The 51st racket of the world, Russian Anastasia Potapova, announced that from 2026 she will represent Austria at international competitions. “I am pleased to inform you that my application for citizenship has been approved by the Austrian government,” the tennis player wrote on Instagram. “Austria is a place I love, it is incredibly welcoming and I feel at home here. I love Vienna and look forward to making it my second home.

The Krasnodar Regional Court recognized the subsidiary liability of the Ministry of Defense in the claim of victims of the crash of a Su-34 military aircraft on a residential building in Yeisk. Previously, the Court of First Instance decided to recover compensation only from the Joint Strategic Command of the Eastern Military District. Kommersant reports this.

Russian physicist Artem Khoroshilov, 34, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison on treason charges for allegedly donating to a Ukrainian foundation. According to the verdict, Khoroshilov will spend the first five years in prison, with the remaining term to be served in a high-security penal colony. He was also fined 700,000 rubles ($9,200), and his freedom of movement will be limited for two years upon his release. The prosecution had requested a 25-year sentence.

Samariddin Radjabov, a defendant in the “Moscow case,” who was convicted of throwing a plastic bottle at police at a rally in 2019, was stripped of Russian citizenship. The activist told the publication “That’s So”. According to Radjabov, he was informed about the deprivation of citizenship by his father, who was notified of this by the migration service. At the same time, the activist’s Russian passport is still listed as valid in the State Services database, journalists note.

Roskomnadzor acknowledged the limitations of FaceTime, Apple's calling service, in Russia. Gazeta.ru writes about this with reference to the department’s statement. Users have been observing interruptions in the operation of the application since the fall. The RKN acknowledged the introduction of “restrictive measures” against FaceTime.

Nikita Mikhalkov and Vladimir Putin. Photo: TASS The team of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has published an investigation alleging that filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov’s television program Besogon (lit. “Exorcist” or “The one who drives out demons”).

Antifake Fake RT: evidence of Zelensky's participation in a corruption scheme involving the sale of Chinese drones to the state under the guise of Ukrainian ones was found The Insider December 4, 2025 Content Fake: Fire Point, a developer and manufacturer of long-range FP1 drones and Flamingo missiles, is owned by Mindich Fake: Fire Point is a former casting agency associated with Kvartal Fake: Fire Point sells Chinese drones to the government at an inflated price under the guise of its own

The UK authorities on Thursday, December 4, announced the expansion of the sanctions list. It included the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU), as well as several heroes of The Insider's investigations into the activities of the GRU in Europe. In their statement, British authorities linked the new sanctions to the investigation into the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018.

Russia and India have agreed to jointly produce the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft, TASS reports. The head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Vadim Badekha, said at the Russian-Indian Business Forum in New Delhi that the UAC and the Indian state corporation Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are working on organizing the production of SSJs at Indian enterprises.

The Gomel enterprise "Santex Plant", which produces enamel dishes and sinks, simultaneously runs a large-scale business supplying components for combat drones to the Russian military. This is stated in the investigation of the Belarusian Investigation Center (BRC), prepared jointly with CyberPartisans. Journalists discovered that in 2022-2023 the plant sold 309 DJI drones to Russia for $2 million, helping to circumvent sanctions.

News The Insider December 4, 2025 Photo: AFP At its meeting on December 3, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution that requires Russia to ensure the “immediate, safe and unconditional” return of children taken from Ukraine. The document does not propose specific steps for the rehabilitation of displaced persons, so for now it is only a “zero stage,” says international lawyer Vladimir Zhbankov. The resolution was supported by 91 countries, 12 were against.

Ukrainian children from territories occupied by the Russian military are taken to “re-education camps” in Russia, Belarus and North Korea, where they are “militarized and Russified,” Ekaterina Rashevskaya, an international justice and legal analysis expert at the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights (RCHR), told a US Senate hearing. The organization documented 165 cases of such displacement of children.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information when he shared plans to attack Yemen's Houthis on Signal in March. This is stated in the report of the Pentagon inspector general, cited by CNN. According to the channel's sources familiar with the contents of the document, Hegseth's actions could have endangered the lives of American military personnel and the objectives of the operation.

News The Insider December 4, 2025 Vladimir Putin gave a long interview in Moscow to the Indian publication India Today on the eve of his visit to India - his first in four years. He spoke about the war in Ukraine, relations with the West, Trump and the economic situation of Russia. Key statements: About Ukraine: Russia did not start the war, the West is to blame for the conflict. Russia will “completely liberate Donbass.” Ukraine must remain neutral.

The Taliban forced a public execution of a 13-year-old boy accused of killing more than ten of his relatives. The execution took place at a stadium in the province of Khost, where about 80 thousand people gathered, The Independent reports . The UN called the incident “cruel and inhumane.” A man named Mangal Fard and his two sons were accused of killing 13 members of the teenager's family, including several children and women, Amu.tv reported .