The news The Insider October 7, 2024 The construction of nuclear power plants in Kazakhstan at a referendum supported 71.12% of residents, follows from the preliminary data of the CEC of the Republic. The turnout amounted to 63.66%. The referendum is recognized as being held, its final results will be published by the commission. The fact that most Kazakhstanis gave their votes for the construction of an nuclear power plant in the country, the data of the eczitpols also testify.

A fire occurred at an oil depot in Feodosia, said Oleg Kryuchkov, a Russian-appointed “adviser to the head of Crimea.” He did not specify the cause of the fire. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Mikhailichenko went to the scene of the incident. In turn, the “head of the city administration” Igor Tkachenko wrote that “due to an incident at the oil depot” traffic was blocked. On some streets, authorities have changed public transport schedules.

The first satellites of China's Qianfan, or Thousand Sails, broadband system, launched in August, are significantly brighter than satellites of Western systems, which negatively affects astronomical observations, writes SpaceNews. The Qianfan satellites are the first in a batch that could eventually number more than 14,000 satellites. The study found that their brightness varies from eighth magnitude when low in the sky to fourth magnitude when almost overhead.

Society Elizabeth Pyatnitskaya 7 October 2024 In Finland, a new attempt to sell the sales of the largest hockey arena in the country - an asset of businessmen close to Putin: Gennady Timchenko and the Rotenberg family. As The Insider found out, the Russian side refused to sell. The current owners do not want to part with property on disadvantageous conditions, therefore they block the arising options for transactions.

The authorities of the Belgorod region increased the one-time payment to volunteers who signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense to a record 3 million rubles. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced this at an operational meeting of the regional government on October 7. The offer is valid from today until December 31, the governor said.

The Central District Court of Voronezh on Monday convicted US citizen Robert Gilman, convicted in the fall of 2022 of assaulting a police officer, in new cases of assault on FSIN employees and an investigator, the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reports .

Cases of illegally crossing the Russian border were opened against SN Media journalists Kurt Pelda and France 24 Catherine Norris Trent after their visit to the Kursk region, reports the FSB Central Election Commission. Since August 17, 2024, 14 foreign journalists have become involved in such cases. According to Russian law, they face up to five years in prison.

Russian spy and GRU officer Pablo Gonzalez, aka Pavel Rubtsov, who spied on Alexei Navalny and Zhanna Nemtsova, attended military exercises in Ukraine three times in 2016, and also tried to gain access to the NATO liaison office. El Mundo writes about this with reference to documents from the investigation into the Gonzalez case, which is being conducted in Poland.

Investigations Elizaveta Pyatnitskaya October 7, 2024 In Finland, a new attempt at a deal to sell the country’s largest hockey arena, an asset of businessmen close to Putin: Gennady Timchenko and the Rotenberg family, fell through. As The Insider found out, the Russian side refused the sale. The current owners do not want to part with the property on unfavorable terms, so they block emerging transaction options.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Stefan Hubbard, a pensioner with US citizenship, to 6 years and 10 months in prison on charges of “participating as a mercenary in an armed conflict on the side of Ukraine,” the court’s press service reports. The case was considered behind closed doors. During the debate, the prosecution asked that Hubbard be sentenced to 7 years in prison.

About one and a half hundred Yemenis could go to fight for Russia in Ukraine, having been recruited through a company registered in Oman, which offered employment. This was reported by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). They were offered work as security guards, but were eventually sent to the front. Some of them claim that they did not know that they would participate in hostilities, despite the company's claims that they were fully informed.

In Saratov, Azamat Iskaliev, a participant in the war in Ukraine, was detained after he stabbed a 27-year-old girl with a knife in a cell phone store. In 2021, he killed his wife using the same method. The incident was reported by Baza, Svobodnye Novosti , Beware, News , and ChP Saratov . The regional department of the Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of a criminal case into the murder. “Important Stories” found out that Iskaliev was a member of the “Storm Z” Telegram chat.

On October 5, TASS reported that Syria had applied to join BRICS, citing Syrian Ambassador to Russia Bashar Jaafari.

16-year-old schoolboy Arseny Turbin, sentenced to five years in prison in the case of participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) allegedly because of an attempt to join the “Freedom of Russia” legion, said in a letter to his mother dated October 1, that he was subjected to beatings and attacks from fellow inmates in the Moscow pre-trial detention center-5 “Vodnik”. Mediazona reports this.

The news The Insider October 7, 2024 In Israel, there are mourning events dedicated to the first anniversary of the massacre arranged by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. As a result of the attack, about 1,200 people were killed then. According to the Israeli National Service of Insurance, 885 civilians, including 304 women and 53 children published on the eve of the National Service. Among the killed, in addition to the Israeli, there were 72 foreigners.