The Parliament of Slovakia on September 26 adopted amendments to the Constitution, which refers to the existence of only two sexes - male and female; a ban on surrogate motherhood is introduced, as well as on adoption of children in pairs that are not married; The equality of men and women in wages is fixed. According to the Slovak publication Denník N, 90 deputies out of 150 voted for the bill.

SOCIETY Polina Smirnova 26 September 2025 The Intervision music contest, held on September 20 at the Live Arena outside Moscow, was presented by Russian state propaganda as an import-substitute for Eurovision. Billions worldwide, the Kremlin’s mouthpieces claimed, watched the event. However, a correspondent for The Insider , who attended the elaborate show as a spectator, found no real excitement.

Iran and Russia have signed a $25 billion agreement to build four third-generation nuclear power plant units in Hormozgan Province in the south of the Islamic Republic. The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the “megaproject” will consist of four units, each generating 1,255 megawatts, on a 500-hectare site near the city of Sirik. Preparatory work has already begun, though no details on a timeline have been provided.

Journalists of the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet recorded the Russian large landing ship Alexander Shabalin from the Baltic Fleet only 12 km from the southern tip of Langeland. He was located near Danish territorial waters with AIS transponder turned off, which was due to which it was impossible to track by marine services. To check the information of the sources, the reporters rented a helicopter and climbed the air from Langeland.

The State Chancellery of Internet Formation of the PRC announced the launch of the campaign to combat "despondency" on social networks. According to the BBC, Internet platforms are prescribed to delete posts that broadcast “negative and pessimistic moods”, as well as statements like “studying is useless” and “hard work is useless”. The campaign will last two months.

Iran and Russia signed an agreement on the construction of Khormoz NPP in the province of Khormozgan in the south of the Islamic Republic. According to the Iranian State Agency IRNA, the cost of the project is estimated at $ 25 billion. It is planned to build four power units with a total capacity of 5.2 thousand MW on an area of ​​500 hectares near the city of Sirik. Preparatory work has already begun.

The news The Insider September 26, 2025 #Military Summary In today's report: In the Kursk direction, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the seizure of the village of Yunakovka in the Border of the Sumy region In the Kupyansky direction, the Russian military achieved an increase in the "gray zone" in the urban development of Kupyansk In the Limansky direction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation they move in the area of ​​Shandrigolov northwest of Liman In the

Tigran Keosayan, a filmmaker and host of the propaganda program International Sawbench on Russia’s NTV channel, has died aged 59, his wife Margarita Simonyan announced in a post on Telegram. “Tonight Tigran went to the Creator. Thank you to everyone who prayed. Please do not call me or the family right now. Thank you all, thank you,” Simonyan wrote . Simonyan is the head of the state-controlled propaganda network RT, formerly known as Russia Today.

The Immigration Service of Finland (Migri) resumed consideration of petitions about the asylum from the Syrians, suspended in December. This was reported by Yle with reference to the press release of the department. “In the process of making decisions, we monitored the development of security situation in Syria both at the national and international level.

The BAZA Telegram channel claims that in Moscow City for the last three weeks, security officials have been conducting raids, withdrawing equipment and “millions of dollars from crypto exchangers”. The VChK-OGPU channel also said that yesterday, security officials came to the business center, who were interested in “offices working with crypt” and paying “for factories in China”. According to BAZA, while the searches are held as part of a procedural audit, without initiating a criminal case.

US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum, the purpose of which is to resume the use of the death penalty in Washington, the district of Colombia.

Russia supplies China with military equipment and technologies that will help Beijing prepare for the airborne invasion of Taiwan. This conclusion was reached by analysts of the London Royal Institute of United Services (RUSI) after studying about 800 pages of leaked Russian documents received from the Black Moon hacker group. According to the analysis of documents, the initial agreement was reached in April 2021.

Private letters of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was smuggled of people and a systematic molestation of minors, show how he surrounded himself with influential people and manipulated them in attempts to avoid serious federal accusations, writes Bloomberg with reference to the agency at the disposal of the documents. Correspondence also demonstrates the depth of his connections with academic circles and attempts to create a public image of an innocent victim of circumstances.

The news The Insider September 26, 2025 The Ministry of Justice updated the list of "foreign agents." On September 26, he entered: Kinocritis Zinaida Pronchenko, editor-in-chief of the Internet publication Republic since April 2025; Media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev, from 1999 to 2006 he managed the media actors of Boris Berezovsky, from 2005 to 2012 he was at the leading posts of Kommersant Publishing House, from 2015 to 2020 he owned the newspapers "Vedomosti" and The Moscow Times, Russian

In the regional and municipal elections that took place in Russia in September, 1663 former participants in the war with Ukraine took part. Of these, 1035 people were elected. The Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova told about this at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, who took place the night before in the Kremlin. “This year, we had a“ wave ”in the election of participants in a special military operation, and very good results. [...] There were practically no failures.