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Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies At a meeting on Wednesday, the Bundestag voted to abolish the right to accelerated naturalization in Germany. The option to obtain citizenship within three years was added to legislation by the previous government in 2024 and came into force in the summer of that year.

Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025 were the Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa from the University of Kyoto, the British-Australian scientist Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne and Professor Omar Yaghi from the American University of California at Berkeley (he has US, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian citizenship). This was announced on October 8 in Stockholm.

Yuri Shapovalov after his release in August 2025 Ukrainian Yuriy Shapovalov is a native resident of Donetsk, a doctor with 30 years of experience. Before the Russian occupation began in 2014, he worked as a neurophysiologist at the diagnostic center of a regional hospital. Outside of work, Yuri's passion was cacti: he collected a large collection and headed a local club for lovers of these plants. After the start of the occupation of Donetsk, Yuri decided to stay in the city.

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Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies On October 8, the State Duma approved a bill denouncing the intergovernmental agreement with the United States on plutonium disposal, as well as the protocols to it. The document was signed in 2000. The agreement was ratified in 2011. The agreement provided for the disposal by each of the parties of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium, declared surplus for military programs.

Robert Risch Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The Alternative for Germany party expelled deputy Robert Risch from the faction in the Hamburg state parliament. The reason was his participation in the far-right congress in St. Petersburg. Disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against the politician; he may be expelled from the party. The founding conference of the international league of anti-globalists "Paladins" was held in September.

SAPO headquarters Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies Participating in the war against Russia on the side of Ukraine is Viktor Gaziev, whom the Swedish intelligence services previously classified as a security threat and considered a radical Islamist. This was reported by the Swedish television company SVT.

Onokhoy village During the single voting day held in mid-September , United Russia won almost everywhere - both in the gubernatorial elections and in the elections of deputies at all levels . It is all the more surprising that in the small Buryat village of Onokhoi (40 kilometers from Ulan-Ude), the candidate from the United Russia party lost the post of head to a self-nominated candidate.

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Why are assessments of historical events increasingly becoming “black and white”? Is it correct to judge history emotionally – and to give today’s moral assessments to the “heroes of bygone times”?

Attacks on railway infrastructure have intensified (photos of the consequences of the attack on Shostka on October 4) Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies On Wednesday night, the Russian military attacked energy and other infrastructure facilities with drones in several regions of Ukraine. In the Chernihiv region, a hit to an energy facility was reported, which left residents in the Nezhinsky district without electricity.

“The situation at the front in Ukraine is alarming,” military experts write. There are heavy battles and threats of encirclement in several directions at once, both for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Army. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said today that Russian troops have received a new order on the front: to storm Ukrainian positions at any cost. Because of this, he said, the level of Russian losses has increased significantly.

Alla Pugacheva's interview is receiving record views and has become a fact of social and political life. What are the reasons for the singer’s half-century popularity? How does it unite the Soviet and post-Soviet eras? And what is its relationship with the current government?