The Council of the European Union imposed sanctions against Eugenia Gutsul, the bashkan (head) of Gagauzia, an autonomous territory within Moldova.

The authorities of the Omsk region decided to ban migrants with labor patents from working in seven sectors of the economy. This was stated by the regional governor Vitaly Khotsenko. Migrants will be prohibited from working in the following industries: education, healthcare, passenger transportation, trade, hunting, production of medicines, provision of social services. The governor's order will take effect on March 1, 2025.

Emilia Slabunova. Photo: Yabloko party website The government of Karelia issued bonuses to officials for “achieving the indicators of executive authorities,” receiving 126.7 million rubles from the federal budget for this, but classified information about exactly what achievements they were awarded for.

At least six new lawsuits were filed Monday in Manhattan federal court against producer and rapper Sean Combs, known as P Diddy. He is accused of systematic sex trafficking, violence and racketeering, CBS News reports . The lawsuits were filed anonymously by two women and four men. One of the male plaintiffs, who lives in North Carolina, claims the rapper "fondled his genitals" at one of his famous Long Island parties in 1998. The plaintiff was 16 years old at that time.

The new Czech Ambassador to Moscow will be former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic Daniel Kostoval. He will arrive in Russia at the beginning of 2025, they write . After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Czech Republic recalled its ambassador from Moscow. All this time, the diplomatic mission in Moscow was headed by a charge d'affaires, a diplomat of a lower level.

On October 14, Ukrainian authorities, schools, business centers, hotels, media offices, embassies and other facilities and departments throughout Ukraine received letters en masse with messages about the threat of a terrorist attack and mining, writes Radio Liberty. In many institutions, in particular educational ones, people were evacuated. According to law enforcement officials, more than one and a half thousand different objects throughout Ukraine received reports of possible mining.

The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow sent Valentina Semenova, accused of setting the door of the military registration and enlistment office on fire, for compulsory treatment. This was reported by Mediazona, which discovered a case file mentioning the punishment for Semenova on the court’s website.

For comparison, the maximum advance during the Russian attack in northern Kharkiv in May 2024 was 10 kilometers — before the front stagnated . Elsewhere, including the areas around Chasiv Yar, the Toretsk agglomeration, Robotyne, and Vuhledar, progress has been measured in mere kilometers or even hundreds of meters. Among the notable towns captured were Krasnohorivka (population 16,398 as of the 2001 census), Novohrodivka (17,473), and Vuhledar (17,518).

Alexey Moskalev from the Tula region, who was sentenced to a year and ten months in prison for an anti-war drawing of his daughter Masha, was released from prison. His lawyer Vladimir Bilienko told OVD-Info about this. His daughter met him near IK-6 in Novomoskovsk. After Masha drew an anti-war drawing in an art class in 2022, her father came to the attention of the security forces.

The Russian elite is spending tens of millions of rubles to whitewash its reputation. As the investigative publication “Project” found out , the key players in this business are the son of press secretary Sergei Shoigu, a friend of Dmitry Peskov and the Group IB company. We are talking about PR services for creating a “digital profile”.

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov announced that he would leave his post and proposed holding early elections for a new leadership of the organization. As stated in Pozdnyakov’s statement published on the ROC website, this issue will be considered at a meeting of the Executive Committee on November 7.

According to the claims of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, it is planned to recover more than 1 billion euros for losses from the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Moscow Arbitration Court. The lawsuit was filed against various structures of the company on October 2.

Tesla employees partially controlled humanoid robots Optimus at a presentation held the other day, Bloomberg reports , citing informed sources. At the same time, during the event, Elon Musk promised that after some time they will be able to serve as an assistant in every home and will cost $20–30 thousand. According to sources, operators controlled the behavior of the robots remotely. At the same time, cars could actually move independently, guided by artificial intelligence commands.

It is no longer possible to find out about blockings in the Roskomnadzor register - the agency has changed the way it issues information. This follows from the statement that RKN sees no reason to lift restrictions on access to the Discord messenger. Now, to find out about blocking, you need to enter the full address of the page, and not the name of the service.

Taliban-run media has stopped showing images of living creatures in some provinces of Afghanistan to comply with morality laws. Associated Press reports. In August, the country's Ministry of Vice and Virtue published laws governing aspects of daily life such as public transport, shaving, the media and celebrations, reflecting authorities' interpretation of Islamic law, or sharia.