Three young people were detained in Antwerp, who are suspected of preparing attempts on politicians, including, probably, the country's Prime Minister Bart de Wever, the Belga agency reports, citing the prosecutor's office. The detainees are 18, 23 and 24 years old.

This is the plot of a short cartoon by the Committee Against Torture, which reminds us that anyone can face violence. Check it out The charitable foundation “Committee Against Torture” has released a short (and very sad) cartoon “Interview” - about what the reluctance to notice torture leads to. He was voiced by actors Varvara Shmykova and Nikita Kukushkin.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow sent to pre-trial detention the writer and historian of Russian cuisine Pavel Syutkin, who was detained on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), reports the press service of the Moscow courts. Syutkin was arrested at the request of the investigation for two months. He was detained the day before, on October 8.

Here's why this is a well-deserved award (and why Russian-speaking readers are lucky with his translations) Leo Neumayr / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and prophetic work that, in the midst of apocalyptic horror, reaffirms the power of art.” Among his most famous works are the novels Satanic Tango and The Melancholy of Resistance. In 2015, Krasznahorkai received the Man Booker International Prize.

A new series based on the Game of Thrones universe, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, will be released on January 18 on HBO Max. The first trailer has been published: in it, the heroes of George Martin's collection “The Tale of Dunk and Egg” appear in all their glory. Главные роли в сериале играют Питер Клэффи и Декстер Сол Анселл.

What then is the parallel? If after a school chemistry course you think that this is an inert and boring science, then you should definitely study the history of the Nobel laureates of 2025. Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi have proven that persistence and belief in one's ideas can, despite the skepticism of the scientific community, lead to breakthrough results. Scientists' research has helped create new chemical structures with incredible potential.

The Investigative Committee asked the court to seize the property of the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, Maxim Kruglov, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, TASS reports. A petition for this was received by the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow. It is unknown exactly what assets the investigation requires to seize.

His lectures were more convincing than any performance: Shakespeare is about us today Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Profimedia Alexey Bartoshevich, a theater expert, theater critic, doctor of art history and the main Russian specialist on Shakespeare, has died. He was 85 years old.

Rosfinmonitoring has added sex educator and LGBTQ activist Sasha Kazantseva to the list of “terrorists and extremists,” according to data on the department’s website. In February 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared Kazantseva a “foreign agent” for “propaganda” of LGBTQ+ people. After this, the activist was fined several times due to the lack of a “foreign agent” sign on social networks.

The Russian army has learned a lot during the war with Ukraine.

The Roskomsvoboda project, which monitors lockdowns in Russia, has stopped its activities since the beginning of September, its director Artem Kozlyuk said. Kozlyuk himself announced that he was leaving the post of head of Roskomsvoboda “and from it in general, as well as from public and media activities.” “And Roskomsvoboda itself, as you noticed, let’s say, has dissolved. She has not had any activity since the beginning of September due to a number of circumstances.

The Alternative for Germany party expelled Hamburg state parliament member Robert Risch from its faction after he was spotted in photographs from a conference of far-right movements in St. Petersburg. An international meeting of members of far-right organizations took place at the Mariinsky Palace on September 12. It was organized by Russian movements, at least one of which is financed by the founder of the conservative Tsargrad TV channel, Konstantin Malofeev.

Large industrial companies in Russia are transferring employees to part-time work, sending them on unpaid leave or firing them, writes Reuters. Attempts to reduce costs at the expense of personnel, the agency points out, have been recorded in many industries - from railways and automobile concerns, to metallurgy, diamond mining and cement production.

The European Parliament called on the countries of the European Union to shoot down air targets that illegally violate their borders, according to a resolution adopted by European deputies on October 9. MPs "strongly condemned" the violation of the airspace of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania by Russia, as well as the deliberate intrusion of drones into critical infrastructure areas in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

“The fact remains a fact,” the Russian President said at a meeting with Ilham Aliyev. Transcript of his statement Azamat Sarsenbayev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA At the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, December 25, 2024 Vladimir Putin acknowledged Russia's responsibility for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger plane in December 2024.