Hungarian diplomats are being expelled from Moscow and St. Petersburg in response to the same decision by Budapest made in early September. The Russian Foreign Ministry reported this. The expulsion of Hungarian embassy employees was announced to the Hungarian Charge d'Affaires on Thursday, October 1. They expressed strong protest to him because of the “openly unfriendly” expulsion of Russian diplomats from Hungary, which became known in early September.

The updated British package included 23 individuals and legal entities, as well as vessels of the Russian “shadow fleet” that were engaged in the transportation of oil and LNG. The British Foreign Office reported this.

The Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Kyiv, where the research reactor is located, was hit by a Russian drone. This was reported by the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. As interviewed experts explained to The Insider, such attacks on nuclear facilities are unacceptable, but in the case of this reactor the danger of radiation contamination is minimal.

The United States excluded several European states from participating in the NATO working meeting. This was reported by Politico. The UK, France and the Baltic countries: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were not invited to the meeting, during which the Pentagon planned to discuss the “future of NATO”. The publication notes that this happened against the backdrop of earlier reports about US President Donald Trump compiling a list of “good” and “bad” allies.

In May 2025, the European Commission presented the document “European rearmament plan “Ready 2030”. As stated in it, the plan involves “replenishing European reserves of ammunition, weapons, military equipment, as well as supplying them to Ukraine and developing large-scale pan-European projects,” supporting the European military industry and increasing production capacity. At the end of September this year, the European Defense Agency prepared a report assessing the rearmament process.

“Vesti” in an article entitled “An expert revealed the true message of Trump’s call for Zelensky to go to Moscow” says : “By calling on Vladimir Zelensky to go to Moscow to resume negotiations with Russia, US President Donald Trump and his administration actually recognized the victory of the Russian Federation in the special operation. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with RIA Novosti by Turkish foreign policy expert Inanj Sandcak.

Russian exports of diesel fuel and gasoil through the Black Sea fell to zero in the week ending Sept. 24, the first such occurrence since records began, according to data from S&P Global Commodities at Sea that were reviewed by The Insider . A week earlier, 66,000 metric tons of fuel were shipped from the port of Novorossiysk, while in 2025 Black Sea ports exported an average of about 200,000 tons a week.

Gubad Ibadoglu with his daughter in Berlin. Photo: Twitter The Azerbaijani authorities released economist Gubad Ibadoglu, who was arrested in June 2023, abroad. As local media reported , citing lawyer Zibeyda Sadikhova, he was allowed to go to Germany for treatment. Charges against the scientist, who in the past was known as a critic of Ilham Aliyev’s regime and an anti-corruption fighter, have not been dropped. “Gubad Ibadoglu pledged not to evade the investigation.

The American startup Powerus, which is going public through a merger with a company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, intends to bring Ukrainian and other foreign military developments to the United States to meet the growing demand of the Pentagon. The company's management told Reuters about this.

Businessman and crime boss Ilya Traber regained shares in several companies, which he abandoned after his arrest in favor of his business partners. The St. Petersburg publication Rotunda drew attention to this. The corresponding data appeared in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, The Insider was convinced. We are talking about the businessman’s shares in the Primorsky Universal Transshipment Complex (Primorsky UPC), the Primorsky Universal Terminal and the Bureau of Digital Projects.

On Sept. 30, the offices of the Prosecutors General of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on countering terrorism and extremism. The move is officially intended to facilitate the prompt exchange of intelligence on organizations, groups, and individuals that the parties consider a threat to state security.

A hacker group linked to China sent emails on behalf of American artificial intelligence experts, including a former White House official, to gain access to the emails of AI experts at think tanks, universities and other organizations. This is stated in a report by Proofpoint, a cybersecurity company, reports Reuters.

As The Insider found out, for several years, FSB General Alexander Kumanyaev “protected” the EKS Group of Companies JSC, which uses hundreds of billions of rubles of budget money. The security officer covered the company's financial activities from all kinds of inspections by the supervised bodies and put pressure on competitors.

The main newspaper of the DPRK, Nodong Sinmun, can now be read in a paid application for smartphones, but there are almost no people willing to spend money on it. A source in the country told Daily NK about this. At the same time, he said, some residents still buy the printed version because they need the paper itself. Nodong Sinmun is the official organ of the Workers' Party of Korea and the main mouthpiece of the regime's propaganda.

Japanese planetary scientists have calculated in which areas of ancient Mars the most formaldehyde fell from the sky - a simple substance from which sugars and amino acids can be formed in water. It turned out that its distribution on the planet was almost entirely determined by climate. The most formaldehyde was received in humid regions, the northern ocean and the slopes of large volcanic hills, where it often rained.