News The Insider 30 September 2025 Russian activist and political prisoner Mikhail Krieger has declared a hunger strike after prison officials refused to release him from a punishment cell once his sentence there ended. The officials cited alleged threats to Krieger from other inmates as the reason he was being kept in solitary confinement.

The Donald Trump administration is deporting a plane carrying about a hundred Iranians from the United States back to Iran. The New York Times writes about this, citing two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and an American official familiar with these plans. The plane took off from Louisiana on Monday evening and was expected to arrive in Iran via Qatar on Tuesday, Iranian officials said.

News The Insider September 30, 2025 Активиста и политического заключенного Михаила Кригера не выпустили из штрафного изолятора после отбытия наказания, мотивируя это тем, что ему угрожает опасность со стороны соседей по колонии. Krieger himself has not complained about threats or mistreatment from them and insists that the prison administration simply wants to isolate him from other prisoners. Krieger went on a hunger strike, demanding to be returned to the general barracks.

The Oleynikovs, a family of restaurateurs based in Barcelona, shipped at least 36 batches of restricted chemicals to Russia between 2022 and 2024, a joint investigation by the independent Russian outlet Important Stories , the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC), the Ukrainian outlet Slidstvo.Info , the OCCRP , and the open source intelligence (OSINT) group All Eyes On Wagner has found.

Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev confirmed the government’s plans to increase the tax burden on the IT sector in the department’s Telegram channel. According to his statement, from 2026 the tariff on insurance premiums for IT companies will increase from 7.6% to 15% of the wage fund to a maximum base of 2.76 million rubles. In addition, the VAT benefit for the purchase of software from the Russian registry will be cancelled.

Available in English In the colonies and pre-trial detention centers of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, after the publication of The Insider, electronic correspondence services resumed their work - including in IK-17, where political prisoner journalist Ivan Safronov is being held. For letters not sent due to “technical work” they promise to return the money.

US President Donald Trump decided to send 200 National Guard troops to Oregon after seeing TV footage of attacks on federal buildings in Portland, which he called “war ravaged” on his Truth social media account. In an interview with NBC, Trump said protesters were attacking the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building and other federal facilities. The president also mentioned a conversation with Oregon Gov.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke on Tuesday before hundreds of generals and admirals urgently convened at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia, CBS News reports . He once again announced a return to the name "War Department" instead of "Department of Defense" and introduced 10 new directives covering physical fitness, appearance and standards for military personnel.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Major General Mikhail Nadezhin, the TASS agency reported , citing a source. Nadezhin is suspected of receiving a bribe of 2 million rubles; his home was searched.

Serbia has arrested 11 people on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred in European countries on instructions from a foreign intelligence agency, including planting pigs' heads at Muslim religious sites in Paris, the Associated Press reported , the country's police said. The arrest took place in Belgrade and another city in Serbia. The group's alleged organizer, who Serbian police said was acting on instructions from an "unidentified foreign intelligence agency," remains at large.

Jian G., a former assistant to former member of the European Parliament from the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party Maximilian Kra, was sentenced by the Higher Regional Court in Dresden to four years and nine months in prison on charges of espionage for China. His accomplice Yatzi S., who worked for a logistics company at Leipzig/Halle Airport, received a suspended sentence of one year and nine months. Deutsche Welle reports this.

ECONOMICS Alex Eisenkot 30 September 2025 From furniture makers to heavy vehicle manufacturer KAMAZ, hundreds of civilian companies are involved in feeding Russia’s military machine. While some non-military sectors are sliding into recession , factories tied to state defense contracts are at least able to maintain stagnation. Of course, the war is draining massive amounts of resources from the economy, and a return to real growth should not be expected until the fighting ends.

A criminal case has been opened in Krasnoyarsk against a journalist from “regional and foreign online publications.” This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. She is suspected of publicly disseminating “deliberately false information” about the Russian army. According to Krasnoyarsk publications , we are talking about Sibir.Realii journalist Svetlana Khustik. Updated : The Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk arrested Svetlana Khustik.

The Russian state sold its share in the Soyuzmultfilm film studio. RBC writes about this after studying the explanatory note to the draft amendments to the budget law for 2025. The document says that proceeds from the sale of federal property will increase by 1.12 billion rubles and that this is mainly due to proceeds from the privatization of Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio JSC.

In Moldova, the ruling PAS party, founded by the country's President Maia Sandu, won the parliamentary elections. According to the voting results, PAS received 55 deputy mandates out of 101. This is slightly less than the party had in the previous parliament, but it is enough to independently form a government and pass laws without hindrance.