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97 storiesGermany detains ex-BND chief Hanning on suspicion of espionage
August Hanning, who headed Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, has been detained on suspicion of espionage, obtaining state secrets and attempted high treason, according to German and Russian outlets. His former …
Russia drops “fake army news” case against hospice founder Moniava
Russia's Investigative Committee has closed the criminal case against Lida Moniava, founder of the Dom s Mayakom children's hospice and charity fund, for lack of corpus delicti, her lawyer and support group said on 6 October. She had been c…
Moscow court orders in absentia arrest of journalist Andrei Loshak in terrorism case
A Moscow court on 29 September ordered the in absentia arrest of journalist and documentary filmmaker Andrei Loshak in a case of justifying terrorism, according to court records and state agencies. He has also been placed on a wanted list, …
Book with Salvador Dalí cover stolen from French art centre in Issoudun
A single-copy book, “Apocalypse” by Joseph Foret with a bronze cover made by Salvador Dalí, was stolen from a contemporary art centre in Issoudun, France, overnight into 5 October 2026. Kommersant says the work weighs more than 200 kg, RBC …
Moscow court cuts blogger Ayaz Shabutdinov's fraud sentence to six years
The Moscow City Court's appeals instance reduced blogger and business coach Ayaz Shabutdinov's sentence by one year, from seven years to six years in a general-regime colony, Kommersant and vc.ru reported. He was convicted of fraud in Octob…
Kazakhstan detains former navy chief over deaths of 14 servicemen in Caspian exercise
Kazakhstan's Interior Ministry said the former commander-in-chief of its navy has been detained and placed in a temporary detention facility over negligence in a case concerning the deaths of 14 servicemen during exercises in the Caspian Se…
Variety: studio Neon plans to submit Yura Borisov for a Best Actor Oscar
Variety reported that actor Yura Borisov is planned to be submitted for an Academy Award in the Best Actor category, with the studio Neon behind the campaign, according to TASS. The role cited is that of OpenAI co-founder Sutskever in the f…
Soviet and Russian actor Vasily Popov dies at 78
Vasily Popov, a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor known for roles in “Ataka” and “Okhota na lis”, has died at 78, TASS and Vedomosti reported. The Novomoskovsk branch of the Tula Academic Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky announced…
Director of Russia's Patriot Park detained on suspicion of taking bribes
Igor Vasilyev, general director of the Patriot Park, has been detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale, according to TASS and Kommersant. The Investigative Committee's Main Military Investigative Directorate p…
St Petersburg police detain two over robbery of courier carrying scam money
Police in St Petersburg detained two suspects accused of robbing a woman who was acting as a courier for phone scammers. A 76-year-old resident had handed the courier more than 3.1 million rubles after callers persuaded her to “declare” her…
Russian photographer Boris Kavashkin, chronicler of Soviet-era events, dies at 81
Boris Kavashkin, a Russian photographer who covered the war in Afghanistan and the 1993 storming of the White House, has died at the age of 81, TASS reported. His son Anton Kavashkin told TASS that he died on 4 October of natural causes, ac…
British composer George Fenton, who wrote music for Groundhog Day, dies at 76
British composer George Fenton, who wrote the music for the film “Groundhog Day”, has died at the age of 76, RBC and TASS reported. Kommersant said the BBC reported the death citing a statement from his family and that the cause was not dis…
Actor Vasily Popov dies at 78; stroke named as cause of death
Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor Vasily Popov died on 3 October at the age of 78, according to the press service of the Novomoskovsk branch of the Tula Academic Drama Theatre. TASS and RIA Novosti reported that the cause of death w…
Ex-RZD employees in Irkutsk region get 5-9 years for 88 mln ruble bribes
A court in the Irkutsk region convicted four former employees of Russian Railways (RZD) structural divisions in a bribery case. They were sentenced to five to nine years in a strict regime colony, with various fines and confiscation of prop…
Charles III bars former Prince Andrew from using his funds to pay police lawsuit
King Charles III and Buckingham Palace have made clear that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, cannot use the funds provided for his upkeep as the king's brother to pay for his lawsuit against police. The case concerns Fe…
Russia's Investigative Committee reports fall in crimes by migrants in 2026
Russia's Investigative Committee said migrants committed about 18,000 offences in the first eight months of 2026, 39% fewer than a year earlier, with their share of all crimes falling from 5% to 3%. The same release reported a 13% rise in c…
Mishustin says cybercrime in Russia fell almost a third over eight months
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the number of cybercrimes in Russia fell by almost a third in the first eight months of 2026, referring to common types of online crime. Vedomosti reported that the interior ministry earlier put the dro…
British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86
Jeffrey Archer, the British writer and politician, has died at the age of 86, according to Russian outlets citing BBC and The Guardian. Kommersant reported that publisher HarperCollins said he died “suddenly and peacefully at his home” on 5…
Two Patriot Park deputy directors arrested in Moscow criminal case
Two deputy directors of Russia’s Patriot Park have been detained or arrested in a criminal case, with TASS reporting they are suspected of fraud and bribery. RBC named the two as first deputy Sergei Fedosov and deputy director for operation…
Man sentenced to 2.5 years of forced labor for attack on children's camp in Tuva
A court in Tuva sentenced a man to two and a half years of forced labor for beating children at the “Orlyonok” camp in June 2026, the regional prosecutor's office said, according to Interfax. Interfax reported that 14 minors were injured an…