A police officer in Yekaterinburg shot a 17-year-old while detaining him on suspicion of setting fire to police vehicles, the Interior Ministry’s Sverdlovsk regional directorate told Vecherniye Vedomosti. Two police vehicles caught fire on the grounds of Police Station No. 3 overnight on October 15. The teenager was found at the scene. An officer used his service weapon while detaining him, acting “in accordance with the law,” the Interior Ministry said.

St. Petersburg authorities have barred foreign nationals with labor patents, a type of work authorization, from jobs in health care, hairstyling, beauty services, retail, and sports and fitness services. The ban will remain in effect through the end of 2026.

Russia’s State Duma has passed a bill in its first reading that would allow conscripts to serve in military units of the Emergencies Ministry’s Federal Fire Service. An explanatory note accompanying the bill says it would help reduce the service’s “existing staffing shortage.” The service’s military units are currently deployed only in closed and federal territories and at high-priority and high-security facilities.

NurPhoto / Getty Images Life abroad is full of challenges. Along with learning unfamiliar laws and customs, studying a language, and building a network from scratch, Russians abroad need to be ready to defend their rights — for example, if a bank unfairly freezes their account or authorities deny them documents. (Problems with documents are becoming more common as countries around the world tighten immigration rules.) Many emigrants feel they’re entirely on their own. That’s not quite true.

В Екатеринбурге полицейский выстрелил в 17-летнего подростка, которого задержали по подозрению в поджоге служебных машин ведомства, сообщили «Вечерним ведомостям» в главном управлении МВД по Свердловской области. Две служебные машины загорелись на территории отдела полиции № 3 в ночь на 15 октября. На месте пожара обнаружили подростка. При задержании юноши полицейский применил табельное оружие, как заявили в МВД, «в установленном законом порядке».

On October 14, EU officials discussed new visa restrictions for Russians. At a meeting in Brussels, the Council of the EU’s visa policy working group considered issuing Russian citizens a particular type of visa for “nonessential” travel, meaning tourism. These limited territorial validity (LTV) visas allow holders to visit only one or several countries, rather than the entire Schengen zone.

Администрация Петербурга запретила иностранным гражданам с трудовым патентом работать в сферах медицины, парикмахерских услуг, косметологии, розничной торговли и физкультуры. Запрет действует до конца 2026 года. Ограничения, заявили власти города, необходимы для «противодействия теневой занятости». Они не распространяются на граждан государств — членов Евразийского экономического союза (Беларусь, Казахстан, Армения, Кыргызстан) и на иностранцев с разрешением на работу.

A court in Kazakhstan has ordered rapper Navai held in pretrial detention for two months in a drug smuggling case, Baza reported. The Korday District Court issued the order against Navai Bakirov on October 15. Bakirov was detained at a checkpoint on October 14 after drugs were found in his car as he entered Kazakhstan from Kyrgyzstan. Baza reported that officers found 10 grams (about 0.35 ounces) of marijuana, while other sources put the amount at 2.5 grams (about 0.09 ounces) of drugs.

Госдума приняла в первом чтении законопроект , который разрешает отправлять солдат, проходящих срочную службу, в воинские подразделения Федеральной противопожарной службы (ФПС) МЧС. В пояснительной записке к документу говорится, что это позволит снизить «имеющийся некомплект личного состава ФПС». Сейчас воинские подразделения ФПС МЧС привлекают к работам только на закрытых и федеральных территориях и особо важных и режимных объектах.

Russian authorities did not anticipate Ukrainian strikes on warehouses belonging to the online marketplaces Wildberries and Ozon, Vladimir Putin said at a congress of the business association Business Russia. “I’m aware of the problems you mentioned — unfortunately, our platforms, Wildberries and Ozon, have come under enemy attack. By the way, they keep taking steps that, frankly, we probably should have anticipated, but we thought those things wouldn’t occur to them.

Ksenia Ivanova / Alamy / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian attacks on Yandex’s data centers have hit key growth areas for Russia’s leading IT company: search and AI. All three Yandex supercomputers — Chervonenkis, Lyapunov, and Galushkin — likely suffered serious damage from fire and smoke. Soot may have reached their electronics through cooling systems that use outside air. Cleaning could take months, while replacing damaged NVIDIA chips could take years because of equipment shortages.

Russia’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education has proposed requiring tuition-paying university students to pay for their first semester before enrolling, according to a draft ministry order. Under the draft, applicants would have to sign an enrollment contract and pay for at least one semester to enroll as tuition-paying students.

Российские власти не ожидали украинских ударов по складам маркетплейсов Wildberries и Ozon, заявил Владимир Путин, выступая на съезде «Деловой России». «Я знаю о тех проблемах, о которых вы сказали, — о том, что, к сожалению, мы столкнулись с действиями противника в отношении наших платформ и Wildberries, и Ozon. Кстати говоря, они все время совершают какие-то шаги, которые, откровенно говоря, мы должны были бы, наверное, предусмотреть, но мы считали, что до этого они не додумаются.

Rescuers are searching for seven sailors missing after a fire aboard a tanker in Romania’s territorial waters in the Black Sea, Reuters reported. The San Marino-flagged Wine Trader sent a distress signal at about 7 a.m. on October 15. Of the 12 people aboard, four were rescued and seven remain missing. That same night, another vessel, the Comoros-flagged chemical tanker Yara J, caught fire in the Black Sea. No one was injured, and the crew managed to put out the fire on its own.

Ukraine’s campaign to paralyze airport operations in Russia is “only just getting started,” sources told The Atlantic’s Simon Shuster. Shuster first reported on plans for the operation, code-named M&M’s, in late August.