The head of the Russian Guard's department for North Ossetia-Alania, General Valery Golota, was detained. TASS reports this with reference to operational services. “General Golota has been detained. Investigative actions are being carried out in a criminal case initiated under Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe),” said the agency’s interlocutor. According to SHOT , searches were carried out in the major general's office today.

The number of residents of the Leningrad region who died from poisoning with surrogate alcohol has reached 33 people, reports the Baza Telegram channel. According to him, 22 deaths were recorded in the Slantsevsky district, seven more in the Volosovsky district, two in the Priozersk district, and one each in the Tosnensky and Gatchina districts.

A court in Paris began to consider an appeal in the case of the crash of the Air France flight Rio de Janeiro - Paris in June 2009, France24 reports . Then the Airbus A330 plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 3 hours 45 minutes after takeoff. All 228 people on board (216 passengers and 12 crew members) were killed. The flight recorders were only recovered from the bottom in May 2011.

On the eve of Moldova’s Sept. 28 parliamentary elections, the Kremlin-linked Matryoshka disinformation network released yet another wave of fake videos, the Bot Blocker Project reports . One of the videos claims that the authorities in Chisinau stripped four of The Insider’s journalists of their Moldovan citizenship. Needless to say, the claim is false.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has prepared a bill , according to which it is proposed to introduce a single personal income tax rate of 30% for “foreign agents” - the same as for non-residents. In fact, the authorities refuse to consider “foreign agents” citizens of Russia. Currently, Russia uses a progressive personal income tax system: 13% for incomes up to 2.4 million rubles per year and 22% for amounts over 50 million rubles.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on JSC Karachevsky Plant Elektrodetal in the Bryansk region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported . According to the department, explosions occurred on the territory of the enterprise and a fire started. Explosions and a fire were recorded at the facility. The Ukrainian Navy stated that the attack was carried out by Neptune missiles. The missiles' flight range is more than 240 km, the General Staff reported.

The Tbilisi City Court satisfied the Ministry of Finance's claim against former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and former head of the Special State Security Service Teimuraz Janashia for the recovery of 9 million lari ($3.3 million at the exchange rate as of September 29) into the state budget. Both were accused of embezzling budget money on a large scale by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 182 of the Criminal Code of Georgia).

News The Insider September 29, 2025 #Military report In today's summary: In the Liman direction, Ukrainian troops are trying to disrupt communications across the Zherebets River with airstrikes In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian military is expanding the zone of control at the base of the Dobropolsky ledge “Agency” - the pace of territorial advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine has fallen to the lowest since April 2025 ​​Massive air raid on Kyiv - four people were killed,

US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to impose 100% tariffs on films produced outside the United States. В публикации в своей соцсети Truth Social он написал: “Our film production business is being stolen from the United States of America by other countries, it's just like stealing candy from a baby. Калифорния со своим слабым и некомпетентным губернатором пострадала особенно сильно.

After Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, gasoline ran out in a number of regions and in occupied Crimea - local authorities are introducing restrictions at gas stations. In particular, at gas stations of a large network in Sevastopol the sale of gasoline was limited to 30 liters per person. Sales have stopped about half of the gas stations on the peninsula. They began to limit the sale of gasoline in the central part of Russia and the Volga region - up to 10–20 liters per client.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing the Governor of the Tver Region, Igor Rudeni, to the post of his plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD). Rudenya, 57, has headed the region since 2016. The position of plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District was previously held by Alexander Gutsan. On September 24, Putin appointed him Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

Economics 29 September 2025 Not only defense enterprises, but also hundreds of civilian companies are involved in working for the Russian military machine - from furniture manufacturers to KAMAZ. While the peaceful sectors are in recession , factories associated with state defense orders are staying afloat.

There is also information about disruption of telephone communications. On September 16, Afghan media reported that authorities ordered a ban on the use of wired Internet in a number of regions to “prevent immoral behavior.” As a result, all government offices and residential buildings in the northern province of Balkh were left without access to Wi-Fi, but mobile Internet continued to work. This was the first case since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

An international team of scientists led by Barbara de Toffoli from the University of Padua has discovered signs of collapsed lava tunnels on Venus. The researchers studied radar images and topographic data from previous missions to the planet and focused on large shield volcanoes with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers. They identified four distinct chains of curved depressions that appear to mark the collapse sites of sections of underground tunnels.

The Telegram channel of the 1st battalion of unmanned systems of the 59th separate assault brigade names another type of helicopter - the Mi-8. “A Russian Mi-8 attack helicopter worth more than $10 million was destroyed. And they did it with a small FPV drone costing only $500.” It also follows from Z-channel reports that Brovdi initially incorrectly named the type of downed helicopter. The Telegram channel “Informant” confirms that it was an Mi-8.