Radio Liberty News: final release

New episode of Victor Kulganek's podcast. Повтор эфира от 09 декабря 2022 года.

Elina Valtonen Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies In Tbilisi, Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Elina Valtonen was fined 5,000 lari (about 1,600 euros) on charges of “illegally blocking a road.” This happened after she attended a protest on Rustaveli Avenue. Georgian pro-government television channels reported the fine, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs, notes the Georgian service of Radio Liberty .

Drone used to detect drones Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The European Commission on Thursday presented four projects to strengthen the defense capabilities of the European Union. They are designed for the period until 2030. The projects relate to strengthening the external borders of the EU, defense against drones, strengthening air defense in general, as well as the space industry.

Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies US President Donald Trump has instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to prepare a plan to create a special fund to support Ukraine, which will be financed from revenues from tariffs on China. This was stated in the publication of the British newspaper The Telegraph on Thursday, on the eve of the visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to Washington.

Substation (illustrative photo) Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies In the Volgograd and Voronezh regions of Russia, after an attack by Ukrainian drones, several settlements were left without power supply, Current Time reports . Governor of the Volgograd region Andrei Bocharov said that Russian air defense forces repelled a “massive attack of unmanned aerial vehicles on energy infrastructure facilities” in the region.

St. Petersburg, action against school bullying, 2020 The court awarded more than a quarter of a million rubles in compensation to an eighth-grader who was bullied by her classmates. 38% of Russians have experienced bullying at school in one way or another. These are the findings of sociologists who asked Russians about their attitude towards bullying. 89% of respondents who were bullied at school said that the aggression came from classmates.

The mother of a girl who was bullied by her classmates sued the school in the village of Topolevo, Khabarovsk Territory, for 270 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage. For three years the child was called names, covered in flour, her things were damaged and her clothes were hidden. Mom repeatedly asked the school authorities to intervene, but the bullying continued

Collage: Monetochka, Naoko and Noize MC Singer Naoko was arrested for songs of "foreign agents" There are no desperate musicians like Pussy Riot, like many rappers and rockers, the same “Casta”, the same “Pornofilms”, Noize MCs, in Russia now. Street singer Diana Loginova, known as Naoko, was arrested on October 16 for 13 days. The girl spent the night in police custody and was taken to court in handcuffs. The drummer and guitarist of her street band Stop Time were also arrested.

On October 7, it became known that the Lithuanian government had reduced the level of physical protection for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition. Tikhanovskaya has lived in Vilnius since August 2020, following the presidential elections in Belarus, which most Western countries consider rigged.

Vladimir Osechkin Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office announced on Thursday the arrest of four people in the country on suspicion of plotting an assassination attempt on an unnamed Russian dissident. In a conversation with Agence France-Presse, representatives of the investigation refused to name the person on whom the assassination attempt was being prepared.

Vladimir Zelensky Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that he has already arrived in Washington, where he is scheduled to hold talks at the White House with US President Donald Trump on October 17. In a message on Zelensky’s Telegram channel, a video recording was published on arrival in the USA at the plane’s ramp.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (File photo) Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to refuse purchases of Russian oil. US President Donald Trump spoke about this on Wednesday, answering questions from reporters.

In the first six months of 2025, Russian courts handed down a record 597 verdicts in terrorism cases, or at least five every working day. And this week the FSB declared members of the Russian Anti-War Committee terrorists.

Bortnikov to the left of Vladimir Putin Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies FSB director Alexander Bortnikov accused the British intelligence services of carrying out “acts of terrorism and sabotage” under their “patronage” on Russian territory. He spoke at a meeting of heads of intelligence services of the CIS countries.