IPEE RAS Sofya Rozenfeld has spent her life studying Arctic birds: traveling to Russia’s Far North on expeditions, following flocks of geese in a seaplane, and fighting to protect rare species. Now the scientist, one of Russia’s leading ornithologists with a doctorate in biological sciences, has been sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony for two donations of 1,000 rubles each to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

Bibliotheque nationale de FranceAndrey Nagel and Vadim Mikhailov in Monaco. 1912 On October 8, Ilya Malanin’s film “Bitva motorov” (“Battle of the Motors”) opened in Russian theaters. Starring Yura Borisov and Ivan Yankovsky, it tells the story of a Russian team that competed in the 1912 Monte Carlo Rally in a Russo-Balt car. The historical adventure drama draws heavily on real events, though its creators emphasize that it takes plenty of artistic liberties.

The U.S. and Europe are gradually working toward a joint proposal for a broad peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, built around financial benefits and security guarantees for both Kyiv and Moscow, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The proposal is intended as a starting point for a final agreement on territory that neither side will find fully acceptable.

Prosecutors found no evidence of fraud in a review of Say Agency, which was organizing rapper Kanye West’s concerts in St. Petersburg.

In September 2022, Grigory Sverdlin, the former director of Nochlezhka, an organization that helps homeless people, launched Idite Lesom (“Get Lost”). The project helps Russians avoid mobilization or desert the military. Over four years, more than 85,000 people have used its services. Meduza has already published a detailed guide to avoiding being sent to the front. Now we’ve asked the Idite Lesom team to share the advice they give people who turn to them for help.

Osman Karimov / AFP / Scanpix / LETAA woman wearing a hijab on a street in Baku, January 18, 2011 In late September, Azerbaijan approved new school uniform rules, including a ban on “items inconsistent with the principle of secularism.” Inspections soon began at schools, and girls wearing hijabs were barred from classes. Protests broke out in Baku and other cities, with schoolgirls and their classmates demanding that everyone’s right to an education be upheld.

Anastasia Barashkova / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA After repeated Russian attacks on data centers in Ukraine , Ukrainian forces began striking Yandex’s data centers. From October 8 to 11, Ukrainian drones reached three of the company’s data centers: in Sasovo in the Ryazan region, Kaluga , and Vladimir . A major outage followed, affecting Yandex’s services and companies that used Yandex Cloud storage.

EU leaders are unhappy with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s deal to supply Russian diesel fuel to the U.S. They believe it undermines sanctions and allows the Kremlin to continue its war against Ukraine. In response, Trump says Europeans themselves have paid Moscow $250 billion for energy since the war began. Russia says that figure is too low; the EU says it is too high.

Ukraine’s Western partners again failed to warn it ahead of another Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv on the evening of October 13, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. He said the strike primarily targeted the city’s energy infrastructure, specifically the combined heat and power plant known as CHP-4. A residential building was damaged and caught fire. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.

Historian Yury Dmitriev, 70, has been returned to Penal Colony No. 18 in Mordovia from a prison hospital, the human rights group ZPCh said, citing his support group. He was taken to the hospital in late September with a suspected stroke. “He’s not feeling very well. They suspected a stroke, but there’s been no diagnosis: the hospital doesn’t have the equipment to diagnose it. Dmitriev was given a course of injections. We don’t know what they gave him,” the support group said.

Hendrik Osula / Delfi Meedia / Scanpix / LETA Latvia’s Foreign Ministry said on October 6 that it had added a Russian citizen to its list of personae non gratae . It did not name him. According to Delfi and Politico , he is journalist Leonid Ragozin, who moved from Russia to Latvia after the annexation of Crimea, obtained permanent residency there, and writes for Western media outlets.

Игрок турецкого «Галатасарая» Алексей Батраков открыл счет в матче Лиги чемпионов с «Барселоной». Это первый гол Батракова за новый клуб. Последний раз россиянин забивал в Лиге чемпионов в 2021 году — пять лет назад это сделал Магомед Оздоев в декабрьском матче «Зенита» с лондонским «Челси». На момент публикации этой новости «Барселона» ведет со счетом 4:1. Голы забили Жоау Канселу (43'), Фермин Лопес (50'), Энтони Гордон (53') и Карим Адейеми (65').

Обновление. В результате российского удара по Киеву один человек погиб, шестеро пострадали. По словам мэра города Виталия Кличко, в Деснянском районе под удар попал девятиэтажный дом. Там начался пожар: горят квартиры с первого по восьмой этажи. Жильцов эвакуируют. Западные партнеры снова не предупредили Украину о том, что Вооруженные силы России вечером 13 октября нанесут очередной удар баллистическими ракетами по Киеву, заявил президент Украины Владимир Зеленский.

Суд в Лас-Вегасе приговорил 63-летнего Дуэйна Дэвиса, известного в криминальных кругах как Киф Ди, к пожизненному заключению по делу об убийстве рэпера Тупака Шакура в 1996 году. Согласно приговору, Дэвис получит возможность попросить об условно-досрочном освобождении не ранее чем через 40 лет. До ареста Дэвиса в 2023 году убийство Шакура почти 30 лет оставалось одним из самых известных нераскрытых дел в США, отмечает Reuters.

Прокуратура по результатам проверки не нашла признаков мошенничества в действиях агентства Say Agency, которое занималось организацией концертов рэпера Канье Уэста в Петербурге. О результатах проверки сообщил представитель Say Agency Александр Панин. По его словам, «признаков мошенничества не выявили, потому что их, собственно, нет».