US President Donald Trump said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised him not to buy oil from Russia. Trump told reporters about this at the White House, as quoted by Reuters. “I was unhappy that India was buying [Russian] oil. Today he [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] assured me that they will not buy oil from Russia. This is a big step. Now we are going to force China to do the same,” the American president said.

The Donald Trump administration has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela as part of its campaign against the country's President Nicolas Maduro. This was reported by The New York Times with reference to American officials.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law changing the conditions for initiating criminal cases against “foreign agents.” The corresponding document was published on the official legal information portal. The signed law makes changes to the first and second parts of Article 330.1 on evading the duties of a “foreign agent”.

The Court of Cassation in Italy overturned the decision of the Bologna Court of Appeal on the extradition to Germany of Ukrainian citizen Sergei Kuznetsov, suspected of involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. This was reported by ANSA. The issue of Kuznetsov's extradition was sent for reconsideration.

Ivan Dorn - in an interview with Yuri Dudu Ivan Dorn gave an interview to Yuri Dudu - another one, the previous one was published in 2017. Then, eight years ago, many Ukrainians perceived his words as a challenge and an insult: in the context of the conflict in Donbass and after the annexation of Crimea, Dorn spoke about Russia’s closeness to Ukraine.

And to buy a Russian SIM card, you need to register with State Services (and even receive SNILS!) Sergei Bulkin / TASS / Profimedia At the beginning of October 2025, Russian mobile operators began to introduce a so-called cooling period for all owners of foreign SIM cards. It was assumed that when crossing the Russian border, people would not be able to use the Internet for 24 hours. This restriction was supposed to help in the fight against drones that use cellular communications.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alfred Koch was included in the Register of Terrorists and Extremists maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. As Mediazona points out, there is an asterisk next to Koch’s name in the register - this means that a case has been opened against him under a terrorist article. Nothing was known about this previously.

The state prosecutor, during the debate in the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow, demanded that the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, be sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony on charges in his second criminal case, RBC reports. Taking into account the already pronounced sentence in the first case, the prosecutor proposed to impose a final sentence on Furgal in the form of 25 years in prison.

The photograph of the Russian foreign passport of the head of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, published by the SBU is a fake, The Insider claims. As the publication notes, from the series and number of the passport it follows that it was issued on November 2, 2010 - while in the photo of the SBU the issue date is December 15, 2015.

A court in Moscow, at the request of the Tver Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, banned the dissemination of information from the website and channel of blogger Alex Leslie (real name Alexander Kirillov), the supervisory agency reported.

What's happening? Should you buy gold? And are such prices profitable for Russia? Gold prices continue to break historical records. On October 15, the price of December futures for the precious metal on the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX) rose by 1.12%, reaching a peak of $4,210 per troy ounce - another high. Since the beginning of 2025, the price of the asset has already increased by more than 50%, in 2024 - by 27%.

One thousand three hundred and thirty days. NATO defense ministers will discuss what rules will be used to shoot down Russian aircraft in alliance airspace Federico Gambarini / picture alliance / Getty Images F-18 fighters aboard the USS Gerald Ford 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?

St. Petersburg police detained 18-year-old music school student and vocalist of the street group “Stoptime” Diana “Naoko” Loginova, the publications “Rotunda” and “Paper” reported. Update. Loginova was left overnight in the 78th police department, Rotunda reports. Close girls confirmed this information “Caution, news.” It is not yet known what she is charged with. The guitarist and drummer of the group were detained along with her, Fontanka writes .

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has proposed buying out Russia's share in Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), the country's largest energy company that has come under US sanctions. Shares in the Serbian NIS totaling 56.15% belong to the Russian Gazprom Neft and Gazprom.

What issues remained unresolved after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip? Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Donald Trump at the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.