ECONOMICS Veto abolished, taxes unified, residency rules relaxed: How will the EU change if it adopts Mario Draghi's plan? Mark Elesar 8 October 2024 Big changes may be in store for the European Union: former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, who once saved the continent from a debt crisis, has outlined an ambitious reform plan aimed at countering a potential economic slowdown and recession within the EU.

This is difficult to even discuss seriously: just try to imagine a formation consisting of armless and legless disabled people, especially in those sectors of the front where the brigades mentioned in the RIA material operate. The 30th is fighting in the Bakhmut direction, the 31st in the Pokrovsky direction . Rumors about the mobilization of disabled people probably arose after the decision was made to re-examine disabled people of the second and third groups.

The news The Insider October 8, 2024 In today's report Russian troops are moving to the west of the recently busy Ugledar, towards Kurakhov and in the Kupyansky direction In Toretsk, the battles “literally for each porch” are going on, the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation entered the eastern outskirts of the city In the Kupyansky direction, Russian DRGs make sorties to the Oskol River, threatening to dissect the APU group in two The Russian military again entered several

The news The Insider October 8, 2024 The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, in the last three years, most often flies abroad on two business jets: on Boeing for almost 2.5 billion rubles and on Falcon 8x for 5.5 billion. According to The Insider, on these aircraft, Miller made visits to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Catar, Turkey and the Maldives. RA-73814. RA-09612. RA-09611. General Director of Gazprom Summary LLC.

Big changes may be in store for the European Union: former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, who once saved the continent from a debt crisis, has outlined an ambitious reform plan aimed at countering a potential economic slowdown and recession within the EU. Draghi suggests moving away from the current requirement for unanimous decision-making, replacing it with a simple majority vote on key issues.

Update: Representatives of the Soft Power movement, of which Olga Suvorova is a member, told The Insider that for some time they knew nothing about the woman’s fate and, together with her family, tried to find her. Olga got in touch only in the evening, when she was already at home. Suvorova said that she would appeal the court's decision.

Hungary prevented the European Union from moving to freezing Russian assets for a period of three years instead of the current extension every six months. By doing this, she called into question the possibility of issuing a loan of 35 billion euros to Ukraine, which was announced by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, reports Euronews (a television channel owned by businessmen associated with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban).

The premiere of the documentary film “Russians at War” took place on September 7 at an out-of-competition screening at the Venice Film Festival. Anastasia Trofimova, a former employee of the Russian state channel Russia Today, spent seven months in the Donbass, in territories occupied by Russian troops, recording the personal stories of Russian soldiers. The film caused sharp criticism from Ukrainian society and authorities.

The UK has imposed sanctions against the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces (RCBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces and their chief, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. As follows from a message on the British government website, the measures were introduced in connection with the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention .

Chinese authorities are requiring teachers and other public sector workers to hand over their passports, writes the Financial Times. The campaign is reportedly being conducted as part of what is known as personal travel management abroad, giving local officials the ability to control and track how often and where citizens travel abroad. The publication explains that the purpose of this is to reduce corruption in government and counter espionage.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced an activist from Dagestan, 25-year-old Ulker Gashimova, who was detained while trying to fly out of Russia, to 4.5 years in prison for comments on Telegram. As Memorial reports with reference to her lawyer, the court found Gashimova guilty of calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In the Belgorod region, they decided to close the villages of Petrovka and Solovyovka to entry. Residents will begin to be resettled and will be provided with new housing, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. This decision was made against the backdrop of constant shelling of populated areas. On October 4 alone, seven people were injured when Ukrainian drones attacked the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka.

Significantly fewer Russian assets are frozen in financial institutions in the Netherlands than was stated, writes the local publication Telegraaf, citing documents sent to parliament by Foreign Minister Kaspar Veldkam. In January, the Dutch parliament announced that the total amount of frozen Russian assets would be €660 million, but by July 1 only €97.2 million had been frozen.

Roskomnadzor announced DDoS attacks on its resources, Interfax reports with reference to the agency. RKN claims that the attacks “do not achieve their goal” and that all its resources, including the official website, “work without restrictions.” RKN also stated that “the main surges in traffic come from foreign networks.” On the Downdetector.su service, some messages about failures in the Roskomnadzor website use the hashtag #FREEDISCORD.

The SBU reported the detention in Moldova of Russian macroeconomist Dmitry Chistilin, assistant to former Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev. The department calls him “one of the Kremlin ideologists” of the war against Ukraine. According to this information, Chistilin in 2016–2024 prepared “analytical materials” for the Kremlin, in which he supported armed aggression against Ukraine and the “integration” of the occupied regions into Russia.