70-year-old historian Yuri Dmitriev was urgently transferred from colony No. 18 in Mordovia to a medical correctional facility in the village of Barashevo with a suspected stroke. This was reported by the human rights group ZHR. A human rights activist source said that Dmitriev needs to be transferred to a city hospital. “It is questionable whether this prison medical facility has diagnostic and treatment equipment to carry out the necessary procedures.

A group of 14 US senators from the Democratic and Republican parties called on President Donald Trump to withdraw Vladimir Putin's invitation to the G20 summit, which will be held in December in Miami, The Washington Post reports. In their letter, they noted that Putin bears sole responsibility for Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

Alexander Kynev remained in Russia after being declared a “foreign agent” and continued to write about election fraud. Political scientist arrested for “attempted drug trafficking” Alexander Kynev / Facebook On September 25, a few days after the elections to the State Duma, the Perovsky Court of Moscow arrested political scientist Alexander Kynev in a drug case.

An oil refinery in Perm stopped operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones on the night of September 25, Reuters reports, citing industry sources. The agency does not provide any other details. The head of the Perm region, Dmitry Makhonin, reported that Ukraine attacked an “industrial facility” in the region. Local media clarified that we are talking about the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez oil refinery. There was a fire at the refinery.

Donald Trump called on Vladimir Zelensky to go to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin, sources told Bloomberg. According to the agency's interlocutors, Trump made such a proposal during a meeting of the two leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Zelensky refused Trump’s offer. Sources close to the Ukrainian president said Zelensky was upset that Trump urged him to go to Moscow. Update.

Putin came to a cultural forum in St. Petersburg and spoke about the war Sofya Sandurskaya / TASS / Profimedia Vladimir Putin at the Forum of United Cultures in St. Petersburg, September 25, 2026 What kind of text is this? This is a brief retelling of Vladimir Putin’s statements made during a conversation with journalists on the sidelines of the Forum of United Cultures in St. Petersburg. The meaning and context are fully preserved, but some fragments may have been edited or swapped.

The German investigation believes that the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) was behind the organization of the attack on defense enterprises in Munich, which occurred on September 3, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. On the night of September 3 in Munich, incendiary devices were thrown from a passing car onto a construction site near the main offices of the defense concerns Rohde & Schwarz and Helsing.

In Michurinsky Park in the center of Syktyvkar, a protest against fraud in the State Duma elections was held, organized by the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, writes the publication “7x7”. A short fragment of a video from the rally was published by Oleg Mikhailov, a deputy of the previous convocation of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (he was elected to parliament from the Komi Republic).

The journalist spoke about this in his memoirs Evgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin was convinced that the American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was convicted in Russia on charges of espionage under the guise of preparing material, was indeed a spy. Gershkovich himself spoke about this in a fragment of his memoirs published in The Wall Street Journal.

A month ago, we accidentally discovered that Meduza’s donation chart looked like the humps of a camel. And our designers drew the saddest camel in the world - because its second hump cannot grow. And now, thanks to your support, the camel is no longer so sad. Look at it: The new hump is not growing too much yet, but the number of donations has stopped falling.

The Russian Ministry of Justice declared the Khodorkovsky LIVE project a “foreign agent,” the department’s website reported on September 25. Also included in the register of “foreign agents” were journalist Valery Klepkin and art critic Maria Mikaelyan. “Khodorkovsky LIVE” is a journalistic project created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky (he is also declared a “foreign agent”). He has more than 3.4 million subscribers on YouTube.

Jazz saxophonist Alexey Kozlov died at the age of 90 in Moscow. A message about the musician’s death appeared on the Telegram channel of his jazz club. "Words with Music" Alexey Kozlov was one of the pioneers of Soviet jazz rock. He was born on October 13, 1935 in Moscow, and in 1973 he founded the Arsenal ensemble, which became one of the most famous groups in the USSR.

Russia struck an office building in the Solomensky district of Kyiv with a drone, killing at least four people, said the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Vitaliy Klitschko. The bodies of at least three victims were found in a parking lot next to the office building where the drone hit. Seven more people were injured, including a child, Klitschko added. The façade of the building was damaged and windows were broken.

Russia will not rush to appoint ambassadors to the UK and France, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. “Due to the lack of bilateral relations with these countries, there is no particular hurry, so there may be pauses in replacing ambassadors,” Peskov said (quoted on the “You Listened” telegram channel). On September 25, Vladimir Putin, by decree, relieved Andrei Kelin of his duties as Russian Ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Italian government, led by Giorgia Meloni, has adopted a decree that bans the wearing of burkas and niqabs in schools, reports the Associated Press. Hijab is allowed. The document also implies a reduction in the number of foreign students who have arrived in the country recently and do not speak Italian well enough. According to the decree, there can be no more than 30% of such children in one class, otherwise they will have to be distributed between different classes and schools.