History Alexei Uvarov 30 August 2025 Hundreds of thousands of officials, security forces and other representatives of the state are involved in military and political crimes in Russia, and today the issue of their responsibility is considered in some international criminal processes. It is understood that the perpetrators will suffer the real punishment after the change of power and all those involved in the crimes, if they do not find themselves in the dock, will at least fall under lustration.

Another business partner of Konstantin Nikolaev was Alexey Beseda, the son of FSB General Sergey Beseda, who formerly headed the Service of Operational Information and International Relations. The younger Beseda received 187 million rubles ($5.7 million at the time or $2.3 million now) from Nikolaev’s companies in a sham deal uncovered in a 2018 investigation by Novaya Gazeta .

The video features a deepfake of Sandu that portrays the Moldovan president as inconsistent and ineffective. It mocks Moldova’s drawn-out path toward EU accession and alludes to a dispute with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom over gas supplies to the breakaway Transnistrian Moldovan Republic last year. The video also references fugitive pro-Kremlin oligarch Ilan Shor, whose political bloc Victorie (Victory) was barred from participating in Moldova’s Sept. 28 parliamentary elections.

POLITICS Karyna Olykova 30 August 2025 Russia has set a grim new record in its campaign against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. In July alone, 6,297 strike drones were launched at targets behind the front lines — almost 15 times the total recorded in July 2024. The Kremlin appears to be intent on terrorizing the population, exploiting delays in Western military aid and shortages of air defense systems.

Russian pro-war journalist Alexander Garmaev published a photo that appears to show two Ukrainian prisoners of war tied together. One of them is holding a hand grenade with the safety pin removed — set to explode as soon as he can no longer hold the lever. Theoretically, the pin could be reinserted. However, Garmaev’s post makes no mention of such intentions.

The machines used by the Moscow plant to manufacture sniper rifles also came from Europe. As The Insider previously reported, Promtekhnologiya acquired metalworking equipment from the brands DMG Deckel Maho and DMG Gildemeister, as well as an optical measuring device from DMG Mori, through the Swiss firm Biostrom International AG.

Russia has set a grim new record in its campaign against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. In July alone, 6,297 strike drones were launched at targets behind the front lines — almost 15 times the total recorded in July 2024. The Kremlin appears to be intent on terrorizing the population, exploiting delays in Western military aid and shortages of air defense systems.

During the June War, Israel was able to calculate the whereabouts of senior officials, military and scientists of Iran due to the hacking of the telephones of their protection, the New York Times found out in conversations with representatives of both sides. This allowed the Israelis in the first days of the campaign to eliminate dozens of high -ranking commanders and at least 13 scientists associated with the nuclear program.