The authorities of the Belgorod region forbade local residents and journalists to publish information about Ukrainian shelling until official confirmation. This was announced by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, the decision was made at a meeting of the Belgorod opera station on September 2. The ban applies to photos, videos and any other information about the work of the military (including air defense), their locations and the weapons used.

Photo: EPA/Miguel A. Lopes Photo: EPA/Miguel A. Lopes The Gloria funicular in Lisbon, one of the most visited by tourists of the city’s sights, came off the rails. According to the latest data , the number of victims reached at least 15 people, another 18 were injured. Five victims are in serious condition, among them there is a child, the statement of the National Institute of Emergency Medical Assistance said. Photo: EPA/Miguel A.

Photo: Greenpeace The stain from the oil spill in Novorossiysk, which occurred on August 29, began to approach the shores of the annexed Crimea, reports Greenpeace. According to satellite images that experts studied, initially the area of ​​the oil spot was 50 square meters. m. Over the next three days, the spot passed from Novorossiysk along the coast of Anapa and approached the Kerch Strait.

Putin answers questions from reporters at the end of his visit to China in Beijing, 3 September 2025. Photo: EPA/SERGEY BOBYLEV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Vladimir Putin has held a press conference in Beijing in which he answered questions from reporters on a range of subjects including a potential Ukrainian peace deal, as his four-day visit to China came to an end on Wednesday evening.

A European plan to create a buffer zone on the frontline in Ukraine is looking increasingly unrealistic A Ukrainian rescue worker is lowered to the site of a Russian airstrike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, 28 August 2025. Photo: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO European leaders are reportedly considering the creation of a 40-kilometre buffer zone between Russian and Ukrainian forces along the frontline in Ukraine as part of any potential peace agreement.

"Medusa" - on the verge of closure. Her chief editor Ivan Kolpakov told Novy-Europe, why the publication will not be able to continue to work without the help of readers Photo: "Medusa" On September 2, the Medusa publication said that it was on the verge of closing. Our colleagues urgently ask for help.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a press conference in Berlin, 2 September 2025. Photo: EPA/Clemens Bilan German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” for the first time in an interview he gave to German TV Channel Sat.1 on Tuesday evening. Speaking to the channel’s flagship news programme Newstime, Merz said that Putin “might be one of the worst war criminals of our era. That is now plain to see. We must be clear on how to deal with war criminals.

One among tens of thousands: the story of the search for the missing person in the war In August 2024, 45-year-old Dmitry went on a combat mission and did not return. The last time he got in touch with his sister Elena when he was in the Lugansk region. Elena told the “wind”, she still does not understand why her brother signed a contract, because he did not need money.

The SCO summit and the military parade confirmed Beijing's claims to the role of the world leader. It was possible to impress. But how hard the anti -Western unity? Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong -un and the heads of foreign delegations arrive at the military parade in Beijing, China, September 3, 2025. Photo: Alexander Kazakov / satellite / kremlin / epa On September 3, the military parade in Beijing became unprecedented in its scale.

Former chief edges of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov answers questions about “paid air” on his radio and Russian opposition Alexey Venediktov in the office of the Echo of Moscow radio station in Moscow, November 8, 2017. Photo: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta Another scandal in the Russian opposition abroad broke out unexpectedly, but in the old place: around the figure of Alexei Venediktov.

Photo: Clemens Bilan / EPA The German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz for the first time during a public speech described Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal”. “Perhaps [he] is one of the most serious war criminals of our time, which we see on a large scale today. And we must clearly understand how to handle war criminals. The condescension here is inappropriate, ”said the German politician in an interview with Sat.1.

Photo: "Beeline" The telecommunications company Vimpelcom, which owns the Beeline operator, launches the testing of the improved DPI technology - “deep analysis of traffic”, and the System drew attention. According to journalists, communication operators are already using DPI technology, but now Beeline is looking for a supplier for an advanced version that could “provide traffic filtering, including encrypted HTTPS traffic”.

Pastor Nikolay Romanyuk in court, February 2025. Photo: Zhuchka, Telegram A pastor from the Moscow region has been sentenced to four years in prison for a pacifist sermon he gave in the first days of Russia’s partial mobilisation drive in September 2022, human rights group OVD-Info reported on Wednesday. Nikolay Romanyuk, a 63-year-old minister with the Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church in the city of Balashikha, was convicted of calling for action that would undermine state security.

Chinese troops marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Sino-Japanese War in Beijing, China, 3 September 2025. Photo: EPA/WU HAO Chinese President Xi Jinping took centre stage on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday as he took part in a huge military parade ostensibly to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, but which was in fact a determined attempt to project Chinese military might and political influence to a global audience.

Russians from different regions told Novy-Europe how masses of mobile Internet are experiencing. Photo: "New Gazeta Europe" Since the beginning of June 2025, the Internet and mobile communications in different regions of Russia have turned from episodic failures into a systemic problem: only in June 655 cases of shutdowns were recorded - even then the number of disconnects was larger than the whole world for the entire 2024.