News The Insider October 9, 2025 Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In Armenia, at the request of Russia, the artist and activist Liliya Manyukhina was detained, a case against whom was opened after posting anti-war leaflets in Moscow. After her release from the pre-trial detention center, she left Russia. Memorial recognized Manyukhina as a political prisoner. This is the first known case in which Armenian authorities made an arrest in a politically motivated case at the request of Russia.

Politics 9 October 2025 On September 12, at the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg, where the city parliament sits, a congress of far-right and neo-Nazi movements from around the world was held, organized by the “Orthodox” billionaire associated with the special services, Malofeev, who was accused of fraud and theft of cryptocurrency.

SOCIETY Viktoriia Ponomareva 9 October 2025 In the summer of 2025, the United States began mass deportations of Russians who had sought asylum in the country. In June and August alone, more than 100 people were flown out under heavy guard on charter flights. Many feared political persecution if returned to Russia. At least one of the deportees arriving on the most recent flight has already been detained upon arrival.

Belgian police have detained three people who were reportedly preparing a series of assassination attempts on politicians, including, allegedly, the country's Prime Minister Bart de Wever. The agencies Belga and AFP write about this. The suspects were detained during searches in Antwerp. They found an improvised explosive device and a 3D printer, which was allegedly used to prepare for planned terrorist attacks.

News The Insider October 9, 2025 The Armenian authorities released Georgian citizen Giorgi Kinoiani, who was detained on September 3 while crossing the Georgian-Armenian border. According to the Vanadzor branch of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA), which represented the interests of the arrested man, he was released in accordance with the principle of non-refoulement . Human rights activists reported that they filed a complaint with the ECHR.

The Federation Council made a proposal to prematurely end the experiment with preferential taxation for the self-employed. This is stated in the resolution of the upper house of parliament published on October 8.

560 residents of the border region of the Kursk region are still missing more than a year after the invasion of the region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Mediazona writes about this with reference to the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since the start of the Ukrainian operation in August 2024, 1,388 people have been included in the departments’ wanted database, the publication notes.

Acting French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, whose upcoming resignation has already been announced, said on Wednesday, October 8, that the ministers of his cabinet, which formally functioned for only a few hours, will not receive severance pay. This was done to save the budget, reports Reuters.

The company of American billionaire Elon Musk X, which bought the social network Twitter, agreed to pay $128 million in a lawsuit filed by former employees of the platform, Reuters reports . The lawsuit was filed by four former Twitter executives: ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Nat Segal, former general counsel Vijaya Gadde and former general counsel Sean Edgett, who alleged that Musk's company failed to pay them agreed upon severance pay after Musk acquired the social network and fired them.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that monthly social contributions for the self-employed, required for sick leave, will range from 1,300 to 1,900 rubles. “You can choose its maximum amount per year: 35 thousand or 50 thousand rubles. The exact amount will be calculated based on length of service and other parameters,” the prime minister said. — Contributions are low: about 1300 or about 1900 rubles per month.

The Roskomsvoboda digital rights protection project is suspending its activities. One of its founders, Artyom Kozlyuk, wrote about this in the organization’s Telegram channel. Kozlyuk noted that he was resigning from the position of project manager and from public and media activities in general: “And Roskomsvoboda itself, as you noticed, let’s say, has dissolved. She has not had any activity since the beginning of September due to a number of circumstances. Human resources have run out.

Photo: Children New Generation for The Insider Society Victoria Ponomareva 9 October 2025 Russian troops continue their offensive in the Dnepropetrovsk region. For the first time, the Russian military found itself in the region only in the summer of this year - before that, the Russian Armed Forces were not able to enter the Dnepropetrovsk region even during the maximum advance in Ukraine in the spring of 2022. In the last month alone they have occupied at least ten villages.

US President Donald Trump reported on his social network Truth Social that Israel and Hamas have agreed on the first part of the peace plan. He clarified that all hostages must be released, and Israel will withdraw troops to the agreed line. “It is with great pride that I announce that Israel and Hamas have signed the first phase of our peace plan.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary work, which reaffirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic horror." This is reported on the award website. “László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer belonging to a Central European tradition that goes back to Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess.