Hundreds of Arabs from the Palestinian Authority apply for asylum in Israel each year on the basis of the fact that they are members of the LGBTQ community.…

Ukrainian citizen Liubov Rozhanska has been detained in Kazakhstan at Russia’s request, lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov told The Insider. Rozhanska had flown to…

A backlog of tankers and cargo ships has formed in the Gulf of Finland as vessels wait for permission to enter Russia’s northern ports. Ukrainian attacks on…

A Russian Su-35 fighter jet shot down a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter in the Voronezh Region after mistaking it for a drone, killing all three crew members…

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on the Russia-linked A7 cryptocurrency platform, which Washington describes as a “shadow banking network…

On Sept. 27, France held partial elections to its upper house of parliament on Sunday, with 178 of the Senate’s 348 seats on the ballot. The main takeaway was…

Kyiv’s Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which houses a research reactor, was struck by a Russian drone on Sept.…

The Russian tugboat Sarmat spent nearly a week operating near critical underwater cables off the Danish coast, according to observations shared by open source…

A researcher at the Foreign Policy Research Institute analyzed satellite and declassified intelligence imagery of a base on the Kola Peninsula belonging to the…

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,…

On Sept. 30, the offices of the Prosecutors General of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on countering…

On Sept. 29, the administration of Penal Colony No. 6 in St. Petersburg's Obukhovo district confiscated books by foreign authors from inmates, the city outlet…

From Sept. 18 to 20, Russia held its first State Duma elections since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The official results — nearly 58% in…

The United States has imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and entities that, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, procured weapons and components for…

A store belonging to German retailer Metro provided free food to Russian service members in the city of Samara on multiple occasions in 2022, according to the…

Vladimir Putin has bestowed state honors on 51 employees of Russia’s state-run Pervy Kanal (Channel One), the result of a decree dated Sept. 29. Among the…

Access Opera, a partner agency of the American rapper Kanye West, has officially confirmed — via Instagram — that the musician’s purportedly scheduled concerts…

A citation for petty hooliganism was filed against Russian opposition politician Nikolai Rybakov, chair of the Yabloko party, after he wrote slogans on four…

Russia’s Defense Ministry is expanding a campaign to recruit students into its Unmanned Systems Forces. This past spring, the ministry mainly released…

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that a Tu-95 strategic bomber crashed in the Amur Region during a training flight earlier today.

European Union defense ministers have discussed creating an emergency consultation mechanism in response to growing hybrid threats from Russia, according to a…

Estonian authorities have accused Russian intelligence services of ordering an arson attack that took place last month against a building in Tallinn belonging…

Authorities in Russia’s Kamchatka Region are building infrastructure to respond to possible drone attacks. The local governor has been tasked with supporting…

Authorities in Russia’s Amur Region have banned the publication of information about Ukrainian drone attacks. Similar bans are now in force in at least 82 of…

The Russian-American company Oxygen Forensics — which, as The Insider reported last week, supplied software to both U.S. and Russian security agencies — also…

Russia’s state-owned United Microelectronics Company (OMK) plans to acquire stakes in Chinese semiconductor factories, according to a report by the…

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace will finally get its first American money: more than $206 million to build an international military contingent in the Gaza…

Russia has significantly expanded and modernized a secret underground command center inside Mount Kosvinsky Kamen in the Urals in recent years, a facility…

A married couple with Russian and Israeli citizenship, Alexander Kruglyansky and Alexandra Kruglyanskaya, have been arrested in Montenegro, where they will be…

In mid-September, Donald Trump announced the creation of a new agency called AI Force — his response to statements from industry leaders about the need to slow…

After Latvia banned broadcasts by Russian federal television channels, Telegram became a key platform for Kremlin propaganda in the country. The Insider…

A Bulgarian man and woman detained after a Sept. 3 arson attack in Munich were part of a group linked to Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency that was…

Between January 2025 and June 2026, Russia moved around 100 “shadow fleet” tankers to its flag registry amid mounting sanctions pressure. By the time most of…

Following a report from The Insider, Latvia has placed Russian businessman Sergei Fedotov on its list of undesirable persons and banned him from entering the…

U.S. authorities have accused executives of Oxygen Forensics, a company that sold software to the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of…

A cassation court in Kazakhstan has denied asylum to Yulia Yemelyanova, a former volunteer with Alexei Navalny’s St. Petersburg campaign office. Margarita…

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced a Tyumen resident to eight years in a maximum-security penal colony over paid reactions…

Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Uzbek financier Kakhramonjon Olimov, who in the summer of 2025 claimed he had been kidnapped in Paris. A subsequent…

On the evening of Sept. 23, a fire broke out at a Starlink satellite communications ground station in Poland’s Mazowieckie province. Authorities suspect…

U.S. intelligence has warned several European governments that Russia is preparing a drone attack against Spain, France, or Italy, according to a report by…

The Insider has found that the father of Saeima deputy Jūlija Stepaņenko, Sergei Fedotov, is the majority owner of two companies in the Moscow Region. One of…

As the U.S. puts up barriers to would-be migrants coming across the southern border, Latin America is undergoing a sharp political shift. Politicians from Peru…

A St. Petersburg entertainment venue linked to Svetlana Krivonogikh, who was previously identified as a former mistress of Vladimir Putin, is behind a show…

The Council of the European Union has agreed to extend sanctions against Russian individuals and entities for another three years, according to a council…

A suspicious substance that investigators believe is likely explosive material was found just a few meters from the wreckage of a drone that was discovered…

The government of German chancellor Friedrich Merz is preparing to withdraw the access rights of authorities in the state of Saxony- Anhalt to a classified…

Ilya Berdnikov, who previously worked at Russia’s Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo), has become CEO of Auchan Retail Russia.…

Official turnout at Russian precinct election commission No. 8158 in Cyprus during the recent vote for the State Duma was about 10 times higher than the…

Czech police have detained and questioned Russians Vitaliy Chashchukhin and Igor Dolmatov, whom local journalists from the publication Seznam Zprávy had lured…

At least 16 former and serving senior officials in Russia’s regional and municipal executive branches have been killed after going to war against Ukraine, The…