A lawyer from Krasnodar, Evgenia Tutushkina, said that she was fined 30 thousand rubles for advertising a hotel on the social network Instagram, which is banned in Russia. She reported this to RBC , as well as to the telegram channels Mash and SHOT . According to Tutushkina, she published a video on Instagram in which she advertised a hotel in the Krasnodar Territory. Under the video there was a promotional code in the form of her last name.

A busker who has performed live on the streets of the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals multiple times in recent days in solidarity with fellow musicians who were arrested in St. Petersburg last week has been detained and charged with petty hooliganism, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Tuesday.

In Hungary and Romania, oil refineries caught fire within 24 hours, local publications 24.hu and Digi24 reported. An explosion at the Petrotel-Lukoil plant in Ploiesti, Romania, occurred yesterday around noon on a pipeline inspection channel, police said. The reasons have not yet been announced. Factory photo: Digi24 One person was injured as a result of the explosion.

No more than 20 liters of fuel are sold per person, and the authorities believe that demand is declining. Main Gas station in the Nizhny Novgorod region, September 26, 2025. Photo: Anastasia Makarycheva / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Fuel prices in Russia continue to set new records, and production cannot keep up with growing demand. In Siberia and the Far East, restrictions on the sale of gasoline were again introduced: no more than 20 liters per person.

In Yekaterinburg, street musician Evgeny Mikhailov, who performed in support of Naoko and the band Stoptime, was detained. An administrative protocol was drawn up against him for petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code), Mediazona reported . According to the publication, the protocol against Mikhailov states that he swore in a public place. The musician himself managed to explain that a report was drawn up against him because of obscene language in the songs he performed.

The story of Aishat Baymuradova, a Chechen woman who fled violence at home only to be killed in Armenia Aishat Baymuradova. Photo: Daniil Chebykin / Telegram On Monday, Armenian police announced that they had found the body of a young woman in a rented apartment in the capital, Yerevan. The body was that of Aishat Baymuradova, a 23-year-old Chechen woman who had been reported missing three days earlier. Baymuradova had gone to meet a woman she knew from Instagram.

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Photo: Supreme Court of the Russian Federation In January-June of this year, the first instance of Russian courts issued at least 182 political verdicts in criminal cases and more than five thousand decisions in administrative cases, New Europe calculated according to the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Olga Komleva. Photo: Telegram support group Olga Komleva, a jailed journalist and activist from the city of Ufa in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, has lost the ability to speak since finding herself in custody, she told her husband in a letter from prison, a copy of which appeared on Komleva’s Telegram support group on Monday.

Tufan Erhurman, a supporter of the federal state, was elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. This is an unpleasant surprise for Erdogan and his associates Tufan Erhurman addresses supporters after elections in the Turkish part of Nicosia, Cyprus, October 19, 2025. Photo: Birol Bebek/EPA The process of resolving the Cyprus problem, which reached a dead end back in 2017, may move forward.

In the new bill, they want to exclude insurance companies from the compulsory medical insurance treatment system. How might this impact patients and quality of care? Photo: Alamy/Vida Press Amendments to the law “On Compulsory Health Insurance” have been submitted to the State Duma for consideration. The Ministry of Health bill gives regional governors the right to exclude medical insurance organizations from the compulsory medical insurance system.

Photo: Olga Komleva’s support group / Telegram Ufa journalist and activist Olga Komleva, sentenced to 12 years in prison in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and participation in the “extremist” community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), lost her oral speech in prison. She told about this in a letter to her husband. According to the convict, she lost the ability to speak on September 8 and has not yet returned.

Gennady Kalashnikov in court. Photo: Mediazona An appeals court near Moscow has upheld a 15-year prison sentence against a man found guilty of expressing views deemed sympathetic to Ukraine, including in private correspondence with his son, state-affiliated news agency Interfax reported on Monday. Gennady Kalashnikov was removed from a train last summer and detained while returning from vacation with his family.

The Specialized Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica sentenced 72-year-old writer Juraj Cintula to 21 years in prison in the case of an attempt on the life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. This was reported by Reuters. The defendant was found guilty of terrorism. This verdict can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Slovakia. Juraj Tsintula in the courtroom.

Together with experts, we are analyzing the situation in Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, as well as the situation in other hot areas An artilleryman of the National Guard of Ukraine fires from a howitzer at Russian troops near Kupyansk, Kharkov region, Ukraine, October 17, 2025. Photo: Anatolii Stepanov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Russian Army is gathering reserves along the line of combat contact. In several areas the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is becoming critical.