Massive Russian attack on Ukraine. In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, the death toll rose to 18, including four children. There are also dead and wounded in Kyiv and other cities.

In an interview with the presenter of the Current Time TV channel Alexey Alexandrov, economist and political scientist Alexandra Prokopenko talks not only about her new book “Accomplices,” but also assesses the state of the Russian economy in the context of Internet blocking and intensified attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russia, and also talks about fears and discontent among the Russian business and political elite.

Donald Trump answers questions from journalists, Washington, October 6, 2026 Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies US President Donald Trump said that he will soon talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation with a possible outbreak of plague in the Irkutsk region. Answering a question from journalists whether he had already discussed this topic with Putin, Trump said that the conversation was planned “for the near future,” AFP reports .

Illustrative photo Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Alexey Ptushkin, a graduate student of the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, to five years in prison under the article about “fakes about the army.” The reason was two comments that Ptushkin left under someone else’s post on the social network VKontakte, left in 2023.

A house in Priluki in the Chernihiv region, destroyed by a Russian missile. October 7, 2026 Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Wednesday, October 7 01:11 20 years since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya 05:52 At least 14 died when a Russian missile hit a residential building in the Chernihiv region.

Listen4 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The budget deficit for next year was previously planned to be twice as large. In Tatarstan, republican budget expenditures in 2027 are projected at 566.6 billion rubles , revenues - 558.1 billion . The deficit is planned at 8.5 billion rubles . Such parameters are included in the draft budget of the republic for 2027–2029, submitted to the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Collage: Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Russian military personnel. Creeping mobilization - across Russia: The Kremlin is losing captured Ukrainian territories and is looking for people The Kremlin funds organizations that search for and recruit future participants in the war in Ukraine. The Insider reviewed court documents, NGO reports, procurement requests and internal materials from recruiting agencies.

Man dressed as a plague doctor, illustrative photo One of the most discussed topics in Russian-language social networks this week was the events in Irkutsk, where on October 2, a 28-year-old employee of the Anti-Plague Research Institute died of “pneumonia of unknown etiology”, who, according to one version , broke a test tube with samples of pneumonic plague, a curable but quickly progressing fatal disease transmitted by airborne droplets.

Bears are on the rampage in Russia. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 42 attacks on people in 11 regions. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory they killed 7 people . Ecologists are trying to understand what prompted the bears to behave so aggressively, which is generally unusual for them. Be that as it may, there is, in my opinion, in these tragic cases a certain existential signal of the country’s savagery in the era of war.

EU ambassadors agreed on a new sanctions list, which included 826 organizations and 743 individuals - this is a record for a one-time expansion of sanctions. All these organizations are associated with the Russian military industry, reports the investigative project of Radio Liberty and the Present Time TV channel Sistema.

Igor Vasiliev Listen3 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies A court in Moscow sent the general director of the Patriot park, Igor Vasiliev, under house arrest for two months in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. This was reported by RBC and "Caution, News" with reference to sources. Vasiliev, detained on October 5, is suspected of receiving a bribe from the general director of the Hermes company, Evgeny Mariev.

Sergey Leibgrad Listen2 min. Audio created using artificial intelligence technologies The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Samara journalist Sergei Leibgrad on the wanted list. Mediazona drew attention to the card in the department’s database. It is still unknown under what specific article a criminal case has been initiated against him. Sergei Leibgrad left for Israel in July 2022.

A wall of the Old City of Jerusalem, onto which are projected images of Israeli hostages captured by Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 attack and then held in the Gaza Strip. Photo taken November 6, 2023 October 7 marks three years since the attack by the Hamas group, recognized as terrorist in many countries, on the southern regions of Israel. The Hamas attack triggered a protracted and destructive war in the Gaza Strip.

We talk about the situation at the front and the search for resources and people to continue the unleashed war in the program “Facing the Event” with politician Andrei Pivovarov and military expert Nikolai Mitrokhin.