PACE. Photo: Wikimedia The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a resolution on the creation of a permanent platform for dialogue with Russian democratic forces. A New Europe correspondent reported this from the meeting. 80 parliamentarians voted in support, zero voted against, and four more abstained. The Ukrainian delegation did not vote. Previously, the document was approved by the PACE political committee.

For the first time in six years, the government is paralyzed by budget disputes. What will this affect? Republicans discuss short-term funding options to prevent a government shutdown at the end of September, Washington, USA, September 10, 2025. Photo: Graeme Sloan/EPA On October 1, the US government officially shut down as Democrats and Republicans were unable to agree on a budget for the new fiscal year due to differences.

How the work of those who help conscripts has changed Военнообязанные осенней призывной кампании Московского военного округа, 25 октября 2024 года. Photo: Vasily Kuzmichenok / Moscow Agency Сегодня, 1 октября, в России начинается осенний призыв: 135 тысяч мужчин в возрасте от 18 до 30 должны отправиться в армию.

According to workers, their salaries decreased from 100-120 thousand rubles to 35-50 thousand Photo: Avtovaz Employees of the AvtoVAZ plant in Tolyatti are quitting en masse due to loss of income amid a shortened working week. Telegram channels Mash and ASTRA write about this with reference to employees. From September 29, AvtoVAZ reduced the working week from five days to four days for six months.

A central Moscow branch of Raiffeisen bank in front of Russia’s Foreign Ministry, 16 March 2023. Photo: EPA / YURI KOCHETKOV Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), which remains one of the few banks operating both in Russia and the West, has been unable to find a buyer for its Russian subsidiary due to Kremlin opposition to any sale, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Despite the war, efforts to honour those who saved Ukrainian Jews during WWII have recommenced A Ukrainian soldier at the memorial to those who were murdered by the Nazis at Babyn Yar, near Kyiv, Ukraine, 29 September 2023. Photo: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO “If, dear friends, an air alert sounds, we’ll suspend the ceremony and quickly move to the nearest air raid shelter.

Lada, UAZ and Moskvich were included there Photo: Avto.ru The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has published a primary list of cars that meet the requirements of the law on the “localization” of taxis. Kommersant writes about this.

What did Pavel Durov tell Lex Friedman? How they wanted to poison him, why the authorities are putting pressure on Telegram and what happens after the “Kafkaesque” arrest in France Still from video: interview with Pavel Durov | Lex Friedman Pavel Durov gave a four-hour interview to famous podcaster Lex Friedman.

Photo: Tatyana Omelchenko / Facebook A court in Moscow has sentenced a dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen to 12 years in a penal colony after finding her guilty of committing treason over multiple donations she made to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Mediazona reported on Wednesday.

“Battle after Battle” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn - a postmodern thriller about the struggle between dementia and courage, similar to the comedy of Leonid Gaidai Still from the film "Battle after Battle". Photo: imdb.com The film “Battle after Battle” by the famous American director Paul Thomas Anderson is being released worldwide, and this is his second – after “Inherent Vice” in 2014 – appeal to the work of Thomas Pynchon, a free adaptation of the novel “Vineland”.

Vladimir Leontyev. Photo: RusNews, Telegram The Kremlin-installed head of Nova Kakhovka, a city in the occupied part of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike, Russian occupation authorities in the region announced on Wednesday.

32-year-old Pavel, a shift worker from Sretensk, was found hanged in a military unit in Borza on September 19. The newspaper “Vechorka” writes about this. According to the official version of the security forces, the military man allegedly committed suicide: he cut his wrists and hanged himself in the weapons room. But the family does not believe this, claiming that the man was killed. 20 minutes before his death, Pavel called his wife, his sister said.

Photo: Dmitry Bykov / Telegram A court in Moscow has sentenced one of Russia’s best-known writers, Dmitry Bykov, to seven years in a penal colony after finding him guilty in absentia of spreading “false information” about the Russian military and failing to observe his obligations as a so-called “foreign agent”, Mediazona reported on Wednesday.

Roman Alekhine, photo: Telegram Z-blogger Roman Alekhin, whom the Ministry of Justice added to the list of “foreign agents” on September 19, said that he would stop publishing posts on Telegram and other social networks. According to him, “it is very difficult psychologically to write posts with this sign when you did not betray your Motherland, nor the people, nor even the current government.” “It has a strong effect on the psyche - calling yourself a traitor when you are not a traitor.

A still from the Durov interview with Lex Fridman, 30 September 2025. Telegram founder Pavel Durov has described his experience surviving a poisoning attempt in the spring of 2018 to American podcaster Lex Fridman in an interview that was released on Tuesday. Durov recounted how a “weird neighbour” had left something for him, and how, an hour after going to bed that night, he felt pain all over his body. “I tried to get up and go to the bathroom … I felt … my body started to switch off.