The crew of a plane carrying European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper navigation charts after the aircraft lost access to its GPS signal. The Financial Times first reported the incident, which was later confirmed by the EC itself. Officials in Brussels suspect Russia was behind the disruption. The incident occurred on Aug. 31. Sources told the FT that GPS signals were lost across the area of Plovdiv Airport.

The authors of Russia’s new history textbook for 11th grade students own luxury real estate in Moscow, the Moscow Region, and Spain worth more than 8 billion rubles (close to $100 million), a new investigation by the late Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) reveals.

The authors of the new history textbook for 11th grades-former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the rector of Mgimema Anatoly Torkunov-turned out to be owners of elite real estate in Moscow, the Moscow Region and abroad. Its total cost is more than 8 billion rubles. This is stated in the new investigation of the FBK. The cost of all real estate of the Medinsky investigators estimates at about 6 billion rubles.

For the first time in 14 years, Syria officially exported oil - on Monday, 600 thousand barrels of raw oil were sent from the port of Tartus as part of an agreement with a trading company. This was reported to Reuters by the Syrian official from the country's energy department. The agency notes that before the start of protests against the regime of Bashar al -Assad in 2010, Syria exported 380 thousand barrels of oil per day.

Saudi Aramco and Iraq’s state-owned SOMO have stopped selling oil to India’s Nayara Energy, a refinery that is majority-owned by a consortium led by Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, Reuters reports . EU restrictions introduced in July have effectively cut Nayara off from supplies sourced from the Persian Gulf. In August, Nayara switched entirely to Russian crude.

At the Moscow State Budgetary Institution “Social House “Obruchevsky””, employees tied up one of the guests with woolen tights, Baza reported . According to the publication, in this way they tried to prevent her from injuring herself - the woman (20 years old, writes Regnum) suffers from epilepsy and auto-aggression. However, they remembered the tied up patient only after a while.

In Kyiv, at the age of 90, the illustrator and artist Radna Sakhaltuev died. He was the main artist of the Soviet cartoons “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel” and “Treasure Island”. The death of Sakhaltuev was reported on Facebook by Ukrainian film critic Sergei Tribach and actor Viktor Andrienko . Sakhaltuev-a Ukrainian artist of Buryat origin, was born in May 1935 in Ulan-Ude. In 1961, by distribution he hit Kyiv, where he worked at the Kievna Science studio.

Local authorities in the northern Russian city of Murmansk have detained the oil tanker Unity , sailing under the flag of Lesotho, after the Seafarers’ Union of Russia (SUR) requested a state port inspection. According to a statement on the union’s website, the ship is currently being held due to “wage arrears to the crew, a non-functioning Inmarsat satellite number, and serious problems with vessel documentation.” State inspectors boarded the vessel on Aug.

Indonesia President Prabovo Subiantto stated at a press conference on Sunday about a reduction in benefits for parliamentary deputies by agreement with political parties after large-scale protests that swept throughout the country. It is reported by the BBC.

In the video from the meeting of the Ministry of Defense with the participation of the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov last Saturday, a map of Ukraine with the Odessa and Nikolaev regions, marked as controlled by Moscow. The journalist of The Wall Street Journal drew attention to this, Yaroslav Trofimov. The meeting was dedicated to the results of the spring-summer campaign at the front.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska has fathered at least four children since 2021. Two of them are listed as having been born to the oligarch’s cousin, and two others were born to a Bauman Moscow State Technical University student — who was 19 when she began her relationship with the oligarch, according to a report by the investigative project All Exclusive .

News The Insider September 1, 2025 #Military report In today's summary: Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov presented a contradictory report on the situation at the front In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces were driven back from the northwestern outskirts of Kupyansk In the southern Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are counterattacking on the administrative border of the Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions DeepState - Due to rotation, Russian troops