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  Authorities in Russia's Belgorod region have cut the regional one-time payout to families of soldiers killed in Ukraine from 3M to 1M rubles. A local official confirmed the reduction in a comment under Governor Alexander Shuvayev's social media post, noting that federal payouts remain unchanged. https://t.me/ejdailyru/426650

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  Ukraine ended a 20-year drought to qualify for the men's ice hockey world championship. Now that a sports court has cleared Russia to return, organizers face a dilemma: expand the 16-team event in Germany or potentially displace a qualifier — maybe even Ukraine itself. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/russia-hockey-worlds-participation-ruling-cas-9.7402448

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  A simple but remarkable video: Russian and Ukrainian human rights commissioners (Yana Lantratova and Dmytro Lubinets), standing side by side in occupied Oleshky, overseeing today's humanitarian aid mission.

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  The U.S. scrapped the traditional G20 group photo in Atlanta after Germany and other countries refused to pose with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “There is no ‘business as usual’ with Russia,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-30/-family-photo-of-g20-officials-scrapped-with-lavrov-present

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  I'll be honest: I disabled the liquid glass crap in the ColorOS update for my OnePlus 15. It's just too much impractical silliness, but God, I still love the hardware so much.

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  wah wah

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  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Japan’s Toshimitsu Motegi held their first full face-to-face talks in five years at the G20 meeting in Atlanta. Their previous formal meeting was way back in Sept 2021, before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://t.me/rbc_news/159761

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  A statement from from Meduza’s editorial team and fellow journalists in support of Novaya Gazeta: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/30/a-statement-from-meduza-s-editors-and-fellow-journalists-in-support-of-novaya-gazeta

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  Things are popping off in Poland: PM Tusk’s contentious bid to overhaul the judiciary has hit a flashpoint: the reported suspension of the country’s top constitutional court chief. Protesters confronted the cops, and the president has turned back from a flight to Senegal. https://apnews.com/article/poland-european-union-justice-protests-police-tribunal-67eda2e3a151e00038d85a5e894a2a72

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  "Security Alert: The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event TODAY October 31, at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow. The U.S. govt is coordinating with appropriate Russian authorities on a response." https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-threat-to-tsaritysyno-museum-reserve-in-moscow-october-31-2026/

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  Russian TV host Ksenia Sobchak, newly barred from Latvia along with her husband, says with characteristic humility that the country should be grateful to Russians. She argues that Russian artists and businesspeople spent years bringing money, concerts, films, & plays to Latvia. https://t.me/sotaproject/120549

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  Russia’s FSB security service says it received information from the U.S. about a terrorist attack being planned in Moscow and is acting on the warning. Meanwhile, Moscow’s Tsaritsyno museum and park has closed “for technical reasons.” https://tass.ru/obschestvo/28274871

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  Hmmmm... Moscow’s Tsaritsyno museum complex says it is open as usual despite a U.S. Embassy warning of a threat there. It told the outlet Fontanka: “Usually, panic-mongers get shot.” Russia’s FSB says the U.S. shared intel on a planned attack in Moscow. https://www.fontanka.ru/2026/10/31/76737613/

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  Managed to see "You Can See Everything" last night, and I've never appreciated Nathan Fielder's talents more. A marvelous, mind-bending three hours of uncertainty and ambiguity. An incredible film.

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  Udmurtia's Supreme Court has upheld an almost 9-yr prison sentence for a mother of two who fatally stabbed her partner after he broke into her home & choked her during an argument. The man, a repeat offender recruited from prison into Wagner, regularly beat her despite her police reports. https://t.me/sotaproject/120611

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  Hackers claim they stole 23TB of data, including some on war losses, from Russia's federal statistics agency, which denies any leak. In 2025, one of these groups made a similar claim about breaching Russia's property registry, which also denied a leak, though reporters later verified some of the data. https://t.me/theinsider/53470

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  Russia’s Defense Ministry will fund a 2.18 billion ruble overhaul of the Irkutsk plague research institute, Lyudi Baikala reports. Unusually, funding will come through defense procurement rather than the public health agency that oversees it. Work is due to end by 2029. https://t.me/Baikal_People/16991

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  "The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government." https://apnews.com/article/serbia-election-students-vucic-fdf5def8a20aebc8ae139fd719478775

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  kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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  Ukraine’s chess federation has asked the SBU to assess Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak’s decision to become a FIDE vice president under Timur Turlov, a businessman sanctioned by Ukraine. The federation wants a criminal case opened over his alleged “betrayal of Ukraine’s national interests.” https://t.me/echoonline_news/33589

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  Russian publisher Individuum is shutting down after a criminal case tied to books targeted under Russia’s "LGBT propaganda" crackdown reached staff and later senior managers at Eksmo, which absorbed Individuum in 2024. Unfinished books will move elsewhere. https://t.me/theinsider/52475

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  Yabloko campaign activist Varvara Kosheleva and her husband were reportedly attacked outside their Moscow home by men claiming to be Ukraine war veterans who called them “traitors.” Doctors diagnosed her with a concussion in addition to multiple bruises. https://t.me/Duntsova/1109

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  Ukraine’s 2026 counterattacks have regained more ground than its failed 2023 offensive, OSINT analyst Clément Molin says, putting the figure at about 450 sq km (175 sq mi). CIT agrees that this year’s local operations have been more successful by area, but says Molin overstates what can be confirmed near Sloviansk. CIT also cautions that the comparison is imperfect: the 2023 campaign was a theater-wide offensive with major strategic objectives, whereas today’s operations are tactical and target...

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  Nestlé has already lost control of its 6 Russian factories under Putin-ordered external administration. Recent statements promising "business as usual" come from the new Russian manager, not the OG-HQ. Switzerland is trying (diplomatically) to help the co. regain control. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/ruscafe-statt-nescafe-nestle-droht-in-russland-das-danone-drehbuch-ld.10025029

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  It seems we're back to the back-and-forth, pipe-dream talk of Kyiv manufacturing its own Patriot interceptors: today, Trump declined to confirm Zelensky’s claim that he agreed to grant the licenses. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/politics/trump-ukraine-patriot-missiles

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  At Lavrov’s NYC meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, Russia’s Foreign Ministry shared a report (in English) claiming that Kyiv staged the Bucha massacre. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova later teased Wadephul for covering it with a notebook. https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/15041

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  Finally got around to reading Dexter Filkins’s profile of Jared Kushner. A perfect asshole, and the embodiment of the silver-spoon elite who literally cannot distinguish their own affluence from the national interest, fanatically convinced that their obscene wealth somehow means everyone wins. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/jared-kushners-dollar-diplomacy

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  good lord

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  Two men Czech reporters linked to the pro-war Rybar channel have long lived legally in Germany while working for Izvestia, iStories reports. The EU bans Izvestia’s broadcasting and content distribution. (The men’s residence status and current whereabouts remain unclear.) https://t.me/istories_media/13665