A math and physical education teacher in St. Petersburg is suspected of two murders and an attempted murder. Local news outlets Fontanka and Rotonda reported that the victims were a 2-year-old boy and his 58-year-old grandmother. The child’s mother survived. Passersby found her badly beaten near a building in the Solnechny Gorod residential complex in the city’s Krasnoselsky district. Fontanka reported that Anastasia, 32, escaped through a ground-floor apartment window.

The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Yuri Belenky, a 49-year-old IT specialist, to 13 years in prison for financing terrorism, the human rights group Department One reported. Belenky will serve the first three years in prison before being transferred to a high-security penal colony. The court also fined him 500,000 rubles and ordered the confiscation of another 126,000 rubles. News of Belenky’s detention emerged in late 2025.

Mobile internet access in central Moscow could be restricted from October 27 to 29, Russia’s Digital Development Ministry said. The restrictions are planned inside the Third Ring Road during the day, starting at 11:30 a.m. on October 27 and 28 and at 9:30 a.m. on October 29. The ministry said the restrictions were needed to ensure security during the Russia-Africa summit and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit.

Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Profimedia Igor Soglayev (left) and Igor Sechin in 2013 After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian oil came under sanctions, and little-known intermediaries using shell companies and a shadow fleet of tankers took over a large share of its exports. A network of companies linked to Azerbaijani businessmen Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub became one of Rosneft’s main oil traders.

Political scientist Alexander Kynev, who is in pretrial detention on charges of attempting to sell drugs, has gone on a hunger strike, the legal advocacy project Slovo Zashchite reported. His lawyer, Mikhail Biryukov, said Kynev began the hunger strike because he cannot use the toilet in his overcrowded cell, which he shares with 34 other people.

Oliver Bunic / Bloomberg / Getty Images A Gazprom advertisement in Belgrade. January 2023 The opposition “Student List” won a decisive victory in Serbia’s parliamentary elections last Sunday. Former President Aleksandar Vučić, who heads the Serbian Progressive Party, conceded defeat and said the new government would soon impose sanctions on Russia.

Update. Kynev’s lawyer Mikhail Biryukov told Mediazona that his client did not go on a hunger strike, but refused to eat due to the conditions in the detention center and the injury received during detention. After receiving new information, we have changed the title of this news. Political scientist Alexander Kynev, who is in a pre-trial detention center on charges of attempted drug trafficking, went on a hunger strike, Slovo zashchita reports.

Microsoft has offered 60 thousand employees to voluntarily resign with compensation, Business Insider reports. The program applies to employees in the US, Canada, UK and India, excluding engineers and senior managers. Employees who fall within its scope must make a decision on dismissal before the beginning of December.

In the center of Moscow, restrictions on the operation of the mobile Internet are possible for three days on October 27-29, according to a message from the Ministry of Digital Development. Restrictions are planned within the Third Transport Ring on October 27 and 28 - from 11:30 during the day, as well as on October 29 - from 9:30 during the day.

The conflict allows us to see the underside of shadow Russian oil exports, writes the Wall Street Journal Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Profimedia Igor Soglaev (left) and Igor Sechin in 2013 Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian oil was sanctioned and much of its exports were taken over by little-known middlemen using front companies and shadowy tanker fleets.

Algeria will send troops into neighboring Niger. The corresponding decree, reports Reuters, was signed by the country's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The day before, the Algerian parliament gave the president permission to use military force abroad. The troops come amid increased military cooperation between Algeria and Niger, with the countries signing a military cooperation agreement last week.

Vianney Le Caer / Deadline / Penske Media / Getty Images After festival premieres in Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, New York, and London and its selection as Poland’s Oscar entry, Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” is opening in theaters worldwide. The film follows German writer Thomas Mann’s journey through postwar Germany.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced 49-year-old IT specialist Yuri Belenky to 13 years in prison in a terrorism financing case, reports the First Department human rights project. Belenky will be kept in prison for the first three years, and then transferred to a maximum security colony. The court also fined him 500 thousand rubles and ordered the confiscation of another 126 thousand rubles. Belenky’s arrest became known at the end of 2025.

The Industry and Trade Ministry has recommended that Russian food service businesses add a separate “Russian breakfast” item to their menus, the Russian state news agency TASS reported. The recommendation covers any cafe or restaurant that serves breakfast, as well as hotels, resorts, and boarding houses. The ministry itself said it will design a special emblem for the “Russian breakfast.” What dishes are included?

Moscow’s Lefortovsky Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office has gathered materials to open a criminal case against human rights activist Anna Karetnikova.