the case of an administrative offense against foreign agent Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov,” the press service of the city courts reported.

EU ambassadors have agreed on a plan to phase out Russian gas and oil by 2028, Reuters writes , citing European diplomats. According to Reuters interlocutors, almost all EU members expressed support for this plan. However, he is criticized by Hungary and Slovakia, two countries that continue to depend on Russian energy supplies. If the law is passed at EU level, it will oblige them to develop national plans to cut off supplies by 2028.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that will oblige students of medical and pharmaceutical universities who entered the budget to enter into an agreement on targeted training and work for three years without fail after graduation. Graduates will be required to work in the organization specified in their target training agreement. Graduates will be able to choose the region and place of work themselves.