Mikhail Pushkinsky is detained by police officers in St. Petersburg, Russia, 30 October 2025. Photo: Bumaga A Russian pensioner was detained in St. Petersburg on Thursday for wearing a blue and yellow badge in support of Ukraine at a gathering to mark the annual Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression, according to independent outlet Bumaga.

Military experts interviewed by Novaya-Europe say that this is a fake A Russian military truck among the ruins in Avdeevka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, September 27, 2025. Photo: Andrey Borodulin / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Defense to ensure unimpeded passage of foreign journalists to Kupyansk, Pokrovsk and Mirnograd, where Russian troops are allegedly blocking the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was stated by the press service of the military department.

In at least nine regions, conscription started even before the law. "New Europe" tells how much they pay and why officials are in a hurry Russian reservists called up as part of “partial mobilization” before being sent to a combat zone, Rostov region, October 31, 2022. Photo: Sergey Pivovarov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Even before the law on attracting reservists to protect objects from Ukrainian drones came into force, Russia had already begun to act on it.

A resumption of weapons testing by the US would be extremely dangerous for humanity A visitor looks at a picture of devastation caused by the world’s first atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, 5 August 2025. Photo: EPA / FRANCK ROBICHON US President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately, “on an equal basis” with other countries’ testing programmes.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the Kremlin in Moscow, 7 May 2025. Photo: EPA /Alexander Zemlianichenko The Kremlin on Thursday denied that Russia’s successful test launch of its nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered 9M730 Burevestnik intercontinental missile last week, or that of its underwater nuclear-capable torpedo Poseidon on Monday, represented a unilateral return to nuclear testing in breach of a moratorium introduced in the 1990s.

Security forces blocked the passage to the memorials and copied the names of the participants. One of them was detained with a yellow-blue badge In St. Petersburg, at a rally in memory of victims of repression, pensioner Mikhail Pushnitsky with a yellow-blue badge was detained, Bamaga reports . The arrest took place at the Levashovsky cemetery, where a memorial event is taking place. The occasion was a yellow-blue badge with the inscription “Peace for Ukraine,” which Pushnitsky put on himself.

The FSB demanded that banks have access to customer correspondence. How will it work and will it change the lives of ordinary users? Photo: Alamy/Vida Press Russian banks will be required to connect to FSB systems and store customer correspondence in banking applications, writes RBC. Authorities will have the opportunity to monitor citizens’ communications in real time, even in chat rooms of financial organizations.

A Lukoil petrol station in St. Petersburg, Russia, 23 October 2025. Photo: EPA / Anatoly Maltsev Following last week’s surprise decision by the White House to impose sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Russia’s second biggest oil exporter Lukoil announced that it had accepted an offer from multinational commodities trader Gunvor to buy its foreign assets on Thursday.

Results of the meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping. The US and China have suspended the trade war, but have not yet made any progress on Ukraine: Trump suggests “letting the sides fight” Donald Trump and Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025.

A 36-year-old resident of Vladikavkaz, Alan Khokhoev, died in the war in Ukraine, reported journalist Arzu Mamedova and the izvesheniya_vld telegram channel, which talks about city events. ASTRA noted that he had previously been convicted in the case of torture and murder of an employee of the Ministry of Agriculture of North Ossetia, Vladimir Tskaev. Alan Khokhoev, photo: telegram channel of Arzu Mamedova According to Mamedova, Khokhoev had been considered missing since April of this year.

The media write that the soldier was not alone Russian private soldier Alexey Kostrikin was detained in connection with murder and rape in the Belgorod region, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported . According to the security forces, Kostrikin broke into the house of a resident of the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, killed him and raped his wife.

Visitors look at a scale model of the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested, at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow, 26 October 2023. Photo: EPA / Yuri Kochetkov US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the US military to conduct the country’s first nuclear weapons tests in over 30 years, just days after the Kremlin announced the successful testing of its new nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered Burevestnik intercontinental missile.

In Rio de Janeiro, a police operation against a drug cartel killed 132 people. Reuters and The New York Times write about this with reference to the authorities of the state of Rio. The raid against the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) gang, which controls the drug trade in several favelas in Rio de Janeiro, began on the morning of October 28. At least 2,500 security forces took part in it, and several helicopters were also involved.

Experts previously doubted the security of the new messenger and said that all data could end up on the servers of a state-affiliated corporation Photo: “New-Europe” Fanis Sadykov, one of the creators of the Telega application, which is gaining popularity in Russia as an alternative to the Telegram messenger, was employed by VK in May–July 2025, Novaya Gazeta Europe found out after reviewing data from leaks from the tax service.

What's wrong with Elon Musk's Grokipedia and why it repeats Russian propaganda Photo: Hanno Bode / Imago / Scanpix / LETA Billionaire Elon Musk launched his new project - the online encyclopedia "Grokipedia". He called it a truthful analogue of the popular Wikipedia. Materials for the new encyclopedia are created by Grok, an AI tool based on a generative language model. Texts are generated automatically, according to specified algorithms, without direct human participation.