How did their destinies turn out - and how did their loved ones greet them? Freed from captivity, Eitan Mor arrives at Bilinson Hospital in Israel on October 13, 2025. Photo: Ori Aviram / Middle East Images / Sipa / Scanpix / LETA On October 13, Hamas released the 20 surviving hostages and returned them to Israel. The first seven people were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza early in the morning, and the remaining 13 were handed over a few hours later in Khan Yunis.

Negotiations could take place tomorrow Syrian President Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa is preparing for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, which is expected to take place on October 15 in Moscow. An interlocutor familiar with the preparations for the negotiations told Novaya Gazeta Europe about this.

Ilya Kanakhin, a resident of Volsk, Saratov region, who was repeatedly convicted, died during the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the Volsk.ru publication, and Mediazona drew attention to it. It follows from the material that Kanakhin died in April in the Donetsk region. On October 13, a resident of Volsk was buried. Russian courts at various times found him guilty of murdering four people, as well as beating one man. Ilya Kanakhin.

Hennadiy Trukhanov. Photo: Telegram Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on Tuesday stripping three prominent politicians and public figures of their citizenship, the country’s public broadcaster Suspilne has reported . According to Suspilne’s sources in the presidential administration, the decree targets the mayor of the southern city of Odesa, Hennadiy Trukhanov, a former separatist lawmaker in eastern Ukraine, Oleh Tsaryov, and prominent ballet dancer Sergey Polunin.

Will Trump be able to force Putin to make concessions, experts predict A Ukrainian soldier watches the launch of a rocket from a Grad launcher in the Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, April 27, 2024. Photo: Dmytro Smolienko / Ukrinform / Abaca Press / Scanpix / LETA After securing the release of Israeli hostages and a peace deal with Hamas, Donald Trump is turning his attention back to the war in Ukraine.

Gennady Trukhanov, photo: Telegram President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree depriving the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov, ballet dancer Sergei Polunin and former MP from the Party of Regions, and now Z-blogger Oleg Tsarev, of their citizenship. This was reported on the air of the Ukrainian telethon.

Inside Russia’s migrant detention centres where Ukrainians can be kept in limbo for months A window of the Butyrka pre-trial detention centre in Moscow.

Report from the village of Gostitsy In the Leningrad region at the end of September, 45 people died due to poisoning with surrogate alcohol. In the Slantsy area alone, 19 people died. The police seized over 5,000 liters of alcohol and detained the organizers of the illegal production. Among them are residents of the village of Gostitsy. The Vetra film crew went to Gostitsy and talked with local residents about how their village ended up at the center of this tragedy.

New calculation rules were supposed to come into effect on November 1 Photo: istockphoto.com Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to prepare proposals for deferring new rules for calculating the recycling fee for passenger cars imported into the country from abroad. Manturov’s office told RBC about this. The innovations were supposed to come into force on November 1.

In Russia, they are discussing an increase in insurance premiums for the self-employed, individual entrepreneurs and even the unemployed.

Members of the Russian Antiwar Committee at a conference in Berlin, April 2023. Photo: Russian Antiwar Committee Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a criminal case against exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and 22 other members of the Russian Antiwar Committee for “involvement in a terrorist community” and “attempting to seize power by force”, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives at a meeting of the European Political Community in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 October 2025. Photo: EPA / Thomas Traasdahl Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives at a meeting of the European Political Community in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 October 2025.

Among them is the editor-in-chief of “New Europe” Kirill Martynov The FSB opened a criminal case under articles of involvement in a terrorist community (parts 1 and 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) and violent seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code) against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and 22 members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a press release from security forces.

Photo: PxHere The authorities of the Yaroslavl, Voronezh and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as Dagestan, intend to increase regional taxes and reduce some benefits. Об этом сообщили «Ведомости» со ссылкой на источники. The head of the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Evraev, told the heads of municipalities in early October that regional taxes needed to be “raised to the maximum rates,” the newspaper’s interlocutors said.

How small donations become a big article. We show the example of the Perm region, where activists Irina Fayzulina and Elena Guseva are being tried Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” In Russia, trials continue in so-called “transfer cases”, when ordinary people are tried for small donations to the structures of Alexei Navalny. To date, open sources mention about eighty criminal cases initiated for FBK donations, but only a fraction have reached verdicts: about fifty court decisions are known.